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The Sort Text function shown in the snapshot is intended to sort lists. In Microsoft Word, a list has each element member in a new line (paragraph). Considering this: Convert the numbers separat...
As of June 2023, Gmail still doesn't offer a built-in way to disable the conversation view for specific senders. Knowing about this limitation, you should carefully review your inbox. If you influ...
Hello, power users! I am trying to make a personal wiki/zettelkasten/card index sorta thing to organise my fictional world as well as the rest of my daily life. I chose Joplin, which is software I...
Previously, web applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail were popular examples, but they have undergone significant advancements. Even Google Docs has undergone significant evolution. Fir...
While I identify myself as a "power user", the site name "POWER USER" appeals to a very narrow audience, probably limited to people of certain ages and backgrounds. I don't recall having ever read ...
You can't do that in Word. Word's Sort command operates on "fields" in separate rows. It is nominally for Tables, but if the selected data is not in an actual Table then it treats each row of text...
If one hovers over a server name in discord, a speech bubble with the server name pops up: Is there any way to avoid this tooltip? Maybe a userscript or a user style? As this element is only vis...
TL;DR Turns out the correct name is #pageAction-urlbar-metrication_deltamikecharlie { display: none !important; } Long version: How to find the name? There is actually a nice guide at ht...
I'm using the firefox extension metrication. I only ever use it via its entry in the context menu, therefore I would like to remove its icon from the url bar to gain more space: I tried the sugg...
Call the 3 Word documents in the same folder 1.docx, 2.docx, 3.docx. I followed Allen Wyatt's instructions for "Opening a Word Document when Starting the Computer" that is encapsulated by Microsoft...
Using scanimage First, get the name of the scanner with scanimage --list-devices In my case, this produced device `brother4:net1;dev0' is a Brother Brother_DCP-L3550CDW DCP-L3550CDW To get...
How can I find out the different image resolutions in DPI that my scanner supports? I'd prefer to use a command line tool to get the supported resolutions.
I have a docx file in A3 format here consisting of one page. Using LibreOffice Writer, I'd like to scale it down to A4 without breaking the layout. Eventually, I want to print the document on an A...
Another possible approach is to create a helper app which opens an app without opening a window. I used platypus to create a simple app which will execute a shell script. The settings used for th...
Based on the post https://droidwin.com/how-to-hide-an-app-at-launch-on-mac-ventura/ an alternative approach could be to use a launch agent. To do this, create a file vienna.LaunchAtLogin.plist (re...
Apple removed the hide option for login items in macOS 13 Ventura. Are there any alternative ways to launch an application at login without opening a window?
With pervious versions of macOS, I used sips to convert pdfs into pngs /usr/bin/sips -s format png document.pdf --out document.png In macOS 13.3.1 Ventura, this now gives an error: /Users/<...
I have an old microSD card that I'm trying to wipe. I've backed up all the files to somewhere else, and now I'm trying to clear the card. However, I can't seem to change anything on the card. Whe...
My string of numbers is 32, 29, 10, 30, 40, 39, 48, 12, 42, 41, 38, 18. How can I sort this from smallest to largest most readily? I clicked OK as pictured below, but nothing happened. Then I pick...
This is probably not a lasting solution, but one can manually copy the individual folders of the extensions to <path to your quarto installation>/share/extensions/quarto/ Documents seem t...
I didn't yet find a clean solution, but as a dirty hack one can edit the quarto.js file and change the line [kLatexAutoInstall]: true, to [kLatexAutoInstall]: false, (this obviously won't s...
Let's assume one has a Quarto document which does not compile because of an error in the latex code, e.g. here a simply typo in a macro name: --- format: pdf --- test\newlin test Quarto...
MWE Using magit: Open log buffer: ll. Open a commit diff: ENT. Go back to log buffer without closing diff: window-other. Question Starting from the MWE above, is there a way to have the d...
Problem How do I indent a list item in Vim the following way? Ideally I want this to happen automatically upon wrap, but will settle for something like ESC TAB doing the trick. Have This is a ...
Another approach is to use Karabiner-Elements. As a first step, I created to executable shell scripts, which will switch to the previous/next space using the handy tool SpaceInfo Space_prev: #!/...
