I have a new iPod, la la la la la LA LA LA LA LA LA LA.
We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know...insane.
Willow ,'Showtime'
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Dana - Sep 15, 2006 8:29:52 am PDT #8950 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 8:47:34 am PDT #8951 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Anyone know stuff about mail merge in Word?
Do you need to "open the data source" every time you open the merge document in Word? (For what I'm working on, the data source will always be the same.)
I have a new iPod, la la la la la LA LA LA LA LA LA LA.
Yay!
Sophia Brooks - Sep 15, 2006 9:00:00 am PDT #8952 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
In my experience, you do IF the datasource has changed any and you want to include the new items. If anyone knows an easier way, I would love it!
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 9:01:23 am PDT #8953 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I suppose you could do it with VBA, assuming there's a method for that.
Maybe I'll look that up later.
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 9:09:16 am PDT #8954 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Crap on a crap burger!
I inserted a buch of merge fields of the If... Then... Else variety. (i.e conditional, based on data in the data document.) Now they're gone. The other merge fields are still there.
I am looking at the document now with Word XP, but I created it in Word 2000. Maybe the different version of Word screwed it up?
Anyone ever use the If... Then... Else merge functionality?
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 9:48:47 am PDT #8955 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We just installed software DAID on a Win2K server. To test it, my boss pulled one of the three RAID drives and then booted. There was no warning of anything at all, except for a warning in the system log. Is there any other way to detect a drive failure besides periodically checking the system log?
Sophia Brooks - Sep 15, 2006 11:08:15 am PDT #8956 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
tommy- I have tried to use the if, then, etc, but I think Word mail merge is the devil. I have more luck hand checking the people I want to send to.
tommyrot - Sep 15, 2006 11:10:33 am PDT #8957 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommy- I have tried to use the if, then, etc, but I think Word mail merge is the devil.
What problems have you had?
Gudanov - Sep 15, 2006 5:15:18 pm PDT #8958 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
So, I've decided to attempt another escape from the evil empire (tm) and so far it's going pretty good. So far Ubuntu 6.06 hasn't given me the problems that I experienced with 5.10. I am preferring Gnome over KDE though in the past with other linux distros it's been the other way around.
Hey, I use Ubuntu 6.06 too. (Used to use Suse 10.0). For bittorrent, I like Azureus for a GUI client and it's available in the Ubuntu archives. I have kinda switched to command line bittornado though. Ubuntu has worked great for me and I'm rather looking forward to Edgy Eft 6.10. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to try to help. I don't really use wine though. At the moment I'm not using games very much as I'm enjoying playing around with GTK programming.
beekaytee - Sep 16, 2006 6:10:24 am PDT #8959 of 10003
Compassionately intolerant
I refuse to be defeated! shaking fist at new stuff that doesn't work
I know adding memory to the eMac (successful) and planning to upgrade to Tiger is a good idea.
However. The disk for installing the LaCie dc dual dvd drive (so that I can read the Tiger dvd to install that) is giving me an error.
"Disk Copy Image name: DVD_updatetool.dmg Image format: UDIF read only Checksum: CRC32 $F13ECC6C invalid
Unable to verify 'dvd_updatetool.dmg"
Any clue what that means?
I'm feeling sort of chicken and eggy. I need the dvd drive to install the OS, but I'm afraid the current version of the OS 10.1.5 is not adequate to mount the dvd drive.
Lacie is not open and Tekserve is not answering the phone. Any ideas for places to look?