18 Oct 10
Does anyone know how to make small left and right or up and down adjustments when printing business cards in word 2003? I tried moving the business card image and was able to make relatively gross adjustments but trying to get them exactly centered is so far not happening. Any ideas? I use Page preview and such and moved the actual image around but can't get it exactly centered on the business card perf paper. Not a huge deal, the print comes out great just would like it a bit better centered. Thanks in advance. I am using Vista, and in word, tool, letters and envelopes, labels, and then the avery 8371 format.
20 Oct 10
Originally posted by sonhouseHave you tried clicking "details" under "label options" and then selecting your desired measurements (I can get them within a few mm)?
Does anyone know how to make small left and right or up and down adjustments when printing business cards in word 2003? I tried moving the business card image and was able to make relatively gross adjustments but trying to get them exactly centered is so far not happening. Any ideas? I use Page preview and such and moved the actual image around but can't ge ...[text shortened]... using Vista, and in word, tool, letters and envelopes, labels, and then the avery 8371 format.
If you are trying to move an image around, select the image then hold down the Ctrl key while using the arrow keys.
21 Oct 10
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Originally posted by WoodgieI haven't tried that cntl thing. The problem is I need to move maybe one mm or 2 at most. I tried selecting image and doing it with the adjustment boxes that appear but the movement was too quantized in too big a motion to get fine adjustments.
Have you tried clicking "details" under "label options" and then selecting your desired measurements (I can get them within a few mm)?
If you are trying to move an image around, select the image then hold down the Ctrl key while using the arrow keys.
My HD just bit the dust so I am back to square one, am thinking to buy a newer box, have a friend who just opened a comp store, can give me a nice deal on a tower for about 150 bucks. The computer problem is, even if I get the HD back, which is doubtful, it got hosed by Norton Ghost when I tried cloning the HD due to the old HD being only a 40 gig model and wanted more space, I used test disk 6 and rewrote the MBR, MFT and did a new partition write which got it partially back on line but there is something else going on also, not sure what to do now. But spending more money to solve that situation seems like throwing good money after bad since that box is 5 years old and doesn't recognize more than 150 gigs in the HD. I think I can flash a new bios that may solve that problem, I have heard tales both ways, yes you can, no you can't but I would still be left with an elderly system, IDE HD's for instance instead of newer SATA's. Ghost really hosed the HD pretty good and all my good stuff was on there but not that good that I would need to fret too much, I arranged for the system to be switched with a KVM switch so the real work was on another comp that stayed off the net 90% of the time and the old machine for family so I won't lose all that much starting over. I had ported the image from the graphics machine that doesn't go on the net that much but would like to try the site Crowley suggested. Downloaded the instructions, so may have some questions about that when I get the system back up and running. I figure to use maybe a TB drive and have a nice partition with Ubuntu or some other flavor of Linux on one and XP or 7 on the other. All that happened only yesterday and I spent a long time with test disk trying to undo the damage caused by that accursed Ghost, I usually use Casper 5 for cloning but in this case Casper said my newer larger drive had a problem and I thought it was not that big a deal and used Ghost instead which proved to be a big mistake. Live and learn, slowly but learn nonetheless.
21 Oct 10
Originally posted by sonhouseCan I just point out something with respects to hard drive size, the larger the "working" drive the longer the cleaning and house-keeping actions are going to take.
I haven't tried that cntl thing. The problem is I need to move maybe one mm or 2 at most. I tried selecting image and doing it with the adjustment boxes that appear but the movement was too quantized in too big a motion to get fine adjustments.
My HD just bit the dust so I am back to square one, am thinking to buy a newer box, have a friend who just open ...[text shortened]... t instead which proved to be a big mistake. Live and learn, slowly but learn nonetheless.
It is easy into being fooled that bigger is better, the larger the drive, the longer the indexing, the longer the seek time etc. A working hard drive should be small and big enough just to handle the working operations (storage is not a working operation).
Also, virus checking a small drive can be counted in minutes, as can defragging.
Having a massive storage space is fair enough if the data being fed to that drive is being conditioned by the working drive (virus checked on its way in, and for good measure on it's way out).
For instance, you may have a 20 or 40 gig drive that you have an OS installed on.
That drive access's the internet and so because it is a small drive, wont take that long to defrag or check for virus/malware.
Any info you want to keep gets sent to a straight forward, formatted massive hard drive, this is used simply for storage only.
The working drive can have as many applications as you want running on it, but the user created data gets sent to the monster drive (this also makes backing up data easier).
When disaster strikes, it is easier to recover from this situation as it is more than likely going to be the working drive that gets it (the usual complaint is the machine started to slow down and the user fixed it, basically breaking it).
My typical situation at home is, a 10 gig drive with XP on, and a 10 TB storage drive.
The 10 gig drive has all my apps on (Star office, Word, games and stuff), the 10TB has a copy of all my XP service packs, all my device drivers, all my .EXE stuff, user created data and a ghost of the working drive after it was freshly installed with all my apps and service packs.
The working drive is run as a limited account and changed to admin only to do certain tasks.
When it all goes wrong 9 times out of 10, I can recover from the storage drive in about 6 minutes.
Partitioning a massive hard drive is not the same thing, a physically separate hard drive needs to be used for storage.
As for ghost mashing things up, sadly you probably ran it without the right switches being assigned and I bet you had it connected to a network and the anti-virus and firewall enabled?
Anti-virus and personal firewall's could prevent an exact binary image being made.
Before ghosting, disconnect your network lead and then turn off your protection.
If a drive dies, stop using it straight away and data recovery will be easier, if you continue to muck about with it, you will over-write the data your OS just can't see at the moment.
If you can remove the drive and stick it as a slave in a working machine (or buy a USB SATA-IDE connector), let that OS look at the faulty drive and if the gods are with you, you will be able to recover any lost data (at the very least you will cause no further harm).
If the good Dr. Strangelove was still with us, I am sure he would have loved to answer this one.
Any mistakes, sorry, I am not re-reading that little lot).
23 Oct 10
Originally posted by WoodgieAll good advice for sure. I didn't know about the disconnect of the LAN cable. Will do that in future. I used Casper 5 and had very good results with that. My mistake was not believing Casper when it said the destination drive had a problem.
Can I just point out something with respects to hard drive size, the larger the "working" drive the longer the cleaning and house-keeping actions are going to take.
It is easy into being fooled that bigger is better, the larger the drive, the longer the indexing, the longer the seek time etc. A working hard drive should be small and big enough just to handl ...[text shortened]... ve loved to answer this one.
Any mistakes, sorry, I am not re-reading that little lot).
I should have used another drive. I had an old copy of Ghost 2003 and in retro, I think maybe it wasn't even up to XP at that point. Not sure about that one but it sure hosed my old HD. I agree with you about the size issue.
The only thing wrong was I had originally planned to use the 40 gig drive as just a backup but it was loaded to the gills so I sucked off some unused stuff, got about 15% free so at least defrag would work, the plan was to install a 160 gig drive, clone the 40 to the 160, a proceedure I had used before with great success but screwed up this time.
The comp was a pentium 3, 3 Ghz with a couple of gigs of ram, ddr1. So It was slow and at least with the present bios, unable to recognize more than 150 gig drives. Another problem is the world going to SATA drives and ddr1 memory is very expensive now. So I got my computer guru buddy to put together a used comp, pentium 4 with an ASUS MB and SATA drive and such, 4 gigs of ram, ddr2. It is still a bit out of date, single core but with hyperthreading, but it is a lot faster than the old one, decent deal at 250 bucks.
Better video, audio and such also. So I am basically giving up on the old comp. The new one has a 500 gig drive, even that is getting old now but that should be enough for a long time. I know about the slow part, defrag and such.
I am wondering what people are going to do when 3 and 4 terabyte drives are common, most comps won't be able to use them fully. This comp has a hot drive bay so I can hot swap out drives which should make cloning easier.
I tried the online backup deal, Norton has a 25 gig backup deal that comes with some versions of norton 360 so I will try that, wasn't successful on another machine though, my modem/router wouldn't run long enough and had trouble uploading that much. Will see how it works out on this newer box.
Have you heard of Casper 5? Maybe up to 6 now. It seems a lot more straightforward than Ghost. I don't think I will ever use that turkey again!
23 Oct 10
Originally posted by WoodgieI can't wait to get enough moolah so I can afford to build up a sweet system with an SSD as a boot drive.
My typical situation at home is, a 10 gig drive with XP on, and a 10 TB storage drive.
The 10 gig drive has all my apps on (Star office, Word, games and stuff), the 10TB has a copy of all my XP service packs, all my device drivers, all my .EXE stuff, user created data and a ghost of the working drive after it was freshly installed with all my apps and service packs.