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One more reason I’m so happy with my switch to a MacBook Pro 3 years ago. I now have 3 macs in my business, just wish I could scrap the 28 windows machines. Although I primarily love it for the increased efficiency and productivity, when it comes to new software versions, $29.

Office and/or apps that are necessary for business are a long way off for anyone who travels or lives outside of the US or some other well connected country. Here in Bolivia the internet service is slow (2 hours to update a 70 MB website). A couple of months ago lightning struck a repeating tower of the ISP. No internet for 4 weeks til they got new equipment. Last week I traveled to Argentina. Only had internet in the lobby of the hotel, and it was painfully slow. There is no phone or internet in many of the places I travel, but I have to keep my business running.

I had an employee using cloud based software to develop an app. They pulled the software off line and he had to start over with something else.

A long way off…….

I would put something like that on a par with coming to a website and it automatically starts playing music, I absolutely HATE that! Unless that website has something I really need, that is almost always the last time I ever visit it. And even if it has something I need, either a product or some information, I get what I need and get out, never to return.

That is the surest way to get me to never return to a site, or if it was an email, mark it as junk if it got to me. I hate those blaring things. I need sound to know when my other office people are trying to consult me by chat, suppliers by skype, etc.

Very strange. I always put files in that location and get them from employees.
I just navigated to there and today it lets me open them. Maybe because I’m not logged into the program that generated them?
I haven’t restarted my computer, although I did log out of the server yesterday and back in today.

And it shows that you should never trust the people who say it can’t be done, or there is no reason to. That is what they said when they installed the $5,000 worth of hardware and software. Of course they also told me I would not be able to run it with my mac (which I had disproved in the 1st 30 min of the first training session).

For this I don’t need to run windows. There is actually very little that I need to run Windows for, and I do it with Parallels.

Anyway, I figured out I was complicating things. In the windows version I found and “options” on the login where I can set the screen size to run the remote desktop in. Since I do 95% of my stuff on the Mac, I hadn’t noticed the windows login screen had that option.

I didn’t say it was a Windows problem. I’m looking for a workaround.

The main problem is our sales/inventory/accounting program that runs on server 2008. it is written locally by a “Microsoft certified partner” (whatever that means). Everyone connects through the remote desktop (or whatever the actual name is in their version of windows). Maybe the trick is to get remote desktop to open in a reasonable window.

If I open it on an 11″ monitor, it covers the screen, same with a 22″ monitor and anything in between. no scrolling needed, you spend the day minimizing and opening windows and jotting down information on paper that you could type if it was on the screen at the same time.

Google it and download. You can install it and tell it what size and what part of the screen to open programs. It then remembers where and how you want your desktop organized. Very helpful in some things, like crystal reports that takes the whole monitor to show you a report even if it is only 3 columns.

That is not the problem. The problem is the main program we need to run is written with a fixed width to the entire screen, no matter what size monitor you have. Put it on a 12″ monitor, it fills 12″, put it on a 22″ monitor, it fills 22″. If I use auto-sizer to reduce the screen, it only shows part of the program. I need something to shrink it and fool the program into running in less than full 22″ monitor so that other things can be seen instead of minimizing and tabing all day.

When I run it in my mac, I can give it whatever size I want (within limits) and it runs happily. How can I do this in Windows?

Well, it worked on the systems with windows 32, but in the vista 64 I had to change the path again, and it does not like what it sees.
Here is the error, and you can see the path in the explorer window. I don’t see the cause.

Thanks. I will have to investigate that, but hard to believe people are opening that big intentionally and then switching through windows.
I think I’ll try autosizer

Thanks, I’ll try that tomorrow (today is a holiday)

GREAT>>>> that fixed it (just had to change the script to “Office11”

The best solution might be to contact the site owner to recode it.

In the post here (where my post was moved) someone helped me with a code that made my flash work on both IE and Firefox. The link is on the first page of this thread, although it was specific.

Of course that only works if the site owner wants to work on his site. A supplier I have has a site that is black and pink in IE, but in Firefox and Safari it is black on black. They say most people don’t have trouble so it’s not worth the trouble to change the colors.

After more than 20 years of MS Office, I was forced into OpenOffice because I bought a Mac and Excel for mac is garbage. It will not run any macros and is not customizable.

At first I thought I’d switch over the entire company, where we currently run Office 2002 and 2007. But there are still a lot of problems with OpenOffice.
—It will not release links. Tell it to break the links and it does, but they come back when you open the file, so you can’t send it to anyone without Copy/Paste values
—There are a lot of things you can’t put on the toolbar
—By default, copy/paste special opens to the same as paste, and unchecking put leaves everything checked.
—Formatting for printing, or selecting for sorting takes several more screens
—It is easy to save into Excel, but frequently the receiving computers can’t open them.
—You can only filter one column at a time on a workbook. filter one sheet and the rest disappear
—The freeze panes sometimes disappears
—The text and background colors default between every click. You can’t just go down the column clicking to highlight
—You can’t use multiple “if” statements in formulas.

Anyway, I’ve given it 9 months of trial, but I am anxiously awaiting the release of the new Excel for Mac at the end of the year.