Recent content by lanez

Found the problem. Not Office at all, but the latest XP hotfix. Took out the hotfix using system resotre and hey presto! everythings working again!

For a purchase order, where you will be entering details in a table, use Excel. I find it a lot easier to protect different parts of a form in Excel than in Word. Easier to use Excel formulae to calculate your discounts, totals & tax as well.

Thanks for the interest Mike. No other software or applications were changed at the time, only Office was upgraded. btw the OS is XP with all fixes.

Try embedding all fonts when you write the pdf.

we use odbc to link out office apps on PCs to our order processing suite on an IBM Rs6000. Everything worked fine until we upgraded to Office 2003. Now the pivot tables we use in Excel give the following error message: "Client Safety Options do not allow pass-through statements to be issued to...

Have you checked what the automatic disconnect settings on both server and client are?

Possible cause is that the form is greater than NT thinks the printer can use. Try a smaller size form & see if that appears in the list. Could be you need to install a service pack - see article no Q157848 on the microsoft technet website. Best of luck lanez

Thanks to facaldo for an excellent working solution. Apologies to Serbtastic for not explaining myself more clearly. cheers lanez

I don't think this is possible. But you could use winzip or similar compression utility to compress to a network drive. You'ld need to write a bit of vbs to get it to work unattended, but if it's just data stuff it should be fine.

Generic text printer set up to print to file. :) file set up as port so always uses the same file name. :) Problem. :( Overwrites previous print. :(( To be of any use to me it must be able to append rather than overwrite. Then I want to read it into a formatting app I've created to print on...