Questions tagged [formatting]
Process of preparing a disk for storing data. Specifically, "high-level formatting" involves the creation of a new file system and/or a boot sector. For text formatting, use [text-formatting].
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USB stick formatting problem [duplicate]
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USB drive not showing full size
Well I'm embarrassed to even put this up. I wasn't really paying attention and formatted my 8GB USB stick to 3.21 GB in windows 7. Is there ...
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How to format code in Textmate
I like Textmate but its really driving me crazy when it comes to formatting code whatever the language I'm working with. Is there any way to format code? shortcut, bundle or anything that can help (eg ...
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After Update, Internet Explorer has Terrible Formatting, what caused this?
After an automatic security update for Windows XP, Internet Explorer 8 has stopped rendering pages properly.
Tables cut off text and images overlap other page content.
All drop-down boxes look like ...
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Formatting an external hard drive to exFAT?
I have a 1T Western Digital external hard drive. I'm using it mainly to store movies.
When I try to format to NTFS, I get an error message that says 'Windows was unable to complete format'.
However, ...
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How can I set Excel to always import all columns of CSV files as Text?
Though I try to avoid it, I occasionally have to open a CSV file in Excel. When I do, it formats columns containing numbers, which makes them useless for my purposes. As far as I can tell, the only ...
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Smarter justifying in OpenOffice
Open a new document in OpenOffice, ensure that the default font is size 12 Times New Roman and set the alignment to justify. Now, paste or type the following (all on one line, ignore the reformatting ...
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Should I use the entire hard drive when I repartition it?
I bought a Fujitsu Celvin Drive D100 (external USB HDD) as new and now I want to partition and format it for Linux use. I noticed however that at the factory they have left some empty space before (1 ...
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How can I display a '+' or '-' sign in front of a result using cell formating?
I'm subtracting figures and I need to show whether the result is negative or positive.
Stumped as to how to make the '+' or '-' sign appear using cell formatting. Minus is automatic, I presume, but ...
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Large quotation marks in Word?
Is there a simple way in MS Word to get large quotation marks tightly round a paragraph of text, like you might see in print media to mark a quote?
If you simply increase the font size of the quote ...
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Merging and re-formatting paragraphs in Microsoft Word 2007
After a copy/paste mishap in Microsoft Word 2007, I ended up with text looking like this:
This line breaks up here
continues here, and so on
here, when it should all be
in a single line ...
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Macro for helping superscript last character of many rows in a single column
I'm adding footnotes (always adding footnotes) to a table and I would really like to be able to automate the repetitive nature of making my symbols superscript.
Currently it’s: >enter cell>highlight ...
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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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Opening CSV file in Excel corrupts telephone number column
I export listview data to csv file. There is a column, 'Contact No'. This column's data type is 20 field size of text in MS access. Opening this csv with Notepad, it shows the actual data value, ...
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How to set a character limit and remove characters over that limit excel 2007
I have to provide a CSV file for a telephone system with names and numbers on for a directory. The numbers cannot contain any spaces, and the names must be 20 characters max.
I have a list of names/...
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Using same home partition with same username while reinstalling
I use Debian Lenny and would like to change over to Squeeze. My system consists of two partitions: lenny installation & home directory partition. I have all my personal files in the home directory....
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Is it possible to format a hard-drive too often?
Every couple of months I find my computer becomes sluggish, so I format the hard drive then reinstall Windows to keep it running fast. I've been doing this for about a year without any adverse effects;...
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Batch format changing in Libre Office
I would like to change the formatting of some pre-formatted text in a document using Libre Office. For example, I want to change every paragraph with font Arial 12pt to Helvetica 11pt.
Doing this ...
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Easy way to columnize STDOUT (format text in columns)?
I just want an easy way to columnize output to the terminal.
Don't care about colors. (Well, actually I do quite a bit! But there is the awesome, easy-to-use ANSI Color for that.)
Shell scripts ...
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How do I go about resizing a column in Omni Outliner?
I've added some columns to Omni Outliner, and can't seem to find the control that allows me to adjust their width. The drag and drop control on the side of each column resizes the entire table. I bet ...
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How To Save Unicode Right-To-Left File File So Formatting Retains? [closed]
I want to save hebrew text with right-to-left direction into a .TXT or .HTML file but what retains is only Unicode but not right-to-left formatting. My phone (Sony Ericsson W850i) is not a smartphone ...
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Cannot initialize disk
I have a drive which has no bad sectors, and when I control panel/computer management/disk management (in Windows 7) it reports as not initialized.
When I attempt to initialize, it says that the ...
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Why are some blank cells seen as zero in Excel?
We have Excel documents that date back years. Some of the document sheets haven't been touched for over 15+ years (or to the very early versions of Excel). They've had a new sheet added each year - ...
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How can I split a formula into multiple lines in OpenOffice calc?
I have this simple formula:
=CONCATENATE("foo";"bar")
which renders foobar on the cell.
How can I lay this formula in multiple lines in the same cell? I'd like to be able to do something like the ...
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Broken Formatting When Copying From Notepad
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer ...
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How to zero-out a flash card under Linux?
Looking for a way to zero-out a flash card (any format CD/SD/MS) so that it starts completely clean? By that I mean not just formated but all zeros or a fixed pattern.
It will be formated later and ...
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Is there anything I can do to save my screenless Inspiron 6000?
So, my old Inspiron 6000 was working. It had no screen, but, I was able hook a monitor up to it and use it.
One thing, though, when it was booting up, BIOS would not show on the monitor. Only when it ...
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Broken Formatting In Notepad
Often I have problems with formatting in Notepad on Windows XP Home. For example hidden space between characters or line breaks.
When I copy text with broken formatting to another place, it all ...
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Paste to Excel from clipboard (plain text) : Can I make certain cells to be formatted "as such"
when preparing table data as text to be copied to Excel through clipboard, is it possible to have certain cells unformatted? (If possible, without changing Excel settings or doing a special paste).
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Source code Formatter for Windows Live Writer
I have just downloaded the Windows Live Writer software for blogging purposes but it contains nothing for formatting source code.
I have installed many plugins like code snippet, insert code etc. but ...
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A thousand JPEG images in a Word document: how can I format them in the same way?
Please suppose you have a Microsoft Word 2007 document: you have just inserted in it about a thousand of JPEG images.
With the first image, you do right-click, then FORMAT PICTURE, then option "...
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Code formated with pre tag copy/paste problem
I have created a blog on Blogger and would like to display some short code snippets in my posts. I used pre tag with some simple formatting (no syntax highlighting). When displayed in browser code ...
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Send preformatted text in Skype
Sometimes I send pieces of code using Skype. Very often the text is messed up with smileys, and some brackets show up doubled.
Can I somehow send text that will not be transformed? Something like &...
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Format restrictions for cell in Excel
I want a cell to only have a specified format, e.g. "01-02-03", meaning "double digit dash double digit dash double digit".
I a user tries to enter something into the cell, an error should occurr ...
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What is the DOS debug script to low level format a hard drive?
What is the DOS debug script to low level format a hard drive?
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Bootable Low Level Format Tool
I am looking for a bootable low level format tool, specifically for an old maxtor HDD (ATA). I remember that long time ago I repaired a disk with such a tool, but now, googling i only find Windows ...
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My 4GB USB drive has decided that it should be 2GB
Uh. I looked at the properties on windows, it says that its formatted as RAW, and 0 bytes. When I try to format, no matter what filesystem I use, I can only format to 1.92 GB. I have tried on 2 ...
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How can I specify a sheet as range in Excel?
I want to apply conditional formatting on a sheet. I used to do Ctrl + A and then apply the formatting, but when i insert new cells or rows, this isn't included in the formatting. As you can see in ...
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How do I format a usb drive on a PC that was formatted on a Mac?
I have a SanDisk Cruser drive that was formatted for a Mac and now I want to use it for a PC (and I don't have access to the Mac. What can I do?
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Copy from Evernote to Paste to Wordpress preserving formating
Is it possible to post texts directly from the Windows desktop Evernote application to Wordpress, and retain the formating? Simple copy/past leads to format break.
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convert lines to fixed column length
I would like to simply take a given text file and enforce a maximum column length of say 80. How can I turn this:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new ...
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How can I apply a uniform format after finishing a presentation?
I realize that the slide master dictates a certain style on any new slides that are added to the presentation. However, users are free to override the style dictated by the slide master. Once all of ...
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Excel: is it possible to extract a superscript letter from a word?
I'm wondering if these is a way of using a formula to find a superscript letter, rather than just the last letter of a word.
I have lots of tabs, with nearly matching tables on each one showing up to ...
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MS Word: Derive Styles from Formatting
I have copied text from a web page to MS Word (2010). The formatting of this document is done via CSS, and all headers and text is formatted in a consistent way.
The formatting is retained by Word ...
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Identical hard drives with different sizes (formatting)
I have two hard drives, which are identical, same model though purchased at different times, but in all respects the same. Afaik the manufacturer hasn't changed capacity (Seagate expansion).
However, ...
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how to trully delete content of hard drive that is not working
I have an hard drive that still mechanically "works", but it can't be recognized by Windows. The disk starts up and it dies and it keeps cycling over and over and it is never recognized. I'm not ...
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Format text as code snippet in any word processor, like we do in Stackexchange sites
Its been more than six months since I'm using stackexchange, so everyone out there knows that we're speechless about how much it has been helpful to us. But a small thing about the these sites that I'...
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How do I automatically number headings in Microsoft Word? [duplicate]
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Word: continued title numbering
I have a Microsoft Word document which consists of (more or less) the following heading structure (this is just the heading structure, not the ...
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How to reformat all columns to be hyperlinked in apple numbers?
I have a large spreadsheet where one of the columns has text hyperlinks. They are not clickable though.
I can make them clickable by selecting url text and clicking Insert -> hyperlinks -> webpage.
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How to use external hard disk in both Windows and Mac OS X? [duplicate]
I have one external hard drive (Seagate 320 GB). I have used my hard drive in a Windows XP system and it works fine (Read and write). But when I used it on a Mac, I couldn't write any file on the disk ...
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Trouble using Cavier 2TB external HDD as internal drive
I recently got a 2TB Caviar "Greendrive" external hard drive. I tested it, and it works fine. Because of the low price I got it at, and the fact I dislike externals, I removed it from it's enclosure, ...