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    Office file repair tools - any recommendations?

    Looking for recommendations for third party tools to repair corrupt MS Office files, in particular Office 2007. I am aware of the ability to repair from within Office so don't need help with that but so often this just doesn't work and the temptation is to try something off the net. Wondering...
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    Cannot start the source application for the object.

    I've posted this in the Office forum too but to no avail so was hoping someone might be able to offer some insight here (tenuous link, the user is running Windows XP Pro) Here's the orignal post with a bit of an update wedged in... update....have now tried this guy with a new profile and on a...
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    Excel 2k3 - cannot start source application for this object.

    I have a user who has several spreadsheets with embedded jpegs. When trying to open the jpegs he gets the following message: I assumed this to be a file association issue at first but file association for jpeg files is fine. He has no issues opening the jpeg direct from source but not from...
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    Microsoft Office Live - web hosting

    I'm posting this here as well as other forums. I appreciate it's not strictly an MS Office question but if you're reading this you may have some idea about what I'm asking...failing that, you're here to tell me to post it elsewhere ...either way, any help appreciated. The issue... I have been...
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    Web hosting with MS Office Live

    I'm posting this here as well as other forums. I appreciate it's not strictly 'Web designers' question but if you're reading this you may have some idea about what I'm asking...failing that, you're here to tell me to post it elsewhere ...either way, any help appreciated. The issue... I have...
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    Page position with/without vertical scroll bar.

    I have a feeling I'm asking a really basic question here but the answer is illuding me so here goes... I am building a site HTML/CSS, centered pages, one style sheet caters for whole site. Here's the obvious bit: pages that don't scroll sit the width of the scroll bar to the right of those that...
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    CSS menu -mouse over alternate image.

    Hi all... can I just mention I'm no CSS expert so go easy on me, I'm sure that the below code is not necessarily how everyone might do it and welcome any pointers I have created a vertical navigation menu. Doing nothing, the background image is white with a yellow ball on the right of the...
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    @face-font CSS help needed, please...

    I built my site using Segoe Print as the main font. This appears to be a default font for Windows 7 but not for XP so viewing my site via XP machine renders it with Tahoma...my first back up font in my CSS. I read about @face-font and it appeared to be just what I needed and seems simple enough...
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    Outlook 2k7 - email body text undelines in white

    Running Outlook 2007 on Win XP [all 32bit]. New email message - type the body text and try and underline a word...either by the underline button or Ctrl U. It appears as though the word isn't being underlined but if you highlight it you can see it's underlined in white. If you send the email...
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    Off2k7 - repair 'File' menu - multiple 'page setup' entries

    I have a user running Office 2007 on XP. If he clicks on his 'File' menu he has 13 entries for 'page setup', only one of whioch actually works. I have tried resetting the menus - 'view - toolbars - customise - reset usage', done a 'detect & repair' and I've also renamed the 'pip' files but...
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    ADVENT 7113 BIOS issue.

    I was updating (Windows updates)an ADVENT 7113 (Vista Home Premium) laptop when after a reboot it asked me for the BIOS password. There has never been a BIOS password set. Googled this problem and it seems to be common but with no final resolve. So far I have: removed CMOS battery, tried so...
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    CHKDSK won't run... system disk is RAW

    Never seen this before... (during all this Windows is still functional) I tried to backup my PC to WHS... it tells me backup can't run as C: drive has errors, run chkdsk. So I try to run chkdsk from command prompt and it tells me command is not recognised (and I am spelling it correctly). I...
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    Retrieve profile path from Active Directory

    I think I'm asking a lot here but if you don't ask you don't get as they say... Does anyone have any ideas how to retrieve the profile path of a user from Active Directory using a VB script? We currently have a script that allows us to check if the logged in user is a member of one of the AD...
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    No mail from Exchange unless clicking send/recieve

    Afternoon all... Exchange 2003/Outlook 2003 client I have a user who only recieves her mail after clicking send/receive. No mail comes through unles she does this. For other users it's the usual process, mail arrives when it becomes available. All connections to the servers are good, user...
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    Email links open homepage not link page

    Hi, Have scoured high and low on the net for the answer to this... happy for someone to make me look stupid and point out the easy answer... I have a user who receives emails (Outlook 2007) with links to websites... when she clicks on the links they only ever open her IE7 homepage (in this...
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    Video BIOS update DELL Latitude D630

    Posted here as it's a machine running XP more than it is a direct xp question. I need to upgrade the Video BIOS on a a DELL Latitude D630 laptop. The machine in question has a different Video BIOS version to all the other machines on our domains and is blue screening with a graphics related...
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    Roaming profile and prf*.TMP file issue.

    I have googled this and only found people quoting MS KB articles... wondered if anyone here has some 'real world' answers to this problem... all thoughts appreciated. I have a user with a roaming profile who is accumulating a large amount of temporary files on a daily basis. They appear in...
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    Vista MCE, TVedia and MCE Remote Control

    I have a Vista based media cente (just built) using TVedia as my interface for music, tv etc. TVedia running on XP would allow me to use the 'triple-tap' text input function of the MCE remote control, however, running on Vista this function is no longer available. Question: Has anyone else come...
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    Pre-logon message via registry

    Not sure this in the right forum but can't find one for reg editing (feel free to abuse for posting in wrong forum, just make sure you tell me which one it should have gone in [smile] We have a pre-logon message that has to be ok'd before a user can proceed to logon. Recently the message has...
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    creating a 'print' button or image link

    Working with Dreamweaver CS3... I am creating a web style, auto start cd-rom that amongst other things contains a large collection of PDF files. On the contents page of this cd-rom I want to list the names of the PDF files. Beside the name of each file in the list I would like to have a...

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