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Office Tips
Q. How do I change the spelling checker from English (United States) to English (Australian) in Word 97?
Q. What is the normal.dot file in Microsoft Word and how do I change it?
Q. How do I turn off the automatic grammar and spelling checkers in Word?
Q. What is a mail merge and how do I do it?
Q. What is a Macro and how do I create one in Word?
Q. How do I share and Excel workbook?
Q. How do I learn how to use an Office program without having to plough through the manual or take expensive lessons?
Q. How do I turn off the Office Assistant?
Q. Is there a way to reduce the file size of my Word documents for sending them via email?
Q. Is there an easy way to put shortcuts to open Word and Excel documents from my desktop?
Q. How do I turn on the preview pane to read my email in Outlook 98?
Q. How do I attach a file to email?
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Internet Tips
Q. A reader, who runs a small network, has discovered an unusual problem with Outlook Express. From time to time a user might log on and be prompted to re-enter their username and password. No matter how often they enter this information, Outlook Express keeps prompting and will not check mail.
Q. Several readers have noticed that after they upgraded to Internet Explorer 5, they would receive the following error even if their computer was idle. Explorer cause an exception 6d007fh in module Webcheck.dll
Q. I have both Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator installed on my system. How can I choose which one will be the default browser which opens when I click on a URL in Word or from Explorer?
Q. Netscape is my default browser. How can I make Internet Explorer the default?
Q. Internet Explorer is my default browser. How can I make Netscape the default?
Q. A reader has upgraded from Windows 3.11 to Windows 98 and wants to know whether they can continue to utilise their old 16-bit dialler and Internet applications?
Q. Is it possible to catch a virus when downloading mail from the Internet?
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What others have asked
Q. I'm having problems opening up some help files (but not the Windows 98 help file). When I try to open the help in Word or Excel or other programs, I get the following message: 'There's not enough memory to run this program, quit one or more programs and try again'. When I hit OK another message appears: 'There's not enough memory to start WINHLP32.exe, quit some programs and start again'. I have 32Mb of RAM and 80 percent free system resources. I've fixed this before by reloading Windows 98 but I don't want to keep reloading the OS to fix this problem.
Q. I currently work in the South Pacific and need to run an old MS-DOS ledger program called Turbo Ledger on my notebook PC. For some reason I can't get this to run properly on my notebook as it runs once after the machine is booted, but displays 'Runtime error 200 at 27C0:0091' if it is re-run.
I can't get it to run even once I restart the machine in MS-DOS mode, however, I can get the program to run perfectly on a number of other machines running Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95 or Windows 98.
Q. I'm experiencing problems with MS-DOS Compatibility mode when running Windows 98 on a 486. From Microsoft's technical notes, I learned that the contents of the IOS.LOG file may be significant. My IOS.LOG file has the following information in it: Unit number 02 going through real mode drivers.
Q. I'm experiencing problems with incompatible hardware. Would using the OEM version of Windows 98 solve my problems?
Q. I've recently installed MS Office 97 and I experience a General Protection Fault when I turn on the computer, or open PowerPoint or Outlook. The details of the message are: MMTASK caused a general protection fault in module CM8330.DRV at 00006:0000196c. I've recently been trying to install my HP Scanjet 2c, but there doesn't seem t be any conflict with the applications.
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