Questions tagged [text-formatting]
The process of laying out text in a document for ease of reading. Including font, size, spacing, etc.
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claws-mail: can it compose mail beyond plain text?
linux 6. claws-mail 4.
Claws 4 works well. But all emails are composed in plain, ascii text. No other formatting appears possible.
I want to know if claws supports the equivalent of rich-text: i.e. ...
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With Microsoft Edge, how to copy bullet list from one WebPage to another ? why does Paste of Bullet List contain invalid HTML?
I need help to copy selected text (from from Microsoft Community Website) which is a bullet list to another for posting;
With Edge, copying bullets incurs invalid HTML information
Edge App - copy ...
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Microsoft Word strange behavior with newline of headline
starting point:
I press Enter. Headline formatting lost:
I press Enter again, newline is there:
What is happening? This annoys me because it happens to me very often.
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Use PCRE2 Regex to group phrase before colon AND group comma separated values
I have what seems to be a simple task but isn't working for me. Using only PCRE2 Regex (nothing else), I am trying to collect a phrase before the first colon at the beginning of a line, then separate ...
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Showing anchor href links formatted normally
In reading user generated content on the web where links are allowed in the content, I have encountered cases where the normal underline text format (that indicates that the text is a link) is ...
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If I draw somthing which looks like an old Microsoft Windows desktop Icon, but I draw it myself, how do I the emoji available on an android phone? [closed]
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There already exists an emoji for the English word "seedling".
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How do I create a library of emoticons which can be used on Microsoft brand cell-phones?
Suppose that I ...
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Conditionally formatting left align for a cell with text thats separated by multiple lines
I'm trying to write conditional formatting that will handle left aligning text in a cell that is normally in a range that's centered. The data in the cell could look like the following with each line ...
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My word document have a line separation of half page. How can I solve it?
In the document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wnd1lCcLVwRTWA_dCjWlZfWzjqGc7_g_/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115679852586790547345&rtpof=true&sd=true
I have a huge line space, how can I fix ...
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How to format numbered format in mcq type in word
I have the following set of Multiple Choice Questions in word. The main question number is automatic , there is no problem here.
1. Sample Question 1
a. Answer 1 b. Answer 2
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How to tell Outlook not to auto resize the columns of a table
I'm having a very frustrating experience with MS-Outlook, while creating a table inside an e-mail:
I have some text, separated by pipe characters, and I've chosen the "Convert text to table" ...
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How to paste only the formatted value not the actual value
As the title says, I want to copy and paste cells into the format that they are shown in.
Original value (actual value):
25
59,05
90,1
Formatted value (what is shown):
25,000
59,050
90,100
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Convert English numbers into numbers from a different locale
I am looking for a tool or a way to load a text file which contains English numbers and convert them into non-English numbers. I know I can use Word to change the format of file but I do not want that....
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Formatting cells to 000-000-0000-0000 in MS Excel
I would like to format cells in excel to the following format: 000-000-0000-0000. This is only an example and the zeros can be replaced with other numbers, but the hyphens need to stay.
I think regex ...
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How do I stop text wrapping in Word 2013 for an in-line equation object?
My in-line equations in Word 2013 are wrapping to following lines. This appears to be the same or similar to the problem described in this question about Word 2010. However, all three solutions ...
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Can one write/convert a long Excel formula as a function, using only Excel?
I want to make, in MS Excel, an equivalent of the MS Word Sentence case, to often be able to convert Excel text strings from all-caps to sentence case (without having to teach myself VBA).
My one-...
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Convert text copied with Control Sequences from iTerm?
iTerm has an option Edit → Copy with Control Sequences that results in clipboard content like
[If you specify [0;4msection[0m, [0;1mman[0m only looks in that section
How can I turn that to html with ...
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creating featured text in MS word
I am working on a book in MS Office.
In my book, there are many texts and phrases that I need to feature (in other words highlight to catch the reader's attention) something exactly like I've shown in ...
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Looking for a simple automated way or program to reformat a list of proxies
I have a long list of SOCKS5 proxies that I want to import into another program. Currently the way I have them formatted is:
(Socks5)serveraddress:port:username:password
The program I'm importing ...
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How to prevent auto-marking numbers as a phone number in Viber chat?
When I print year numbers in Viber chat, they are automatically marked as phone numbers and become active like hyperlinks.
How to prevent that? Is there a way of marking them to be just plain text? I'...
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How can I create a drop-down table of contents in Word 2021?
How can I create a drop-down table of contents in Word 2021?
I know how to create a standard table of contents in Word, but since the file I'm working on is composed of three parts, which in turn ...
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How to format paragraphs in all table cells in LibreOffice Writer? Selecting doesn't work
I am trying to set spacing above and below paragraph
in all cells of a table. Unfortunately, if affects only first cell of a selection. Is it possible to make bulk formatting?
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How to Automate putting text into a specific format
The text that I have is
"Example": "Example2",
"What": "Huh",
"Really": "yes",
The text inside the "" always changes, but ...
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MS Word: "Update all fields" seems to be corrupting fields in text boxes
I'm afraid I'm on the verge of a catastrophe. I have a very large Microsoft Word document (nearly 500 pages), and I'm finding that every time I "update all fields" by the Ctrl-A, F9 method, ...
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configuring email software to recieve and send sms
I don't have a cell phone but have a cellular modem (Rocket Stick by Sierra Wireless) that has sms sending and receiving capability. It has its own cell number. I am trying to configure Thunderbird ...
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How do I batch delete entire rows that do not end with forward slash in CSV file?
I have a CSV file that is too large because it contains file paths as well as directory paths. I need to modify it so it only shows the directory paths but not the files themselves.
I'd like to know ...
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Sort lines with "natural order" in Notepad++ like Windows Explorer?
Q: Is it possible to sort line with "natural order" (or what it calls, I'm not sure the correct name) like/similar to Windows Explorer? With or without plugin are fine
Demo lines:
text 1
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MS Word Fields: Writing fractions in English
I am familiar with using fields to write out integers and decimals in English.
Is there a way to make "1/2" read as 'one-half' or some equivalent?
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How do I use Fields to automatically number sections using words?
I've got a document I'm trying to automate is MS Word. I've got section numbers that use the format code
AUTONUM \* Arabic
but this results in section numberings that read:
1. 2. etc.
How do I ...
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How do I prevent bold from affecting superscript?
I want to write the matrix “A^-1” in a formula in LibreOffice Writer.
“A” is a matrix and needs to be bold but the “-1” doesn't.
The superscript is still bold even when I place the closing bracket ...
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DBeaver "Format" --> "Format SQL" --> "To Upper Case" applies to all words. How to format only the SQL command words reserved by the system?
When I right-click on a selected SQL query and choose "Format SQL" it changes the SQL to lower case.
The other command "To upper case" is not SQL-intelligent, meaning it changes ...
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Why does Excel add leading apostrophes to some of my text cells?
I have a worksheet containing, among other things, a table object. All data in the worksheet was added by me manually, including the data and column headers in the table.
I just noticed that in 13 of ...
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How do I add "marginal" labels to bibliography entries in Microsoft Word?
I'm currently in the process of finalizing my research for the City Council of Rochester: Police Accountability Board. Of course (when conducting research), one must provide citations/bibliography ...
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How to handle dynamic footnote with a text box
I'm creating some financial models that require a lot of footnotes. I should preface by saying they're not actually footnotes, it's a text box below the main table since it takes up half the sheet. My ...
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Excel Copy-Paste formatting efficiencies
I have an upcoming project in Excel that will involve a lot of manual copy and pasting from one workbook to another. I have large amounts of documentation made in excel that need to get copy and ...
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How do I create a side-by-side file diff importable as a *table* by Excel, Word, or Google Docs?
diff -y file1 file2 creates output like this:
I want to take this output and convert it to a CSV format where
the text at left is in one column,
the < or | or >, if any, is in the second ...
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Can TXT files in Windows hold the same exact text but be of different sizes because one was created a long time before?
I divided one big txt ~500 KB file into 6 files (5 additional) by cut and paste, the new files' total size is much smaller than the original file.
Can this be because of new encoding ways in Windows ...
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How can I copy Chrome's formatting of XML with Ctrl+V or otherwise?
If I open an XML file in Chrome, I get a nice visual. I want to somehow copy this formatting to other programs like OneNote. It never copies the format/color though. Anything I can do to get it? ...
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Bold and italic displaying incorrectly in MS Word
(I'm not a native English speaker, sorry if my English is not perfect).
I'm using MS Word, 16.52, on a MacBook Pro, macOS Catalina 10.15.7.
Today I noticed a problem in the displaying of some ...
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Word tables. text skewed between cells in the row
The image below demonstrates the issue. (using Word from 'Microsoft office 365 Apps' product is up to date at the time of post)
The gap is due to special characters and an equation input. It's most ...
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How to stop Excel changing dates to numbers
When having to compile the text from different cells, I am getting issue with dates converted to numbers. I have 3 cells with patient number, kit number and date (formatted to dd-mmm-yyyy). Tried ...
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BASH - How to combine data from 2 files
I have 2 files with the following data
file1:
datapoint1name##datapoint1name
datapoint1name.PercentUtilization=
datapoint2name##datapoint2name
datapoint2name.PercentUtilization=
datapoint3name##...
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My user is experiencing cut off text but I am not - Can't replicate
Shifting over from a post on SO which was closed for being insufficiently technical.
I am writing a .NET Windows app using Winforms in VB.NET Framework 4.7.2 on Visual Studio. One user has reported ...
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How can I prevent u to be rendered as v when text is Latin?
Problem and question
I am using the font EB Garamond for most of my professional work, and I am very pleased with it. There is a feature I would like the option to control, though, and I have not ...
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How to reduce space at bottom of page in Microsoft Word?
My word document leaves a lot of blank space on the bottom of some pages for no apparent reason. I even have orphan/widow control turned off so that it will fill the last line even if that leads to an ...
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In MS Word, can you use advanced find to match formatted text copied to the clipboard?
I am aware that you can use Advanced Find and Replace -> Format to match entire strings formatted a certain way, e.g. as described here.
Is there any way to match more complex formatting copied to ...
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Extracting data from text file by specific characters
I have a program that reads from a sensor and prints on stdout. The interesting data for me is just the X,Y and Z values:
[2021-05-07 10:47:41.993] [info] Acceleromter (avrg 100): X=+6696.080 Y=-5577....
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How to format part of a figure caption in MS Word bold, and the other part regular?
I would like to generate figure captions as displayed in the image below.
The figure caption should contain 3 parts:
Part 1: Automatic numbering including chapter number and figure number. Font: ...
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Remove duplicate and clean line break / blank space in Notepad++
This is my problem;
one two three four four five five six
seven eight
And I can't figure it out how to format it like this;
one two three four five six seven ...
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Windows: How to create a tab-separated list of information about files in a directory
As a Linux user I have no idea to solve the following problem on Windows (using cmd.exe):
I want to list all files in a given directory recursively with the following information seperated by tabs ...
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Formatting Word header and footer for landscape sections so that they are readable in portrait mode
I have a long word document, which needs to be printed and bounded in DIN A4 format but also should be readable in digital format. The main body is in portrait mode but several tables are in landscape ...
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