Chasing around the User Interface

 Computers  No Responses »
Apr 292012
 

Microsoft Office 2007 was quite a departure from previous versions, huge changes to the user interface, and the removal of the old menu structure, its all bout the Ribbon now. The same changes happened to Microsoft Outlook in Office 2010. I would guess that it is a lot easier for new users to get work done, and indeed I have found that tasks (like saving as pdf) now take less clicks, but some of the more advanced uses are harder to find, or maybe its just because you used to know where something was and cannot find it now.

I have been confused for a while as to where the outline display of tables with no borders has gone. Yes, I know I am using print layout, but word still used to show the outline of a table with no borders, useful when documents are using tables for layout. My most recent attempts of finding an answer via Google have found the answer.

1) move curser into table, 2) select "Layout" from within "Tablke Tools" on the ribbon, 3) Select "Show Gridlines"

and so the table gridlines will be shown!

Navigating my Bike

 Cycling, Life, Technology  No Responses »
Apr 212012
 

When I drive my car, I rely on Sat Nav, its just one less thing to think about, and yes – i have one that is meant to alert me to traffic and reroute. its saved me from getting parked on a couple of closed roads.

The bike navigation was always meant to be another use for my Garmin Vista HCx for which i have now bought a rail mount, but the first forays in Hampshire were just trying to tie it onto the handlebars. An Elastic Band was a good temporary solution.

A throwaway comment about cycling to the office led to looking at the OpenCyclemap and using the Bike Hub website to plan a route from office to hotel (as I would drive to the office)

I could have used the android app and done the navigation on my phone, but did not have any way to fix that to anything, and my phone is a bit more fragile than the GPS. So how to get the route onto my GPS? Well, I can download the .gpx file from BikeHub and then use Garmin Basecamp to transfer the route onto my GPS. This then let me navigate along quite happilly.

 Posted by at 6:02 pm

Microsoft Money Sunset – Autorun.inf problem

 Computers, Technology  No Responses »
Apr 212012
 

I am still migrating to a new laptop.

I wanted to install Microsoft Money Sunset on the laptop, but the download from microsostf would not run. My solution is as follows

  1. Unzip the downloaded file using 7-zip
  2. inside the extracted directory run “mnyinstall.exe”
  3. when it suggests you stop and run “setup.exe” instead, click “no”

Thanks to the comment from a forum

So I unpacked the archive using 7-zip for example to a new folder. In the folder I clicked on mnyinst.exe instead of setup. It gives a warning and suggests you run setup.exe, but I clicked no to that and it continued installing without any problems.

 Posted by at 3:39 pm
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