Windows/Office problem

The moment you acknowledge someone as an expert they cease to be one.

 

On 2 Dec 2005 10:20:53 GMT, "Krusty" <>
wrote:

What makes you think display drivers would have an effect on a copy
and paste operation?

 

I've got a DVD of OSX Tiger for Intel, if you like ...

 

Because it's not just a simple paste, it's Word trying to render it to
display as a web page. As it works fine when pasting as plain text, it
could be the rendering that's causing the problem.

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OpenOffice - it's free, can read MS Office documents (and save as them
too).

Available for Windows, Linux, Solaris etc etc (not sure about Mac)

http://www.openoffice.org/

Alternatively tell her to visit the MS Office update website (use
Windows Update, click on the Office Update link at the top of the page)
to get the latest updates

Phil.

 

On 2 Dec 2005 10:40:01 GMT, "Krusty" <>
wrote:

Which to me would point heavily towards IE not a TP driver. Ferger's
provided a link to the fix anyway although MS don't specifically name
the culprit.

 

Actually it is. The codebase is identical. The setup is different but
the underlying programs are identical.

XP-Home also is missing some bits that XP-Pro does (domain
authentication yada yada yada) but the code is still there - just
disabled.

Phil

 

How do you think the system knows which bits in memory to cut and
paste?

The other thing worth checking is the printer driver - I have seen some
bizarre problems in Word caused by the printer in use at the time -
change the default printer and the problem goes away!

Phil

 

Hmm, don't think so - sounds like an OLE problem to me. Windows is having
trouble creating an embedded object in Word containing the pasted-in content
from the browser. The web page could contain all-sorts of shite (Flash,
applets, invisible graphic elements, Javascripts, DHTML)

All of this stuff just looks like bitmaps to the graphics card, irrespective
of the application window it's contained in, so I'd be surprised if the
problem lay there.

 

And if you ever want to not look like a prat to a client who uses MS
Office use MS Office to create the document rather than Open Office.

It's a good office suit, no doubt about that. But you _cannot_
guarantee that your OO document will look the same in MSO.

 

<reads thread>

Ah yes, so he did.

<bookmarks link ready for next week's 2003 install>

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Well if he'd said he had a _director_ on the verge of tears, I'd have
answered differently. Particularly if said director was a bloke.

 

Same holds for different versions of MS Office - I have a number of
documents created in Office 2003 (and saved in O2k format) that look
quite different when viewed in O2k..

Moral of the story - use PDFs..

Phil.

 

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 10:51:10 +0000, Phil Launchbury

Given that Word uses the IE rendering engine and they'll both sit
within one of two processes my point was it's unlikely to be a TP
driver.

<snip>

 

It's noting to do with the screen driver... it's to do with DDE.

 

Is that anything like Office XP then? The "upgrade" and "full" versions
were exactly the same, it was just the CD key that made the difference.

 

PDF is great for when you want someone to see exactly what you see.

It's not too crash hot if you're collaborating on a document though.

 

Don't forget fuckwitted users.

I've had some huge problems with windows, the vast majority were caused
by me. The remainder by dodgy bits of software or knackered hardware.

On the machine that I *use*, rather than the one I **** about with,
I've not had a single problem. Ever.

 

MattG wrote

I haven't, well not with the latest stuff anyway.

AOL

 

Steady on chap, doing anything vigorously at your time of life is
risky.
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