Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Can't print to Microsoft Office Document Image Writer in Tiff format


After I installed some MS Office updates, I can't find the option to print to Microsoft Office Document Image Writer in Tiff format. I search and found a suggestion to remove and reinstall the "Microsoft Office Document Imaging" under Office Tools. The steps as below:

1. Close all running applications. If you have any Office application running, the driver will not be installed properly.
2. Go to the "Control Panel" and "Add or Remove Programs".
3. Click on"Microsoft Office 2003" and then click on "Change".
4. Check "Add or Remove Features" and click "Next".
5. On the bottom of the page check "Choose advanced customization of applications." and click "Next".
6. Under Microsoft Office click on the + sign in front of "Office Tools"
7. Locate "Microsoft Office Document Imaging", click the icon and select "Not Available".
8. Click on "Update". This will uninstall the MODI driver.
9. Repeat steps 1 to 6 to go back to the same location you were before.
10. Locate the object "Microsoft Office Document Imaging", click the icon and select "Run from My Computer".
11. Click on "Update".

However, I can't find the option to do the above steps in Microsoft Office 2010, hence I perform the above steps from Microsoft Office 2003, since I have both versions installed on my computer.

Apparently the above suggestion only works if you are on MS Office 2003 or 2007.

On further search I found that the Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) is removed in Microsoft Office 2010.

The resolution from Microsoft is as below:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982760

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

To travel is to live

Photo taken in May 2010, while travelling on board the China Qinghai-Tibet train.

"To move, to breath, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. "

Hans Christian Andersen
April 2, 1805 - August 4, 1875

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Cambodia (1) - Ta Prohm Temple (塔不伦寺)

Photos taken at Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia in June 2011
Entrance to the temple








Root of the trees had grown into the building.

Monday, October 31, 2011

这就是从容


在事情与事情之间,找到自己的空间,这就是从容。--蒋勳

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Life is like riding a bicycle

Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
— Albert Einstein

Photo: Taken at Namtso Lake, Tibet, 2010

Monday, July 18, 2011

Retirement . . . working at living

Retirement . . . is when you stop living at work and begin working at living.
— Unknown happy retired person



Photo: Taken while travelling on the road in Tibet, 2010

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

慢慢活,才快活。

汉语里,忙,这个字很有意思,左面是心,右面是亡。太忙了,心就死了。


Photo: Taken at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, June 2011.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

In age we understand

“In youth we learn, in age we understand”
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Thursday, February 24, 2011

What lies within us

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, 1803-1882)


Photo: Taken at Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, May 2010.

Friday, February 04, 2011

Happiness from within

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.— Soren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard 齊克果 (1813-1855) , Danish social and political thinker.

Photo: Mongolia, 2007

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Friends are like the walls

Friends are like the walls of a house. Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes you lean on them. But sometimes, it's enough to know they're just standing by.

[Not sure who said this, if anyone knows, please leave me with a comment. I would like to mention where the quote comes from.]


Photo: Taken in Tibet, May 2010.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The secret of getting things done

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Italian Poet


Photo: Taken one morning in Beijing, while visiting in 2002. The man is practicing calligraphy using water, and this also serves as his morning exercise.

Friday, January 07, 2011

Change the world, change yourself


Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)