unknown character when composing email

one of our customer said me that he is experiencing problem when he composing email, he said that unkonwn sign appears when he press enter & dot sign for spaces, he says this is very annoying & hard to look at the document he types, so i involved the matter and fix the problem instantly, check below screenshot i got from his pc. (please click the image to enlarge)

so i configure some settings in the outlook 2003 and problems is gone, here is how i do it.

• click "new email message" button to compose email
• in the untitled message menu click tools > click option
• in the view tab check under formatting marks

see the picture

 

you can see in the picture there is a check box already selected for all under formatting marks , this is the problems, so i uncheck all and click ok, the problem is gone and i see a happy face.

excel 2007 files cant open when double click

this is a strange problem, when you double click previously saved excel files nothing happens, but you start start excel 2007 program from start menu, then try to open the saved files using file > open files can open, to fix this problem follow these steps.

• open excel 2007 (using start menu)
• go to tools > options > general. uncheck "ignore other apps"
• now close excel program
• now click start > run then type excel.exe /unregserver and click to unregister excel
• then again click start > run type excel.exe /regserver and click to re-register excel
• now double click saved excel files, it should work normally

change word 2003 default font permanently

this describes how to change default font in word 2003

• open Microsoft word 2003
• right click in blank document and click font
• now in the opened window make the changes you want , for example " font , font style , font color "
• you can see changes instantly in the "preview area"
• after you have made the changes you want, click on the default button in the lower left corner
• after click default button, click yes in the opened message and this will make the changes you made as a default.

change excel 2003 default font permanently

this describes how to change default font in excel 2003

• start excel 2003
• in the menu click tools and click properties
• in the options window click general tab
• under standard font select your desired font
• you can also specify the default font size
• now click ok
• you will see the message that prompt by the excel program, it will remind you to restart excel to changes go into effect
• so go ahead and restart excel
• you can see the selected font as a default font (also the font size)

excel 2003 formulas not working

when excel formulas suddenly stops working, the only place you have to see is excel options, to do this follow these steps,

1. open excel 2003
2. click tools, then click options
3. in the opened window, click calculation tab
4. in there check under calculation, if your calculation mode set to manual, change it back to automatic mode.
5. after change click ok
6. now check your excel work sheet, the formulas work correctly.

**these settings may apply similar way in office 2007**

Office 2007 encountered an error during installation

when you using windows xp, you might want to install office 2007, but how many times your office 2007 installation has been roll backed, displaying series error message looks like below.

"Microsoft Office 2007 encountered an error during setup. The Windows Installer service cannot update one or more protected Windows files"

you know there is a solution for you, this one is a quick method and results are guaranteed.please do as follows.

• first insert your windows installation CD to CD-ROM
  
• go to the I386 folder and locate the Cab file named FP40EXT.CAB
• copy the cab file to the hard disk
• now extract the cab file
• in the extracted folder find the fp4autl.dll file
• now copy this file to the following location
• C:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\web server extensions\40\bin\
• that's it, now restart your office 2007 installation.