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ZETAFAX EXCHANGE GATEWAY |
A common problem after first installing Zetafax is that you get the error "Error 1069. The service did not start due to a logon failure."
This is because the Zetafax service is not using the same account as the Exchange service. Use the Control Panel, Services option to confirm the account settings for each service and set them to the same settings.
See http://www.c2000.com/products for more information
LINUX TAKES OVER NETWARE AS NUMBER 2 SERVER |
According to industry analysts IDC, 1999 was the year that for new licences Linux out-shipped Netware.
Not entirely surprising, given the great boom in Linux shipments and the relatively stagnant market for Netware. But interesting in that it shows how the view of the technology is changing. Linux is now seen as a suitable product for use in corporate systems. Of course, currently in overall installed base Netware still wins hands-down with so many sites still out there using the old workhorse.
Comparing Linux to Microsoft though, IDC are predicting 28% growth in Linux shipments and a compound annual growth of 23% - making Linux revenues by 2004 a huge £60M UK sterling worldwide. Hardly something to worry Microsoft really.
By the way, if you are interested in purchasing Linux, then please give us a call, we can supply most Linux variants for corporate customers.
CREATE PHOTO ALBUMS WITH POWERPOINT 2000 |
Microsoft are always dropping new snippets on their ever growing (and increasingly difficult to navigate) web-site.
This week they announced a little add-on for PowerPoint 2000 which lets you simply create photo albums in PP.
This new add-in program lets you grab pictures from hard disk, camera or scanner and drop them straight into a presentation. But also, special designs for photo albums lets you view your pictures in Slide Show view or print the album as well. And you can use the Save As Web feature to build an instant web site of your images.
If you don’t need to go to the lengths of more sophisticated album building then this could be for you.
We don't have this one on our web site this time, you need to go to Microsoft at
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/album.htm
See http://www.c2000.com/software for more information
WIN2000: DISABLING PERSONALISED MENUS |
Personalised menus (or IntelliMenus as they are also known) are a new feature in Windows 2000. They show only a short summary of useful commands plus a few commands that you personally have used often.
Speaking personally, I hate them! I like to see all my menu options available and hate having to search for options that I know are there somewhere.
If you want to turn them off the run the following:
Click the Start button
Select Settings and select 'TaskBar & Start Menu'
Select the General tab
Unselect 'Use Personalized Menus'
Click Apply and then OK
All your menus will now appear in their full glory!
Incidentally, some programs like Word 2000 have their own option for this on the applications preferences dialogs as well. So you could say disable it for Word, but leave it on for Excel (if you really wanted to!)
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
WORD: QUICK SELECTION OF A PAGE IN WORD |
Sneaky little tip this one for quickly selecting a page:
Press F5 for Go To…
Choose Bookmark
Type in \page
The page is selected just like that.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
HOW BIG IS AN OUTLOOK MAILBOX? |
If you want to check the size of your own outlook mailbox:
Right click on InBox.
Choose Properties
At the bottom of the dialog, there is a button marked "Folder Size". That gives you the size of InBox plus any sub-folders within your InBox.
You can also do an advanced find in the "Tools" menu to find messages that are greater than a certain size.
You can add "Size" as a viewable column in the main InBox window. Can be useful when trying to find files with very large attachments.
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
MS-ACCESS: CHANGING FIELD COLOURS |
Did you know as well as controlling the basic format of numbers and dates on reports etc you can also change the
colour of a control using the format property? Simply append the colour in brackets after the format:
#,##0.00 [red]
This would show a number formatted with a thousands comma in red. You can also use this where you are using conditional formatting:
+0.0 [blue];-0.0 [red];0.0
Would show positive numbers, with a plus sign, in blue and negative numbers, with a minus sign, in red. Zero values are shown as 0.0 in the default colour (usually black).
You can use: Black, Blue, Green, Cyan, Red, Magenta, Yellow, White
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
UNIPLEX DATABASE FORM LIMITS |
Uniplex database forms have a limit of 255 fields per form. If you put more fields on the form than that then you will get the message "Too many columns in table". Strictly this does not apply to the "table", but the columns on the form.
There is no problem dealing with tables with more than 255 fields in a form as long as they are not all displayed in the same form.
This limit applies across the whole form, it is the sum of all fields on all pages of the form.
See http://www.c2000.com/tips/ for more information
FINDING FONTS USED IN A WORD DOCUMENT |
We recently shipped some training guides in Word format for a customer. The customer then calls with a query from the printing house. There are some odd font names in there, did we really need them?
Turns out this document (which was a modification of a revision of an update) had picked up assorted references to fonts along the way. Rather than the two fonts we thought we had used there were actually around 20 fonts in the document, mostly just different variations of the fonts we had used, plus some font settings on blank lines and a few other bits and pieces.
That’s were FontList fits in. A nice little freeware utility writing by Briton Raymond Mercier. FontList scans your document and identifies for you all the font names used in your document.
Then you can use Word's regular Find options to seek out the fonts in question and decide what to do with them.
FontList is not yet up on the web site, but if you want it in the meantime please send me an email and I'll send you the pack (it's small!).
QUICKLY SAVE ALL YOUR WORD FILES |
So you are working on a number of Word files at one time, now want to save them all. Well you can go through them one after another, or you could use this trick: Hold down Shift and click on the File Menu. You'll see an extra option "SAVE ALL".
Goodness knows why this option is normally hidden, but there you go!
See http://www.c2000.com/mswindow for more information
COMPUTER POETRY |
This delightful selection was sent to us by Bianca at CIOT, thank you very much.
Subject: Computer poetry
Tokyo, Japan, Feb 20 - Sony has announced its own computer operating system now available on its hot new portable PC called the Vaio. Instead of producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows and DOS systems, Sony's chairman Asai Tawara said, "We intend to capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has been until now an operating system that reflects Western cultural hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry. The haiku messages are just as informative as Microsoft's and they make you pause just long enough that you're able to fight the impulse to put a fist through the screen."
The chairman went on to give examples of the error messages:
You seek a Web site.
It cannot be located.
Countless more exist.
Chaos reigns within.
Stop, reflect, and reboot.
Order shall return.
ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask way too much.
Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that.
First snow, then silence.
This thousand dollar screen dies
So beautifully.
With searching comes loss.
The presence of absence.
"June Sales.doc" not found.
The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao
Until you bring fresh toner.
Windows NT crashed.
The Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
You step in the stream
But the water has moved on.
Page not found.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you are seeking
Must now be retyped.
Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone
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