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Excel: Highlight all instances of a phrase like in notepad++
If I select a phrase in notepad++ it will highlight all other instances of that phrase.
Is there a way to do this in Excel as well?
Thanks for your help!
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Excel: Select all that are not in a set of values (and delete)
I have a list of zip codes, but only a handful of them are needed.
In Excel, how do you select all rows which do not meet (or inversely meet) a set of criteria?
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How to create and run a macro that runs on current visual selection?
I'd like to create a macro so that if I select a piece of text (either by a keyboard or a mouse) and invoke this macro, it adds [b] and [/b] around the text (for example). I'm familiar with recording ...
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Popup search results for selected text in Firefox
Often, I want to add a relevant hyperlink for a blog post, but I find the tab switching really clumsy.
Is there a Firefox addon/userscript that can:
search Google/Bing for selected text,
display ...
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Add or remove single pixels from selection in Photoshop?
Sometimes in Photoshop I'm working with images at very close-up levels,
such as small animated GIFs and emoticons. Often I'm zoomed in all the way, working at pixel level.
If I've got a selection ...
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How to make vim highlight the last character of a visual selection?
I want to use _ as my terminal cursor (konsole/gnome-terminal).
However because of this, using visual block selection in Vim becomes a problem, as Vim does not highlight the character under cursor as ...
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How to select non contiguous lines of code in Notepad++?
What key enables the selection of non-consecutive lines in notepad++ ?
I have some Matlab code I have edited with notepad++. I would like to select distinct (non consecutive) blocks of code in order ...
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Shift click to extend marked region
Suppose I want to select some text (mark a region) using my mouse, but without dragging. What I normally do (in most apps but emacs) is:
click with the left button of my mouse (down-mouse-1);
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How to copy windows explorer file selections and past filenames as txt [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Copy filename to clipboard
Win7
How can I select multiple files in explorer and get a string of text listing the file names like i would get if i selected the files from ...
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Rounded rectangle with specific radius
When rounding the corners of a rectangle in GIMP, the user interface allows me to select the rounding radius in percent. I often want to round several rectangles of different sizes, and do so using a ...
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How to improve the hotkeys Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right?
I'm just wondering if anyone of you figured out a way to improve these bindings or use them together with other bindings to make go through lines of text faster/easier.
namely the problem i'm facing ...
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Outlook individual email selection box
Outlook at one time had a column which provided a small box next to each email. When you clicked on the box, the email was selected. This would allow you to select several emails at one time even if ...
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Copy visual mode selection below selection in vi
In vim, I often find myself repeating the same steps to copy a section before making changes to it:
V to start Visual mode linewise
j until I have selected the section I want to copy
y to yank the ...
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How do I select middle part of a hyper link?
How do I select a middle part of an hyper-link as you see in the image above?
You can also suggest me a browser extension or a userscript that converts all links to text in a selected sub part of ...
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How to extend selection in gnome-terminal?
In a terminal I can select a single line, double clicking with the Left Mouse Button.
With xterm, I can extend that selection clicking with the Right Mouse Button in the place I want to extend it. ...
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How to set a custom sized rectangle select area in gimp?
I am a totally newbie gimp (using 2.6.11) user and whenever I need to select a rectangular area of an image (for further pasting it into a new image), I just click the "Rectangle Select Tool" button ...
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How to select a single element or layer in Photoshop CS6
I just moved to Photoshop CS6 at work, and I can't find how to select an element by clicking it. In CS5 I just Alt-clicked and it selected the element in the layers list.
Is this feature still ...
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Move to end of selection in MS Excel (2003)
I have a large set of data that I update regularly by copy/pasting and overwriting old data. I do this for 10k-15k records at a time. Once I have pasted, I manually scroll down to the last line of ...
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Modify the shape of the mouse select box on Windows Desktop
This is a "just for the hell of it" question. Was talking to a burnt out Windows System Admin who was just dragging his mouse around on the screen making boxes and we joked that he was trying to make ...
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Vim - How to select a whole HTML block, including the tags?
Suppose I have:
<div id="help">
<table>
...
...
...
</table>
</div>
How do I select the whole block, starting from <div id="help">, in ...
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How to adjust a single side of rectangular selection made with Marquee Tool?
I am struggling to make a selection made of different layers.
For example, a button with text and shadow (each in its own layer). I would like to copy it to a image file but it is really hard to ...
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How to copy a button with shadow effect from PSD to PNG
I got a web site design in PSD file from a web-designer. All element s there snap to guides, which is handy when I make a selection to copy an element of design to a PNG file: guides make my selection ...
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Outlook 2010: Is it possible to multi-select different emails across multiple folders?
Normally, you can CTRL+right click to select multiple emails in a folder. You can then forward all emails at once and they will appear as attachments in the email you're composing.
I happen to have ...
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Adobe Acrobat X Pro - printing selected pages
In previous versions, you could highlight several different pages and then print "selection". This newer version does not seem to have this as an option when I go to my print screen. Is this ...
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macports gcc select error trying to exec i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2
I am working on OS X 10.7 (Lion). I have installed gcc 4.7 from macports:
sudo port install gcc47
It seems to be working properly:
$ /opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.7 -v
(...)
gcc version 4.7.0 (GCC)
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How to set CorelDraw not to select just drawn object?
If I draw something in CorelDraw, the just drawn object is immediately selected. This prevents from handwriting, since selection markers interfere with the pen.
So, is it possible to disable this ...
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xterm select text with keyboard that is anywhere in window
Is there a way to select and copy text anywhere in terminal(xterm) window(that is, not only current shell line, but also output from previous commands) using only keyboard?
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Is it possible to make a selection in Microsoft Paint beyond the current screen resolution?
Is it possible to make a selection in Microsoft Paint larger than the current screen resolution?
Working with full screen screenshots (including across multiple screens) is not easy in Microsoft ...
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Selecting range of lines in Notepad ++
How do I select specific range of lines in Notepad++ quickly? I have a text file that has over 1M of lines and I need to delete some fragments from it, but selecting lines manually just takes too much ...
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Windows tool or Google Chrome extension to select a rectangle from the screen or browser window?
I just realized I often want to select just a rectangle from the browser window which is not just a single image.
For instance sometimes I want to select just part of a composite image and other ...
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tmux copy mode - select text block
I'm using tmux with vi keys, and copy/paste works fine as long as you're selecting one line of text, or if you have only one window. When I want to select a block of text (multiple lines, but not full ...
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vim: select the current indents lines
in vim, how I can selected the lines with the same indent, example
if true:
line 1
line 2
...
line n
if the cursor is over line 2, how I can selected from line 1 to line n?
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How to turn OFF Translucent Selection Rectangle in the Windows Explorer (Windows 7)
This is Windows 7.
In System properties -> Performance options -> Adjust for best performance
It makes what I want only for the Desktop if I go into folder and try to select the files the ...
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wrap selection around … in notepad++
Is there any way to wrap the selected text in ',",),},],> or around any symbol in notepad++?
I have looked around all of the plugins but there is nothing similar to what Textmate or eclipse can do.
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Resizing a selection in Adobe Acrobat X Pro
When working with block selections, you can resize the area by dragging the handles on each of the four corners. However, I can't seem to find a way to resize the area by dragging a single side of the ...
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Windows 7 mouse drag lag
When selecting text or click-and-dragging in any app, the selection/scrollbar/item being dragged always lags a few characters behind the cursor when the cursor is moved quickly. It's a slight issue ...
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Firefox combobox search
There are sometimes comboboxes on web pages (also known as <select> tags) with so many options that it is hard to read them all.
A solution would be a plugin or extension to search big ...
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How can I count the selected items in Outlook?
Outlook 2007 shows the total number of items in a folder on the status bar at the bottom.
When I select a group of e-mails the information on the status bar does not change.
How can I find out how ...
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How to configure SHIFT+LEFT, SHIFT+RIGHT, SHIFT+HOME and SHIFT+END keys in terminal on Mac?
To configure the Home and End keys in terminal on MacBook Air (OS X 10.7.2) I defined in Terminal -> Preferences -> Keyboard:
Key Action
---- ------
Home \033OH
End \033OF
What ...
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Windows XP alt-tab: How to restrict options to certain applications, in certain order and exclude others?
In Windows XP, Alt-tab keypress sequence to select applications, how can I ensure that certain applications always appear, in a certain order, with others always excluded?
Background for asking is ...
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How do I select the comment block under the cursor in vim?
I’d like to select (or delete, or change, or …) the whole block of commentary under my cursor.
If my cursor is at the beginning of the commentary block (i.e. over the opening comment character), and ...
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Clipboard management like Linux in Windows
In Linux, if I select a text I can paste it in another place with a click of middle mouse button and there is no need to right click and copy or using ctrl+c hotkeys for doing so.
Also the selected ...
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Text Editor to select based lines inbetween user defined characters
I have a text file with over 184 thousand lines.
This is the output from a particular application and is basically the dump of the database in JSON format. I need to select the lines which are between ...
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How to easily copy hyperlinks in web pages
Two related questions that come up for me in Firefox and perhaps elsewhere in Windows 7 when coming across a link like this: How to Select Hyperlink Text in Google Chrome?
While reading html/a web ...
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Excel find cells by formatting?
The countif function has a criteria argument – how do I specify a criteria based on the formatting of cells?
I have a list of math homework questions containing per-page the questions numbers (e.g. ...
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Ctrl+A (select all) does not work in some textboxes throughout Windows XP
I'm having a hard time with my Windows XP. Ctrl+A combination does not select all text in some textboxes throughout whole system. For instance it does not work in start->Run command window nor does it ...
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Is there a way to keep the selection in Windows 2008 Explorer when changing the sort order
I nice feature of Windows Explorer up to Windows Server 2003 at least (I don't have easy access to Vista or Windows 7 to know when this was lost) was that you could select multiple files (or folders) ...
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Gnome 3 locks selection no more left click
Hi i have a problem in my Gnome 3 Fedora 15 installation. I've tried both Mesa and nvidia drivers from rpmfusion and the problem persist, so I suppose it is an issue with the desktop manager.
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How can I 'select to end of file' in Notepad?
Temporarily stuck with Notepad, I'd like to know if there is any better or quicker way of selecting from here to the end of the file than moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen and then ...
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Click to select row to end of data in Excel?
In Excel, you can select an entire row by clicking its number at the left edge of the window. But doing so selects the entire row all the way to infinity. If you apply a fill color to a row selected ...
