As it turned out, I already had installed the Windows driver update in December. Unfortunately, none of the solutions worked. But nothing has appeared since the first security bulletin in Dec. I can't understand why MS would patch its own OS so it conflicts with its current software version and not issue another patch to solve the functionality problem. I now know that the problem stems from a conflict between the XP security update and Office 2010 (and at least some previous versions).
Sheryl's suggestion does not seem possible in Office 2010 (unless I don't understand it) because Adobe does not appear when you select "print."Īfter many obstacles, I managed to speak for free to MS tech support and the only solution that was offered was for me to uninstall and reinstall Office in hopes that my current installation was corrupted by the patch, which I now have deleted with no positive results.
So thanks, Bill, for clarifying how to use that. I did download CutePDF and it seems to work for Word, Excel, etc. Thanks to those who wrote additional comments.
Instead, it appears that the update takes care of modifying the drivers responsible for creating the PDF files, and this modification fixes the problem exhibited in Word. Note that nothing in the article says anything about generating PDF files. For them, the problem was fixed when they updated Windows as described in this Knowledge Base article: Several readers suggested that this isn't a Word problem, but instead is a problem with some Windows drivers. When she chooses "save as PDF," she gets an error message: "Export failed due to unexpected error." When she goes to save a document, there are options concerning the format in which the document can be saved. She has a problem generating a PDF file from within Word. If the constraints are correct, and the business situation you are modeling has no feasible solution, these reports can help you understand why.Louise has a system that has the Academic Professional version of Office 2010 installed. One of these reports (there’s never a reason to select both of them) can help you find certain constraints that are impossible to satisfy – possibly because you mistakenly used >= instead of <=, for example. If you receive the message “Solver could not find a feasible solution,” and the problem has no integer constraints, two variants of a diagnostic report, the Feasibility Report and Feasibility-Bounds Report, are available.If your model is intentionally nonlinear, you should select the GRG Nonlinear Solving method are re-solve the problem. This report can help you find cell formulas in your model that make the problem nonlinear (possibly by mistake). If you receive the message “The linearity conditions required by this LP Solver are not satisfied,” and the problem has no integer constraints, the Linearity Report is available.Reports available when Solver encounters a problem If Solver finds a (locally or globally) optimal solution, and there are no integer constraints, two additional reports are available: the Sensitivity Report and the Limits Report. When the Evolutionary Solving method is used, its Population Report is also available. In almost all cases where Solver finds an optimal solution, Solver converges to the current solution, or Solver cannot improve the current solution, the Answer Report is available.Reports available when Solver finds a solution
The reports you selected appear as new worksheets, inserted into your Excel workbook just to the left of the worksheet containing the Solver model. Select any other options you want in the Solver Results dialog box, and click OK. Outlining groups the variables and constraints in the reports into “blocks,” just as you entered them in the Solver Parameters dialog you can expand or collapse the groups to see only the information you want.ģ.
Select the Outline Reports check box if you would like Solver to use Excel’s outlining feature in the reports. If the solving process stopped prematurely when you pressed ESC or selected Stop when a Solving limit was reached, no reports are available.Ģ. A list of reports appears in the Reports box of the Solver Results dialog box.