FAQS! FACTS! FAX!  289 (13/11/01)

Q

I work on several large documents of several hundred pages each simultaneously. It is such a waste of time to scroll through each document each time I open it to find the exact spot I reached the last time I used it. Sometimes I waste hours editing work I have already edited. How can I earmark the exact spot I reach in each document so that it opens automatically at this spot the next time I reopen the document, sometimes weeks later when I might have forgotten where I was the last time? Obviously I don't want to keep my computer on all the time and all the documents minimized in the task bar. I use Office 2000 Professional. I hope there is an easier solution than writing down the details on a piece of paper.

Reg Tripp

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Word remembers the last three editing actions you made before you save a document and these can be recalled by pressing Shift + F5. Alternatively you can insert invisible Bookmarks anywhere in a document from the Insert menu; these can be found by pressing F5, to open the Find menu, select the GoTo tab and then Bookmark.

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I am a newly converted computer addict due to the ribbing from my children. Every time the computer is turned on I get this message, with the inevitable warning cross! "Please check Content Advisor Settings for missing information."  It then tells me where to check this. Well we have tried everything.  My ratings were all at " 0 " settings and we did change them but they kept defaulting back to "0". We have tried reloading the Windows disk, scanning the files and even running a virus disk all to no avail.  As you can see I can still email, but we have no access to the Internet, which is causing the children, and therefore me, great distress.
Helen Jenkins, East Sussex

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This is usually caused by a file called Ratings.pol going AWOL or becoming corrupted. The solution is to rename it and let Internet Explorer create a new one.  Close Internet Explorer and open Windows Explorer; in Folder Options on the View Menu (select the View tab) make sure ‘Show All Files’ has been checked. Look for Ratings.pol in Windows\System folder and rename it Ratings.old. Next (and follow these steps even if you can’t find a Ratings.pol file), open Internet Explorer cancel the error messages and go to the Tools menu then Internet Options. Select the Content tab, then the Settings button, enter your supervisor password then click OK.

If you’ve lost of forgotten your password it can be found and deleted in the Registry, but this is for information only and only teccies who know their way around the Registry should try this. The encrypted key can be found at the following location: HKEY LOCAL MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ MICROSOFT\Windows\Current Version\Policies\Ratings, delete the key and you can go back and reset Content Advisor.

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In Word or Publisher and probably in other programmes as well whenever letter "i" is typed and the space bar pressed the small "i" automatically changes to capital "I". I prepare a monthly newsletter in Polish for dissemination amongst the Polish speaking community in England. This is a problem because all the capital "I" have to be changed to "i". For information "i" in Polish stands for "and" in English. If this could be easily overcome it would make it easier for me.

John Maslona,

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This one is a tricky blighter because there are usually two automatic Word functions that will capitalise an ‘i’, but first, the quick cure for anything that Word does, that you do not like is the ‘undo’ keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Z. To switch off capitalisation of a letter at the beginning of a sentence go to Insert > AutoText > AutoText, select the AutoCorrect tab and uncheck the box ‘Capitalize First Letter of Sentences’. Next, still on the AutoCorrect tab, scroll down the ‘Replace as you Type’ list and there you should find ‘i’ listed in the Replace column and ‘I’ in the replace with column, highlight the entry and click delete.

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Please could you tell me if it is possible to type a text in Word at an angle, say 45 degrees?  I am aware that Excel can do this but I could not find a similar option in Word. 

Harry Elmee

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Yes it is the simplest method is to use the WordArt function. Right click into an empty area of the tool bar a the top of the page and select WordArt from the drop-down menu, click on the Insert WordArt icon to choose your text style, key in the text and when you’re happy with it select the Rotate tool (circular arrow) and you can use the mouse to grab one of the corner ‘handles’ and turn the text box to any angle.

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Tesco.net have recently advised me by email in answer to a query, that (I quote) ' I am afraid that we do not support Windows XP and we cannot offer any advice on the internet setting up on this operating system' I take this to mean that all MS XP users on tesco.net must now change their ISP. Are you aware of this problem with XP? I presume there are other ISPs who will have the same problem? Can you name ISPs who can work with MS XP operating systems?

Walter Anderson

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I can assure you that tesco.net works just fine with Windows XP, as does pretty well all ISPs that use the more or less standard POP3 protocol. I suspect that they are referring to the freebie installation CD-ROMs, which are almost certainly not able to do an automatic setup in XP. That’s not a problem, in most cases it’s easy enough to do manually, you need four items of information that will have been supplied to you, when you sign up for an account, they are your email address and username (which are usually the same), your password and the SMPT and POP3 in and outbox addresses. (In the case of tesco.net they are both mail.tesco.net). All you have to do is start the Internet connection wizard (in XP it’s in Control Panel > Network Connections > Create a new Connection), and just follow the prompts.

Q

Re Dave Buckley's query about the unnecessary Save Changes dialogue box in Word (F!F!F! November 1st), this dialogue comes from a library that is used by Word, and very many other applications. If the software has changed your document and you close the document (or exit the application) without saving the document, you will always get this dialogue, and there is nothing you can do about it. However, it is the software that says that a document has changed - you might not have done anything to it yourself. The document will have changed the instant you open it, even if all you do is to close it straight away. Word's word count always marking the document "dirty" is a bug.
Tony Etheridge

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Thanks for that