Month: July 2012

Change the Microsft Word setting for automatic curly quotes to straight quotes

Microsft Word 2007 automatically changes straight quotes to curly quotes. While they may have some esthetic appeal to some, when writing code or scripts that contain quotes, the code is automatically broken. Well not that anyone would use Microsoft Word to write code, however, when documenting your code. There is a fix. It works. Here is an example of curly…

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Track Date and Time A Document is Modified using Microsft Word 2007

In a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document it is possible to track modified dates and times from within the document. Instead of manually maintaining a document with a line like Last Modified July 20, 2012, there is built in functionality from within Word that will maintain this date. Launch Microsoft Word and type something like Last Modified. In a previously…

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Delete Local Printers via a Script

A case where a Microsoft Windows print server may once existed and a new print server had been put into place; the local workstations that accessed the printer shares of the original print server no longer require those shares. Here is a script to remove all local printers prior to adding new printers. Source www.experts-exchange.com

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Use scp command for file transfer in Linux

The goal is to copy files from one Linux computer to another Linux computer. The scp command is the command of choice. To get help, type scp –help, the result is the following usage syntax. Basic syntax is scp source destination on a local Linux computer. However if the source is a remote computer, add the following to the syntax….

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How to Sort Text Using Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. For one reason or another, the process for sorting text within Notepad++ seems to elude me. Some text editors have a plugin that is easy to identify, well so does Notepad++, when you…

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