--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DGK00002 Date: 12/15/96 From: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES Time: 10:31am \/To: ANTHONY HASELMAN (Read 2 times) Subj: Not Enough Memory To Run JL>there is not enough memory to run Word and shuts down Word. He has 8 JL>megs of RAM. I uninstalled Word and re-loaded it with the same AH>I run into the same problem if I have just finished a large printing AH>program in WinFax. If I print a large fax (8 pages or so), then go to AH>Word I get the same message. I usually leave windows, then restart. I AH>think it is a Windows problem, not Word. Microsoft help desk (in Canada) told me it's a Word6.x problem. When I asked if upgrading to Word7 would solve it, they said "Well, it won't happen as often". They claim that "out of memory" arises from two causes: 1) Edit/Undo information stored in the last paragraph mark of the document. Workaround: File save/Close/Open periodically. 2) Word is not releasing system resources associated with file handles. Workaround: File save/Close/Open periodically. Neither of these solutions is acceptable to me, as I'm running unattended jobs to convert 100s of documents. I have noticed that after a long job, the window title bar flashes at a rate of about two per second, suggesting some furious file-closing going on back-stage. LAST WEEK'S BIG DISCOVERY: If I tile all windows during the ========================== running of a macro, my W95/Word6.x system does not lock up anywhere as near as often. Whereas before I could limp through 3 documents before seizure, now the conversion runs ten time as fast AND carries on until it hits a rather large document. Since my driving macro uses a table of filenames: > Open filetable > while filetable not empty > get next name > delete first entry in table > save and close file table > open, process and close the current file > open file table > wend .. A crashed system neans that the offending item has already left the table. I note the name, reload Word, and carry on. It's a WORD problem, according to Microsoft, but it's not a bug, Honest! I hope this helps. From: christopher.greaves@pro-mail.com christopher.greaves@ablelink.org * 1st 2.00b #6263 * People and Computers --- PCBoard (R) v15.3 (OS/2) 5 * Origin: FidoNet: CAP/CANADA Support BBS : 416 287-0234 (1:250/710) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DGK00003 Date: 12/16/96 From: NATALIA OLIVE Time: 06:20am \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 2 times) Subj: table cell alignment CG>In Word6: Does anyone know how I might align table text to CG> the bottom of a cell? Hello Christopher! This is one of the many reasons my dad hates Word from time to time... The trick is to format those cells you want bottom-aligned to add a lot of space before using Format/Paragraph... Another more unscientific solution is to press enter twice or something... but if the are all to be equally aligned (and they are all 1 line of text) simply format them with 18 or maybe 24 points... it depends on how much text you have on the left... you must experiment on this... :) Note: this is also a technique I use to center-align text within cells... ;) Regards! Natu 8:-) A Look Inside - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4533 I don't do taglines... --- MjrFIDO 3.25 --- Squish/386 v1.11 * Origin: ISP CANOPUS (BBS) * Bs.As.- ARGENTINA * +54 1 554-2222 (4:901/148.30) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DGK00004 Date: 12/16/96 From: NATALIA OLIVE Time: 06:20am \/To: JAN VANDEN BOSSCHE (Read 2 times) Subj: Macro-virus JB>Hallo Natalia, Hi Jan! JB> NO> You know of the NPAD virus??? JB>No, never heard of it. But in the light of the fact that it's VERY easy to JB>write a virus-like macro in Word, I'm not amazed. I didn't know about these macro-viruses until I met NPAD... JB> NO> It roams all over my University, but no one knows what it does, ... JB>How do they know it's there, if they don't know what it does ? :) Cause I scan all the disks I bring home for viruses and there's always that NPAD stuff all over the docs... JB>CONCEPT does nothing but foul up your DOC/DOT management. You can only ave JB>your text as DOT. It's annoying, but nothing more... They tell me NPAD does that too... JB> NO> ... and I'm not ready to try it out on my home PC... JB>Now that I know how CONCEPT works, I don't have any problem contaminating my JB>Word to do some tests. But with a virus you don't know, I don't blame you fo JB>not investigating. Leave that to the pro's, they have machines to spare. e JB>don't. Yup! JB>If you happen to have a friend with a contaminated system, check out the JB>macro's, print them, and then you can study a virus in action. Okay... I will ;) JB>Since most macro-virusses change the NORMAL.DOT, could it be as simple as to JB>render it read-only ? Once you are sure it doesn't need any changes... Great idea!! :) I'll see about that! Thanks and bye bye! Natu 8:-) A Look Inside - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4533 I don't do taglines... --- MjrFIDO 3.25 --- Squish/386 v1.11 * Origin: ISP CANOPUS (BBS) * Bs.As.- ARGENTINA * +54 1 554-2222 (4:901/148.30) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DGL00000 Date: 12/16/96 From: BOB PRATT Time: 07:17pm \/To: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES (Read 2 times) Subj: table cell alignment CG>MSGID: 1:250/710 003a0175 >In Word6: Does anyone know how I might align table text to > the bottom of a cell? CG>I have a two-column table. The left-hand cells are populated with >text, so much that the text-wrapping makes each row anything up >to six lines deep. The right-hand cells are to hold only nine >characters. CG>Currently the nine characters in the right-hand cell are aligned >level with the top line of text in each of the left-hand cells. i >want the 9 characters of text to be at the bottom of each cell. CG>Thanks in advance for any hints, suggestions or tips. CG> -------------------+------------------ > |this is an example| Here my Nine! | > |of wrapped-text | | > |taking up several | | > |lines within a | | > |single cell | | > -------------------+------------------ > | | | > | | | > | | | > etc. CG>Above, what it does look like! CG> -------------------+------------------ > |this is an example| | > |of wrapped-text | | > |taking up several | | > |lines within a | | > |single cell | Here my Nine! | > -------------------+------------------ > | | | > | | | > | | | > etc. Christopher, Place your curser in front of the "H" in the word here and hit enter four times. Regards, Bob Pratt Internet: bob.pratt@svcity.usbbs.com JAM BBS-Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia --- OLXWin 1.00b PO Box 167 CC: 804, Jeddah, 21231, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia * Origin: Jam BBS SV City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2:542/600) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DGL00001 Date: 12/17/96 From: WAYNE FALLEN Time: 10:42am \/To: LAWRENCE KELLIE (Read 2 times) Subj: RE:Macro-virus Gidday Lawrence LK>> CONCEPT does nothing but foul up your DOC/DOT management. You can LK>> only save your text as DOT. It's annoying, but nothing more... LK> LK> Apparently (according to Microsoft) it may actually do more than that. LK> At our company, we got hit with the concept virus--as most places did. LK> Over a period of time, we noticed more and more corrupt documents. In LK> trying to determine what may have caused it, MS stated to restore the LK> templates *before* the concept virus hitting (even though we had clean LK> templates). After that restoration, the corrupt documents disappeared. LK> There may be more to the concept virus than meets the eye. It *may* be LK> instrumental in the demise of document integrity. LK> At our organisation, a Government department, we often get 'hit' by the Concept virus, it is really quite serious as it has the ability to remove all your hard work in a document, I had an experience with my boss who asked me for help as he could not e-mail a word 6 document, so I had a go with no avail, then took the document which was on a floppy to my machine and opened it up, all the boss's work of some 3 to 4 hours was gone! the document was empty, I then scanned it and found the concept virus. You are right, there is more to this macro virus than a nuisance! cheers, Wayne wfallen@tpgi.com.au fallenwr@citec.qld.gov.au --- FIPS/32 v0.98 W95/NT [M] * Origin: Living in Cairns, Far North Queensland, and Loving IT! (3:640/531.4) Dumb question #4,387: I am running Word7 for Win95, which was a part of Office95. Do I have a 32 bit version of WinWord? How can I tell? Thanks, all! Regards from ME! --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: *AcornBBS*Freeport,ME*USA*207-865-3004* (1:326/406) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: DGN00000 Date: 12/17/96 From: BARRY KOHLER Time: 08:33pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: 32 bit WinWord? Dumb question #4,387: I am running Word7 for Win95, which was a part of Office95. Do I have a 32 bit version of WinWord? How can I tell? Thanks, all! Regards from ME! --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: *AcornBBS*Freeport,ME*USA*207-865-3004* (1:326/406)