Microsoft Office Word 2007 Tip: How to Avoid Printing a Document Properties Sheet
November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Details: In Microsoft Office Word 2007, if an additional sheet of paper is printed with document properties specific to the file that you are printing then do the following to remedy the issue. Resolution: 1. Open Microsoft Office Word 2007 then click on the Microsoft Office button then “Word Options” 2. Select “Display” in the [...]
A Procedure for Slipstreaming Windows XP SP3
April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Purpose: Slipstream (integrate) Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) onto a base (or previous service pack) version of Windows XP (Home or Professional). Note: In order to ensure success with the slipstream process please perform all steps within this post on a computer running Windows XP (Home or Professional). Otherwise, as of April 27, 2008, [...]
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Administration Tools Pack
February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Administration Tools Pack is now available for download from Microsoft’s Download Center. It was released on January 14, 2008. The previous version, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Administration Tools Pack, was released nearly 3 years ago on April 28, 2005. The Administration Tools Pack allows administrators to install [...]
Compaq System Recovery and Code Purple
December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Approximately 3 years ago, I purchased a Compaq Presario desktop computer. The system originally came with a 120.0 GB hard drive partitioned into two volumes. The primary partition had been formatted as NTFS and the second much smaller partition as FAT32. Windows XP Home Edition resided on the first larger partition and the Compaq System [...]
Microsoft Word Does Not Display More than One Page of Text
October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Details: A user needs to type more than one page of text in Microsoft Word. However, text on the bottom portion of the paper appears to disappear as soon as it is typed. That is, text does not flow from first page onto subsequent pages. If you look at the bottom portion of the document, the status bar [...]
Capture Device Offline in Adobe Premiere Elements
October 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Details: Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 has been previously installed on a computer running Windows XP Professional, but it has not been updated since 09/11/2006. If you launch the program, then you may receive the following message when attempting to capture video from an external device: “Capture Device Offline.” Problem: A Digital Videocassette Recorder (Sony DVCAM [...]
Changing the Default Save Option in Microsoft Office 2007 Applications
June 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
For Microsoft Word 2007 1. Open Microsoft Word, then click on the “Office Button” (located on the upper-left hand corner of the application) 2. Click on Word Options, then select the category “Save” (located on the left hand side) 3. Click on the drop-down menu labeled “Save files in this format”, then select Word 97-2003 [...]
A few months ago someone asked me about the feasibility of managing Windows-based virtual machines (VMs) that can be launched from an Intel-based Mac. I thought about the possibilities for a few minutes then a flush of ideas started to swirl around my head. Management of computers in a cross platform environment can sometimes be [...]
Safari on Windows and What’s to Come
June 13, 2007 | 1 Comment
At WWDC 2007, Apple publicly announced the immediate availability of Safari 3 beta for Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, Windows XP and Vista. Should it come as a surprise that Apple would release another application for Windows; let alone a web browser? Absolutely not. The reason. The most talked about device of 2007, the iPhone. [...]
Someone recently requested assistance after they encountered a problem with using Microsoft Access 2003 to edit and print reports from previously created databases. After listening to a brief description of the problem, it was evident that the cause of their problem was a combination of using Microsoft Access 2003 and having an HP LaserJet printer [...]