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Creating new user using useradd ,but fails since its unable to create group in Oracle Linux 6

Below is the terminal execution [root@machine chef-server]# useradd -s '/bin/sh' -d '/opt/chef-server/embedded' -r chef_server useradd: Can't get unique system GID (no more available GIDs) useradd: can't create group [root@machine chef-server]#…
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How to link to an Excel pivot table that will expand over time in Word 2007?

I have a pivot table in Excel 2007 which I’ve pasted it into Word 2007 using Paste Special (Paste link) -> Microsoft Office Excel Worksheet Object. The pivot table appears in Word and the link to Excel is working. The problem is that if the pivot…
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How to embed or link a text file in Excel?

I have a text file containing a memory dump from an embedded system, which I update after every run (the file is formatted in the Motorola SREC format, but this is not too important). I am using Excel to parse the file to meaningful values and…
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Can I disable OLE pasting from Photoshop to Word?

When I copy an image from Photoshop into MSWord it defaults to creating an OLE object instead of a bitmap image. This is never what I want as it is harder to work with, and incredibly slow. If I remember I can prevent this problem by using Paste…
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"Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action" interrupting VBA code

I've got an Excel workbook that is running some VBA code, which I use every day. During execution, it keeps hanging on a dialog box saying "Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action". Clicking "OK" lets the code…
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When trying to link word document to Excel, system hangs

I'm trying to build an excel document that pulls in images and word documents into it from other files. Sometimes when I use the insert -> object function it works right, but other times it strangely hangs up with an error messages similar to this…
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PowerPoint embedded video does not play visibly. Sometimes audio can be heard

On a company-issued PC (Dell Latitude D630 running Windows XP SP3), using PowerPoint 2003 (11.8324.8324) SP3. If I embed a video of any supported type (WMV, AVI, MPEG) using a Media Player OLE object, the video does not visibly play when the…
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How does OLE work with email?

I know that I can link two files together (e.g. a Visio diagram included inside a Word document) such that if I edit the diagram inside the Word document, the Visio file is updated. How does this work if I email the Word document to someone else,…
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How can I specify what part of a word doc to display when embedded

When I embed sub.docx in main.docx, is there a way to have only part of sub.docx display in main.docx?
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How to control MS OLE source bookmark creation for copy / paste?

Somehow, my MS Word 2016 (Office 365) configuration (under Windows 10, current level) is set so that every time I copy selected material and paste it elsewhere, the source material becomes an OLE (source) object / bookmark. I can manually remove…
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Excel Range in Word as an OLE Picture

We have a word document which contains pictures linked to an excel document. The update has now started failing (at some point in the last two months). The error message is Objects in this document contain links to files that cannot be found. The…
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Is there an easy fix to this copy/paste into Excel error?

When I attempt to paste a large spreadsheet (from a DB, ~90,000 rows) into Excel, I keep getting this error: Microsoft Excel is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action I know there's a clipboard buffer area, but not much else.…
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How to put a bunch of different types of documents into a single Word doc?

I am working on a long document that will have to include JPEGs, certain pages of PDF docs, bits and pieces from various Excel spreadsheets. I need all this to end up in a Word document. I suppose I can print out each piece separately, then scan…
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How to overcome regtlibv12 error and register a type library (OLE)?

I am trying to setup a vb6 environment on Windows 10 machine and use it with some ocx components. But whenever try to use regtlibv12.exe with any of the tlb files, I get error: RegisterTypeLib of msdatsrc.tlb failed : 8002801c And I cannot use…
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How can I reformat an incoming dynamic table into a standard format?

I need to reformat a connected-data table in one Excel worksheet into a standard table layout in another worksheet. The problem is that the data-in worksheet will have volatile schema, so I can not count on the same cells always containing the same…
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