On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Tony B wrote:
> Is this a question? You made the mistake of saving from Word 7 as a
> .doc file. You need to save as a .txt (plain text) file if you want to
> be able to open it in Word 3.
>
>
> Would RTF work as well?
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John Duncan Yoyo
Is this a question? You made the mistake of saving from Word 7 as a
.doc file. You need to save as a .txt (plain text) file if you want to
be able to open it in Word 3.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Marcio wrote:
> Here I am good guys. I sent to myself through e-mail a text I wrote in MS
> W
Here I am good guys. I sent to myself through e-mail a text I wrote in MS Word
7. O Tried to open with MS Word 3 and this was what I got:
PK ! Ýü•7f [Content_Types].xml ¢ (
Tom,
Thanks, I'll download the converter. I was able to do the merge
after saving it as CSV file (per Tony's advice).
Thanks again,
Steve
t.piwowar wrote:
Office 2008 uses a very different file format than previous versions.
There is a converter
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download
Stewart,
Thanks, but I had already done that. Tony's advice to save
it as a .csv worked.
Thanks for trying
Steve
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Have you tried saving it in an older format for import?
Stewart
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Tony,
I saved it as a .csv file and it worked fine. I had the
labels printed up by 12:30!
Thanks
Steve
Tony B wrote:
First thing that comes to mind: Try exporting it to a .csv (or
something) and merging that. Or have her send you a .csv.
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On Sep 11, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Stephen Brownfield wrote:
My wife emailed me an Excel database to merge into mailing labels.
She is running Office 2008 on her MacBook Pro running 10.5. I am
running Office X on my iMac running 10.4.11.
Oh gawd, Office X used to be the buggiest version of Off
Have you tried saving it in an older format for import?
Stewart
At 10:00 AM 9/11/2009, you wrote:
My wife emailed me an Excel database to merge into mailing
labels. She is running Office 2008 on her MacBook Pro running
10.5. I am running Office X on my iMac running 10.4.11. I can
open th
First thing that comes to mind: Try exporting it to a .csv (or
something) and merging that. Or have her send you a .csv.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Stephen Brownfield
wrote:
> My wife emailed me an Excel database to merge into mailing labels. She is
> running Office 2008 on her MacBook Pr
My wife emailed me an Excel database to merge into mailing labels. She
is running Office 2008 on her MacBook Pro running 10.5. I am running
Office X on my iMac running 10.4.11. I can open the file in Excel, but
when I try to open it for a merge through Word, Word crashes. Do I need
to upgr
Thanks! That did the trick!
on Wed, 27 Feb 2008, John Duncan Yoyo wrote:
Try this procedure-
If the spell checker passes over areas of text and does not pick-up mis-spelt
words it is possible that the text has been marked not to be checked.
To solve this problem do the following:
1. highlight
If the document doesn't have some special formatting that will be lost in a
copy/paste process, Select All and copy/paste it into a brand new document
file. Even if you lose formatting, that should allow spell check to be run and
at least identify the misspelled words for you.
Fred Holmes
At
MS Office has an Information Rights Management feature that "helps prevent
sensitive documents and e-mail messages from being forwarded, edited or copied
by unauthorized people." It is found under File - Permissions. This requires
the installation of a Windows Rights Management client to invoke.
Try thi procedure-
If the spell checker passes over areas of text and does not pick-up mis-spelt
words it is possible that the text has been marked not to be checked.
To solve this problem do the following:
1. highlight the area which won't spell check.
2. click 'Tools' menu then the 'Language' o
Someone at work has a document which was created in Word and will not
allow spell check to be run on it regardless of what computer we use.
We are trying to figure out how to undo this "feature". We are at a
loss how the document got that way. Any ideas?
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Google on "mail merge query options"
>Anyone know of a way I could insert a person's name in a Word document
>and have that somehow trigger the pulling in of related data off some
>database or spreadsheet? I know this is more of a database function
>but the final document needs to be in a Word f
If you have the original information in a database or excel format you
can format information in word using the mail merge function. Under the
options you can select the database location cell selection and order.
It won't auto pull from your entry, but will still auto pull from a
database and cre
Write a Word macro to do it. It should be straightforward if you are fluent in
VBA.
Fred Holmes
At 08:10 AM 2/19/2008, Jay Montero wrote:
>Anyone know of a way I could insert a person's name in a Word document
>and have that somehow trigger the pulling in of related data off some
>database or s
Anyone know of a way I could insert a person's name in a Word document
and have that somehow trigger the pulling in of related data off some
database or spreadsheet? I know this is more of a database function
but the final document needs to be in a Word format. So, in other
words, say I was to ty
An American Motors Rambler. :-)
Stewart
At 11:43 PM 2/15/2008, you wrote:
I don't get it; but then I don't know much about Linux. Why Hillary as the
Mac? Wouldn't Obama be a better fit as a MAC? Hillary seems more Windowish
to me, for what I know (which isn't much when it comes to computers
Oh, the irony!
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Steve at Verizon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You realize, that in your analogy, with respect to popularity, McCain
> wins in a landslide
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > How's this?
> >
> > Windows <=> McCain
> > Mac <=> Hillary
> > Linux <=> Bara
I don't get it; but then I don't know much about Linux. Why Hillary as the
Mac? Wouldn't Obama be a better fit as a MAC? Hillary seems more Windowish
to me, for what I know (which isn't much when it comes to computers). Think
of the MAC commercial; doesn't Obama fit more with the MAC guy?
McCa
You do realize that early on in this primary season Barak was
portrayed as Apple and Hillary as Windows.
Wonderful commercial you can find on You Tube.
Stewart
At 12:36 PM 2/15/2008, you wrote:
How's this?
Windows <=> McCain
Mac <=> Hillary
Linux <=> Barack
In the interest of full disclosur
You realize, that in your analogy, with respect to popularity, McCain
wins in a landslide
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How's this?
Windows <=> McCain
Mac <=> Hillary
Linux <=> Barack
In the interest of full disclosure, I voted for Barack in the recent primary.
--JE
DOS <=> Huckabee
Richard P.
How's this?
Windows <=> McCain
Mac <=> Hillary
Linux <=> Barack
In the interest of full disclosure, I voted for Barack in the recent primary.
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How's this?
Windows <=> McCain
Mac <=> Hillary
Linux <=> Barack
In the interest of full disclosure, I voted for Barack in the recent primary.
--JE
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MS backed off, there is no ban on file types.
On Feb 3, 2008 2:16 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Spreading FUD and spreading it thick.
>
> Sorry. No choice of page color and no rules at all.
>
>
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>Spreading FUD and spreading it thick.
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Spreading FUD and spreading it thick.
On Feb 3, 2008 11:10 AM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Can you save it as RTF? That's supposed to be the MS native format that
> >can be opened by all versions. Is there any special formatting? If not,
> >then RTF will work.
>
> No they banned RTF
>Can you save it as RTF? That's supposed to be the MS native format that
>can be opened by all versions. Is there any special formatting? If not,
>then RTF will work.
No they banned RTF too. MS's basic assertion is that using files with
their software is a security exposure. I've read that thei
Can you save it as RTF? That's supposed to be the MS native format that
can be opened by all versions. Is there any special formatting? If not,
then RTF will work.
Betty
Marcio V. Pinheiro wrote:
> I just came accross this surprise. Sent a Word XP file to another
computer and the Word2007 was
Two things:
They may not have installed the filters for bringing in older formats.
Also note MS did a real stupid (idiotic, dumb, fill in your best
derogatory term here) and disabled the ability to bring in older formats
in a recent (within the past month or so) and you must download and
inst
I just came accross this surprise. Sent a Word XP file to another
computer and the Word2007 was not able to read it...
There must be a way...
Many thanks
Marcio
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