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How can I permanently divide / separate files, folders, and shortcuts on Windows 7 desktop? [duplicate]
Basically I want to devote a flexible, visibly divided fraction of my screen to each type of icon visible on the Desktop (files, folders, shortcuts).
What will I (or someone much more skilled than I ...
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How to avoid sorting rows copied from other rows?
I have a payroll that contains 30 names of workers. I sort this payroll in three different ways: 1) ORDER 1; 2) ORDER 2; and 3) GROUP.
I have copied the names into another group of rows, every one ...
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weird filename sorting (bash, ls, sort)
Good day, everyone.
I'm trying to feed my music to mplayer, like this: mplayer *, but getting wrong track order.
Here's what I get with ls (as well as ls -1, ls -1 | sort), note the order of the ...
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How to sort Google Docs Table sorting recursively? [migrated]
Having a table with data like:
- + + -
- - - -
+ + - -
where + and - are created via '-, '+ commands, How to sort it recursively (probably other word shall be used) meaning sort ...
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How to sort an Excel column using the following characters
I have a column with letters W and E following numbers, i.e.
4e
5w
6w
7e
7e
, and I want to sort the column into e and w.
Any help would be appreciated.
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How to manually sort files in win explorer?
I want to manually sort (drag and drop) my files in a certain (not in all) folders (win xp sp3).
Is there any fix to do it ?
If no - is there another file explorer with the feature.
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I need an easy way to 'google' through all my PDF files - anything like this exist? [duplicate]
Here is my scenario and system:
System: Win-7, 64-bit.
Scenario: Very simply, I have a folder on my dropbox account, titled \Papers. Within this folder, I have a lot of PDF files, and I have even ...
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Correct sorting after text to columns in EXCEL
I have some data in which one column represents the Days of Operations, as below:
-------
Days
-------
15
7
1234567
etc.
I want to "break" the column (via text to columns option in the Data tab of ...
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Vim - sort blocks of code within blocks
My code (scss):
.cinderblock {
@include minwidth();
background-image:url("images/cinderblock.jpg");
background-position:top center;
background-color:#b79966;
height:528px;
...
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How can I sort a list of numbers, by its last 3 digits in Excel
I have an Excel spreadsheet with a list of numbers in the first column (that is: I have a number in A_1,A_2,...).
Each one of the nubers if have 8-9 digits and I would like to sort this column by its ...
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Presorting Email into separate pst files to keep both sent and received in the same exported pst
A few years back when researching this problem I ran across a program that came close to being a perfect solution. It would not work for what I needed but I showed me some possibilities that I would ...
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Finding values that only appear once in column
I have 4 columns and ~10K rows. I wonder whether it is possible to extract the rows where the value in column (A in my case) occurs only once.
I don't want to filter out the duplicates, just the ...
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Why do I get an #REF! error after sorting?
In my workbook I use this formula:
=INDEX('G:\Manufacturing\WH\EXPORTS\Scanning_Reports [ScanningReport.xls]Sheet1'!$D$1:$D$65536;AB3)
It works fine but when i try to sort the data i got a #ref! ...
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How to sort folders by last characters of folder name in Windows 7?
I have a stack of client folders with names like this:
eastcoal 008
mee 022
orr 047
owaka 032
owen 025
powernet006
redpath 031
Normally this works, but sometimes I'd like to sort by the number. ...
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Office 2007: How to sort an Excel Table from within a Word macro
I have written a Macro in WinWord2007 which lists styles and their properties in an Excel table. The table is made accessible by the following 3 lines:
Dim Oxl_Sheet As Object
Set Oxl_Sheet = ...
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UNIX command to sort the file by the following words, from major sort key to minor sort key: word 3, word 1, word 4
Need help with the UNIX command below to sort the file by the following words, from major sort key to minor sort key: word 3, word 1, word 4. (words are separated by white spaces)
sort -t -k3 -k1 ...
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How can rearrange my columns to rows in Excel?
It is a bit complicated to describe in words, but I am making a literature review and I need to map how often certain theories are used within certain themes or topics. I currently have a table like ...
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How to sort Windows 7 taskbar thumbnail previews?
Here is a screenshot of the list of windows I have stacked in my Windows 7 taskbar. This is just for Explorer, but similarly I have lots of stacked windows of other processes as well.
Currently ...
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(Some Program that lets me) Manually Sort Folders in Windows 7
I want to have some convenient way of remembering the order I put certain folders in, without being forced to rename them.
Some of these folders may get deleted and new folders also get added, so ...
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Make Excel Row Height Stay when Sorted
I have an Excel 2007 spreadsheet and need to make some rows bigger than others so there is vertical space for a signature.
These cells are colored differently, but the height doesn't stick with the ...
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How to view all my Google Chrome bookmarks, sorted by date?
I want to see a flat list of all my bookmarks in Google Chrome, sorted from the oldest one to the newest one.
How can I achieve this ?
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Excel VBA macro to sort sheets in a custom order?
I have a workbook with over 20 sheets. Each sheet contains an error type, and a list of records with that error. These workbooks are produced elsewhere and then sent to me.
I want to sort the sheets ...
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how can I sort duplicate values in excel without repeated it sequence
i want the excel sort the values A to Z first then take the duplicate values to sort it again below A to Z like the following:
if i have the values a,c,b,e,d,a,c when i sort it a to z it's look like ...
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sort numbers in excel10
this is a sample of my movie list as you can see 61 is at the top and 8mm at the bottom
please explain how i can have 1 at the top and 3000 at bottom
61
.45 2006 dvd
10 1979 dvd
10 items or less 2006 ...
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How to output a partial or a number from a mataching in grep or ack
I have a text file demo.txt like below.
This is a line with id (9)
This (8) is another line with id
(10) This is a line with id too
11 This line does nothing
The file has some lines with id ...
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How to sort audiobook on iTunes?
I have a question that might seem dumb, but I didn't find anything on Google.
How can I do to sort my audiobook tracks on iTunes?
I have books with 4 or 5 CDs and I'd like them to appear as one.
I ...
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Sorting by Date Modified in Windows 8
In prior versions of Windows I used to be able to sort my folders by date modified. If any files in those folders where added, removed, changed etc... the folder date would be updated. However, in ...
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Sort files based on their meta-data
At a local storage (ext3/ext4) I have thousands of files of various types. I need to sort them, however I can come up with the criteria to do so as long as it's possible to get an overview again.
I ...
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Sort columns next to last column in Linux
I have multiple files:
File 1
a 1 2
b 3 2
File 2
a 2 2 3
b 4 3 3
File 3
d 3 1 2 4
e 4 1 1 2
I'd like to sort the files according to the column next to the last column, after sort:
File 1
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How to add another sort tab for files in windows?
I am working with a directory of pdf's which have been scanned from actual documents in a file cabnet. When viewing a folder's contents in windows by clicking the tabs above the information users are ...
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Arranging files in a folder Mac?
Im running Mac OS X Lion 10.8.2 and every time I boot up and go to my Applications folder the apps are all over the place, I proceed by arranging them alphabetically but later they are all over the ...
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sort du -sh by size in human readable
with the command
du -sh *
I get the summary of files in MB,GB, etc.
If I use
du -s * | sort -nk1
I get the summary sort by size.
How I can get the summary sort by size in MB, GB, etc?
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the ...
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Merge sorted lists
I have a few .txt files (in the same directory) that look like this:
123 carrot
50 apple
13 tomato
5 potato
2 pear
and
100 carrot
10 apple
3 tomato
2 potato
...
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Sorting a list of files
Maybe am missing something but how do i sort in a descending order a list with this naming
B7
B40
B41
B42
B8
B43
B20
B45
B53
B47
B48
B5
B6
sort -n does not sort the way i would like
B5
B6
B7
and ...
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How do I sort command-line output?
I'm trying to use du to sort the output by filesize, but it doesn't looks like there's an option for that.
Can I pipe it into another command to handle the sorting?
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My excel spreadsheet won't sort/alphabetize properly
I have a spreadsheet with multiple columns and over 4000 rows. I need to sort, then alphabetize my report and everytime I do, there are 43 rows that do not sort with the rest of the report; they go ...
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make “sort by” permanent for specific folder
I have a folder where I store all my web icons in .png and .ico format. I set view to large icons and sort by to date modified -> descending.
When I save new icons in this folder from web, I drag ...
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Tagging or defining automatically in an Excel or Libre office spreadsheet?
I want to review and sort my expenditures in a spreadsheet where I have all my transactions listed. Is there a way to automatically label or tag to categorize the transactions like in a budget ...
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Bug in sort or misunderstanding
Suppose I have this file
b 10 foo
a 10 bar
a 2 bar
I want to sort by the third colum, alphabetically. In case of ties, I want to sort by the second column, numerically. In the man page for the unix ...
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How to setup DLNA sorting
What is the best way using a windows server (as the source) to provide an easy to access listing of available videos for use by DLNA enabled television sets (specifically Samsung)?
I've created ...
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Command-line sort and copy text files to one single file renders an error
I stumbled on question 217394 which explains how to copy files sorted alphabetically into one single file. Trying to implement the command myself rendered the following error message:
The system ...
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Sort by bar dissapeared in Windows 7 folder explorer when viewing icons
Under Windows 7 sorting by thumbnail icon files takes longer, or a different path of clicks.
I have to switch viewing files in details mode (select from the sorting bar) and then sort by date ...
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Excel mass add Data to existing sheet
I have an Excel Sheet with keeps track of Persons, who have gone to certain Activities. Now i want to add an Activity with hundreds of Persons, of which some have gone to others already.
Then I want ...
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Sort each standalone line alphabetically
I want to sort some items in alphabetic order, but in a very specifc way.
I have, for example, the following list, each item separated by comma:
monkeys, big dogs, cats
pineapple, banana, orange
...
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Windows 7 Recycle Bin sort by Date Modified
In the Recycle Bin, I sorted by 'Date Modified', but the result is not in the proper order. It was neither ascending nor descending.
Other sorts (by Date deleted, size, item type) all work well.
Does ...
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How to do custom sorting using unix sort?
I'm using unix sort to sort a comma delimited file with multiple columns. Thus far, this has worked perfectly for sorting the data either numerically or in alphabetical order:
Example file before any ...
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Don't open all mails when double-clicking at sorted group headings
At View → Sort by → Grouped By Sort you can activate the grouping of your mails by the chosen sort method. E.g. when you select the sort method "Date", you get groupings like "Today", "Yesterday", ...
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Sorting by Date - Very Slow
I'm using Windows 8 RTM. I have about 1,100 files in a folder. When I sort by date (in either direction), The address bar shows the green progress indicator as if it's working hard to perform the ...
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Tweetdeck: Sort columns by “most recent first”
This seems like a very simple question, but neither Google or the Tweetdeck manual can answer it.
How can I sort columns by date in tweetdeck?
My columns seems to have no order at all, mentions ...
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How to have directories listed first on Mac OS X? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you sort files in OS X Finder so folders appear at the top?
On Windows, I'm used to having my directories listed first when choosing a file in a dialog. I'd like ...
