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Question How do I search for, and view, all Web Pages on En.wiktionary.com containing "Sino-Korean word"?
To compile and create a list of all Sino-Korean words from https://en.wiktionary.org, I input `site:en.wiktionary.com "sino-korean word"` into Google. But the screenshot beneath shows that 1. Google found "no results"? Obviously Google is wrong, because the Web Pages below all contain "Sino-Korea...
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Comment Post #281888 Thanks. Can you please clarify which are the best and worse "Comparison methods" here?
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Comment Post #281751 @MonicaCellio I'm trying to achieve https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/281755. Apologies. I've been itching for answers to these unsolved questions for months. That's why I'm posting them all now.
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Comment Post #281773 @MonicaCellio Mozilla Firefox. Windows 10.
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Question Why can't I type text above a table?
I'm trying to insert text above a table that's at the top of the first page. Kindly see the screenshot beneath. ![enter image description here][1] Note that Table 'Text wrapping' is set to None. ![enter image description here][2] [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/djrHV.jpg [2]: ht...
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Question Why's the image preview on mouseover bigger and clearer than the image itself?
Is the issue with https://www.artemisatusc.com/our-board? or my computer? I'm using Firefox and Windows 10. This issue happens for every portrait on that website. I'll just showcase one. Bigger image But after I right click on the portrait and click "View Image", the actual image is sm...
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Question What program can automatically footnote different number of footnotes per line?
Oxford University Press (OUP) publishes the following books, and couldn't have used Microsoft Word to variate the number of footnotes per line, because harrymc affirmed >I have done some tests on Word 2019, and it seems that the option of "Footnote layout" is now dead and non-functional. [. . ...
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Question Why can't I add one line of space between text? Why does Word create useless white space in between, when I hit Enter?
Kindly see the GIF below. I need merely one line of space after "Modification of this Contract" and para. 36. Why can't I delete all that useless white blank space at the top of the page, above para. 36? Pressing Enter creates all that useless white space, and pushes para. 36 to the next page! Pl...
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Question How can I work around or "life hack" Word's failure to 2-column footnotes?
harrymc affirmed >I have done some tests on Word 2019, and it seems that the option of "Footnote layout" is now dead and non-functional. [. . .] Your only option is to file a bug-report to Microsoft using the Feedback Hub, then wait for a fix. Please recommend some workaround, subject to these ...
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Question Is it wise to delete C: (containing Program Files) on an old hard drive, to create space to backup more files?
I'm asking just for Windows. My old laptop died, and I removed its hard drive ("HD"). Now I'm using this as a backup HD. I partitioned it into C and D, because C contains all the "Program Files" and Windows files. I kept all personal files on drive D that I already copied and pasted to my new HD on ...
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Question Anti-Twin's Byte by Byte“ vs. ”Compare images (pixels)"
Kindly see the red rectangle below. How does "Byte by Byte" differ from "Compare images (pixels)"? Which is more accurate? What are the pros and cons of each? Screenshot Advise me if I got to ask this separately, but how does a byte relate to a pixel? I can't decide which answer on Quora is co...
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Question ELI5 these 9 methods to compare similar pictures – Hash, MD5, SHA?
Please explain like I'm 5, in SIMPLE English – all 9 methods below? Please compare and contrast 1. Hash, MD5, SHA? 2. why Hash has a, b, d, p in front? 3. why SHA has 4 different Bits? ![AllDup image duplicate finder with list of search comparison methods ahash, bhash, dhash, phash, M...
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Question Why do you need virtual machines in these examples?
I added the numbering. >It's a virtual machine. Basically, it's one or more computers pretending to be one or more computers. Believe it or not, this is incredibly useful. >1. Say you have some services that are busy during the day and others that are busy at night. You need 50 computers to do ...
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Question What are the differences between OBS' 4 encoders?
I never used OBS before. I'm computer illiterate. I need OBS because I want to record Skype videos with my grandparents before they die. I Googled this, but all the results were too complicated. I couldn't begin to unravel Comparison of x264, NVENC, Quicksync, VCE, x264 vs QSV or NVENC. I'm so ...
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Question How can software track [1] how many subscribers to subreddits, [2] if subreddit is private, [3] if submissions are restricted?
Master lists like 82 food subreddits and 128 tech subreddits don't indicate 1. each's subscribers. 2. if it's private. Sometimes moderators can make the sub private for several days, to clean it up. 3. if the moderators restricted users to create posts. Indubitably, I don't have time to c...
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Question Why does Microsoft Outlook not "have permission to get email", and ask me to "update my credentials", for my AOL email?
Before March 22 2021, AOL synced with my desktop Microsoft Outlook software swimmingly! Since then, Outlook updated itself. But I changed NOTHING for both my AOL or Outlook. Outlook keeps sending these alerts to my inbox. How do I rectify this? email saying "it looks like we don't have permissi...
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Question Why does my second LCD monitor overflow, when I try to maximize windows?
My Display 2 is an old LCD monitor, Samsung SyncMaster 913V. This website lists its "Native Resolution" as 1280 x 1024. It fails to maximize programs perfectly. You can see below this problem with Notepad and Paint. I see that the 913V recommends 1024 x 768, but this makes everything look too big, ...
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