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…
Read More »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…
Read More »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
Read More »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….
Read More »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…
Read More »I know that there is a Julian Day Converter that has been around for years. It, however, is no longer supported. The window can sometimes be a little messy to re-size and it is expressed by dd/mm/yyyy not mm/dd/yyyy for which I am more used to. Well, here is my attempt at a calculator using AutoIt and Koda. This calculator…
Read More »I know that there is a Julian Day Converter that has been around for years. It, however, is no longer supported. The window can sometimes be a little messy to resize and it is expressed by dd/mm/yyyy not mm/dd/yyyy for which I am more used to. Well, here is my attempt at a calculator using AutoIt and Koda. This calculator…
Read More »Sometimes you may copy and paste a web page into an Excel spreadsheet, the result may be a spreadsheet peppered with pictures throughout. Too many to individually delete. There is a way to remove all pictures from a spreadsheet by using a macro. Press ALT F8 to get the Macro box. Type in a name and edit it. Copy and…
Read More »After cloning a Microsoft SQL 2000 Server into a virtual machine and renaming the server, the scheduled Jobs no longer worked. Essentially, the reason is that the jobs were created while using a server with a different server name. The SQL Server will act as if the job originated on a master server, and will not allow changes to that…
Read More »To convert numbers like 1, 10, 100 to 001,010, and 100 within a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, there are a couople of ways to accomplish this. Format–>Cells, Number tab, Choose Custom and type 000 into the short box at the right. In Excel 2007: From the Home tab, go to Cells, select Format, then Format Cells. Go to the Number tab,…
Read More »From time to time a DOS batch (“bat” or “cmd”) file needs to be written to perform some task or series of tasks. There are various commands that I seem to consistantly search for on the Internet. Here is a list of some of those useful DOS batch commands. How to delete files equal to zero bytes in size. Delete…
Read More »There was a need to use blockquotes for different uses. Warning, Informational, Stop, Go, or as a blockquote. The possibilities are endless. This is possible by giving the blockquote element a class attribute within your (X)HTML or post, and define the class in the style.css file of your theme. This technique was found here. In this example, where the following…
Read More »If you would ever want to use a command line delete all the files and folders from within a folder without deleting the folder itself, a batch file can be constructed. Warning: There are a few things that I discovered while testing this script. Firstly, the CD command, which is part of this script will accept a / character as…
Read More »There are many ‘solutions’ that exist that will parse through a text file and other utilities that have specific functions designed to parse through an XML file. After trying several applications only one was capable of effeciently search and replace text within (in this case) an XML file that is over 300 MB in size. The whole process took less…
Read More »A fantastic write-up for a batch file, DOS Batch – Find and Replace, that allows string substitution in a text file. It parses each line of a text file for a particular string and replaces it with another string. For example, to replace all occurrences of “red” in “color.txt” with “blue” and put the output on the screen. The script…
Read More »There are several steps to preparing the BlackBerry 9530 phone prior to resale. Remove the old phone number from the phone, factory reset, wipe, unlock, remove the SIM and SD cards. After reviewing many resources, YouTube videos, and finally a couple of interesting utilities, this is all possible. Requirements 9530EastAsia_v5.0.0.1041_P4.2.0.456 Operating System (optional) BlackBerry Swiss Army Knife (“BBSAK”) BlackBerry Reader…
Read More »Use a DOS script to automate a process where by using the date /T command would return the previous month, rather than the current month. This actually sounds easier than it is. For the desired results, a couple of conditions were considered. Firstly, if in the month of January or one, then the subtracted value of one minus one equals…
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