Word Doc “is reserved by”

Posted by Faille in Technical (November 13, 2008 at 3:59 pm)

The project that I am working on right now is using Microsoft SharePoint.  It has some convenient features, but I absolutely hate how it does change control for documents.  Maybe I just don’t know how to use it.  Anyway, a common problem we are having is documents are staying “Reserved By” people who have left the project, and our only option is to open them as Read Only.  If those documents are then saved using SAVE AS… so we can create a new version, the save as is password protected too.  Highly annoying.

Here is the solution (I apologize for losing the source of this tip - I will add it and pictures when I can)

  • Go to File > Save As…
  • On the top right of the window, there will be a Tools option.  Click this, and choose Security Options…
  • Delete the password and uncheck the Read-only recommended checkbox
  • Save the document

You do still have to Save As… the document, but you can always rename the document once the password is removed

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Change the words at top of Internet Explorer browser window

Posted by Faille in Google, Technical (September 5, 2008 at 11:33 am)

When I was working in Hawaii, I had a lapse in judgment and installed the internet company’s CD when I was setting up my internet.  This resulted in me having “by Hawaiian Telcom” at the top of every browser window.

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Uninstalling the software didn’t remove it, so I decided to look for a better answer.

I did a google search for “how do i remove “by Hawaiian telcom” from my browser”, and found this site: http://forums.techguy.org/malware-removal-hijackthis-logs/581290-solved-trojanspm-lx.html

It was actually referring to how to remove a trojan, but the user was a Hawaiian Telcom customer, and the log they posted had the dreaded “By Hawaiian Telcom” in their registry entries.

“R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Window Title = By Hawaiian Telcom”

A quick trip to regedit, and I have now eliminated this phrase from my machine!  I actually went down HKLM, as well as HKCU.  For more details on how to do this change, click after the jump!

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Yay for Google!

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Change Default Font on Outlook Notes

Posted by Faille in Google, Technical (August 20, 2008 at 10:35 pm)

This tip will allow you to change the default font for notes you create in Outlook from Comic Sans (a sin) to something more palatable (generic Arial or ?).

Tools > Options > Preferences Tab > Note Options… Button > Font… Button

source: http://malektips.com/outlook_2003_notes_0002.html

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