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Software for making a backup of a offline harddisk
As a computer technician, I'm allways on the search for software which can make my work a little faster and more efficient.
Does anyone know software to make a backup of a mounted drive (as in ...
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How to view a delimiter-separated-value file in Emacs with highlighting helpful for reading?
How to view a delimiter-separated-value file in Emacs with highlighting helpful for reading?
Ideally the delimiter character/string should be customizable.
If Emacs can't do, any other tool ...
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What is an ISO file extension regarding a graphics file?
I've worked with ISO 9660 images files before, but now I'm working with Arbortext, a documents processing COTS software product for work with technical manuals. It's taking a CGM file with redlining ...
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Export google document as csv without quotation marks
I have a google document spreadsheet that I want to export as csv. The problem is, that some cell get their content included on quotation marks:
1,1,"I don't want quote",Mee too but I'm lucky,1
To ...
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Microsoft Document Imaging
I have to pull many reports from many different pieces of software and combine them all into one format. Every one of these programs outputs to an MDI file, which is Microsoft Document Imaging.
What ...
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How can I produce a single document for a multitude of formats and screen sizes?
I've been writing a Word document that I want to distribute online. However, I want the document to be accessible to everyone, including
People who want to print it on A4/Letter from PDF. Note that ...
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How do I administer /var/www?
I'm new to Linux and I'm trying to setup a small testing server inside of a VM running Ubuntu Server. I've found the /var/www folder and it should be the one where my Apache documents are stored, in ...
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How to make `unoconv` to produce exact output on every run?
I came across the unoconv linux utility for converting document formats. I found that unoconv produces different output everytime it is called with same input file.
bash$ unoconv -f doc test.html
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Alternative ways to create good looking documents (as Prezi does for presentations)?
Recently I found Prezi to be a great tool for making presentations, not only for it's easy of use and fancy results, but because the way concepts and ideas can be organized and expressed.
I was ...
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What's a lightweight alternative to Word / Writer? [closed]
I'm looking for a desktop, cross-OS, Word/Writer-like program (this is, that lets the user format the content, as opposed to source code editors) without all the feature bloat + performance overhead ...
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Are there Linux utilities for previewing files (partic. .doc's) rather than full-blown editing?
Instead of opening .doc, .odt, etc. files in LibreOffice which is resource intensive, are there any good utilities for simply viewing (previewing) such files without the need for editing facilities? ...
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Why is Recent Documents always empty?
The Recent Documents section in my start menu is always empty, even if I have recently opened a lot of documents. Is there some setting in Windows XP to make it work again?
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Word 2010 - automatic updating table in footnotes
I would like to insert a table footer in my policy manual which shows the for example the "Version" (draft 1, draft 2, final etc) "Date of Update", "Updated by". Is there any way of Word 2010 ...
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How to open word document on a shared drive, in read-only mode, every time?
Is there a way in Office 2010 Pro, to always open the document as read-only when I open it?
Let me explain. At work we store documents on a shared drive. The problem is, quite often someone may need ...
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How can I create a PDF with form fields from a collaboratively edited source document?
I want to create a PDF document with a fill-in form. The source of the document is right now Google Docs, so that my team can edit it collaboratively with ease.
However, Google docs doesn't support ...
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Converting doc to pdf
I try to convert a doc file to a pdf file with the linux bash.
I tried different ways like jodconverter, ghostscript, postscript and so on, but all didn't work as espected.
Additionally I can say that ...
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Using non-proprietary document format
I am going to be migrating to Xubuntu; I have a question on docx formats. I have quite a few hundred proprietary docx files. I want to be able edit them w/o the formatting getting destroyed and ...
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How can I update a document from its source documents automatically in Word 2007?
Is there a way in Word 2007 to create a document using the text of other documents, and create a relationship between the main document and the source documents?
The purpose of this relationship ...
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How do I move a table structure down in written documents?
I often run into this issue: I have a table (as in data in a table format) and the table is at the start of a document or email. I wish to move the table down the page but my cursor will only move to ...
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Is there any way to convert a LaTeX document to any Microsoft Word format, while retaining the document's structure?
I'm currently working on a developer's manual to go with an application I'm making for work. I wrote a simple script to go through all of my code, and parse all of my comments into a LaTeX document, ...
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How to put a bunch of different types of documents into a single Word doc?
I am working on a long document that will have to include JPEGs, certain pages of PDF docs, bits and pieces from various Excel spreadsheets. I need all this to end up in a Word document.
I suppose ...
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How to “lock” page contents in LibreOffice?
Example:
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| Subtitle |
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| Body |
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MS Word document gone cut paste error
One of my colleagues has experienced a strange occurence using cut and paste.
A MS Word file was cut out with CTRL + X and a new folder was selected to paste it with CTRL + V. The file was no longer ...
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Cross-platform, command-line utilities to reduce DOC,DOCX and PDF to text
I have been searching around and found dozens of tools at varying levels of maturity. I tried Abiword to do DOC and DOCX, but PDFs are no-go, and I believe it will be a PITA to deploy on a shared ...
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How to create form that allows only one character in a cell
I would like to create a Microsoft Word document (doc or dot), that faciliates filling a form (or a table) in such a way that user types one character and the cursor is moved to the next cell. Like in ...
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How To Print Any Document/Image To File?
I want to print .TXT, .RTF, .DOC, .PDF, .HTML, etc. to file so the file will be in graphical format and will be able to be read by any imaging program (Windows Paint, Photoshop etc.).
How to do that?
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Removing a line from a PDF document
I have a series of simple PDF documents that have a heading in them that I need to remove. The documents contain actual text, they're not silly Photo-based PDFs. I don't know what they were produced ...
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white space that shows no formatting marks [closed]
half pages of white space in a long document. no page breaks, no justified, no formatting marks...just white space so that when I go from one page to another it jumps down more than half the page ...
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Numbering to the right end of page
How can I put the content (like formula, figure) numering to the right edge of the page? I've seen it in many places, but can't seem to find how to do this the right way in OpenOffice.org writer.
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How to create a document out of a word template?
I have a .dot word template, and I want to generate a document (.doc) out of it. How can I do that? Except doubleclicking the .dot file.
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user sees DATE in other language
I have a MS Word .doc document and it has a DATE field. I have a not English location on my computer and when I open the document then I see the DATE field in English formatting, and this is correct. ...
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Word 2010: How to reference custom document properties?
Using Word 2010, I've added a custom property to my document, "Something," and I've set the value to "XYZ." Back in the document I hit Ctrl+F9 to insert a reference and I type { DOCPROPERTY ...
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Jumping through documents in word 2010
In earlier versions of Word you could ctrl-tab Alt+Tab through the open documents, but in Word 2010 it seems you can only switch document through the views menu. Am I missing something or do they not ...
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editing software for redundancy checking
I'm looking for an editing program that can check for redundancies (sentences, paragraphs, sections) within a document and between 2 documents. Does this exist? Any advice appreciated.
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Which software can I use to manage my scanned documents?
I just scanned a lot of documents (invoices, etc.) and am trying to find a way to manage them.
My requirements:
As I have a multi-document feeder, I like to scan them all without sorting, write the ...
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Tagging PDF files on CD/DVD and opening them with the associated viewer
Simple thing. I have a lot - and I do mean, A LOT (if it was possible to colour this in red, it probably would be red as well) of PDF/dejavu/word/plain jpeg files; mostly articles from my professional ...
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How can I recover an RTF file that comes up blank in Word?
How can I recover an RTF file that comes up blank in Word? I've tried copy-pasting its contents into a new document and opening it with Notepad. In Notepad, it shows up as a bunch of zeros and the ...
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How to insert a picture “field” into a Word 2010 template
I'm creating a résumé template in MS Word 2010, and I want each user to upload his picture into the document. The picture must have a fixed size (max width and height).
I would like a X by X area of ...
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Batch convert .doc files to .txt (plain ascii text) and/or .html recursively in folders and subfolders, Windows and Mac?
Is there a tool to do this. I've seen some Python/Java tools to automate OpenOffice but has anyone reliably scripted this to do more than one file, and recurse through a folder/directory tree with ...
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Program to get unique words and their count from a Word document
Is there a program that takes a Microsoft Word document and produces a spreadsheet of all the words contained in the document and the number of times the word appears?
e.g.
cat 23
said ...
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Generating documents with templating from a form
I would like to create a document generator with templating.
The workflow should be as following:
The user input data to a static form (simple text input).
The user chooses a graphically designed ...
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Recommend a diff tool to show and explain some changes in a document
Now I'm in process of contract negotiation with a private company. They sending me the contract, I'm making some changes and then sending back to them for verification. Now they asking me to explain ...
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When I open text documents, they immediately print?
Every time I open a text (.txt) document on my PC (Windows 7 Ultimate x64), it immediately begins printing on my default printer.
What is happening and how do I turn it off?
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Selection Issues with a PDF from a Word document
I have a long Word document that has a running footer. When I try to copy and paste across pages in the PDF generated from this document, the behavior of this footer is unpredictable--sometimes it is ...
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Spreadsheet like software, where I can add files/documents to Cells
Does anyone know of a spreadsheet type software like excel for instance where I can add files/documents to cells. The reason being is I would like to add information in the adjacent columns regarding ...
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Any suggestions how to update preprinted material?
I want to amend some of my last year’s assignment and exam papers so I can use them again this year after making updates. Any suggestions how to update pre-printed material?
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Best text documents organizer for linux?
I am looking for something to organize information I have in text files. My hdd is full of text files containing email logins, cpanel logins, urls, and things like that and it's getting harder to find ...
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Looking for tool to rename/organize documents scanned as jpeg images
I'm looking for a tool that makes it easy to view and browse batches of images and batch rename, index, organize into folders. I have a Epson SX600FW which can scan in 30 docs at a time to memory card ...
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Batch Convert OpenOffice (ODT) to MS Word (DOC) files?
I have a directory full of OpenOffice.org odt files that I'd like to batch-convert to doc files. Is there an easy way to do this?
(bonus points if your answer uses OpenOffice and a Linux ...
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How do I create a .PDF from selected pages of an existing .PDF?
The question is simple: I want to create a .PDF from pages 30-50 of an already existing 100 page .PDF.
What would be the easiest and most professional way to do this?
