Hi Peter:
Make sure the OS is set to English (preferably, US English) BEFORE you
re-install. I.e. After you Remove, switch to US English and reboot.
The Authoring Tab will not appear in Excel
It doesn't have one.
The Authoring "heading" will appear if you click Excel preferences. But
there's nothing about "Language" in the tabs under it.
In Excel, you set the Spelling Language using Tools>Language..." after
selecting the cells you want to change. Excel uses the Custom Dictionary
you create in Word.
Cheers
On 2/11/09 2:35 PM, in article 59b7f619.13.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"PBM@officeformac.com" <PBM.RemoveThis@officeformac.com> wrote:
> Hi John
>
> Your message received load and clear. I shall not 'Empty Securely' again.
> Thanks for the explanation and calrification. (I slapped myself on the rist).
>
> I am happy to do a remove and re-install process again and this time install
> all languages and then in the OS set to English.
>
> Question. After doing that and if the Autoring Tab apprears in the Excell
> Presference, what then?
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
> Ps. It is -21 degrees celsius here. Chilly!
>
>> Hi Peter:
>>
>> On 31/10/09 7:16 PM, in article 59b7f619.11.RemoveThis@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
>> "PBM@officeformac.com" wrote:
>>
>>> From the CD, this time I only installed the English language. (Previous I
>>> installed all languages).
>>
>> Damn! I needed you to install "All Languages" And your OS must be set
>> to "English" when you do that, otherwise we have had reports in the past
>> that you can get a bad installation.
>>
>>> Question 1.
>>> In Excel Preferences under Authoring should there also be 'Proofing Tools'?
>>> (as there is in Word). My Excel has no Proofing Tools! no Spelling and
>>> Grammar
>>> icon!
>>
>> In Excel, there should NOT be an "Authoring" tab in its Preferences, no
>> Spelling and Grammar preferences at all. Excel uses the Microsoft Office
>> proofing tools, which are common to the whole suite.
>>
>>> Question 2.
>>> What is the difference between Empty Trash and Empty Trash Securely? (apart
>>> from the difference between the time taken to perform each).
>>
>> On a Mac, the "Delete" command is simply a "rename" operation. It renames
>> the file so that it appears to be "In the Trash". The file hasn't actually
>> moved anywhere.
>>
>> The "Empty Trash" command changes the first character of the File Name in
>> the disk file table to mark the file as "available for overwriting". That
>> enables the system to use the disk space occupied by that file when it finds
>> something that will fit there. The data still hasn't gone anywhere: the
>> system just hung a "For Sale" sign out the front. Actual overwriting of the
>> file my occur weeks or years later, when the system gets around to needing
>> the space.
>>
>> Until the overwrite happens, with advanced tools and knowledge and a fair
>> bit of patience, you could conceivably reconstruct the deleted file. There
>> is no guarantee that you would get it all back, and you would get it in a
>> random order. Most files are on the disk in more than one "block". If the
>> file is marked as "free" the system will use whichever of its blocks are
>> closest to the disk head when it needs one. So one or more of the blocks
>> may be overwritten almost immediately, and some may never get overwritten.
>> A skilled person may be able to get some of it back. You would need to be
>> very good to re-assemble the resulting binary soup into an Excel file. But
>> it can be done, and the security forces of various nation states have the
>> technology to do so, if you attract their attention. The effort involved is
>> so high that most normal criminals would just give up.
>>
>> The "Secure Empty Trash" command physically re-writes the individual data
>> bits in every byte of every block of the deleted file. The Finder actually
>> runs the Unix "srm" command on the file to do this.
>>
>> The command srm offers the ability to overwrite each bit in the file 1, 7 or
>> 35 times. Finder uses the middle one, seven times. This method follows the
>> U.S. Department of Defense standard for the sanitization of magnetic media
>> in �DoD 5220- 22-M: National Security Program Operating Manual'.
>>
>> First it rewrites every bit of the file to its opposite: If it was a 0, it
>> becomes a 1, or it was a 1, it becomes a zero. Then it writes them all to
>> 1. Then all to 0. Then it writes each bit four more times using patterns
>> generated by a random number generator.
>>
>> After you do this, the data is really "gone". There are rumours that it is
>> possible to
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