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There are four additional screws under the pads. They are of different lengths so keep track of which hole they come out of.

Bill

Thanks for the responses. I want to take it apart because I have two, one of which was damaged by my youngest daughter beating it against the table the computer sits on–she’s probably going to go into marriage counselling some day–and the other has a problem with the cable which causes it to work erratically at times. Between the two I might be able to salvage one good one. Before I took the pads off I hoped to find out if there really were screws underneath. I will take a look and let you know what I find out.

Bill

Thanks Hans and Steve. I have things straightened out now.

Bill

Thanks Hans and Steve. I have things straightened out now.

Bill

After installing a second copy of Win XP, I moved the Book.xlt in XLSTART from the original XP to the new XP. I also moved a file named PERSONAL.xls too. It is a hidden workbook in Book.xlt. I found that when I use Excel within the new XP system, all of my toolbar customizations are missing. In addition, even though my Options specify that the default font is Arial 10 point, Excel opens with a default font of Garamond 12 point. Is there a way to fix this?

Regards,
Bill

After installing a second copy of Win XP, I moved the Book.xlt in XLSTART from the original XP to the new XP. I also moved a file named PERSONAL.xls too. It is a hidden workbook in Book.xlt. I found that when I use Excel within the new XP system, all of my toolbar customizations are missing. In addition, even though my Options specify that the default font is Arial 10 point, Excel opens with a default font of Garamond 12 point. Is there a way to fix this?

Regards,
Bill

Hi Phil,

Not a problem. Well…OK, there is a problem–the files are too big to attach to a post. I will e-mail them to anyone that wants them, assuming that doesn’t turn out to be thousands. Besides a sample manual that has the three levels of TOC and the template used to format the heading and list items, I will throw in my Normal.dot, which has numerous custom toolbar icons that run macros and lots of customization of context menus, including an item on the list and heading context menus that automatically updates all TOCs. Very, very handy. Also items to restart or continue numbering, which do see a lot of use too.

Bill Martz
intrinsic@twmi.rr.com

Hi Phil,

Not a problem. Well…OK, there is a problem–the files are too big to attach to a post. I will e-mail them to anyone that wants them, assuming that doesn’t turn out to be thousands. Besides a sample manual that has the three levels of TOC and the template used to format the heading and list items, I will throw in my Normal.dot, which has numerous custom toolbar icons that run macros and lots of customization of context menus, including an item on the list and heading context menus that automatically updates all TOCs. Very, very handy. Also items to restart or continue numbering, which do see a lot of use too.

Bill Martz
intrinsic@twmi.rr.com

Hans,

In order to do as you suggested, I felt I had better cut down the size of the document I wanted to send, so I started deleting pages. As I did, I kept checking to see if the problem was still there. When I discoved that the problem had gone away, I started deleting fewer and fewer pages until I found the dividing line between problem/no problem. The culprit was some text that was flagged as a grammer problem–had an extra space. Interestingly, there are many cases of text flagged as a grammer problem, but that one item was causing the problem. Same thing in the second document I was having trouble with. Different grammer problem, though.

Thanks for motivating me to find the nefarious text.

Bill

In my old installation, which I still have because I am using BootIt NG to dual boot, I don’t have the problem. Something about this new installation of Word is causing the problem. Because my partitions don’t have the same letters, some hyperlink references are invalid, but in one of the documents I have fixed all those problems. In addition, one of the documents has only page number fields in it, and that should never give me a problem.

Thanks for giving it a shot.

Bill

In my old installation, which I still have because I am using BootIt NG to dual boot, I don’t have the problem. Something about this new installation of Word is causing the problem. Because my partitions don’t have the same letters, some hyperlink references are invalid, but in one of the documents I have fixed all those problems. In addition, one of the documents has only page number fields in it, and that should never give me a problem.

Thanks for giving it a shot.

Bill

I write manuals for myself: e.g., a procedures manual and a computer manual. I use 11 numbering levels, 2 styles I have created (Prd1 and Prd2) plus all 9 Heading styles, which I have set up as outline numbering styles. Using the built in Heading styles gives you the ability to hyperlink to headings, i.e., you don’t have to use a bookmark in order to jump to a particular point in the manual from somewhere else in the manual. I also use up to 3 levels of TOC: the most detailed, which is built using Prd1, Prd2, and Heading 1; an intermediate TOC–which only reads the full TOC because I restrict it to a bookmark that just includes the full TOC–and shows only two levels that are based on TOC 1 and TOC 2; and, finally the first TOC: it is the least detailed TOC because it only reads the intermediate TOC and only displays one level based upon TOC 1. The advantage to using the 3 TOCs is that, given that my Procedures manual is 58 pages long, I don’t have to scroll through a long, detailed TOC to find a specific topic. Two clicks takes me from the most general TOC to the most detailed, but I’m in the section of the TOC that will have my specific topic in it.

There are two particular spots in my manual that I refer to constantly so I have hyperlinks to them at the top of my first TOC, i.e., there are two hyperlinks, then my TOC starts.

If you wanted, I could e-mail my template to you along with a section of a manual so you could see how it works.

Bill Martz
intrinsic@twmi.rr.com

No, this is what is said in the KB article: The problem is caused by a rounding error in the UDF reader (udfs.sys).” There is a replacement file listed, but you can’t get it without going through tech support. Before I took a chance on having to pay $35, I thought I would see if anyone was familiar with this problem and what must be done to fix it.

Bill

No, this is what is said in the KB article: The problem is caused by a rounding error in the UDF reader (udfs.sys).” There is a replacement file listed, but you can’t get it without going through tech support. Before I took a chance on having to pay $35, I thought I would see if anyone was familiar with this problem and what must be done to fix it.

Bill

I first tried it with just the backup job as the wake-up. That didn’t work. Last night I attempted to use a job that would display a text file three minutes ahead of the start of the backup job. But looking at that job again, which didn’t run last night, that might have happened because the path was not enclosed with quotes. I will try that again tonight.

Still, I have tested using the backup job alone several times after manually putting my computer into hibernation, and it always ran just fine.

Bill