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Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: GROWLER on July 06, 2007, 09:03:51 AM
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My I.T. skills are bounding forward with great ferocity now. whistle:
WOW. What a difference de-fragmenting makes.
Highly recommended. happy088
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lol: lol:
I have to say that when the thread appeared in the computer room, it read:
"I've just de-fragmented in the computer room"
Check out how the post appears and you'll see what I mean. Another bloody keyboard clean-up beckons!
Visions of Growler de-fragmenting all over the computer room!
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He inspired me to do it too
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He inspired me to do it too
What? You've done it yourself...already? eeek:
Takes hours. Did here anyway, but after storing 4 years of shite without de-fragging, I suppose it would.
Well worth it though. Freed up a lot of space and this shed is now running like a new un. eeek:
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Ah but in Nick's case defragmenting means glueing his coffee mug back together drumroll:.
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My I.T. skills are bounding forward with great ferocity now. whistle:
WOW. What a difference de-fragmenting makes.
Highly recommended. happy088
I now know where to come for advice. ;)
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My I.T. skills are bounding forward with great ferocity now. whistle:
WOW. What a difference de-fragmenting makes.
Highly recommended. happy088
I now know where to come for advice. ;)
Just spent a bit of time last night looking and searching for ways and means of improving this things performance. Dead easy really if you just keep hitting the right buttons.
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My I.T. skills are bounding forward with great ferocity now. whistle:
WOW. What a difference de-fragmenting makes.
Highly recommended. happy088
I now know where to come for advice. ;)
Just spent a bit of time last night looking and searching for ways and means of improving this things performance. Dead easy really if you just keep hitting the right buttons.
Just wait until you hit the wrong one eveilgrin:
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Have you had a go at greasing the hard drive to make it spin round faster. You need some vaseline and a piping funnel. It works, trust me.
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Taking your suggestion I just asked my PC to defrag.
It said F*ck Off but in MSoft Speak ~ telling me that "This procedure is not necessary at this time". (Do that in Bill Gates' accent for the full effect)
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My I.T. skills are bounding forward with great ferocity now. whistle:
WOW. What a difference de-fragmenting makes.
Highly recommended. happy088
I now know where to come for advice. ;)
Just spent a bit of time last night looking and searching for ways and means of improving this things performance. Dead easy really if you just keep hitting the right buttons.
pcwhack: thatsit: crash: happ096
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Have you also delted ALL the temporary files that will have accumulated?
Run CMD
then
DEL C:\*.tmp
whistle:
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I had to do that yesterday. I couldn't even get my virus software to update. redface:
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What defrag or delete temp files?
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On a Unix box, try rm *.* -r.
Recursively deletes from the bottom of the file structure back uo to the top, until the disk is empty. Box will keep on running until reboot time when you find you have no OS, just a dead box.
This is only recommended if you either own the box, or you seriously dislike a person/employeer. eveilgrin:
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Tel, what's a "bootom"?!
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Tel, what's a "bootom"?!
Typo, fixed now.
It is Friday after all. whistle:
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I see Growler imploding over that one.
And for the rest of us, please translate:
On a Unix box, try rm *.* -r.
Recursively deletes from the bottom of the file structure back uo to the top, until the disk is empty. Box will keep on running until reboot time when you fins you have no OS, just a dead box.
Just try it in ENGLISH!
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I see Growler imploding over that one.
And for the rest of us, please translate:
On a Unix box, try rm *.* -r.
Recursively deletes from the bottom of the file structure back uo to the top, until the disk is empty. Box will keep on running until reboot time when you fins you have no OS, just a dead box.
Just try it in ENGLISH!
Another edit done.
What don't you understand? It's not proper techno-babble.
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no OS, just a dead box.
Sounds like a necrophiliacs paradise.
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On a Unix box, try rm *.* -r.
Recursively deletes from the bottom of the file structure back uo to the top, until the disk is empty. Box will keep on running until reboot time when you find you have no OS, just a dead box.
This is only recommended if you either own the box, or you seriously dislike a person/employeer. eveilgrin:
Think big why don't you eeek:
Making this information available to Nick (or worse - The Boy) is on a scale, equivalent to detonating a 100 megaton Nuclear bomb!
This shadow just passed across my monitor screen........... tunble: scared2:
Switch everything electrical off, take a Thermos and packed lunch and hide under the stairs for either:
a) The end of the world.
or
b) Nick forgets about this thread. (preferred option)
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You are working on the Basis that Nick will ever be allowed anywhere near a machine running Unix Bouncer.
I think you can rest easy on that score. point:
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What is Unix Bouncer?
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What is Unix Bouncer?
Unix my wheelsa and I bounc-er on a you head. OK?
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Good to see that Darwin has not lost his sense of humour then!
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What is Unix Bouncer?
In the words of one of our IT department 'Unix is an operating system written by geeks for geeks'
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And the Bouncer version is an "upgrade". Yes?
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And the Bouncer version is an "upgrade". Yes?
You've got it! When you make a misteak the screen starts to bounce, so be careful!
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
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I have a 20K connection today
That's cheaper than yesterday?
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
Err thats not your network cable, thats your catheter eeek:
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
Err thats not your network cable, thats your catheter eeek:
Are you sure?
Give it a yank to check BarMan! eveilgrin:
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Why would Barman want an American to do a thing like that eeek:
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
<cough> I did. whistle:
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
<cough> I did. whistle:
I am familiar with the phrase "Rough as a bears arse", but "Smart as a bears arse" is a new one to me. ::)
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
<cough> I did. whistle:
Our kid doing IT at school then is he? whistle:
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I have a 20K connection today
That's cheaper than yesterday?
Unfortunately not? I?m on a 4p per minute pay-as-you-go interweb connection through a hospital switchboard? I fear it may require Landlady to take her ?secret? purchases back to the shop for a refund to pay the bill... scared2:
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
I have to admit that I get the urge to bang my head on the wall if a user calls and says that they have run scandisk because they thought it might help noooo:
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
I have to admit that I get the urge to bang my head on the wall if a user calls and says that they have run scandisk because they thought it might help noooo:
d.i.y. I.T. numpties ey? ::)
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
I have to admit that I get the urge to bang my head on the wall if a user calls and says that they have run scandisk because they thought it might help noooo:
Sokmetimes I despair. This morning the Sales Director called me because he could access email. After checking network settings etc, I noticed that he had not plugged the network cable into his laptop!
OK, maybe I should have thought of that first, but I do try and give these people a chance to use their brains. Banghead
Chkdisk used to drive me mad - users would run it, usually after advice from a mate and then wonder they ended up with lots of strange files all over their hard drive and that their oh so important data files had disapperared. I once had to got through and piece some files back together almost going down to sector level - if you don-t know what that means, it is pretty low level stuff and bloody awkward.
d.i.y. I.T. numpties ey? ::)
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I?m very impressed with all this IT stuff in here! ;D
Windows users should actually scandisk then do a disk cleanup before defragging ? I?ll tell you all about it when I am back on-line properly? I have a 20K connection today? evil:
I have to admit that I get the urge to bang my head on the wall if a user calls and says that they have run scandisk because they thought it might help noooo:
Sokmetimes I despair. This morning the Sales Director called me because he could access email. After checking network settings etc, I noticed that he had not plugged the network cable into his laptop!
OK, maybe I should have thought of that first, but I do try and give these people a chance to use their brains. Banghead
Chkdisk used to drive me mad - users would run it, usually after advice from a mate and then wonder they ended up with lots of strange files all over their hard drive and that their oh so important data files had disapperared. I once had to got through and piece some files back together almost going down to sector level - if you don-t know what that means, it is pretty low level stuff and bloody awkward.
d.i.y. I.T. numpties ey? ::)
My new book ? the quote tool for Dummies - ?4.95 point:
PS What is it with your bloody avatar ? it doesn?t ?suit? you at all? noooo:
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Changed
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Applauded
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I have to say, I'm envious. I would have quite like that one myself, seeing as how I'm all ethereal and such!
And no jokes about drinking spirits! O.K.?
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Tis my binary side cloud9:
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There are only 10 types of people who understand binary...
"Scandisk" used to work really well on 3.11! My old 386 used to run like a dream after a quick scandisk followed by a cheeky defrag...those were the days...
Anybody fancy answering a particularly annoying Excel problem I have come up against? No? Thought not sad24:
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I have an Excel question though ~ why the f*** is it included in Office Suite. I don't want it, I don't need it, I'll never use it. Why then do I have to pay for it. Same applies to "Publisher" Don't want that either .... but all PCs come with Works 8 installed and f*ck all else except some cack "security" that will cost me and arm and a leg to renew in 15 months time. I don't want this shite! All I want is Word but to get it I have to buy the preloaded Works (never use it) + the security features (which I uninstall in favour of AVG) Explorer and Outlook Express which I don't use (Prefer Mozilla)
and then the B@st@rds want ?200+ for Office suite 90% of which I don't want. cussing:
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You actually use word?!?!? eeek:
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You actually use word?!?!? eeek:
When I started out on this path ("Working" from Home) I sent all sorts of stuff to people I was researching with and to a man/woman they sent my emailed attachments back saying they didn't have Works (whatever number it was) It seemed that having a new PC I was in advance of whatever their employer was providing at that time. I got so p*ssed off with these repeated requests to "Convert or save document as a Word Doc and resend it that I ditched Works and have worked in Word ever since. For this reason I currently have an old Office Suite 2003 in all my machines. Well those as will work it. The reserve PC (now relegated to the boys as a vehicle for their Reader Rabbit series etc) is still operating on Windows 95 so does not want to accept Office 2003.
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We send everyone everything as a pdf. Then it doesn't matter what it is written in.
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We send everyone everything as a pdf. Then it doesn't matter what it is written in.
Warra good idea!
Errrr How do I do that????????? redface:
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I don't know. redface: We have a pdf writer. eeek:
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I don't know. redface: We have a pdf writer. eeek:
Do you know what a spanking is?
Consider it done! whip:
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One of the geeks will know! scared2:
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One of the geeks will know! scared2:
I suppose to some people, I fall into this category whistle:
Trying tucows.com, all sorts of stuff there, some of it free.
There also some "office suites" that are MS compatible.
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I think you can download a freebie pdf writer from adobe. Or have I got that very wrong?
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One of the geeks will know! scared2:
I suppose to some people, I fall into this category whistle:
Trying tucows.com, all sorts of stuff there, some of it free.
There also some "office suites" that are MS compatible.
Yes my Lap-top came with some ready installed ~ supposed to be totally compatible with Word ~ Rubbish!!!
It was Ability Office Suite = Total Crap cussing:
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I think you can download a freebie pdf writer from adobe. Or have I got that very wrong?
Even if you are right I still want to spank you!
For leading me on like that ~ not for any pleasure it may give me you understand whistle:
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noooo:
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I think you can download a freebie pdf writer from adobe. Or have I got that very wrong?
Yes, you can get a free pdf reader but not writer?
I use pdf995 (google it) which is cheap and excellent? Linux comes with one built in.
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Spybot S&D has its uses too - finds stuff that AVG doesn't and it's free.
Nobody has replied to my plea about the Excel thingy...anybody, anybody, Bueller?
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There are only 10 types of people who understand binary...
drumroll:
;D
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Glad I didn't make it octal or hex.
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Glad I didn't make it octal or hex.
Ah yes, the Hexadecimal film favourites:
"The A Commandments", "Oceans B", "The Dirty C", "Friday the Dth" and of course "The 27 Steps" ::)
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Glad I didn't make it octal or hex.
Ah yes, the Hexadecimal film favourites:
"The A Commandments", "Oceans B", "The Dirty C", "Friday the Dth" and of course "The 27 Steps" ::)
Nice one drumroll:
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Glad I didn't make it octal or hex.
Ah yes, the Hexadecimal film favourites:
"The A Commandments", "Oceans B", "The Dirty C", "Friday the Dth" and of course "The 27 Steps" ::)
For that one, you get the clap - you have now officially redeemed yourself.
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He gets "the clap"!?
Shouldn't this be a a "virus" thread?
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He gets "the clap"!?
Shouldn't this be a a "virus" thread?
No, the clap comes from bacteria - I am reliably informed it is a type of camel, so best steer clear of them if you don't want nasty diseases!
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He gets "the clap"!?
Shouldn't this be a a "virus" thread?
No, the clap comes from bacteria - I am reliably informed it is a type of camel, so best steer clear of them if you don't want nasty diseases!
The camel is a noble beast
He's large and rather hairy
And when he's only got one hump
He's called a Dromedary
You will note that I have avoided all mention of Camels Toes ~ I'll leave that for Berek.
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You know too much Beagle...
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I've given you the clap too. 8)
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He gets "the clap"!?
Shouldn't this be a a "virus" thread?
No, the clap comes from bacteria - I am reliably informed it is a type of camel, so best steer clear of them if you don't want nasty diseases!
The camel is a noble beast
He's large and rather hairy
And when he's only got one hump
He's called a Dromedary
He lives his life in desert climes
It's very hot and sandy,
If the wind blows from the South
It makes his gait quite bandy.
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I use Adobe Acrobat to make .pdf files - As nature intended... whistle:
No, I didn't mean Adobe Acrobat reader!
Serif do quite a good cheap .pdf writer - if you have the stamina to engage one of their telesales people to insist you want the old one and not the expensive new one. surrender:
But they are 0800 ...
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Anybody fancy answering a particularly annoying Excel problem I have come up against? No? Thought not sad24:
Oh, go on then... lets have a laugh whistle: whilst we fix it...
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Anybody fancy answering a particularly annoying Excel problem I have come up against? No? Thought not sad24:
Oh, go on then... lets have a laugh whistle: whilst we fix it...
Who's "we"?
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Anybody fancy answering a particularly annoying Excel problem I have come up against? No? Thought not sad24:
Oh, go on then... lets have a laugh whistle: whilst we fix it...
Who's "we"?
I?ll have a bash at it? my brain is fresh. ;)
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One of my users has built a little Excel thingy that, when completed, sends itself via Outlook to an internal mailbox. That's fine.
At the point of sending, a warning message "This worksheet contains hidden rows or columns that the recipient casn unhide. Do you wish to continue?" Choose OK and off it goes and nothing unhides iteself.
If, however, you then forward the e-mail to someone else, all the hidden cells unhide themselves.
Any ideas? We are running Office 2003.
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One of my users has built a little Excel thingy that, when completed, sends itself via Outlook to an internal mailbox. That's fine.
At the point of sending, a warning message "This worksheet contains hidden rows or columns that the recipient casn unhide. Do you wish to continue?" Choose OK and off it goes and nothing unhides iteself.
If, however, you then forward the e-mail to someone else, all the hidden cells unhide themselves.
Any ideas? We are running Office 2003.
It?s not that fresh? surrender:
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One of my users has built a little Excel thingy that, when completed, sends itself via Outlook to an internal mailbox. That's fine.
At the point of sending, a warning message "This worksheet contains hidden rows or columns that the recipient casn unhide. Do you wish to continue?" Choose OK and off it goes and nothing unhides iteself.
If, however, you then forward the e-mail to someone else, all the hidden cells unhide themselves.
Any ideas? We are running Office 2003.
That sort of thing is normal for MicroSnot software - suggest you check out their online help - there's probably a fix for it (along with other 1001 bugs).
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Blimey. If MG can't fix it, we will have to rely on V-P's own IT Yoda - the "Tel". worthy:
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Blimey. If MG can't fix it, we will have to rely on V-P's own IT Yoda - the "Tel". worthy:
Tel is swamped by a sea of paperwork.
The powers that be decided that today and the next 3 fridays should be "dressing down" days.
My comment this morning to explain my attire was that I thought they had said a "dressing gown" day whistle:
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Blimey. If MG can't fix it, we will have to rely on V-P's own IT Yoda - the "Tel". worthy:
Tel is swamped by a sea of paperwork.
The powers that be decided that today and the next 3 fridays should be "dressing down" days.
My comment this morning to explain my attire was that I thought they had said a "dressing gown" day whistle:
Surely a uber cyber man like yourself doesn' use paper ?
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Paper is mainly invoices and my requisitions for expenditure to be approve at board meeting Monday.
My writing now resembles a childs after years of only using a keyboard.
Mind you my typing is not as good as it used to be.
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Us - the geniuses of the forum - of course. or is it the geniuii?
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Given the amount of bottles I suspect are being emptied here surely Geni would be more appropriate.
As for the excel problem, I suspect the only way around it is going to be to zip the file and manually email it.
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One of my users has built a little Excel thingy that, when completed, sends itself via Outlook to an internal mailbox. That's fine.
At the point of sending, a warning message "This worksheet contains hidden rows or columns that the recipient casn unhide. Do you wish to continue?" Choose OK and off it goes and nothing unhides iteself.
If, however, you then forward the e-mail to someone else, all the hidden cells unhide themselves.
Any ideas? We are running Office 2003.
Um... rubschin: It seems to me that the 'problem' is not in Excel at all but in Outlook. The original mailing would contain a flag that preserves the formatting that is set by the "Do you wish to continue?" dialogue. That command is then 'lost' in the subsequent transfer and the default Excel behaviour of standardising the column widths re-establishes itself.
Anyway, it is obvious that the formatting is preserved in the first mailed option and the key objective is to maintain that state in further transfers. Perhaps it would work as intended, if it were attached to a new mail rather than forwarded or - if the 'forward' is a routine matter - have it sent to that address in the first place with a c.c. - Or to a 'holding' file such as "Drafts" where it would wait to be manually dispatched on request, or deleted if unneeded.
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One of my users has built a little Excel thingy that, when completed, sends itself via Outlook to an internal mailbox. That's fine.
At the point of sending, a warning message "This worksheet contains hidden rows or columns that the recipient casn unhide. Do you wish to continue?" Choose OK and off it goes and nothing unhides iteself.
If, however, you then forward the e-mail to someone else, all the hidden cells unhide themselves.
Any ideas? We are running Office 2003.
Um... rubschin: It seems to me that the 'problem' is not in Excel at all but in Outlook. The original mailing would contain a flag that preserves the formatting that is set by the "Do you wish to continue?" dialogue. That command is then 'lost' in the subsequent transfer and the default Excel behaviour of standardising the column widths re-establishes itself.
Anyway, it is obvious that the formatting is preserved in the first mailed option and the key objective is to maintain that state in further transfers. Perhaps it would work as intended, if it were attached to a new mail rather than forwarded or - if the 'forward' is a routine matter - have it sent to that address in the first place with a c.c. - Or to a 'holding' file such as "Drafts" where it would wait to be manually dispatched on request, or deleted if unneeded.
I knew that, but didn't want to be accused of 'mouse waving'. redface:
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I knew that, but didn't want to be accused of 'mouse waving'. redface:
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Sometimes you just have to wave it whistle:
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