Re: CellQuest and MS Office

From: Margaret Tropea (mtropea@nih.gov)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2001 - 14:02:39 EST


Hi All,

I know that this is a relatively old string but when I mentioned this to
our BD sales rep she told me the conflict was with Office Manager and it
was something BD was working on.

Margaret


>Hi Randy,
>
>It could be that there's a conflict in your desktop file - I really don't
>know if it'll help, but it won't hurt to rebuild your desktop.  Hold the
>Apple and Option keys down when you start up your mac until the system asks
>if you're sure you want to rebuild the desktop file, then tell it to go
>ahead.
>
>Alternatively, check the  mappings of your imported file types in the "File
>Exchange" control panel - this is split into two parts:
>
>One allows you to map a Windows file "Extension" (.xxx) so that it will open
>with a particular program - if you use a default suffix for your files, make
>sure that it isn't being picked up by Outlook
>
>The other part is a file translator that allows you to define which program
>will open files of a particular Macintosh "type" and "Creator".  If you're
>importing  from another file system, the files might have anonymous type and
>creator "????" (or the creator of the program that you transfer them with) -
>look out for any obvious greed on the part of Outlook.
>
>If this doesn't help, you might want to look at a recent version of
>FCSPress, it now has an "RGBgate" feature that uses the first three gates
>you set to generate statistics for red(gate1), green(gate2), blue(gate3),
>yellow(gates 1+2), magenta (gates 1+3), cyan (gates 2+3) and grey (gates
>1+2+3). You can use more than one region to define each gate, and they can
>be histogram, rectangular or polygon regions (although the colouring and
>stats are only shown on dot plots).
>
>You can download a copy from
>
>http://www.fcspress.com/html/FCSPDownload.html
>
>
>Cheers
>
>
>Ray
>
>> From: "Fischer, Randy (NIAMS)" <fischer1@mail.nih.gov>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:43:11 -0500
>> To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu>
>> Subject: RE: CellQuest and MS Office
>>
>>
>> Barb,
>>
>> To add to your problem, we have two G4's running Paint-a-gate which have a
>> similar problem.  When Microsoft Outlook is used on the same computer, it
>> dsables Paint-a-gate from being able to load FCS files.  How??  I haven't a
>> clue, but wish someone would let me know what to do.  We have had to
>> reinstall Paint-a-gate several times to correct the problem.  It would be
>> nice to dedicate the computers strictly to data analysis, but this is
>> obviously impossible.
>>
>> Randy T. Fischer
>> NIAMS
>> Bldg 9, Room 1W107
>> Bethesda, MD 20892
>> (301) 594-3537
>> fischer1@mail.nih.gov
>>
>>> ----------
>>> From:        Barbara Taylor
>>> Sent:        Tuesday, March 13, 2001 4:55 PM
>>> To:    Cytometry Mailing List
>>> Subject:    CellQuest and MS Office
>>>
>>>
>>> On a Mac running CellQuest and Office 95 or 98, there were problems
>>> with either CellQuest or the computer itself freezing up unless you
>>> deleted the Office Manager file from MS Office.
>>>
>>> I have a G4 with CellQuest and have recently installed Office 2001.
>>> I am now having the same problem with CellQuest freezing up.    Office
>>> 2001, however, does not have a file named Office Manager.  Does
>>> anybody know how to solve this conflict?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> --
>>> Barbara J Taylor
>>> Manager, FACS Core Lab
>>> Division of Basic Sciences
>>> NCI, NIH
>>> Bldg 37 Room 6008
>>> 37 Convent Dr
>>> Bethesda, MD 20892
>>> phone 301.594.6892
>>> fax    301.496.8709
>>> taylorba@pop.nci.nih.gov
>>>
>>>
>>

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Margaret M. Tropea
Critical Care Medicine Department
National Institutes of Health
(ph) 301-496-7752
(fax) 301-480-3389
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



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