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Vee
Member

02-23-2004

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Success! Found this message "In some cases, Wordperfect's default installation may become corrupt or damaged preventing the application from launching or working properly. This document will restore factory defaults by renaming Wordperfect's configuration files."

Thought that sounded reasonable. The directions were clear so I followed them to the letter and now I can get back in the program.

Thanks again!

Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Flow Charts? Does Microsoft office or any other program out there create flowcharts for a moron such as myself?

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 7:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Although Draheid, Bob or Crossfire will have a better answer....here's what I barely know:

I THINK Word can create flow charts using the "Draw" toolbar. I think it can make various shapes for you (triangle boxes, arrow-shaped boxes, squares, rectangles, etc), and then you are able to type text inside the boxes, and resize them. Then you can connect them whichever way you want with the "line" tool.

But that is most likely the worst way to do it, and my advice is NEVER the best advice, so don't quote me. There is almost always an easier way to do things than the way I choose. LOL.

That said, I just Googled with the words "microsoft office create flowchart" and found that I AM wrong! Shocking. The Microsoft site recommends Powerpoint, or other programs (Visio). Check out this MICROSOFT LINK.

Good luck.

Crossfire
Member

08-07-2001

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't claim to have best advice either. :-)

The first thing that comes to mind for me is Microsoft Visio, then Powerpoint. Neither are free outside of 30 day trial versions.

For free, I've got a product called OpenOffice installed, and it has a program called Draw included which has flowcharting functionality built in.

There are a number of programs that come up on google, but none of them were free so I couldn't test drive them and therefore can't recommend them.

Maybe we have a chart monster here who'd like to pipe in?

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If you are looking for something that many people have already, then I would think that Excel is the simplest way to go. You would use draw. It’s surprisingly effective if you use connectors because you can move the boxes / shapes around and the connectors stay attached. You can do something similar in Word but I don’t think that it works as well as Excel.

Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 9:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks all...can you explain the excel "draw" thingie?

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'll ditto the Crossfire post.

<..except for the first part about the advice...>


Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What you do in Excel is open the Draw toolbar. Then you click on AutoShapes in the draw toolbar and select Flowchart. You then select the appropriate flowchart symbol, and then draw it where you want to add it in your spreadsheet. Then you right click on it to type text inside. After you’ve created a few of these you go back to AutoShapes and select Connectors. It’s a little hard to describe but if you move the pointer over the shape you’ll see tiny dots where you can attach the connector. You then attach the other end to another shape. Now when you move the shapes around, the connector will stay attached.

You can copy and paste shapes, you can select them and move them with the keyboard arrows, you can select a group of shapes to move at the same time (use the arrow in the drawing toolbar to do this), you can format text inside the shape, you can change the shape to another shape.

If you are planning to show the chart as a slide in a presentation, you can turn of the cell rows and lines so you have a clean page.

It’s amazingly useful. Hope this helps.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 11:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
wow! i never knew. i've always used word, and things float all over the place. after trying this in excel. i will now use that. thanks jimmer!

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You're welcome! I'm amazed at how well this feature works in Excel.

Crossfire
Member

08-07-2001

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good tip Jimmer...totally forgot about that...I've been spoiled in corporate environments loaded up with too many visio licenses it seems. :-)

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah, I have Microsoft Office 2003, so I am a bit spoiled too. I don't even think I've ever OPENED "Works" on my computer. LOL.

Jimmer: another resident computer whiz. How could I have forgotten to credit you!!

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Saturday, March 19, 2005 - 8:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Awe shucks! Seriously, one of the nicest things about this board is how everyone is willing to share ideas and help each other out. I really like this place and I'm happy when I can make a bit of a contribution.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 9:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Help! I have a tax form jammed in the printer. It is a Hewitt Packard LaserJet5L. It has done this before and I got the paper out with pliers. This time the paper kept breaking off and now it is impossible to get out.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 9:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I fixed it!!!

Bob2112
Member

06-12-2002

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 8:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kristylovesbb: Glad we could help.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My father bought an MP3 player but all of all his stored music is in WAV format.

He uses media player and Windows 98 and doesn't know how to convert/save anything as MP3 so he can download to the player as such.

Do you need a special media player? Is there one for Windows 98 (he found one but it was for XP) IS realplayer better??

Any advice would be helpful and appreciated as I know absolutely nothing about MP3 players :-):-)

(PS Bob ..LOL!!!!!)

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jan, there are lots of free programs that convert audio files to and from MP3 format. Head over to www.download.com and check it out. I use a program called CDex, because it will also extract my CDs to MP3 or wav files on my computer. It also has a feature that converts between the two file formats.

If you can't find any program you like on download.com, then email me at colt4fan@hotmail.com and I can send you the CDex program. As well, the TVCH gurus may also have some advice for you.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 12:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Eey, that is the type of info I was looking for :-):-)

I sent your reply about CDex onto him and hopefully he will be able to find it and download it :-):-):-)

I told him I could get help at this site. You guys are great :-)

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 12:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jan: A versatile program I've been using occasionally is called "Media Monkey". The program handles virtually all aspects of music files from conversion to organization to updating a portable player. The 'free' version works very well for me. It looks like the $20 'Gold' version has even more features. You can check it out at www.mediamonkey.com

Hope this helps.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, March 21, 2005 - 2:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Dra :-):-) I sent the info along to my Dad. He will be so pleased to get this info as he never gives up till he has solved a problem ( oh to have his perseverance!!)

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Had a hydro flickering this morning, my main computer is O.K, but the other one is not working. The power bar is still working and if I turn it off and on the printer and the monitor are working but I am unable to get any power from my cpu.

HELP

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Hydro flickering" meaning the electricity went on and off briefly?

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 5:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yes Juju - it went on and off about 4-5 times during the day..but it was the first one that wiped out my other computer.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I tried to post a picture I took of my Golfin Cockatoo and was not able to. The file looks like this image04
208x158
JPEG Image
I can't understand what I am doing wrong.
The file size is only 10.9KB and it's JPEG. Can anyone tell me what is wrong?