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How do I keep my toolbars showing all the time?

32436 (3/29/2010 9:03:01 PM)

Utf

word.docmanagement My toolbars used to show all the time. Now they sort of retract and disappear when I click on the page. If I click on "Home" or "Page Layout" the toolbars show. But then they disappear when I click on th... Report Spam

confirmation code(product ID 89572-OEM-7332166-00021)

138075 (12/25/2009 5:49:01 AM)

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word.newusers i use microsoft office home and student pack 2007.(product ID 89572-OEM-7332166-00021).product key i entered are (DDY79-433JV-2RXGX-MQFQP-PFDH8).this is my installation code:261023-026554-848036-282652-31... Report Spam

How do you curve text in power point?

164766 (3/18/2010 9:32:01 PM)

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powerpoint I'm trying to curve text in power point - word art contains background shapes for text boxes, but does not curve the text to fit the shape. Any suggestions? ... Report Spam

Why is my Equation button not available

92049 (2/25/2010 11:27:02 PM)

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word.docmanagement I can't figure out why I can't the Equation button is not working in the Insert Ribbon on Word 2007, its greyed out and I can't click on it. And I know I can insert an object and selection Equation Editor... Report Spam

{ PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT } How to remove?

61930 (2/12/2010 9:54:01 PM)

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word.pagelayout How do I remove { PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT } from my footer and replace with numerical page numbering? ... Report Spam

How do I insert Roman Numerals?

94092 (1/18/2010 2:13:02 PM)

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word.newusers New to Word 2007 would someone please explain to me how to insert Roman Numerlas in my document? ... Report Spam

Outlook 2007 Cascading Open Emails

13397 (1/28/2010 1:55:01 PM)

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outlook.general In Outlook 2003 you were able to cascade open emails by right clicking on the outlook icon. In Outlook 2007 it doesn't appear to be possible. Please tell me how to cascade all open emails. ... Report Spam

Microsoft Office OneNote should provide Smart art.

14033 (12/4/2009 1:22:01 AM)

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office.misc Microsoft Office OneNote should provide Smart Art. It would make note taking much easier. I do not want to go back to Excel for Smart Art. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and... Report Spam

rows to repeat at 'Bottom'

18245 (5/4/2010 6:41:01 PM)

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excel.misc Currently, MS Excel has the option to repeat certain rows at the top of the document. It would be lovely, very lovely actually, if the option to choose rows to repeat at the bottom were an option. To date... Report Spam

Active Directory Domain Service Unavailable. What does this mean?

48404 (12/17/2009 3:29:03 PM)

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word.application.errors I am using Windows 7 on a brand new Sony Vaio laptop. I am trying to print with my Dell V305 bluetooth enabled printer. Bought bluetooth "adapter" which plugs into USB port since laptop was not bluetooth ... Report Spam

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There was an error reading the rules from the server.

6546 (1/15/2004 1:17:38 PM)

m_gotanco (2)

outlook I received the following error when opening Outlook 2000: 'There was an error reading the rules from the server. The format of the server rules was not recognized'. I have checked there are no rules set in t... Report Spam

How do I display full paths instead of the truncated (tilde) forma

3102 (2/2/2010 10:37:01 PM)

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vb.general.discussion I would like to know if there's a way to force a path string to display full text instead of the truncated version that uses the tilde character. i.e.: force "C:\Progr~1\My Appli~1\" to display as "C:\... Report Spam

VBA to export large tables from Excel to SQL Server

13758 (4/26/2010 5:14:04 PM)

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excel.programming I have spreadsheets that I distribute to users. I want Excel VBA to export large tables (2000+ rows) into a remote SQL Server 2005. I am able to successfully do this with the following generic code, but i... Report Spam

Why is reply button greyed out?

1141 (1/13/2005 9:15:02 PM)

jojomonsta (2)

outlook My mother has anew PC and I have talked her through setting up the server info so she can receive her emails. The problem is she has been unable to reply to them. The new mail and reply buttons are all greyed... Report Spam

((System.IO.Stream)(s)).ReadTimeout. What might be wrong?

18642 (5/20/2010 3:57:20 PM)

shapper

dotnet.languages.csharp Hello, I have a class that writes to a MemoryStream but I am getting a strange error: ReadTimeout = '((System.IO.Stream)(s)).ReadTimeout' threw an exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' ... Report Spam

Some chart types cannot be combined with other chart types?

6193 (12/5/2009 6:42:01 AM)

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powerpoint Hi, I am getting the above error message everytime I try to insert a chart or any type into a completely blank presentation using either the Insert, Chart command or the Insert Chart button in the Title ... Report Spam

how do I lock an object position in Publisher?

1822 (5/18/2005 6:11:01 PM)

babbs (1)

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Trust problem: DNS name resolution works, nltest /dsgetdc fails

22811 (4/7/2010 3:00:02 PM)

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windows.server.active_director Hello, one AD ist 2003 forest level, the second AD is in the 2008R2 forest level. The connection between the two locations is not limited, all traffic will be forwarded to the remote location. We want to... Report Spam

NAME CONFLICT: Name cannot be the same as built-in name.

6482 (6/1/2009 2:58:01 PM)

bhaynascospgcom (3)

excel I am trying to open an Excel file using version 2007 that we have receive from a sister company. when i open it i get the below message. NAME CONFLICT: Name cannot be the same as built-in name. Old Name: Pr... Report Spam

How to enter a moon phase series into Excel??

2044 (6/26/2004 11:36:29 AM)

mlevin77 (6)

excel.charting I'm a biologist working with some circadian rhythm data. I need to be able to make a chart in excel where the X axis is dates, with correct phases of the moon for each phase. What is the easiest way to get moon... Report Spam

Open Table with Button on form

36892 (3/12/2010 9:25:50 PM)

hubertholz

access.formscoding Hello I would like to place a button that directly opens a particular table after clicking it. I am rather new to Access and cannot find the option in the Wizard.. Can someone help me? -- Message ... Report Spam

"Add Trendline" grayed out

7692 (6/7/2007 12:49:36 PM)

rbear3 (18)

excel.charting I have an excel chart. I have a column with each day of the year, a column with the balance for an account for each day (up to today) and a third column that contains the desired balance for each day of the ... Report Spam

Why did you disable animated gifs?

1561 (4/5/2010 4:34:48 PM)

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outlook.general I would have never upgraded to outlook 2007 if I had known you disabled animated gifs. If it's for security reasons, I am willing to risk it. It should be up to the user to decide. Just put in an option the... Report Spam

Icon won't stay changed!

46380 (12/17/2009 10:16:44 AM)

Paul

windowsxp.general I use properties to change the icon on one of my desktop icons. It appears to accept the change, but when I go back to my desktop, the original icon appears - it ignores my attempted change. This is on my... Report Spam

Utilities Error message

947 (10/7/2009 2:19:02 PM)

elavelle (62)

greatplains I'm in the process of setting up a test server with a copy of some of our companies on a new server (Server 2008 and SQL 2008). I copied the Dynamics database as well as 1 of our company data bases. I insta... Report Spam

unwrap phase

7169 (12/13/2006 12:30:21 PM)

phillenium2002 (22)

excel anyone know of a good method to unwrap phase that is wrapped over 180degrees in excel? cheers Phil ... Report Spam

NDR 550 5.7.0 Message Size Violation

21141 (8/24/2004 9:43:35 PM)

toddd (1)

exchange.admin one of my users send an email to 14 addresses with a 4 MB .doc attachement. 2 of them came back with the following messsage the rest received the mail. Can anyone tell me what the error is and why it only oc... Report Spam

Microsoft Publisher (not responding) and haven't saved work.

3559 (9/17/2004 9:09:05 PM)

Tot (5)

publisher I have been working on a newsletter in publisher and now it is frozen and says (not responding). It has been like this for 20 minutes. This happend when I did a cut and pasted on to my page. I have not saved ... Report Spam

VBA- Application.Wait?

16826 (3/10/2010 7:29:14 AM)

Mel

powerpoint Does PowerPoint not have "Application.Wait" like Excel? Is there another way to pause code for a few seconds in PPT 2003/2007 while a small bat file runs? -Mel ... Report Spam

assistant and msExchAssistantName user attributes

3788 (11/7/2005 11:59:21 PM)

luke.wegener (1)

exchange.admin Hi there, Can anyone please explain the difference between the two AD user attributes "assistant" and "msExchAssistantName"?? If I run adsiedit.msc and check the two, I see that "assistant" is of type Distingu... Report Spam

Conflict Message: Conflicting edits were made to this item

7797 (1/5/2010 11:34:02 PM)

Utf

outlook.general I have a user who has been getting the above error in outlook. We are currently running Exchange 2007 using cached exchange mode. and it appears to be on read receipts. Just beginning my investigation into ... Report Spam

"Print Titles" in Excel is disabled. How to enable it?

2095 (7/19/2005 4:08:03 AM)

Ravi (33)

excel.misc The "Print Titles" while doing Print preview for an Excel worksheet(s) is coming as disabled. I am unable to select row(s) and/or column(s) to repeat on every page while printing. What should be done to enabl... Report Spam

Rank Function returns "#N/A"

2111 (5/7/2004 5:10:45 PM)

ndshep.15wbfx (1)

excel.misc Basically, I am using the Rank function on a column of cells with value that are numbers. However, in order to make the numbers look the wa that I wanted, I used =TEXT(number,"#,##0"). I'm guessing that RA... Report Spam

How do I recover a Microsoft Publisher autosave file not saved

2834 (10/5/2009 5:27:01 PM)

techcoor (3)

publisher 1. Is there a way to change the location of the autosave file? 2. Save AutoRecover info every: was set to 10 minutes. File not saved had been worked on for over an hour. If the file is not saved, is not the fi... Report Spam