I found another list of names and fought with Word Mail Merge for an hour trying to get them printed. I first brought up the old Mail Merge document, and attempted to link it to the spreadsheet containing the new names. It seemed to link OK, but now I only had one printed label per… [Read More]

(If you don’t know what an OOBE is, look here.) I’ve been sick for the past few days, and have had to spend most of my time in bed, so I was pleased yesterday when the FedEx truck rolled up with my Verizon Droid X. Making friends with it was something that I could do… [Read More]

After I installed Office 2010, I noticed that the Acrobat ribbon was missing. I went to the Adobe website and learned the story. It seems that in versions of Acrobat 9 before 9.3, the Acrobat ribbon didn’t work right with Office 2010. Adobe came up with a fix in the 9.3 release: they removed the… [Read More]

I told you all in a previous post that my experience with Microsoft support on what turned out to be a font problem with Office 2010 was abysmal. I promised to spare you details then, and I won’t rehash that call now. However, yesterday I received a signoff e-mail from the support tech. The critical… [Read More]

In previous posts, I reported that upon upgrading from Office 2007 to Office 2010, corrupted some fonts caused Outlook and Word to crash. There are a couple of possibilities here. Maybe the fonts were fine before the upgrade, and somehow the upgrade corrected them. Maybe the fonts have been corrupted for a long time, and… [Read More]