Category Archives: Computing – general

Indexing pdf content

Posted on 30/07/2015 by dougaj4

I recently discovered that my 64 bit Windows 8.1 Search was not indexing the content of pdf files.  Since searching the content of pdf files is just about the only thing I want to do with a desktop search tool, … Continue reading →

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Links on Lists, and other things.

Posted on 31/01/2015 by dougaj4

Daily Dose of Excel recently had a post on interacting with List Objects from VBA.  Since I make very little use of Lists (or Tables as they are now known in Excel, but not VBA), I thought I’d have a search … Continue reading →

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Smart Indenter and Excel 2013

Posted on 27/01/2015 by dougaj4

I have recently installed Office 365 on a new computer running Windows 8.1 (actually the third one in just over a month, but that’s another story).  Office 2013 has several annoying features, but for me the most annoying was that … Continue reading →

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Finding Excel Version Information

Posted on 26/01/2015 by dougaj4

The information below was buried in an old post, but I had trouble finding it when I wanted it, so here it is in its own post: Finding the version information in Office used to be easy; it was always … Continue reading →

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“Yields circularity when preceded by its quotation” …

Posted on 15/04/2014 by dougaj4

yields circularity when preceded by its quotation. Today’s post takes us on a little circular tour of the internet, starting with: Grumpy Old Programmer (Mike Woodhouse) who returns from a long holiday from blogging to publish a nice little routine … Continue reading →

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