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i've got the fancy new one and when i open any existing document, or a new one, it won't let me type. the message at the bottom of the screen says "this modification is not allowed because the selection is locked"

also all of the menu options are greyed out. has microsoft rumbled my moody copy of orifice?

please help!

Genuine copy?

Edit: Just seen it's not. Basically yes, MS have rumbled you.

schiesse

reinstall?

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Not sure with this version, my bet is it has put in registry entries and you'd have to reinstall the O/S also, but double check that.

Yep. Might need a registry cleaner as well. Google is your friend: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=office+registry+cleaner

i've lost the dodgy cd anyway i think, i'm downloading open office instead

 I had a question in a quiz last week...in which year did Microsoft market Word?

 I punted 1982...pure guess based on my Spectrum having that date. Wrong it was 1983.

 I hate year questions...I have enough trouble knowing what this year is. :(

That's because you've seen so many of them.

It's true, they do tend to roll into one another, unless you've something to hang them on.

 I try to mark the years in terms of STFC football seasons, which works going back lots of years, but recently they've tended to be very forgettable....in fact since 95/96

Word.

If for some reason you really need MS Office the beta for the 2010 version is available and seems pretty stable, free and fully functioning until its released.

Mine expired, and reinstall 2007. Fackin nightmare.

Also outlook in 2010 is awful...

If you're a little bit "G" then get a copy of this:


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Beat this: today an experienced (old) teacher wrote 2nd March 2002 up on the board

it does seem like 2002 in a way though, and i'm positive that it has never been 2008.

Do they still have boards in schools?  What about dip and scratch it pens like when I was at school?

He was as confused as the ps3!

what the hells dip and scratch it? is it like an etch-a-sketch?

you'd have to look very hard to find a blackboard in an english primary school nowadays. maybe somewhere rural. its all whiteboards.

The monitor put the ink in the well, then the pen was dipped in and writing sort of scratched onto the paper.

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 I was thinking it would be all smart board touch technology now.

I was an ink monitor in the 1st year  8) 8) 8)

There is one room at my uni that still has a chalkboard, never come across any others though, and that'll be gone in the next year or two when they knock the building down.

We still had chalkboards when I was at primary school, but the big conversion to whiteboards and barely-legible squeaky pens happened in about 1998-1999 I think.

I thought you weren't allowed to call them blackboards and whiteboards any more. It's supposed to be chalkboard and dry-wipe board.

In previous schools I've worked in, they used Green boards so they couldn't offend anyone!!

We call them whiteboards still.