Questions tagged [documents]
Text based information often for the purpose of description or instruction
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How to remove a watermark from a PDF file?
I thought this would be a simple task, but it turned out the other way.
The watermark is the very same (overlapping, but transparent) image on every single page. I created the PDF file myself (so no ...
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Are Windows WSL2 "distributions" just docker containers under the hood?
I found this document on github:
WSL2 Distributions Run As Containers
It hasn't been updated in a while though, so I'm wondering if anyone knows whether or not Microsoft has published a technical ...
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how to use codefolding feature of notepad++ for normal text documents
When I open an reg file in notepad++ file in notepad++, I see the amazing functionality to minimize and maximize the subkeys of a base key by clicking on that little arrow on the left. Can I get this ...
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How to prevent orphaned table headers in Microsoft Word?
I'm using MS Word 2010 to write a document. I have a table with a header row (indicated as such, 'Header Rows Repeat').
The table starts pretty low on the page and Word decides to break it exactly ...
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Converting .doc files to .pdf [closed]
Anybody aware of a piece of software which could do MS Office .doc to .pdf conversion for me?
I already tried OpenOffice but it appeared to be rather slow and resource-hungry for large documents.
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Subversion: Document Control for Non-Programmers?
I work for a small company in the Mechanical Engineering sector. Nobody here knows a thing about coding or databasing except for myself, and I know little more than basic SQL, some C#, some VBA.
I'm ...
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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. In the document, I hit Ctrl+F9 to insert a reference, and I type { DOCPROPERTY [Something] }. ...
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Is there a Firefox plugin/extension for doc files?
There are plugins to view PDF files in-browser, without downloading. Is there an equivalent for doc/docx files? I'm on a Mac, although Windows is fine too.
user29752
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Personal Document Management [closed]
How do you store, maintain, search and index documents, manuals and personal notes?
I, as a programmer regular collect api documentation, manuals, articles, code snippets and programming related ...
Johan
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How can I do two columns in OpenOffice.org Writer?
I would like to structure my document with two columns in the middle of the page, and one column in the top and in the bottom. Like my example below. How can I do two columns like this in OpenOffice....
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Is there any way make comments on a Google Docs document that only I can see?
I have access to a collaborative Google Docs document on which I would like to make notes in preparation for a meeting (I am not the document owner). I would like to avoid wasting paper, so I would ...
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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 command-...
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Is it possible to access and edit Google documents directly from Libreoffice?
I'd like to work with a Google spreadsheet directly inside Libreoffice, without having to export and import it, in order to automatically reflect the changes on the online file.
Basically, I'm looking ...
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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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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?
At work we store documents on a shared drive. The problem is, quite often someone may need to edit it, but ...
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HTML/PDF to DOC(X) in Linux command line?
I need to convert PDF or HTML+CSS into DOC or DOCX under Linux, it can be from the command line or with a scripting language.
Any idea?
alcuadrado
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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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Document file format for universal adoption? [closed]
I don't want to assume that someone has Word installed on their machine. What is the best file format so that everyone can read a document file?
The only ones I can think of are:
Rich Text Format
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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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Indenting paragraphs in Microsoft Word
I would like to format a Microsoft Word document such that the first line of every paragraph is indented, with the exception of the first paragraph in a section which would not be indented. How can I ...
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How to replaces images of text in PDFs with formatted text using OCR
I get a lot of PDFs from other people consisting of scanned old documents. Unfortunately, sometimes the text on the scans, though legible, looks grainy and is hard to read.
What I've been able to do ...
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Is there a freeware program for editing the text stream of PDFs?
PDFs are a great archive format for scanned images, but Acrobat does not allow you to edit the text layer of the document (the part that can copy and paste from) leaving you with just the raw OCR. Are ...
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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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Converting a word document to an image
Is there any way to convert a Word document to an image? I suppose you can print screen, but that is pretty painful.
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Trimming exterior empty space with ImageMagick does not work on scanned documents
Given an image that has some actual content inside and usually some unwanted white or black or transparency around that, I would like to trim or crop the exterior parts using ImageMagick.
The ...
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Acrobat Reader- How to open the same document in separate windows?
How to open the same document in separate windows? One solution would be to rename it, but is there other better solution?
I have Adobe 9.4.6 and Windows 7
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How can I make all pages in a PDF the same size?
I have a pdf with different size pages. The first page is 579.275 by 402.547 points. The remaining pages are 612 by 792 pts (letter). I would like to have all the pages be letter size. The output ...
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Advanced Grammar and Style Checker [closed]
I just finished writing and reviewing my masters thesis; however, I was wondering if there is an advanced grammar/style tool that'll go through my thesis and identify anything I've missed
Edit:
The ...
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Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc error
problem:
you try and open a word document and it produces the message
Word cannot start the converter mswrd632.wpc
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How to tell if fonts are embedded in a Microsoft Word document
How can I confirm whether or not fonts are embedded in a Microsoft Word document? I already know the process to enable embedding in Word.
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Drowning in documents - recommend doc management solutions? [closed]
I've been researching document management lately.
I want to organise my docs at home and also at the office. Finding affordable solutions one can actually test drive is quite hard. Some that I've ...
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Can't make changes to word document opened as read-only
I've some documents on a network share that are password protected.
I need to open those files, make some temporary changes and then print them. Since I don't want those changes to be saved, I'm used ...
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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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How to save a position in a document for easy return? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to bookmark a wordpad or word file where you left off?
Is there a way to insert an internal anchor/bookmark into MS Word document and later reference it?
How ...
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Automatically saving the desktop and documents folders to the cloud in Windows 7
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I have downloaded and installed the clients for Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive on my laptop. I am running Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1. I save a lot of documents to ...
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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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MS Word -- Convert a nested list to document headings
I have a tabbed list like this:
Big Idea
Smaller idea
Smaller idea 2
Big Idea
Smaller idea 3
I can easily convert it to a nested list like this:
Big idea
Smaller idea
Smaller idea 2
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In Windows 7, how do I make the "start" menu Documents/Pictures/Music/Videos go to my Documents/Pictures/Music/Videos directory?
Right now, if I click on Documents, I go to Libraries > Documents. I want to go to [Logged In User] > My Documents.
Is there a way to configure this behavior?
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How to link My Documents folder to the logical Documents folder in Windows 7
In windows 7 the My Documents folder resides under the logical Documents folder on the left side of Windows Explorer.
A friend of mine clicked on My Documents and (silly him) erased it by deleting it. ...
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How to scan and annotate documents and receipts so metadata is searchable and embeddeded in document?
I'm getting tired of living in the modern age and still having a messy filing cabinet full of paper. I have a nice cheap scanner and want to scan receipts, warrenties, and so forth.
To make it ...
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Desktop app for wiki like markdown/markups?
Is there some kind of app i can use to write documentation for offline use then copy/paste the text later into wikipedia? If not is there some kind of wiki to pdf or doc to wiki converter?
user3109
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Using OpenOffice.org, is there a way to print not only the content, but also the comments for a document?
I received a Word document with comments attached. The material added inline appears in a print preview, but none of the annotated comments do. Is there a way to print everything?
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Utility to flip all pages in a PDF [closed]
I have a PDF file (generated using the Save As PDF function in MS Word 2007) where I would like to flip all pages in the document (rotate 180 degrees - so that they will be upside down). I do not have ...
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Is this possible that someone email me a word document and that has tracking macro?
Is this possible that someone could email me a word document and that has the ability to track input information? If someone wants to track my personal information, lets say someone sent me a ...
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Painless document collaboration / co-authoring on Mac OSX Server
We really like the way how document collaboration works in Google Drive and would love to have an option to integrate such functionality into our environment.
Our setup consists of 5 clients (all ...
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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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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 I'...
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Microsoft word 2003 when I am making deletions or changes they show up on the document in a balloon
I am writing a novel in microsoft word 2003, and I am pretty far into it, but one time I hit a one of the F keys (I don't know which one) by accident.
Now everytime I go on word I have these stupid ...
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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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Windows 7 Public Documents Folder - how to move it to drive d:
I've just bought a new pc, and it is running Windows 7. I'm wanting to set up all of the documents folders such that they point to folders on a second drive partition (ie. disk D:) so that I have a ...
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