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Excel Text Box Character Limitation

In my excel workbook, WORKSHEET1 has a text box that contains the formula =SHEET2!B25. The text in the text box cuts off at 255 characters. If I create a 2nd text box on WORKSHEET1 and just enter text,...
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How to type 《 》and 〈〉efficiently on Mac OS X?

How to type 《 》and 〈 〉efficiently (such as with a simple key combination) on Mac OS X?
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Can I change a key on my keyboard to be a special character?

I am trying to find a way to map keys on my keyboard to type special characters such as mu, alpha, etc. For example, I want to assign the slash on my numpad to be μ. Does anyone know a way to do this? ...
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If the `ffi` group of characters is smushed together into one character, then why I can select each of them separately?

In the video Why You Can Tweet More In Japanese: What Counts As A Character?, the author says that: Unicode has a single character for some English ligatures, like "ffi" - notice how the ...
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How do you type Unicode characters using hexadecimal codes?

This is in Windows, but answers for other operating systems can be handy to others. Most guides say something to the effect of "hold down the Alt key and type in the code on the keypad". This works ...
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How to type directly with keyboard the U+200C character?

How to type directly with keyboard the U+200C character in Notepad or other places... in Windows 8.1? (without depending on a certain font) I don't want to copy and paste ways. I don't want any ...
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STILL no file paths longer than 260 characters in Win Explorer, in 2023? [duplicate]

When I try to create a subfolder in a folder whose file path is already cca 260 characters, I get this message: The file name(s) would be too long for the destination folder. You can shorten the file ...
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What is Word's non-printing symbol that is a small circle (looks like a "degrees" mark)?

What is Word's non-printing symbol that is a small circle (looks like a "degrees" mark)? I haven't found this in other articles, web searches, forums. Is it a new version of "keep with ...
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How does Spotlight search regex/other special characters?

I'm trying to find snippets of code in a bunch of velocity files using Spotlight (specifically pages that contain a <html> tag. Spotlight's missing pages that contain that tag that I know are ...
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MobaXterm ssh console not showing correct character in tree command

When in Linux SSH box, using MobaXterm, I enter tree command, the output is: âââ jboss âââ gc.log.0.current âââ server.log which should be: └── jboss ├── gc.log.0.current └── server.log In ...
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What's the best way to get a random(ish) sequence of printable/alphanumeric characters?

I know I can get random (well, pseudo-random) characters, unconstrained, from '/dev/random' (or /dev/urandom). But what if I need these characters to generate a filename? I need to somehow have a ...
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Replace Filename before underscore_ using powershell

I need help with replacing file names before underscore with nothing. Ex: ABC_123.xls and I want it to rename to 123.xls and CAB_234.xls to 234.xls.
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How to enter special characters like ∞, ˚ in macOS?

I can't enter special characters like ∞, ˚ in macOS. How to enter this character in macOS?
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How do I type accented characters like ü and ö in macOS?

In macOS, I can't type characters like ü and ö. How to enter these characters in macOS? Appreciate if someone can suggest me how to do this.
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How can i type ª in a 80% keyboad (without a numpad)

Is there a way that i can type the feminine ordinal indicator on a keyboard without a numpad?
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Italian keyboard: entering tilde (~) and backtick (`) characters without changing keyboard layout

Here is what the layout of an Italian keyboard looks like: As you can see, the curly braces, which are absolutely necessary to write code in any of C, C++, JavaScript, Java, Objective-C, and others, ...
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what is PGP public key block?

There's PGP public key block posted on some websites (eg. http://phrack.org/index.html). It's not hex code. it uses much more alphabet characters. What is it? Why is this information posted? how can ...
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Entering Unicode characters by name

Sometimes I want to type Unicode characters (em-dash, quotes, Greek letters sometimes, superscripts etc). It can be done using character codes, but then one needs to look up / memorize them, which is… ...
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Unicode character is invisible on Windows but shows up on Linux

The character in question is the Braille Pattern Blank: "⠀" On machines with Windows and even on my phone, this character is rendered as invisible (as seen here). This is helpful because it ...
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If a ligature/digraph has separate collation order, should it be considered different from constituent letters?

There are many digraphs and ligatures in common use like ß, w, ffi, st, æ, dž, ch etc. Some of these are completely different from its constituents. For eg, search for u in a string containing w should ...
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How to find a character in a string using Powershell?

Using Contains to find a value using PowerShell is not working. Full Story: I have to get the PartNo, Ver, and Rev values from an SQL DB, and check if these values occur in the first line of the text ...
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password recovered in weird format

i have been trying for years to recover my old data from very old DS cards " MMC " recently i found out it is possible to get to mmcstore file that stores the password in plaints text all ...
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Shorten a text that is too long (with sed?)

I have the following example of a .csv-file "0a","1a","Short text","abc" "0b","1bx","Here is a very long text","def" &...
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Notepad++ Trying to add a character after ONLY the first space in each line

I have 30,000 lines of text that have randon number of spaces in them. I need to add a character to just the first SPACE in each line. Any who can suggest anything would be greatly appreciated.
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CSV opens in OpenOffice but adds slashes?

Trying to open a CSV in open office - but it alters the data. Here is the the CSV in its raw format (opened in Notepad); 10-1001,product name 1, 10-1001-020,product name 2, 10-1001-030,product name 3,...
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What's an easy way to type accented characters on a laptop with no NumLock/Numpad?

It seems bizarre to me that within a few years of them becoming a "thing" Windows has given us ⊞ Win+. to launch an emoji window. Yet computers have been around for 60+ years and there's ...
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Downloding files via SFTP on MobaXterm gets stuck when filenames are in Hebrew

When I try to download files whose names Hebrew characters, the download gets stuck and shows an error: Error EInOutError: I/O error 123 How do I fix this? I don't want to use another FTP client, I ...
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Using Excel, I want to remove certain characters from spreadhseet

I have a long list of entries on a excel data sheet like: 1235. "email address", How can I remove the in bold characters i.e. 1235. " and the ", from this. The initial numbers go from 279 - 5000.
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How can I assign the vetical line to my HP EliteBook keyboard?

The keyboard of my new laptop is smaller than my last, with no number pad, meaning I'm having to find alternatives to ASCII codes for some of the special characters. One I can't seem to manage is the ...
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How to set character encoding when opening a CSV file in Excel?

Is it possible to set the default encoding for Excel (any version, e.g. 2010) when opening files like csv files (like you can in Open Office Calc)? I When I try to open a csv file encoded in Japanese ...
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remove <200b> character from text file

I have a huge text file containing this string/character <200b> that I want to delete. I tried with sed but it didn't work. sed 's/<200b>//g' file The character never shows when I open the ...
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How to fix a broken character in a System Font - Windows 10

My System Font is broken! A character - backslash " \ " is displayed as W crossed with underscore in the middle of W! Look at this picture to see this character. This is probably happening, ...
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How can I type U+200B character?

How can I type the unicode character U+200B (zero-width space character) with my keyboard?
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Why are extended ASCII values on my computer accurate until 188?

I want to be able to type special characters, and judging from this list, only from 0 to 188 (inclusive) do the characters I get out match whats on that site.
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Why do I see a lot of weird characters when I open certain files comprising native applications

I tried to open a file (QBWebConnector [which has no file extension]) in notepad but only saw this: MZ ÿÿ ¸ @ € º ´ Í!¸LÍ!This program cannot be ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut in Word for typing an arrow symbol?

You often see people using -> as an arrow, but I hate how it looks. I always use the → symbol but to do so I have to insert > symbol, which is annoying. Is there any way (shortcut) to insert ...
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Cannot remove curly single quote character from file names, with batch file (Windows)

This works in a batch file to remove the letter "y" from all file names next to the batch file: setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion for /r %%A in ("*.*") do ( SET ...
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Win10 Bug causes a character to not type

One of the character letters (the lower case 't') is not working on my laptop. I thought it was the keyboard, but I tried many, good, working keyboards with this laptop, and they all fail on it, ...
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Saving a new unicode character in microsoft word

I'm wondering if it's possible to save a new unicode character (e.g. 2B95 which is the black right arrow) in the list of the microsoft word symbols. Online I found only how to type a symbol by using ...
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Delete Text before and after a specific character in Notepad++

i want to extract a string which is between two quotation marks, deleting everything before and after the quotation marks, including themselves. For example this: 6 6 "The Socratic Method"...
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Type Mayan numerals?

I would like to know 3 things: Are Mayan numerals included in the latest version of Unicode? Is it possible to type Mayan numerals on a computer w/o Unicode? If #2 is possible, how would I do it? I'...
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mysql connection from bash shell with special characters in password errors out

#!/bin/bash set -x MYSQLTEMPPWD=`grep 'temporary password' /var/log/mysqld.log | awk 'NF{ print $NF }'`; MYSQLPWD=`echo "'$MYSQLTEMPPWD'"`; echo $MYSQLPWD; CONNINFO="mysql --host=...
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Insert Unicode characters via the keyboard? [duplicate]

I am familiar with inserting an ASCII character into a text document by using 'Alt+ASCII code' on the NumPad keys (e.g. Alt+130 inserts an é character). Is there a similar way to insert a Unicode ...
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What does STX, SOH, and GS mean in Notepad++ output?

Upon reviewing the MIME source for an email (presumably containing international characters), I see stuff like this in Notepad++ I understand that CRLF is carriage return line feed, but what about ...
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Can I define a new character for my OS?

Normally when I write u+0022 it writes " (Look here). Is there any way to define a new character? I mean can I design a character and define a value (u+9999, for example) to it in order to make OS ...
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How can MS-DOS and other text mode programs display double-width CJK characters?

I've seen many text mode BIOS setup screens in Japanese and Chinese. Recently I've even seen Windows XP setup in Japanese. MS-DOS had Japanese versions too. Real DOS mode, not Windows command prompt! ...
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Is "é" and "á" non-ASCII character?

I have tryed to open steam and it came up with an error something like this: "Cannot open file with non-ASCII characters in the folder path." I have come up with a suspicion of two folders ...
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UTF-8 Angle brackets up and down?

I'm looking for angle brackets which point up and down as UTF-8 characters. Just for clarification: I need two characters, an angle bracket pointing up and one pointing down.
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How to read files name last character and and rename them by running a batch file

I have 3 files in a folder which are: XXX_a.txt XXX_b.txt XXX_c.txt The filename can be varied, only the last character of the 3 files a, b and c are not changed I need to rename the files as below: ...
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What is the coding character shurtcut on Windows?

I can use ` character with copy-paste from charmap but i want use with shortcut on my keyboard. What can i do? What is shortcut of this character on Windows 8? My keyboard is: Turkish Windows 8 ...