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Thread ID: 120993	2011-10-06 22:05:00	Ongoing problems with MSWorks and HP computer and printer.	Thomas01 (317)	Press F1

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1235747	2011-10-07 11:20:00	Aren't they much the same thing?	Agent_24 (57)
1235748	2011-10-07 11:25:00	Aren't they much the same thing? Definitely not if you want to open Works files. LO is streaking ahead of OO. I don't know if the Apache foundation can breath any life back into the corpse of OO.	mikebartnz (21)
1235749	2011-10-07 12:02:00	Now that I've actually read up on it I see what you mean.	Agent_24 (57)
1235750	2011-10-07 20:36:00	Thomas01, its not that you've got ample memory, the problem is that for some old programs you've got too much memory. Lots of older programs break when the machine has more than 2GB of ram.	gcarmich (10068)
1235751	2011-10-07 21:54:00	Post #4 (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) Ah yes thanks mikebartnz. Now I remember, but it didn't help me much as your reply was outside my ability to understand zone. But good luck with the program - I will be one of the grateful users if it works. But what puzzles me still is the fact that this situation seems to require a HP computer allied to HP printer to get the problem. And I still haven't heard from anybody who has tried a different printer to cure the problem. I'm tempted to offer Noel Leeming a chance to sell me a new printer as long as I can return it if the problem does not correct. Agent_24 I have OpenOffice up and running but must admit to not liking it. I miss the key stroke short cuts of MSWorks and the database frightens me with its complexity. Gosh I'm an awkward so and so. Now I must try Libre Office (new to me).	Thomas01 (317)
1235752	2011-10-07 22:39:00	Maybe you could try something else - print the document out to a PDF file or something and then take that file and print it with a PDF reader instead. This one looks good: en.wikipedia.org	Agent_24 (57)
1235753	2011-10-08 01:52:00	Thomas01, its not that you've got ample memory, the problem is that for some old programs you've got too much memory. Lots of older programs break when the machine has more than 2GB of ram. As well as my desktop HP I also bought a HP notebook thing. This has only 2 GB of RAM but exactly the same fault as the desktop. Bang goes another good theory! Just to clarify matters:- My main aim now is to find out why this problem occurs and is it right that it needs HP computers running HP printers. I really don't want to have to buy another printer. Funny enough I seem to remember HP running into this same problem about 10 years ago - anybody else remember it? I have come up with a solution - clumsy but it works. If I want any MSWorks database printing out then I simply save it to a csv file and then open it in Excel - no problems from this point. And like a lot of other people quite like Excel. Perhaps I should switch to Excel instead of using a database. Tom	Thomas01 (317)
1235754	2011-10-08 07:48:00	Ah yes thanks mikebartnz. Now I remember, but it didn't help me much as your reply was outside my ability to understand zone. But good luck with the program - I will be one of the grateful users if it works. But what puzzles me still is the fact that this situation seems to require a HP computer allied to HP printer to get the problem. And I still haven't heard from anybody who has tried a different printer to cure the problem. I'm tempted to offer Noel Leeming a chance to sell me a new printer as long as I can return it if the problem does not correct. Agent_24 I have OpenOffice up and running but must admit to not liking it. I miss the key stroke short cuts of MSWorks and the database frightens me with its complexity. Gosh I'm an awkward so and so. Now I must try Libre Office (new to me). Get rid of OO and get LO. It doesn't matter what printer you have it will still have the same problem as the fault is in MSWorks.	mikebartnz (21)
1235755	2011-10-08 08:02:00	I have printing issues in Win7 printing from MSAccess - I get columns overlaid on top of each other. My work-around is to install PDF995, and 'print' to the PDF driver, which creates a PDF of the item being printed. I can then physically print the PDF without any issues. Sure, it's a nuisance, but it is at least a solution. My other issue is that Excel will never open directly from a double-click on a file. If only works if I open Excel first, then use the Open dialog to navigate to the file I want to open. Damned nuisance. Have read the MS help on the topic, and applied their hotfixes, all to no avail. I don't think MS really care - it's just another incentive for folks to blow more money on an Office upgrade if they leave the problem unresolved. It's been documented for years and still isn't fixed.	Paul.Cov (425)
1235756	2011-10-08 09:01:00	I don't think MS really care - it's just another incentive for folks to blow more money on an Office upgrade if they leave the problem unresolved. It's been documented for years and still isn't fixed. Dump them then and use LibreOffice - I have.	Agent_24 (57)
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