artful at rogers.com
artful at rogers.com
Sun Jan 14 11:28:11 CST 2007
Thus far, (eight chunks in), Binder is doing exactly what I want it to do. So I'm going with it. ----- Original Message ---- From: "artful at rogers.com" <artful at rogers.com> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 9:58:07 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] MS Binder You can? Of course, you can insert files into another file, but then you run into style sheet collisions and so on. What I had in mind is, I think, exactly what Binder was intended to do. So I'll dig out my O2K CD and install it. ----- Original Message ---- From: Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 11:59:22 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] MS Binder >I wonder why they dropped it. I would have >thought such a technology to have legs. Apparently it did not attract much use. Perhaps because you can do something like it in Word? PB artful at rogers.com wrote: > So I have the O2k virgin installed already. I don't want to trap myself though. I suppose that I can experiment, reading a couple of dozen files into a Binder wrapper, and see what happens. > > I wonder why they dropped it. I would have thought such a technology to have legs. Example: combine several Word documents, several Excel worksheets and several Access reports into one file, with intelligent pagination. Am I the only guy in the world who needs to do this? Perhaps. > > A. > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Peter Brawley <peter.brawley at earthlink.net> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 8:20:36 PM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] MS Binder > > Binder was discontinued after w2k. I think retrosupport can be added via > Add/Remove Programs/Microsoft Office. > > PB > > artful at rogers.com wrote: > >> Has Binder been dropped from the Office suite? I have several versions of Office installed, and it seems that the only place Binder lives is in Office 2000. Is that correct, or did it simply fail to install on subsequent versions? >> >> TIA, >> Arthur >> >> P.S. >> I ask because I have a need to collect about 200 documents into one master document. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> >> >> > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.410 / Virus Database: 268.16.10/624 - Release Date: 1/12/2007 _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com