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Learning the New Office Ribbon
Dear How-To Geek,
I feel silly asking this (in light of how long the new Office interface has been out) but my company finally got around…
Have any of you experienced the following, and have you found a solution:
A large part of our website's back-end is MS SQL Server 2005. Every week or two weeks the site begins running slower - and I see queries taking longer and longer to complete in SQL. I have a query that I like to use:
USE master
select text,wait_time,blocking_session_id AS…
I'm playing around with customizing Office 2010 installs on my network, normally I just do a full manual install, but as the environment grows and the lazier I get its becoming a pain to do it manually every time. I've read up and downloaded the Office 2010 OCT tool and it looks relatively straight forward - with one exception - the Outlook…
I am trying to install Office 2003 SP3 on a windows 2003 EE server (used as a terminal server) which already have office 2003 SP2.
I am getting an error that says "Update can not be applied".
Below are the eventviewer entries for Application:
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Event Type: Warning
Event Source: MsiInstaller
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1015
Date: …
We have two internet connections to our office and our current setup is like this..
The internet connections require pppoe log in so i take each cable and plug it into a wifi router and configure the router to log in to the pppoe and then plug in a cable from the router to a switch and distribute the internet throughout my office.
The…
Microsoft Office 2010 : une nouvelle tarification pour les étudiants
Face à la hausse des prix constatée des packs étudiants lors de l'annonce des fiches tarifaires d'Office 2010, Microsoft a décidé de revoir sa copie et de proposer une offre dématérialisée plus attractive à 69 Euros contre 109 Euros pour la version boîte (se…
Microsoft dévoile les tarifs pour Office 2013 et Office 365
la société encourage le recours à un abonnement
Microsoft avait dévoilé mi-juillet la preview de sa suite bureautique Office 2013. Jusqu'ici l'éditeur avait gardé le silence sur la date de disponibilité officielle et les tarifs de l'outil.
La firme vient de lever…
Microsoft Office 2010 : la version gratuite en ligne est arrivée
Préférez-vous les Office Web Apps ou Google Docs ?
Une petite semaine avant la sortie officielle de la nouvelle suite bureautique de Microsoft ? Microsoft Office 2010 ? les Office Web Apps ont fait leur apparition dès hier soir.
Office Web Apps est la…
Recently I attended a road show, organised by MS Gold Partner company in the UK. The products discussed were:
SharePoint server (2010 and 2007), Exchange server, Office Communication Server 2007, Exchange hosted services Office Live meeting, Office Communicator, System Center Configuration Manager and Operation…
Sometimes we’ve entered data in a column in Excel, only to realize later that it would be better to have this data in a row, or vise-versa. Here’s a simple trick to convert any row or set of rows into a column, or vise-versa, in Excel.
Please Note: This is tested in Excel 2003, 2007, and 2010. Here…
Hi,
I need to access some data from an MS Access database and retrieve some data from it using PHP.
I've looked around the web, and found the following line which seems to correctly connect to the database:
$conn->Open("DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)}; DBQ=C:\wamp\www\data\MYDB.mdb");
However,…
Is there a way to silent install Office 2010 Pro Plus with Visio 2010 Premium and Project 2010 Pro all at the same time? I've configured the msp's for each individual product and when I have the install directories all in the same folder, running setup.exe brings up a dialog asking me to choose which product…
I have installed office 2010, using a key that I found on forums on the internet. It said it was used to many times already. But when I try to use the mak key that is on my account, it says that it is invalid. How do I change the key, if a key is still installed and is available for 30 days.
Before, I can copy Windows XP CD contents to D:\windowsxp, then
Boot DOS CD
format C: /s /q
D:\windowsxp\i386\winnt.exe
How to install Windows 7 from MS-DOS? I found install from USB only.
Are the Canadian Office 2010 release dates different from the American ones?
I'm interested in the volume license release date in Canada. I beleive it was May 1 in USA.
Are academic open licenses different?
Is it possible, using an iPhone, to:
Recieve an e-mail with a MS Word/Excel document attached to it? (It is, I know)
Open and edit the document (It is, with Documents to go/quick office)
Reply to the original e-mail, with the updated document attached to it?
I'm using a startup script to deploy Microsoft Office 2007 Standard. It's not working quite right and I'm trying to find logging information for it. Unfortunately, no log is being generated by setup. I've tried configuring the log at %temp%\, C:\, %systemroot%\temp and leaving it at defaults, all to no…
Is there any option that will correct this? I'm pasting my assignment with some pictures in it in ms word 2010 from a webpage but it doesn't seem to be showing the picture that is copied along with the words.
When I try to right click and see the paste options. The only option that I can see is text.…
If you use Outlook as your email client, you might want to schedule how often it checks for new messages. Today we show you how to schedule how often auto send/receive occurs.
If you’re busy during the day and need to keep up with your emails, you might want want Outlook to check for new messages…
In my organization we have a group mailbox for a particular function. The actual function is preformed by 15 - 20 individuals on a rotating basis. The group mailbox serves as a record for all e-mail sent to that function. Individual access to the mailbox is established by adding a user to an…
How can I allow users to share Microsoft Office generated content on an ASP.Net site?
For example usage, imagine a site similar to StackOverflow.
George, writing a question, uses Word, Excel or OneNote to create content, and then inserts the content into the question area (probably copying…
I am currently working on a MS Access 2003 mdb file which is converted to an mde file before being published.
How do I go about enabling the reports function of MS Access once this is converted? or better still is there a alternative to the reporting in MS Access? opensouce or free?
…
I have several legal license keys for Office:mac 2008. I want to do a quick audit of the two machines I've installed office on and verify which license keys are being used where. But I don't see the license key anywhere on the about dialog (or elsewhere).
I've seen other postings on…