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| on-line forms | 9/9/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I work for a property mgmt. company that is very paper heavy. I want to take our in-house forms ...
A: Yes its possible. Three products come to mind; Acrobat, Omniform and Paperport. Acrobat is Adobe's ...
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| Database Software | 9/2/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: Can you recommend a fairly robust Data Base Software, that is intuitive to the user, that will ...
A: There are currently two database development platforms that cover your needs. Microsoft Access and ...
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| uninstalling MS Office Professional 97 | 8/25/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I have a problem. We are a small office and have just recently have tried to add ACT to our ...
A: How are you trying to uninstall, From Add/Remove Programs? If so, you may have to manually remove ...
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| scanning and document mngt | 7/30/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: should i buy scanning and doc mngt software or would it be better to buy an hp product that scans ...
A: The HP scanner I have scans into a .tiff or .pdf format. I generally use .pdf, Adobe Acrobat, for ...
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| Choosing inventory software for small business | 7/8/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I manufacture a single product--a plastic nest box for barn owls. This product contains 12 ...
A: This seems to require a rather specialized functionality that I doubt if you would see in freeware ...
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| Software For Biscuit Factory | 7/3/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: I am starting a Biscuit Factory and for this I am importing machinery from China. The building ...
A: I do not specifically know of inventory management software. My first question is what are you ...
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| Calendar Creator Plus 4.0 | 7/1/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I recently migrated from a WIN95 to WINXP operating system. I had an outside vendor move some of my ...
A: You can buy it from here: ...
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| template in OpenOffice | 6/10/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: I have to convert a Word.dot file into an OpenOffice Writer template. The Word template has text ...
A: Try the following: In MS Word, open the template, then save as a regular .doc file. Then open the ...
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| manufacturing planning-Help | 6/9/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: We carry circa 25 products. Each product needs to be processed in 2-3 stages. circa 20 ...
A: I recommended three templates. And yes, I think you stand a chance, but its going to take a lot of ...
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| manufacturing planning-Help | 6/9/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: We carry circa 25 products. Each product needs to be processed in 2-3 stages. circa 20 ...
A: You have a database drive process here. So I would definitely recommend starting with an Access ...
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| manufacturing planning-Help | 6/9/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: We carry circa 25 products. Each product needs to be processed in 2-3 stages. circa 20 ...
A: I am not aware of any "off the shelf" software like Quickbooks or Peachtree which will work to your ...
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| Making automatic subtotals in word, when transferring data from c5 | 6/4/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I was wondering is it possible to have word/excel make and automatic subtotal at the bottom of each ...
A: I don't know of any. Word is not a report writer and has very limited capabilities that way. I would ...
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| project/time mgt software | 5/29/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: Wondering if you could give me a few good and inexpensive options for project or time mgt. software. ...
A: I don't know of any specific ones, but there are a number of them, many freeware. I would suggest ...
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| Computer Monitors | 5/21/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: Scottgem I am shopping for a new computer LCD monitor for my home office. My question is what ...
A: This is really not an area of great expertise for me. Its really a hardware, not a software ...
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| Auto Fill in Of customer information in all MS softwares | 5/15/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: Arthur, Good Day! We need to fill in Customer Information over and over again for each ...
A: Simply entering information in one document will not make it appear in another document. Those ...
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| suppressing headers | 5/5/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: please help I have a small report that has 3 fields in it I am extracting all my data from SQL I ...
A: Use the ON NoData event of the report. You can set the visible property of the Page Header to No or ...
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| Converting pdf form | 5/3/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: Can I change a Acrobat Reader pdf form that I have downloaded, into a document that I can fill up ...
A: I think you can accomplish this by installing the Adobe software, www.adobe.com / Products - Adobe ...
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| Microsoft office professional | 4/30/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I'm hoping you can help me. My college student daughter needs the folowing programs for her classes ...
A: Why not go to the college bookstore? Yes, Microsoft allows retailers to sell Academic Editions to ...
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| MS Office plus - publisher | 4/27/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: Please find a copy of the question I have posted and have now been directed to someone deals with MS ...
A: The only thing I can think of is that somehow the file got corrupted. I use Publisher to create a ...
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| Tracking Sales and Inventory with Access 03 | 3/18/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: Good day, I help run a small kiosk that specializes in unlocking cell phones as well as selling ...
A: Although I am not using Access at this time, having switched to Open Office, I have used it to make ...
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| Web based company bulletin board | 3/11/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: Because we're a small company and I wear several hats, I don't want the additional responsibility of ...
A: You can setup a Usenet (newsgroup/NNTP) server, that's Open Source. But there are free WEB based ...
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| Open Office keeps freezing!! | 3/8/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: I cant handle this anymore! It's been doing this for the last several days and have lost so much ...
A: Star Office - I used this software years ago when OO was at a beta version, pre-v 1.0. I have not ...
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| Visio - size to widest | 3/6/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I can't figure out how to: 1)size shapes to widest, narrowest, tallest, shortest as I can in other ...
A: No I can't find any thing similar in Visio. When you place a shape in Visio it places it at the same ...
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| Visio - size to widest | 3/5/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I can't figure out how to: 1)size shapes to widest, narrowest, tallest, shortest as I can in other ...
A: I'm not sure what you are asking in question 1. All shapes have "handles" at the corners and sides, ...
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| OCR Software | 2/29/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: Before I begin, do you have any knowledge of OCR software? Thanks. ANSWER: Some, what do you need? ...
A: I wouldn't use OmniPage for this. OCR works well with plain text documents, but when you have ...
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| Open Office Writer (grids) and Calc Spreadsheet | 2/25/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: I've been dealing with this problem for over a decade, and can't seem to get an answer. ...
A: If the program is freezing every time you use the software, then I would uninstall and reinstall. ...
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| OpenOffice Writer Formatting Issue | 2/21/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: How are you? Thanks for being an expert on here, hopefully you'll have some insight regarding some ...
A: The answer may be that a user has to option of using the settings that are on the document or using ...
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| How a field is displayed in a form | 2/20/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I want to enter a date on a form and have the amounts in other fields on the form be highlighted or ...
A: Well first, you don't have fields on a form. You have controls that may or may not be bound to ...
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| Adobe Acrobat | 2/12/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I'm very new/dumb to computers & I find I have to buy & begin to use Adobe Acrobat 7 or better in my ...
A: First, if all you need to so is create plain PDFs from scans, then you can getby with a generic ...
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| basic software | 1/16/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: My wife is beginning a one-person professional services venture. She needs a program that will keep ...
A: QuickBooks is considered the premier small business accounting package. They have almost no ...
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| MS ACCESS CHECK BOXES | 1/10/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: I am trying to set up a form with check boxes. I would like to be able to check the box on the form ...
A: You might be able to get the result you are looking for by having each color be a separate field. ...
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| Excel to Calc Conversion | 1/9/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: Our office is moving to OO do you know if thierare any issues in converting Excel workbooks with ...
A: I have not worked with Macros in either Excel or Calc. I expect there to be problems, though. I do ...
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| personal database | 1/9/2008 | Scottgem |
Q: I was browsing around looking for software that would help me organize a personal address book and I ...
A: To manage an address book, there are bunches of things you can use. Check shareware libraries. ...
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| what to use | 1/5/2008 | Arthur Naman |
Q: I am eBay seller and i need to know which financial software is best for me to keep track of my ...
A: Yes, Quickbooks is best. Quicken does not have a balance sheet to track inventories, assets, ...
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| printq | 12/28/2007 | Arthur Naman |
Q: we have a print spooler by an old company called "printq" we need to put this on a computer but we ...
A: Comments and suggestions: Network the computers? Are both computers connected to the internet? If ...
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| .pdf attachments | 12/21/2007 | Arthur Naman |
Q: My job often requires me to open .pdf attachments. I have Acrobat Reader 8 and iFranView32 installed ...
A: I've not heard of iFranView32. A search of the web indicates that it is used for image manipulation. ...
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| Microsoft Money | 12/20/2007 | Scottgem |
Q: I have a CD Rom for Money 2005 and I installed it on another computer I have in the office and then ...
A: Are you trying to read the file from a CD/R disk? If so, that explains the Read Only. If you copied ...
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| question regarding software | 12/5/2007 | Todd Binenstock |
Q: sir i want to know whether there is any software available to get the costing of wires?
A: Sumit, I would need a lot more of information to help you: Are you making wires or buying wires? ...
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| Distance Teaching | 11/28/2007 | Scottgem |
Q: I hope you can help me with my inquiry. I am a Teacher of English as a Second Language in ...
A: There are several things you can do. I beleive Skyp does allow you to sharte your screen in a ...
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| Bar codes | 10/24/2007 | Scottgem |
Q: I don't know if your my man but he goes.. I am in a business where we send cartons out to different ...
A: You are creating the labels using a Code 39 barcode font? Each box gets three different labels? And ...
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