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I think my issue with this article is that it didnt sound like it was really tested in anger. I have to say that I am not a Microsoft Advocate but having seen Windows Defender to be a poor relative to other programs such as Spybot, Search and Destroy, and having seen many laptops ‘protected by’ Windows firewall compromised, I can’t say I have a high opinion of Microsoft in the security field. Where I draw exception to the article is that we are not really in a time of high or mass security risks as in the days of Blaster or WSNPoem when malware went through businesses or organisations and brought them to their knees. My feeling would be that you should try giving one of those machines to a student, preferably an IT-illiterate chinese one, for a month or so. That would be a real test of Security Essentials.

Rob

This is the response from the user: “To answer the question below,I tried to go the route of dealing with a slide master, but it won’t let me change the design or layout as I want….same problem you saw yesterday – choosing the “image” of the slide layout or design you want and choosing the option to apply has no effect.

The answer to his question about whether I applied the background, etc, to the maser slide is “no”. Surely a template is meant to be something you can apply as a “whole”, not have to redesign each time from scratch on a master slide.

The fact that the pre-fabricated designs, etc, can be applied to slides with no problem, while my design, whilst appearing in the listing, cannot, suggests there is a real problem, not just me not applying the right thing to the right level. Either that or it is so unintuitive as to be unusable!”

I will forward the tutorial on though, thanks

Rob

Thanks Grant

I had the problem whether the two presentations were open or not.

What I did notice though was that in the sample you sent to me you had used the Action settings option to set up the hyperlink and strangely this does work as expected and gives no problem. It has fixed it, so thanks very much for that. Why, however, the direct hyperlink doesnt work I dont know(unless it actually opens the new file in order to run the link, whereas the action setting doesnt).

One for the Microsoft boys to figure out, I suppose.

Rob

I know that there are hard and fast presentation rules for creation of these things but if you want to present an image of a DAN Structure in a form that people can actually see and read on a screen then it simply does not fit onto a landscape slide, no matter how wide.

Thanks Grant

That was exactly what I was trying to do but for some reason when I try that here, you dont just get the hyperlink taking effect in the slide you have the link in but it seems, and it may be a setting, but I cant find one, that it also runs after the slide following too. I have put sample presentations in the attached presentation.zip. No.1 is the landscape test and No. 2 is the portrait slide. You will notice that after you have clicked the link in slide three, the new portrait slide runs, it then returns to slide 3, runs slide 4 and then the linked slide runs again.

Grant

I have posted anew on this topic because I dont think that the XP Hyperlink fix is satisfactory.

The reason that someone may want to do this is that they have an extremely long slide that will not fit into landscape format and still be legible.

I have tried the hyperlink fix and this seems to create a loop in the presentation which means that even on the pages after the hyperlinked one, the hyperlink tries to run. What I mean by this is that after you have clicked the hyperlink to go to the new portrait presentation and then closed that part of the screenshow and gone to the original presentation again to move on, the “linked” slides appear after the next slide in the original presentation as well as the one from which you issued the hyperlink.

Thanks to you all for some very good answers. in the end, I had to upgrade the user in question to Office XP because the need was urgent, but it would be very useful to take on board these solutions and know of any cheaper options(as Paul suggested) for the next time it happens.

Rob

AVSYNMGR is the process that runs the on-access scanner for Network Associates Virusscan

There appears to be a problem with IE5.5 and 6 that if you apply the critical updates patch to fix the MIME Header hole, the pages do not display properly after clicking on links. I have told Microsoft this but they dent it is a problem. I fixed it by reinstalling IE from the Windows Update page.

This is an interesting one becasue i’ve seen this a lot with any kind of browsing through explorer windows within programs – it seems to lock up as soon as you get to My computer level and takes ages to unfreeze.

May I make one point clear – I am not using the database, this is one of the users I support.

The database could be better stored as a spreadsheet except that being a databse makes it far easier to pull out records for mail purposes by field.

It is a single table to my knowledge and is updated using copy and paste of the whole row and not just a single field.

I mentioned that there was an upgrade from Access 97 and it is possible this did not convert it well but this copy and paste anomaly is the only thing that ceases to work and then only after one or two times.

Just to make this clear, because perhaps I havent, the database consists of a single table with rows of information. Each row contains about 10-15 column fields containing contact information. Therefore the notion of copying and pasting rows is not unusual to maintain information about the same person in two different rows. Sorry for any confusion.

Provided that you can get the whole piece of the doc on the screen at once, you can do a screen dump of the selected area using the ALT-Print Screen buttons on your keyboard, then CTRL-C to copy it and CTRL-V to paste it.

Mark

I was just trying to explain the situation. The reason for copying/pasting in the database was, as explained, because it is a contacts database and there are occasions when the only difference between two entries will be the Name or the address.

Ok here goes.

“OK, you select a record and copy it then paste it. Then you go to another record, select that and find that the edit–copy menu is grayed out, right? ”

Correct.

Details:

Records are just contact details – Name, address, email address, contact details, telphone nos. etc. No unusual fields at all.

As far as I recall, you can still edit the fields.

This is the only table that this particular user uses and I’ve never seen it elsewhere.

It is solely Access ie no add-ons, links or other front ends. All in Access 2000 and only since the database was upgraded from 97 to 2000.