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seen in some of the post here, but can't seem to find them and nothing at
the MS website.
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All the best,
SG
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Review this site for more information about next windows " Windows 7 "
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'Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows Welcome'
(http://www.winsupersite.com)
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ahmad12,
Thanks for the reply, however I wouldn't visit Paul's site if someone paid
me to. We butted heads many years ago and I got no use for him nor anything
at that site. I want to make a suggestion about implementing something in
the next version of Windows and I'm sure I nor anyone else have to go
through Paul to do it :<)
I'll login through the MS Partner program and see if there's something
there. Thanks again and nothing personal towards you.
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All the best,
SG
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| | | | | Post in reply to: SG
Microsoft is being unusually tight-lipped about the next version of Windows,
SG. Not only do they not seem to be seeking any input, but there really
haven't been any of those "unofficial" leaks that normally crop up. To my
knowledge, they are not soliciting any input from partners, early (alpha)
testers, or any other user group.
Seeing as one of the chief complaints about Vista is unwanted UI changes,
I'm not so sure this is the best approach.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
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Thanks Rick, I'll give it up for now. Perhaps later on I'll be able to make
my suggestion.
This is what I love to see, don't know if it's possible, but man what a help
it would be.
I work part time with a friend who is an accountant. Not only do I keep his
machines up and going, but do a lot of data entry, 941's , 944's '940's.
VA-5's, Sales & Meals Tax and so on. We have hundreds of customers and
needless to say many company folders in "Documents". It's gotten so large
when we Save-As a company file it takes awhile to scroll down to find them.
What I propose is when saving a file like Word, Excel and so on is when one
starts to type in the name to save it, it would automatically scroll down to
that folder or at least the alphabetical listing.
Example.
Say I have a folder called, Porter Underground. When I first Save-As and
start to type in Porter it would scroll down to at least starting with the
letter P. That would get me in the ball park and save at lot of time. I have
a Label program when I click on Open and type the first few letters it takes
me close. I know what I'm wanting is different, but it may be possible and
worth a shot to pass this on to MS.
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All the best,
SG
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| | | | | Post in reply to: SG
You might be able to add this functionality to your office apps with the
Visual Studio Tools for Office.
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| | | | | Post in reply to: SG
An interesting suggestion, and one I've now forwarded on to a contact in the
product group.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
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Thank you very much Rick.
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All the best,
SG
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Hi Gary,
Any idea how I could do this? I have Office 2003 and 7 installed but don't
see Visual Studio Tools for Office. Is this a separate program or something
comes with office I didn't install?
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SG
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| | | | | Your question raises 2 other points. I'm sorry to keep going on about them,
but I think they're important.
User areas:
Since all documents are being recorded under "Documents", I presume that
everyone who writes data is using the same login. This is not good for
security.
Any OS suitable for professional use allow users to write only to their own
area, or to shared directories / virtual disks that require surveillance. In
your case, you should be using a shared area, on a different physical disk
to the OS, and with suitable backup facilities (use raid, but raid alone is
not enough; what if a power surge or lightening strike hits the raid
system...).
The same applies to family applications (such as family photos you want your
grandchildren to be able to see).
Structure of Vista user areas:
The directories you see under "Documents" ("My documents") under Vista are
not real data directories, but are pointers to real data directories that
don't have the same names. Also, the names you see are not the real names,
but nicknames, usually in the local language.
This way of redirecting information ("alias" under Unix) is apparantly
necessary for programs (executable files, etc), for technical reasons.
However, using similar architecture for data is inviting disaster.
The reason for this is that the complex redirection structure is specific to
each operating system. The only thing that has been constant for many years
is the notion of files in a hierarchical directory structure. When you try
to copy or back up from Vista or XP "My documents" to an OS-independent
backup disk, you can never be sure that you've "caught" all your data, nor
that you can trace the directory structure of the copy back to the original
nicknamed structure.
Note that you could be in trouble even with a future successor to Vista.
In conclusion, always store your data in a well-maintained shared area.
Applications should not automatically send you to the user area when you
save a file. That way you can back-up, and if necessary migrate, to any
system you like. Finally, don't put your data physically into in a database,
although you can use a database system for indexing, if it leaves your your
directory structure intact (some photo viewing packages do this OK).
Regards
"Rick Rogers" a ?crit dans le message de
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