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Going directly to result page in Windows
Consider following scenario:
You use windows search to find XYZ inside PDF,DOCX or DjVu files of a folder. Windows return some result. You open first file of result and again use adobe reader find to ...
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Why SelfCert.exe can't create digital certificate for my personal macroed word template anymore?
It started after I received updates for Office 2003 & 2007, suddenly SelfCert.exe (digital certificate for VBA project in Office tools start menu) is unable to make Personal certificate that I ...
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Notepad++ Document Monitor with Remote File
I am trying to use Notepad++ to monitor a log file using the plugin Document Monitor. This works great on local files but does not work on remote files.
I have tried both mapping the remote drive and ...
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Windows 7; select multiple files, only opens one
Whenever I am in Explorer and try to open multiple files (of the same extension and type) it only opens one. The process is as follows:
Select top file
Shift
Click last file
File > Open
Only the ...
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Word to PDF and PDF to Word
When we convert Word to PDF files we get good result – like any kind of alignment and pictures will be kept.
But when we convert a PDF to word, most of the time we get very ugly results, especially ...
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Merge 70,000 RTF/DOC files into one
I want to merge 70,000 RTF and DOC files into one.
I tried to use Microsoft Word 2010 and do "Insert"→"Object"→"Text from file", but it has some limitations as it doesn't stich together ...
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Recover document.xml from a corrupt docx
I've got a Word document(docx) which is corrupt, when I open it up in Word I am presented with a dialog that tells me that it needs to bo repaird but the reparation fails.
Then I tried extracting the ...
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How do I fill in a Word document received by email?
I have received a form by email that has to be filled in and either printed or sent back by email. When I type, the characters move everything to the right like when you use the space key. Can't ...
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How to make a searchable PDF document from a scan AND a source Word document?
Well, I have a scanned PDF with some slightly changes made by hand and a source file. I wish to make a PDF, which would be searchable (based on the text from the source, the changes would remain as ...
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Flatbed Document Scanner
I have a flatbed scanner hooked up to my older WinXP machine. When I hit the scan button it brings up the prompt asking to what program I want to run. Is there a registry edit, program that will allow ...
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Word 2007 file too big
I have this novel I'm formatting. It has 37 images, most of them greyscale. They are all under 100 kb each. Most of them are under 50 kb. So I already know it's NOT the images. It's. Not. The. Images. ...
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How can I add a full background to an A4-sized Word document?
I'm trying to add a background to an A4-sized Word document.
What is the correct background image size (in terms of resolution) to put into an A4 document? I tried Watermark, Fill effects, and ...
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Create a 2 tone (or 2 colour) border on a style in Microsoft Office 2010
I am trying to create a two tone border to go under headings in MS office. The goal is to look like this one:
Notice how the Heading has an underline with two colours (of different sizes as well). ...
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Text processor combining the pros of TeX and CSS
I am about to write documentation for an application I have finished. I'd like it to be both cohesive (as in TeX), and easy to style (as in HTML/CSS).
I'd rather not use TeX, it doesn't appeal to me ...
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What options are available for rendering a embedded adobe PDF in a page frame?
What options are available for rendering a embedded adobe PDF in a page frame?
Options I would like to set, if anyone knows what they are:
Fit page to width (not just height)
Dont show left nav ...
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Find and replace block of text (with other blocks of text) in multiple files
Is there a FREE utility out there for replacing blocks of text?
Something like notepad++'s find in files works for simple lines but in my case it's unusable since I need to target the entire block to ...
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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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| Title |
| 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.
