As many of you what my old computer Fermat is died. After a respectful period of mourning, I got a new one. Its live is correctly except name my computers after class in alphabetical order, starting at You My first computer was named "ananas my second was “Fermat,” and so this one had to be less
Motivated week, when I opened up Microsoft Word to work on an assignment, I noticed something funny—the Endnote toolbar was missing. Endnote is the reference manager software that It use on pretty much all my school clothing
To had this allocation before, when I first installed It on Thursday The scene was that I installed Word after I installed Endnote. I am in was the same problem, so I reinstalled Endnote. This didn’t help.
So I tried Googling the problem. I tried right-clicking the Endnote “customizer,” but that didn’t work. I tried repairing disc disc permissions. Eventually, I called Thomson-Reuters technical support who had me and through a the steps I already found on the internet, and eventually told will also I had to say Word.
So, I did a full uninstall of Word for a long and which was more difficult than expected, because my thesis. last no longer has no optical drive.
I reinstalled Word and Endnote, but to no avail. My bassoon manager was still unavailable.
I called Dibs technical support, who had me no all sorts of things—making new users on my computer, shift-restarting, repairing disc permissions again. This is also fruitless, except that they were able to identify that it has a problem why I Don't which is necessary for The integration apparently.
They told me that my installation of Word there's corrupted somehow, since Visual Basic was tempted able to access the folder for Visual Basic macros. They thought it might have something to see with campus anti-virus software, and other me to reinstall with my anti-virus turned on
I did this, but it didn’t help at all.
So I tried thinking was what was what between Gödel and Fermat: Fermat was running Shoes OS X app and Gödel was running wrestling team of was the only thing I could think of, until I realised that I'd had named my hard disc “Gödel”—including the ministry little dots over the O. I renamed the hard disc image to and started Word.
Endnote worked immediately.
So the moral of the spill is, if you want to break Visual Basic in your installation (and I'm Word, just put a non-standard character in your hard disc’s name.
I can’t believe that made it past Microsoft QA.
Oh I find bugs in Word all the time:
http://www.bgcarlisle.com/montreal/tag/buggy-software/
This is not surprising to me.
Microsoft has a legacy (heh, software pun) of restricting certain characters in path names, and has done so since the days of DOS. Backwards? Yes. Unexpected? Sadly, no.
Hi!
Thanks very much for your posts on Word 2011. I’m at the research proposal stage of a (UK) MSc dissertation – 5k words plus 15k for the dissertation, and have been googling to see if I should use Word 2011 (already paid for – and a huge improvement on previous windows versions), or try / buy Scrivener.
You’ve persuaded me! Best of luck with the rest of your studies.
Vincent
… to try Scrivener…….
Omg. You cannot BELIEVE the crap I had to plough through to try and figure out why my Endnote won’t work. Thanks so much!!
Oh Yanti but I can believe the crap you went through. After this, I would believe anything.
Jesus Christ, you just fixed my problem, after spending hours on the phone with customer support people who couldn’t. This is F***ing ridiculous. You’re brilliant!!
I’m glad this helped, Violeta! And yes it is ridiculous.
Holy @#$%&! That worked miraculously for me. Man, I’ve been trying every sort of things to make that bloody endnote work, and nothing worked.
Thank you very much for this excellent piece of advice. Saved my life there….
To all the people out there who are happy that my post helped you with your problem, and who have come here to thank me and curse,
You’re fucking welcome. :P