Restoring the saving tone

[Keith]

When I saved a document, and (I think) when I opened a saved document
, a tone used to sound. It doesn't do it any more and I haven't a
clue as to why or how to resore it. Any ideas or suggestions?

 

[Clive Huggan]

Keith,

You don't mention which version of Word, but I doubt if this feature changes
between versions (I'm in Word 2001): the setting is made in Edit menu ->
Preferences -> "General" tab -> Provide feedback with sound.

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[Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.]

He's probabaly talking about Office2001 for OS9.

I notice that too. Only in my case the sounds work maybe once or twice
then quit working. sometimes they don't work. Then again you'll open
word or whatever and they are suddenly working again.

Has nothing to do with systems sounds they work fine.

I can't say about OfficeX because I don't own it. I've been warned here
not to get it until OX goes to OSX.3 and when Offioce goes through the
next major chage to work with it.

When I saved a document, and (I think) when I opened a saved document
, a tone used to sound. It doesn't do it any more and I haven't a
clue as to why or how to resore it. Any ideas or suggestions?

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[Keith]

I have officeX. Your recommendation fixed it. Now I need to figure
out how to stop the virus-infected spam I'm now getting. ARGH!!

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

Hi Keith:

So do we all! I am getting 600-odd copies some days. Here's what I do:

1) In Entourage, double-click the Email account that the virus is coming in
on, and enable "Allow online access".

2) A folder will appear for that email account in your Entourage folders
list.

3) Disable your Send/Receive schedules, particularly the ones that cause a
receive on Startup.

4) Go online. Select your inbox, and then select the online folder. Hit
Command 7 to bring up the progress window so you can see what is happening.
Do not touch any emails in the Online folder until the progress window shows
that they have all been retrieved.

5) Now click in the Online message pane, and instantly hit Command A to
select all.

6) Each message should have a broken envelop icon beside it to show that
its text remains on the server. Use Command + Click to DESELECT any
messages that do not have the icon.

7) Now Control Click over the message icon of one of the messages. A
context-sensitive option will appear: choose "Delete from server at next
connection."

8) Now work your way through the list, selecting any GOOD messages that you
want, one-by-one, and changing the icon to "Retrieve entire message."

9) Now Select your Inbox again (or something else... You must remove the
selection from the Online folder).

10) Fire a normal Send/Receive.

This procedure is very quick: It will retrieve only the good messages from
the server, and all the rubbish will be permanently deleted.

I am getting up to 600 of these things a day. The virus is actually
harvesting email addresses from the newsgroups. I am not going to cave in
and stop posting my real email address, because every now and again, someone
needs to contact me to follow up a post.

Eventually, the brain-dead users out there who neglect to patch their
systems will get a bill from their broadband provider for several thousand
dollars worth of excess data, and begin to wonder how they could possibly
have sent so much!

And eventually, the large ISPs will start blocking emails from the IP ranges
that are sending this rubbish, so the smaller ISPs will suddenly develop an
urgent business need to properly administer their users. Because they will
be off the internet until they clean up their act.

In the meantime, I simply scan the list and delete all the rubbish before I
download it. This means I don't get annoyed by other kinds of Spam:
pictures, copies of stuff, or funny jokes either If it's not a
legitimate email, it just doesn't get through.

New rules for a brave new world...

Cheers

This responds to article <[email protected]>,

I have officeX. Your recommendation fixed it. Now I need to figure
out how to stop the virus-infected spam I'm now getting. ARGH!!

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