Archive
Archive for the ‘office-software’ Category
How to change the display language and speech recognition language on LRC Windows 7 computers (and which languages are available)
2012/08/15
Leave a comment
- UPDATE: Since this page seems to be getting a lot of hits, I want to clarify: The step-by-step guide below only applies after you installed (free) language (or language interface) packs (see list here) on Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate SKU (others SKUs cannot add multiple language interfaces). UPDATE2: Things got much easier with Windows 8.
- In order to
- view the GUI of Windows and Internet Explorer in a foreign language,
- use the speech recognition in (a subset of the below) foreign languages,
- and also switch the default language of MS-Office
- Double-click the desktop shortcut “Region and language – Keyboards and languages”.
- Select the desired language from the dropdown box, click “OK”.
- Click: “Log off now”:
- “Log back in” (without restarting).
- And if you want the available display languages in English,
- here are the fully supported (MS Language packs):
Language Native name Arabic العربية Chinese (Simplified) 中文(简体) Chinese (Traditional) 中文 (繁體) English English French français German Deutsch Greek Ελληνικά Hebrew עברית Italian italiano Japanese 日本語 Korean 한국어 Polish polski Portuguese (Brazil) Português Portuguese (Portugal) português Russian Русский Spanish español - and here the partially supported (MS-Language Interface packs):
Hindi हिंदी KiSwahili Kiswahili Persian (Farsi) فارسی Yoruba ede Yorùbá - And here are the languages that support speech recognition:
Categories: Arabic, documentation, e-languages, English, French, German, Greek (modern), Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, office-software, Operating-system, Polish, Portuguese, Reading, Russian, Spanish, Speaking, step-by-step-guides, Uncategorized, web-browsers, Writing
language-interface-packs, language-packs, office-2010, speech-recognition, windows-7
Why does MS-OneNote fail to linkify my URLs properly?
2012/07/09
Leave a comment
If this is a bug, it seems a pretty basic one:
,
for a 3rd generation software plus a service pack: 
. Unless I am doing something wrong, of course (I only paste those links). It is not a link length issue, not all links break at the same length (94 would be an odd length in a binary world anyway). If it is a special character, I fail to see it.
Categories: Glitches&Errors, office-software
2010, ms-onenote
Remember to switch to a 32-bit web browser if your SkyDrive online documents fail to open in MS-Office 2010.
2012/06/22
Leave a comment
- I would have thought that in this day and age, usage metrics data would have prompted MS to put that problem root and resolution – open the web page and the “Open in [Excel/Word/PowerPoint]" in a 32-bit browser - more prominently in the error messages .
- Instead, if using a 64-bit browser, you may be seeing
- this:
(“To open this workbook, your computer must be running a supported version of Microsoft Excel. If you have an older version of Office or no Office at all, you can try Microsoft Office 2010 for free") - or this
(“Install Office 2010 to open [your filename] in Excel. To open this workbook your computer must be running a supported version of Microsoft Excel and a browser that supports opening files directly from SkyDrive. Learn more about the requirements If you don’t currently have Office or are using an older version, you can try Microsoft Office 2010 for free. Learn more about trying Microsoft Office 2010. ”) - or this
("We are unable to detect Microsoft Excel on your computer. Troubleshoot You can also download a copy of this workbook). - If e.g. you `run this browser:
- Only if you follow the troubleshoot link, you find the 64-bitness of the browser mentioned.
Categories: e-infrastructure, office-software
2010, ms-office
How to fix inability to open notebook from web in MS-OneNote
2012/06/21
2 comments
- A lot of people seem to experience this problem, where the menu item “Open in OneNote” in the OneNote webapp results in the error: “To open this notebook your computer must be running a supported version of Microsoft OneNote and a browser that supports opening files directly from the Office Web Apps.”
- Here is what seems to have solved it for me (it only started to work when owssupp.dll was reinstalled. However, some of the earlier steps may also be necessary, notably adding to the “trusted sites”).
- To open from OneNote desktop, as opposed to form the webapp, I tried to find out the URL of OneNote notebook
- Easiest way is subtracting the edit.aspx portion from the OneNote webapp URL you are viewing.
- Or if you can open the notebook on a different computer in OneNote, right-click on the notebook in the left tree and choose properties, or hover over one of its section headers above it to read the tooltip).
- Then in OneNote on the offending computer, menu:file/open/ instead of browsing, paste the URL. This failed without providing any feedback:
- Then I tried following the tips under the link “troubleshooting” in the error message.
- However, Firefox had the office plugin already enabled:
- I made sure you I was not not running Internet Explorer IE 64-bit.
- In IE 32-bit: Enable the SharePoint OpenDocuments Class add-on in “Tools”/”Manage Add-ons”: Display the list of add-ons, Dropdown “Show” / “All add-ons” / SharePoint OpenDocuments Class, “Enable”, this had also already been the case.
- I added in IE trusted sites (these were missing – did it matter?): Tools / Internet Options./ Security / Trusted sites/ Level needs to be lower than High, Sites, Add this website to this zone box, added liv e.com and live.net (IE adds the asterisk) :
- I then followed the MS Answers forum instructions to reinstall MS-Office, or rather remove and reenable the owssupp.dll:
- before:
, then rename extension to “old”. - In control panel / programs and features / office 2010 professional plus / configure / office tools / Microsoft SharePoint Foundation support, run from my computer, to re-add the SharePoint plugin:
- after:
- Voilà: Now I could open in OneNote from OneNote webapp:
- before:
- Here is wishing that this were easier.., but now I can also open from OneNote / File / Open, and give the URL on live.net (giving the URL does not open directly, I have to press open again to open the OpenNotebook.onetoc2):
Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, office-software
ms-onenote
Using NLP tools to automate production and correction of interactive learning materials for blended learning templates in the Language Resource Center. Presentation Calico 2012, Notre Dame University
2012/06/13
Leave a comment
View screencast 
here.
How to display Furigana phonetic guide for Japanese Kanji in MS-Word 2010
2012/02/21
1 comment
- Furigana uses Kana (usually Hiragana) to phonetically transcribe Kanji, above (for horizontally written Kanji) or to the right (if in vertical writing mode), for special characters or audiences (children and second language learners).
- In MS-Office, if you have a Japanese Input Method Editor selected in MS-Windows, select some Kanji and in the ribbon, under tab: home, section: font; click on the Phonetic guide, to bring up a dialogue that attempts to auto detect the furigana.
- You can make adjustments there, click “OK “to insert. Like so:
LRC Outlook/Exchange 2010 Resource Calendaring: How to alter meeting times in OWA
2012/01/23
Leave a comment
- If you are the meeting organizer (you initiated the meeting request), in your NINERMAIL/OWA calendar, just click on the meeting and drag the meeting start and/or end time with your left mouse button in the desired new location (works like in Outlook), and send updates (this will not affect for the series of a recurring meeting, only the current occurence):
- If you are not the meeting organizer, the meeting organizer, when requesting a meeting with you, may have allowed you to “Request a new time”: use the corresponding button (screenshots are for Outlook):
- in the meeting request:
.
- in the meeting request:
- or in the calendar item context menu
Categories: audience-is-language-learning-center-staff, audience-is-language-learning-center-temp-staff, audience-is-students, audience-is-teachers, e-infrastructure, office-software, service-is-documenting
2007, 2010, 2011, calendaring, changing, meeting-requests, ms-exchange, ms-outlook, resources, scheduling
Questions? Read the About. Or just ask me a quick Our Databases: Resources with calendars -- Language learning material Moodle Sites, multimedia files -- films
FAQs for LRC student staff or for students or for teachers. To search our FAQs, in the browser addressbar, add after "https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/?tag=faqs+/" "+TAG1" (from tag cloud below) OR "https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/tag=faqs
&category_name=" "CAT1" (from category hierarchy below). OR search both categories and tags, and multiple TAGs/CATs (connect with "," for OR-search, with "+" for AND-search), like so: https://plagwitz.wordpress.com/feed/?tag=TAG1+TAG2+...TAGn&category_name=CAT1
+CAT2+...CATn"
Other ways to find help
If you cannot find it here, look there: 5,500 Language-Learning Links and Programs for learning or teaching 150 languages
Shortcuts:Our Lists, Our Maps, LRC Staff Moodle Site,LRC Project Moodle Site, 49erexpress, UNCC Moodle, Student Recordings: s:claslcslrcsanakostudent
Learning usage samples: Sanako oral exam, Kaltura webcam presentation, Dictation with speech recognition, Sanako written exam, Chinese and Japanese interactive stroke-order practice
Test the Sanako Installer, Webbrowser Popup Konfigurator for XP, or Windows7, faster LRC TeacherPC Log-in Let MS facilitate diacritics writing by installing for you US-International keyboard layout
This is my personal blog (Google+). The views expressed on these pages are mine alone and not those of my employer. The information in this weblog is provided “AS IS” with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Thomas' Work Space 