![]() ![]() The old XP computer is thus not on the network - it has no access (other than dial-up, currently disconnected) to the Internet. The printer is also connected via USB cable to the old XP computer, which is not Bluetooth enabled nor does it have a wireless dongle. The printer is on the wireless network, so I can print (wirelessly) from the laptop. The laptop, Bluetooth enabled, is connected to the router via Category 5 cable. What is the chance of getting some infection into the unprotected XP machine,via its USB connection with the network printer? These printers do have "dialogue" with their computers.ĮDIT: OK, maybe that is clear as mud. The laptop (the network computer, hard wired to the router) has currently active Avast! Internet Security. The XP box has Avast! Internet Security, currently disabled because supposedly I haven't paid (I have a one-machine and a three-machine license, both are paid up, so I am paying double for something I haven't got). The printer is also connected via Bluetooth to the wireless network. On the old XP box, physically disconnected from the Internet, physically connected to the network printer (HP Photosmart 6520 series) via USB cable, I have Word 2007 with the old Avery plug-in, so I can print the partial label sheets from there. So now the printer is connected to the wireless network,and also via USB cable to the old XP computer which is not on the network and not online. I found a temporary solution by activating the hard-wired printer connection (USB) from the old Win XP box. ![]() The sheet has to make several passes at different times, so the unused cells have to be completely empty. I'm trying to get work done, and don't need flowers on my address labels, thanks! I also don't need "pre-filled" label sheets from which I have to delete the contents of each unused cell, because I usually don't print an entire sheet at one time. I can't find a blank one, without decorations, to save my life. The "app" doesn't allow that, it only offers all sorts of fancy versions and not a menu of templates. I just want a list of templates from which I can select a number, and then select a blank copy. So far as I can see the Avery "app" is lame and doesn't deliver the same functionality as the Avery plug-in for earlier versions of Word. So do I just root the whole thing out and go back to Office 2007, for which I have the discs (indeed, Enterprise edition) and which I somewhat understand (including the Avery Wizard)? Or is there some way to fix this FUBAR mess? The new Word seems bent on doing for me all kinds of things I haven't asked it to do, and actually DO NOT WANT it to do. and have to use the office products available here!Īlso, having once tried to search for Avery templates from inside MS Word 2013, when I open Word it now inexorably opens that search page, and only by tricky contortions (which I often get wrong) can I get back to the basic Word home page. I mean, I greatly enjoyed my far too short time in Oz - six weeks or so, mostly in the wilder parts of N Qld - but I wasn't trying to run an office there and am not at all familiar with label sizes and such truck - and anyway it doesn't matter because I now live in the U.S. Wizard file is more than four times the size of the Australian one, so something fishy there, and I don't mean barramundi or Murray River cod ) Alas, when I opened the Wizard again it was the same old list of completely unidentifiable template numbers, not a single one corresponding to any product available in the U.S. It duly told me it was upgrading the existing installation, and I thought Hooray, this is going to work (the U.S. version of the Wizard, and installed that over the top of the already installed one. So I went back online and downloaded the U.S. So the labels I printed were complete garbage. has actually been metric for several decades now, though most Americans would drop dead if they realized it ). Having lived metric for most of my life, I am not daunted by millimeters etc., but 38 millimeters (OK, millmetres for the Aussies and Brits here) is not the same as one inch! (US Bureau of Standards defines one inch as 25.4 mm, so the U.S. I then found a list of totally unfamiliar template names, and totally unfamiliar dimensions. Having carefully given my location as the USA, the download turned out to be the Australian version, something I did not discover until I had installed it and tried to use it. Having installed (and paid for) Office 365, I had some address labels to print, so downloaded and installed the Avery Wizard, something I have used for years in earlier versions of Word. I have just, with difficulty, abstained from taking an axe to my nearly new $800 Win 8 laptop. ![]()
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