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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Posts by Moshi‭

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Q&A How do I copy an unencoded URL from my browser?

Whenever I copy and paste URLs from my browser, they end up being percent-encoded and completely unreadable. For example, the homepage URL of the Japanese version of Wikipedia, https://ja.wikipedi...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A How do I color — some but NOT all — text in a sentence, in HTML5?

The font element is depreciated An easy way to do it is to use span elements. That page has a good example of what you want. Simply do something like <p>Blah blah <span class="special"&g...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Meta Should we use more specific version tags for software?

If you're on Windows 10, you really should be on the latest version of Windows 10. Therefore, I believe it's not necessary to tag version numbers. Version tags will near immediately become irrelev...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Turn off proofing for quotations in Word

When directly quoting somebody, I would like to quote them verbatim, and their writing style often clashes with Word's style/grammar checker. While I can manually ignore them, the squiggly lines al...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Meta What do we do about webapps?

Are questions about web application such as Google Docs on topic? What about Overleaf? GitHub? Where do we draw the line between a webapp and just a website?

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A How do I Google for ≤,≥ a particular natural number?

Just exclude the second number. "50.. copies" site:torontopubliclibrary.ca will give results for any number greater or equal to 50. For getting natural numbers less than 50, just set the first to...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Commenting on multiple selections in Google Docs

How can one add one comment to two or more selections in Google Docs? It is clearly technically possible, since when you copy a section with a comment, any pasted text will link to the same commen...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by qohelet‭

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Q&A Why can't I type text above a table?

To enter a paragraph above a table, just hit Enter when your caret is at the start of the first cell of the table.

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Meta Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A

It's a failed YouTube embed. The site has a script to create YouTube embeds from youtube.com links, but fails on the link https://www.youtube.com/embed/?autohide=1&enablecastapi=0&html5=1&...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Meta Software Recommendations Category

On the original proposal for Power User, there was talk about allowing software recommendations on the site. Now that the site is up and running, I'd like to bring that request over to this Meta. ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A What's the pattern for how on/off sliders work?

Relying on my own experience, usually websites do some combination of the below: The current state tells you how it is That is, if it is green, it is on, and if it is red, it is off Filled i...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Why is WAVE throwing an "empty button" error when there's a type attribute specified?

Let's take a look at what WAVE is telling us. A <button> element is present that contains no text content (or alternative text), or an <input type="submit">, <input type="button...

posted 8mo ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A How do I search for, and view, all Web Pages on En.wiktionary.com containing "Sino-Korean word"?

Wiktionary.com ≠ Wiktionary.org There simply aren't any pages matching your search The pages you list, 준비, 박수, 주방, 감사, 안녕, 실패, 성공, are all on en.wiktionary.org. However, your search is on en.wik...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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