Friday, January 13, 2006

Paste Special macro in Word

Control formatting of pasted text

When you paste text that you copied from most other applications into Word, the text retains the font size and formatting it had in the original application. To avoid this in Word 2000 and earlier, you had to paste the text by choosing Edit | Paste Special and then selecting Unformatted Text. Word 2002 has a paste pop-up that makes it even easier to paste unformatted text.

You can create a macro to perform this action for you. Start by creating a macro with a name like PasteUnformatted, which records the steps you just performed. You must then edit the macro by hand, because Word's macro recorder does not correctly record your choice of Unformatted Text. In the macro editor, replace the line Selection .PasteAndFormat (wdPasteDefault) with Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText, Link:=False.

Enabling an Ethernet Network Connection

To enable an Ethernet/LAN connection:

Start > Control Panel > Network Connections > Right click
on Local Area connection > Disable > Right click on it again > Enable


Use this when switching locations (ie: office to home) and the connection should be online
within seconds of re-enabling it.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Deleting pages from a PDF in Acrobat

To delete a page in a PDF go to:
Document > Pages > Delete

Deleting Noncontiguous Pages

  1. Open the PDF file

  2. In the Navigation pane, select the Pages tab

  3. Select the first page to be deleted

  4. Press and hold [Ctrl]

  5. Select the other page(s) to be deleted

  6. From the Document menu, select Pages » Delete
    The Delete Pages dialog box appears.
    NOTE: The Selected option will be designated.

  7. Click OK
    The Adobe Acrobat confirmation box appears.

  8. To delete the pages, click OK

Saturday, October 01, 2005

Internet Explorer - Printing headers and footers

Header and Footer codes for printing:

&w Window title

&u Page address (URL)

&d Date in short format (as specified by Regional Settings in Control
Panel)

&D Date in long format (as specified by Regional Settings in Control
Panel)

&t Time in the format specified by Regional Settings in Control Panel

&T Time in 24-hour format

&p Current page number

&P Total number of pages

&& A single ampersand (&)

&b The text immediately following these characters as centered.

&b&b The text immediately following the first "&b" as centered, and the text following the second "&b" as right-justified.

For example, if you want the header to have the window (page) title and the URL, you would type:

&w &u