Articles, Courses, Discussions, Groups Beck-Bookman Library 2006-11-08T21:02:16Z 2006-11-08T21:02:16Z

Just installed Office 2003 from software via the library software donation program. Having lots of trouble inserting clip art. When clicking to insert art an empty box appears in the document or it will show the picture partially. The microsoft knowledge base did not have a suitable answer. Their solution was to uncheck the box for picture placeholders under tools/options. This box was not selected in the first place so that is not the problem. Help anyone????

Beck-Bookman Library 2006-11-08T21:02:16Z Aaron Cushman 2004-01-20T11:27:00Z 2004-01-20T11:27:00Z

I have been trying to figure out a way to disable the IE View menu for our public library's OPAC terminals (used to look up books in our library system's catalog). Every so often, I find someone using these computers for Internet access and it's difficult to keep an eye on every computer at all times. I work in our library's Reference Department and it's very annoying to babysit patrons when I have many other things that need to be done. I've tried to tweak the View menu with MMC and Fresh UI but haven't been able to do so. Can anyone offer any advice on how to deal with this? Thanks in advance.

Aaron Cushman 2004-01-20T11:27:00Z Ed Erjavek 2004-05-03T16:04:00Z 2004-05-03T16:04:00Z

Our default view in Word 2000 in the "all "profile has somehow gotten changed to Web Layout. How can we change it to Print Layout so that it will still be the default once the computer is re-started? Thanks.

Ed Erjavek 2004-05-03T16:04:00Z Ross Riker 2008-08-26T22:12:35Z 2008-08-26T22:12:35Z

Originally seen in Saved by The Bell - Sixty Second Tech Tips Christopher Bell -- School Library Journal, 8/20/2008 -- [url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6588054.html]http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6588054.html[/url] YouTube Download&Convert -- [url=http://www.cubedlabs.com/youtube_downloadconvert.php]http://www.cubedlabs.com/youtube_downloadconvert.php[/url] "YouTube Download&Convert, as the name suggests, allows users of the program to download any video from youtube and convert it into most formats - ready for sharing in emails or putting on an iPod (there are many more uses, these are just a couple)."

Ross Riker 2008-08-26T22:12:35Z Chrystie Hill 2003-06-23T13:46:00Z 2003-06-23T13:46:00Z

[i]This thread contains ongoing discussions about operating system problems and upgrades. A number of previously posted topics were collapsed into this thread by an administrator. Posts appear in chronologic order.[/i]

Chrystie Hill 2003-06-23T13:46:00Z Chad Eller 2003-08-06T14:11:00Z 2003-08-06T14:11:00Z

Hi - I hope someone can help me. In order to make any substantial purchase we have to get three price quotes. So far I have gotten two (from Corel and CDWG). I have contacted a few other vendors with no luck - any other recommendations? Thanks - Chad

Chad Eller 2003-08-06T14:11:00Z Alexandra Tyle 2006-11-29T17:30:15Z 2006-11-29T17:30:15Z

Everyone's talking about Windows Vista... is anyone out there planning on making the upgrade at their library or on their personal computer? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/

Alexandra Tyle 2006-11-29T17:30:15Z Alexandra Tyle 2006-09-26T19:56:16Z 2006-09-26T19:56:16Z

Just to start some conversation... What version of Microsoft does your library use? Do you use the same version for patron and staff computers?

Alexandra Tyle 2006-09-26T19:56:16Z Eddy Montague 2003-05-10T15:36:00Z 2003-05-10T15:36:00Z

I'm wondering how important it is to upgrade our existing browsers to IE 6.0; will it really make a difference?

Eddy Montague 2003-05-10T15:36:00Z Earlene Mokler 2004-01-23T09:26:00Z 2004-01-23T09:26:00Z

A patron donated copy of Turbo Tax 2003 Deluxe but afer installation it won't run in the All profile because it requires Admin rights. Does anyone know how to get around this? Thanks

Earlene Mokler 2004-01-23T09:26:00Z Brenda Hough 2005-05-16T19:47:37Z 2005-05-16T19:47:37Z

Has anyone seen or created a handout re: switching from IE to Firefox? I know there's one that is built-in as part of the Firefox page, but I was hoping someone might have made something that's geared at library patrons using public access machines. Thank you! Brenda

Brenda Hough 2005-05-16T19:47:37Z Cam Ha 2005-01-03T21:48:42Z 2005-01-03T21:48:42Z

Here's a summer reading program database I created for my library. Feel free to use. Any problems you can email me at camnhungha@yahoo.com

Cam Ha 2005-01-03T21:48:42Z Julie Zelman 2004-04-01T06:49:00Z 2004-04-01T06:49:00Z

One of our circ/ref. desk computers was infected with spyware. It's extremely annoying. I am thinking of installing an alternative browser, such as Mozilla and or Netscape, and was hoping someone had some advice to offer...my staff is not very tech-savvy (which is probably why this happened in the first place) and I don't want to present them with another software program that will be difficult to master...

Julie Zelman 2004-04-01T06:49:00Z Ed Erjavek 2007-05-17T22:02:52Z 2007-05-17T22:02:52Z

In the editions of Office 2007, is there the ability to give a hot swap option to switch the spell check and menus to Spanish and back? Is this option included in a standard edition or does some type of add-in need to be purchased? Thanks, Ed

Ed Erjavek 2007-05-17T22:02:52Z Ryan McCloskey 2006-06-30T19:55:14Z 2006-06-30T19:55:14Z

For those of you using the Microsoft Shared Toolkit, you are already familiar with the problem when using Word, Excel, Powerpoint that you can not save to the desktop if you have the C:\ drive restricted in the toolkit. Web Junction notes: "Restricting access to the C:\ will prevent Microsoft Office from saving to the desktop. Some librariesw might prefer that the C:\ drive and other drives be hidden in My Computer and Windows Explorer rather than restricted altogether, so that patrons could still save to the desktop from Office programs. I took the following steps to try and hide the C: drive in the Public account for testing purposes: 1. Unlock Public 2. Log into Public, Run Tweak UI, uncheck C: from My Computer 3. Lock Public 4. Log into public, C: drive still appears. Next attempt: 1. Went into User Restrictions (while profile was locked) 2. Unchecked a few items that I thought was blocking the Tweak UI program from running. 3. Went back to try and run Tweak UI under Public 4. Got a message "Tweak UI has been disabled by the Administrator", no luck. 5... I also tried pinning Tweak UI to the start menu temporarily I figured that since I have "Prevent access to the command prompt" and "prevent access to the registry editor" checked right now (and I don't intend to remove these), that it might be causing Tweak UI to not gain the access it needs to the registry and/or command prompt. Perhaps I need to uncheck these temporarily, run Tweak UI, remove C:\, then go back and recheck them? Do I really need to use the other alternative of going into the system registry? If so, how do I proceed? Ryan

Ryan McCloskey 2006-06-30T19:55:14Z Wendell Gragg 2004-05-21T11:24:00Z 2004-05-21T11:24:00Z

I am kind of cross-posting this from the securepc.org site that Dale is involved with, so those of you who have seen it, please bear with me. Has anyone successfully been able to set up MSWord and other Office products to save only to the A: drive using Win/XP and the PAC security tool? I've been playing around with a number of things and have not been able to get it to do this and now, I can't even get the A: drive to show up on the save or open dialogs. I'm not sure what setting I screwed up, but hopefully I will find that. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks, Wendell

Wendell Gragg 2004-05-21T11:24:00Z Dale Musselman 2006-11-08T23:29:50Z 2006-11-08T23:29:50Z

It sounds like one way or another, Office doesn't have access to the clip art files. The actual clip art is separate from the thumbnails you see in the catalog - you can see files in the catalog that aren't installed on the computer at all. the odd part to me is that you aren't seeing either an error message or office asking for the installation CD. Is this happening in a locked down public profile? If so, does the same thing happen in the admin account? If it only happens in the locked down account, it is probably permissions keeping you from accessing the clip art. If it happens in an admin account, try running the installation again, but this time do a custom installation and make sure you are choosing to install all the available clip art to the hard drive. Dale

Dale Musselman 2006-11-08T23:29:50Z Beck-Bookman Library 2006-11-23T00:37:39Z 2006-11-23T00:37:39Z

Thanks so much for your reply. Installation of Office 2003 was tried out on a staff computer that is not locked or restricted in any way. The clip art in 2003 is web based and so most of what is displayed is not on our computer (there is a little bitty catalog of clip art that has come with Office 2003) but from Microsoft.com clip art. I will try to reinstall. I uninstalled it because of frustration, but I will try again. Thanks

Beck-Bookman Library 2006-11-23T00:37:39Z Max Anderson 2004-10-14T01:48:27Z 2004-10-14T01:48:27Z

Hi there! Take my suggestion or leave it and I hope someone else will chime in but I found this website useful: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823057 It's dangerous to go changing registry values but it's worth a shot! Anyone else have any suggestions? Max

Max Anderson 2004-10-14T01:48:27Z Laurie Cranston 2004-12-07T21:49:53Z 2004-12-07T21:49:53Z

I just stumbled on your reply to a post back in June about tweaking the IE view menu. I was actually looking around to see if anyone had anything to say about a way to keep patrons from closing the browser when they're done using the public catalog. The page you suggested to MRaaron12 gives the regedit for it, which I hadn't been able to find anywhere else. Thanks!!! Laurie

Laurie Cranston 2004-12-07T21:49:53Z