Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Do this for your excel...

You may follow the steps below to disable the protected view in Office applications:

• Open Word
• File
• Options
• Trust Center
• Trust Center Settings
• Protected View
• Uncheck all the options mentioned below and then try to open Word attachment and check if it works fine.

a) Enable Protected View for files originating from the Internet
b) Enable Protected View for files located in potentially unsafe locations
c) Enable Protected View for Outlook attachments
d) Enable Data Execution Prevention mode

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Do this for your excel...

You may follow the steps below to disable the protected view in Office applications:

• Open Word
• File
• Options
• Trust Center
• Trust Center Settings
• Protected View
• Uncheck all the options mentioned below and then try to open Word attachment and check if it works fine.

a) Enable Protected View for files originating from the Internet
b) Enable Protected View for files located in potentially unsafe locations
c) Enable Protected View for Outlook attachments
d) Enable Data Execution Prevention mode

Then do the hokey pokey and wave your foot about, because that is what is all about!

[Rick V]

Evening Y'all
It was 60 this morning when I got up and only 50 now.
I am so not ready for winter

[RKDinOKC]

Interesting...

While helping my brother (retired CEO from where I work) and his wife with their Mac laptops this weekend...

Noticed they both had gotten new Mac laptops and the problems they were having were because the IT staff moved their stuff by copying it from the old computer to a hard drive then copied it to the new computer (I'm guessing like you would a PC).

Almost all of my SIL's apps were popping up asking for passwords and had lost all their customization and setup info!!! They had even provided my SIL a hard drive with the copy of her laptop drive on it (but no USB 3 cable to plug into the hard drive!) I had to go get a cable I had then go thru and find everything on her laptop that she had modified and copy it to the "backup" of her drive when they moved her stuff. THEN reformat her computer drive, reinstall the OS and use the Mac migration utility to copy all her stuff to the new computer. They should have used the migration utility in the first place.

I didn't have the luxury of them providing a pre-new computer backup of my brother's laptop and had to go thru and open and set passwords and licenses on everything. He had also bought into some Mac Cleaner thing that is a scam trying to fix his problem that I had to go thru and remove all the little bits because besides the license problems it kept popping up asking for more money to fix his computer. Again making a backup before migrating to a new computer is highly recommened. On a mac it needs to be a bootable backup, just in case. But when you first login to the new computer you just plug the old computer to the new one with a drive cable and it will migrate all your stuff to the new computer. Easy Peasy. Macs have had that feature for over 20 years!

Anyway while I was griping groaning and complaining about the current IT departments complete lack of ability to handle macs even though there are lots of them I commented that I have been asking to upgrade my mac laptop to a newer one for over a year since mine was then 5 years old. And that I was told that I didn't need it upgraded even though even my 2 bosses go new mac laptops in the last six months and they don't even run mac stuff!

At hearing that my brother offered to immediately take me to the Apple store and buy me a new laptop. Told him my laptop wasn't a personal machine, it was a company computer and they were not spending money now. He said he would be buying it with his own money. Told him I couldn't let him do that because it just wasn't right.

Today my boss sends me an email and they are buying me a new laptop. But would only be configured with the 500 meg drive instead of gigabit because the gigabit was $500 more expensive. (his has the gigabit drive and so does my borther and sisters). Told him that would be fine, but to remember lack of hard drive space is the main reason I need my 5 plus year old mac laptop updated today.

Sorry for boring you with my computer stuff. If you aren't asleep by now....

[RKDinOKC]

Hey Brent, Did turning off windows protection stuff let you open your excel files?

[Holger]

Excel hang, not protected view.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

OK MS Office gurus. Why does Excel hang when opening a spreadsheet from an email in Outlook or downloaded from the web but not from a local or stored on a network drive?

It might well be the anti-virus program you are using. I sometimes get a slight delay as the anti-virus scans an email attachment.

Good Tuesday morning. Hey it ain't Monday no mo!

[RKDinOKC]

Mertnin.

When in HS instead of auto shop, wood shop, or metal shop I took electronics classes. There were 3 levels. First was basic electronics circuits. Second was designing and building stuff, most popular were windshield wiper delays for their cars. I built a color organ that was an adjustable sound level meter for 5 frequencies that flashed light strings for the levels of each frequency. The input was both a room microphone and input from an audio source. I used it to drive red, blue, green, yellow, and white light strings on our Christmas tree. The lights on our tree flashed to music and/or the sounds in the room. Every bit as cool as the computerized light shows people are doing with their outdoor light decorations and it was 1976.

Third level electronics was troubleshooting and repairs which was mostly radios, stereos, and TVs. It was the 70s so computers were not really a thing yet. As part of the class I wrote a manual for TV repair. The manual I wrote was used for teaching the TV repair part of the class for years after I graduated. The first thing to check was...Is it plugged in? Am a pretty good technical problem solver.

Me and 2 other kids in my school had a computer class. The computer class didn't even have a teacher. We were just given a login, storage space, and time on the IBM main frame used for the entire city school system. It didn't even have a computer screen. It was an IBM typewriter terminal with a phone coupling that used an actual rotary telephone. You typed on a sheet of paper and the computer typed back. It was the terminal used for the school records keeping. We dinked around on the system and wrote our own programs. You learned programming by listing the commands and then trying to use them. syntax error was the most common output. And yes we could monkey with our grades and attendance.

Oh man, all that stuff makes me sound like a nerd. Guess my saving grace was I partied and hung out with the hot chicks so at least I wasn't a geek.

[flipper35]

Sorry guys, I fell asleep back a few posts when someone was talking about Macs and backups...

Just kidding. Richard, that is similar to what you would do on a MS OS. Some applications you can copy over but most have some key in the registry (stupid registry) that it looks for.

I haven't checked back with my boss on the Excel thing yet. She has a board meeting this am so won't know for a bit yet.

Glen, I don't think it is the AV as others on Campus don't have the issue.

I took electronics in HS. Made a key code car alarm which was pretty simple. We had Apple IIe computers in high school be we taught the teacher more than he taught us. Since I was thinking of aerospace engineering I programmed a CAD program for my C-64 since there wasn't one. Had perspective view and everything. Learned how to fly on a computer so when I had my first day of ground school to see the campus and familiarize me with everything I ended up doing ILS approaches on the simulator. Should have spent the time to be a meteorological surveyor. Would have been a fun gig.

[RKDinOKC]

Macs had the migration assistant for years before the PC. And it copies all the right files etc so your licenses transfer along with all your programs and data, including users and user settings. In fact, you can pick which users you want to migrate. You plug the macs together using a firewire or usb cable and boot which ever you want to copy from holding the t key. The second Mac comes up on the first mac just like and external hard drive. As a mater of fact I've booted one mac holding the t key so it comes up as an external hard drive, then held the option key on the first mac so it lets you pic a system to boot from and booted from the system/hard drive on the second computer.

I graduated in 77, the year they came out with the Apple II. Did take some local collage drafting and illustration, etc classes after started working in the drafting department. Their CAD system they were trying to get students on was one of those you had to actually write in fortran to draw the stuff. I was already using computer programs based on quickdraw and postscript where you used what is today considered standard CAD drawing tools. When I took the illustration class took copies of a couple of drawings I did for out catalog and ended up teaching the illustration class. It was still Pen and Ink back then.

Just as I left being in charge of drafting I was trying to get them to use a program that ran on the mac that you could open solid works files and it would create absolutely beautiful technical illustrations. But...didn't happen.

[flipper35]

I had to take FORTRAN my freshman year in college. Had to use AutoCAD as well. We had some nice pucks though so it wasn't too bad and better than manual entry.

The built in PC migration tools still suck. Better to use a 3rd party app in this case.

We have a couple PCs with SS drives in them. We use them as boot drives because streaming our movies doesn't require a lot of bandwidth. If it was the only drive in the system I can see why you want a larger drive. Though on my wife's laptop she has an eSATA connection for an portable drive. That is a nice, fast connection for an external drive. USB 3.x is pretty fast as well. Hard to get Firewire on any PC these days.

[GH85Carrera]

Back in the days of DOS 3.1 we built a little computer club that I called the Geezers club.I was the only member that still had a job, the rest had all retired. The engineer of the year for Bell Labs was one member. We had a bunch of retired Segate employees only back then it was MPI or Control Data. The guys they wrote the firmware for hard drive control boards and designed hard drives were members. One guy was the head of the computer department and helped install their first computers and wrote the code that ran the FAA.

I was WAY WAY WAY out out my league with those guys. It was always a super fascinating meeting. We met at my office back then after work hours. Listening to friendly arguments between computer geeks was a real learning experience.

The guy that was the head engineer at AT&T helped me program my US Robotics Dual Standard 14.4K modem.

[flipper35]

A friend of mine was one of the upper level engineers at IBM. Some of the things he talked about revealed how short sighted the engineers could be back then.

[RKDinOKC]

Cousin of my Mom's kid is a muckity muck at Seagate. He started there when it was Magnetic Perifpherals. He is either still there or retired by now, I don't know haven't heard about him since his Mom died and my Mom forgot about them.

A friend I met at the Mac users group is the head documentation and manuals guy a seagate now.

Guy in the local Porsche Club was in the HR dept as Seagate until he retired and moved out in the country so his wife could have pet cows and horses and ducks and geese and chickens and goats and well you know.

[pete3799]

I know how to turn on a computer.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Cousin of my Mom's kid is a muckity muck at Seagate. He started there when it was Magnetic Perifpherals. He is either still there or retired by now, I don't know haven't heard about him since his Mom died and my Mom forgot about them.

A friend I met at the Mac users group is the head documentation and manuals guy a seagate now.

Guy in the local Porsche Club was in the HR dept as Seagate until he retired and moved out in the country so his wife could have pet cows and horses and ducks and geese and chickens and goats and well you know.

JJ was happy when he finally got a big enough heard of longhorns that his wife finally quit naming them all. Now he can sell one off or swap em around and she does not care. He is up to 6 horses and more dogs all the time. All the asswipes in the city take their unwanted dogs to the country and dump em out. They keep finding JJ's place and he makes room.

[flipper35]

Is Seagate based down there?

[HHI944]

Originally Posted by pete3799

I know how to turn on a computer.

I kin find pichers of nekkid ladez on the innernetz

[RKDinOKC]

Used to be, heard they were moving back to Illnoise.

[RKDinOKC]

I kin find real live nekkid ladez down to the nudy bar. I thunked ewe was supposed to keep yur kids away from the innernetz cauz that's how the danged prevertz find em.

Wait a minit, this IS the innernetz...Okay which one of you is a prevert?