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Thanks Thorsten, I changed the location of the file and that has solved my problem. I intalled MiKTeX to the desktop so I'd have an icon on the desktop to click on. Saved me having to make a shortcut. As for saving the .tex file in the folder I think it was just because there were .tex files in ...

Hi Thorsten, thanks for your reply. I installed MiKTeX2.8 to my desktop ('Thomas' is my username on this computer) for ease of access. The rest of the path is simply where .tex files appeared to be located in the MiKTeX2.8 folder after installation

Yes, the file is really as I posted earlier. When I try to compile with TeXworks i get the following output:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8)
entering extended mode
(C:\Users\Thomas\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.8\tex\plain\vertex\test.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and ...

thanks again. I actually just found that page myself. Now after I changing my miktex settings I get a massive output listing 105 errors mostly complaining about undefined control sequences (I have attached the log) when going to DVI, but get exactly the same output when trying to build to PDF.

Thanks for your reply. I selected "Do not use BibTex in this profile" in the LaTeX=>PDF output profile and got exactly the same output when I tried to build again. Also contrary to what I said earlier when I try to build to DVI I get the error: "latex.exe GUI cannot be initialized"

Hi,

I'm very new to TeX and haven't done any programming, so I hope I've placed this query in the right place. I just downloaded miktex 2.8 as well as texniccentre but I can't get documents to compile. When I try to compile the test document:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
test
\end ...