Recent content by Trentham

Excellent! That's got it going now. Many thanks. Short time of consternation when it refused to believe it knew anything about the modem that that went away!

Thanks for that idea, it's a bit less drastic than a complete reinstall which is about all I could think of!

I've just taken over a laptop (Win98SE) and can't use the internet though its modem... The laptop used to participate in a domain but I've now set it to Workgroup operation. In IE setting I've removed all reference to LAN connection. In the DUN TCP/IP settings it's set to get settings...

Thannks all for your help.

Well I've put a new disk in now and all is well. When I set autoscan=0 in msdos.sys it still did a scan. Perhaps the 'msdos.sys' that I needed to alter was called something else at the time, eg. msdos.dos.

Many thanks MattJ. As you suggest, it looks like the disk is on its way out!

I'm trying to sort out a WinME system which always asks to do a scandisk on startup. It may be quite justified in thinking that it ought to do one in that the machine *did* crash at one time and it's not been able/allowed to complete a scan disk since then (it's trying to do a thorough scan)...

Thanks for your thoughts. I've decided to do the batch label producing in Access where I've got much more control and just use Word for the single batch instances.

What I've got is a lot of mailing details. They come in batches and each batch is to start on a new page (of labels). The start of a batch is marked with a code field having a specific value (eg. code = "P"). It's unimportant whether they print directly or go into a new document eventually...

I'm trying to create a mail merge to get labels (which is not a problem). Under various conditions I want to throw to a new page but can't find out how to do it. It's got to be either easy or impossible! What I'm after is some sort of condition like { IF { MERGFIELD code } = "P" { newpage...

Yep, I must have been doing something wrong. I've tried again and it seems OK now. TVM. :-)

I tried that but it wasn't fooled... it knew better than to treat it as text!

MakeItSo's solution hasn't worked :-( I can't find a "auto entry for cell values" entry un iptions (Office 2000) and ones I've tried didn't help. Setting up a template didn't stop it converting to date format either.

Thanks for both those ideas. I'll give them a go and see if I can get Micro$oft to let me decide how to process my data!

This has got to be simple but I can't see the answer! I've got a csv file which I'm, opening in Excel. It's just a lot of text fields, i.e. "xxx","yyy","zzz",.... Some of the fields contain data such as "1/2" but when Excel opens this file, it knows...