I suppose you could do it with VBA, assuming there's a method for that.

Maybe I'll look that up later.

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?

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?

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.

tommy- I have tried to use the if, then, etc, but I think Word mail merge is the devil.

What problems have you had?

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.

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?

Checksums are a means of verifing that there are no errors on a disk. That message means that something is corrupt on the DVD.

I don't know if it's possible for the error message to be spurious and for this to be a hardware problem with the drive. Can you try the DVD in another computer just to see if you get the same error?

Good idea. I'm on it.

eta: Well.

The disk opens perfectly on the iMac with system 9. I put it in the eMac and it doesn't even show up on the desktop.

ARgh.

etaa: a home burned audio cd popped right up on the desktop.

etaaasss: Aw jeez. I feel so stupid. In reading the quick start guide, I thought it said to install the drivers before hooking up the dvd drive. Um. No. I hooked the drive up, inserted the dvd and it brought up the utilities.

Nebbermind. I'm a dimwit.

Spent nearly 9 hours trying to upgrade the eMac today. The dvd drive works, but I can't get the system to recognize the Tiger disk. Nada. I can read the dvd utilities and regular dvds, but no love on the OS upgrade from 10.1.5.

Frustration in the extreme.

I tried restarting with the disk in the drive. I tried booting from the disk.

Why is this so hard?