atw: Re: Help with Word 2000 numbered styles and some char char suggestion...

Hi Warren,

I'm getting off topic here, but when you have finished with your Microsoft-programmer-killing-spoon, I need it to solve the following problem.

This behaviour started with the SP2 "upgrade" to Win XP.

Whenever you insert a USB2 device (such as a memory stick) into an older computer with USB1, the following message pops up.

"This device can perform faster
The USB device can perform faster if you connect it to a Hi-speed USB 2.0 port.
for a list of available ports, click here."

Of course this feature can never be observed on Microsoft premises so it's not a problem! However, my laptop always displays it because it only has a USB1 port.

Grrrrrrr!

This MS programmer that wrote this message, being a highly logical thinker, believes that I have a new computer with an old USB1 port and I've stupidly put the stick into the old slow port. Yes, I know that I can buy a USB2 card for the PCMCIA slot and I would have both USB 1 and 2 on the same machine, but it's not worth the price, or the inconvenience of a lump sticking out of the side of the machine. In reality, he or she is just questioning my manliness and takes every opportunity to tell me that my equipment doesn't measure up.

I've searched on the internet for a fix, but the only way to stop this message is to disable all system popup messages.

Ian Gabriel


----- Original Message ----- From: "Warren Lewington" <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 4:21 AM
Subject: atw: Re: Help with Word 2000 numbered styles and some char char suggestion...


Hi Ilana.
Nice one that Word 2000 bug.

Go back a few lines, in View > Normal, with all formatting marks on.

Copy a Body Text or Normal paragraph marks section, and paste it below the
last numbered list.
That should allow you to start your numbered lists again. It used to happen
to me when I had lots of numbered lists in big documents.
Used to work for me.
Buggered if I know why.
I wrote a little macro that toggled the stupid default 'continue previous
list' to 'restart numbering' as I created a new numbered list using styles.
That improved matters too.

I am having problems with Char char in Word 2002 at the moment. Apart from
assiduously protecting your clean templates by not applying them to a
document through Normal, but creating new documents all the time, we may
have found an answer:

Open Styles and Formatting.
Select Custom from the list at the bottom.
In the Format Styles dialog, click Styles button.
Delete all references to char char styles in there, by selecting them and
clicking Delete.
Modify the Normal style to the equivalence of your current Body Text.
(Humour me here please: just do it).
Click Apply.

Now, Delete (yes, delete) Body Text in your Formatting and Styles list, with
Styles and Formatting open. Watch it blink. Now try and delete it...
Now go and find char char...

Go and swear at MS...

If this is a genuine fix to a known bug, the cause is reeking of some
disgruntled MS programmer writing a few lines in to the Styles dll code. And
think about it, in tiny little minds of twisted programmers why not call the
bloody thing after a dance; lets face it, char char has been leading us all
on a merry dance for years... If its true and I find out it is that way, I
WILL kill a MS programmer. With a spoon, a very very blunt spoon.

Warren L

-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Byrne
Sent: Thursday, 21 September 2006 19:51
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Help with Word 2000 numbered styles


Ilana,

I suggest that you visit the following site:

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/numbering/OutlineNumbering.html

Regards,
Steve Byrne

----- Original Message ----- From: <idcohney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: atw: Help with Word 2000 numbered styles


I have having trouble with some numbered styles in a Word 2000
template.

It is not possible to restart a numbered list if it follows a previous
numbered list or bulleted list.  The option in the Bullets and Numbering
box are grayed out.

I have tried deleting the styles and recreating them from scratch but
nothing seems to help. Any one who can tell me why this is happening and
how to fix it.
thanks for your help
Ilana
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