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As mentioned in Bitches, my iMac went postal last night before leaving for my weekend getaway. So I'm trying to come up with a plan of attack when I get back home. It seems when Parallels went "non-responding" on me, and slowly locked up the machine, it did a number to the hard drive. After HOURS of aargh, I did manage to * verify the hardware is fine * repair permissions. Ya, not much. However, I can't seem to repair either the Mac HD or the Bootcamp HD from the disk utility that comes with the Installer DVD. First it said it couldn't unmount the drive. So I did that manually. THen it said "invalid node structure". Then I scanned again and it said "invalid record count". On the bootcamp drive it consistantly said "unable to read directory (input/output error). ERROR: THe underlying task reported failure on exit."
Any thoughts? Is it a safe assumption that if I re-install the system, it will need to wipe the drive? I'd rather not do that, as the back-ups was on next weeks plan of things to do. I have the bulk of my iTunes and pictures, but not my e-mails or recent files since purchasing the computer.
Typo Boy, I've seen that before when the PC had a trojan in it. The trojan was hooking on to IE and trying to hide itself, but ended up hiding IE instead and buggering itself up.
Hmm, neither McAfee nor AD Aware finds any Trojans. Nor does MS Malware detection.
Unrelated question: Is there a way to convert a Microsoft table of contents into a static table while preserving formatting?
a way to convert a Microsoft table of contents into a static table while preserving formatting
A MS TOC isn't an actual table--you just want the text, still formatted?
eta: If so, try copying it and pasting as formatted text (RTF ).
can you copy it and do a paste special?
Isn't there a way to toggle the TOC so that it's no longer a locked field?
If so, try copying it and pasting as formatted text (RTF
can you copy it and do a paste special?
First thing I tried. Does not get rid of the links. Not with RTF, not with paste special.
Isn't there a way to toggle the TOC so that it's no longer a locked field?
Trying that: Can't find any place to that. You can make all Toc fields entry fields, which lets you overwrite them mannually. But the still recalc when you press F9. The nearest I've come is that you can save to a filtered HTML, and then pull the table back out. You get half the formatting.
Yesterday at work I solved the opposite of Typo Boy's issue. A store had problems in IE6, and IE7 made it work.
Plans are to uninstall IE7 at some point, but now that it's going to be mandatory again...
I'm trying to remember what I did for my dissertation for the TOC fields. I remember that TOC was a pain in the ass - especially since I was using master documents.
TB, the only thing I can recommend is can you save the document (under a new name of course) as RTF and then get what you want from the TOC page?
