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Archive for the ‘MS Office’ Category

Oct
02

Microsoft word goes into configuring microsoft office basic 2007 every time I open it

Posted under MS Office

The other day I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

Microsoft word goes into configuring microsoft office basic 2007 every time I open it.

Too fix, simply;
Type this into the RUN command;
reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1
Click OK if asked.
I hope you too have found a fix.
Nov
01

automatically locate and delete normal.dot

Posted under MS Office

The other day I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

Everytime I try to locate and delete NORMAL.DOT, it takes far too long and when there are various user profiles this makes it even more difficult.

Here’s a simple command prompt which will automatically locate and delete all NORMAL.DOT files on your computer.

1. Open a command prompt. Start, Run, type CMD and hit enter.

2. In the black dos prompt, type   cmd /c “c: & cd c:\docume~1 & del normal.dot /s”  and hit enter.

3. This will delete all entries of NORMAL.DOT which will then be automatically recreated by MS OFFICE.

I hope you too have found a fix!

Feb
04

Word, Excel, Outlook mouse pointer constantly busy – Office 2007

Posted under MS Office, MS Outlook, Software

The other day I Found A Fix for a recent problem I was having. The issue is described as follows;

When using any MS Office application I would find that the mouse pointer was constantly busy and the pc would come  to a crawl.

The fix for me was to;

1. Stop the print spooler service. (Start, Run, Services.msc). At this point you’ll notice the mouse issue is gone.

2. Either delete and reinstall the printer (or the offending one). Or reinstall the correct driver. If you have multiple printers, you can find the bad one by changing the default printer to another one and restarting the printer spooler service. Repeat the steps until the issue reoccurs. Once the bad printer has been removed, your office applications should return to normal.

I hope you too have found a fix!