2008/3/17-21 [Computer/SW/Apps] UID:49481 Activity:kinda low | 3/17 Is there a way to compare differences between two substantially
similar Excel and/or Powerpoint documents other than going through
them manually?
\_ In Excel 2003, there is a "Compare and Merge Workbooks..." option
under the Tools menu. (But for some reason it is greyed out in my
Excel 2003.) In PowerPoint 2003 there is "Compare and Merge
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2008/1/5-7 [Computer/SW/Apps] UID:48895 Activity:moderate | 1/5 I'm an Excel novice who needs help. Let us say I have a column of
data A. I then take the absolute value of A1 and enter it in B1:
(B1=ABS(A1)). All is good. My problem is when I want to delete
Column A, Column B is still referencing A. How do I tell Excel to
stop referencing the source data and instead let me have the
result standalone? I don't want to keep A around anymore, but I
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2007/5/13-14 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:46613 Activity:nil | 5/13 Someone please give us a 411 on Windows Vista? Is activation
tougher than WinXP sp2? Is it impossible to get around now forcing
you to pay for upgrades? Let me just say that I don't like Windows
OS. I don't mind using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint,
and they actually make decent games. However, for over a decade
I've been sucked into using Windows3.0/95/98/2K/XP because
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2006/6/13-15 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:43377 Activity:nil | 6/13 ok, memorizing all these passwords is driving me insane. I
know this has been asked before but I cant find it: whats the
best way to keep a password-protected file of very sensitive
information? in this case, all my other passwords. thanks
\_ I use http://www.bugmenot.com
\_ Whatever happened to this single login thing called the
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2006/5/15-16 [Computer/SW/Apps] UID:43062 Activity:low | 5/15 MS Excel question: I have a moderately large sheet with one column
filled with entries that are in this form: "num; stuff", meaning
it's a number followed by a semicolon followed by anything. Is there
a way to split up this column into 2, with the first containing
the number and the second containing everything after the semicolon?
Thanks.
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2012/8/30-11/7 [Computer/SW/Apps, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54470 Activity:nil | 8/30 Is wall just dead? The wallall command dies for me, muttering
something about /var/wall/ttys not existing.
\_ its seen a great drop in usage, though it seems mostly functional.
-ERic
\_ Couldn't open wall log!: Bad file descriptor
Could not open wall subscription directory /var/wall/ttys: No such file or directory
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2011/11/20-2012/2/6 [Computer/Companies/Apple, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54237 Activity:nil | 11/20 Are there tools that can justify a chunk of plain ASCII text by
replacing words with words of similar meaning and inserting/removing
commas into the text? I received a 40-line plain text mail where
all the lines are justified on left and right. Every word and comma
is followed by only one space, and every period is followed by two
spaces. The guy is my kid's karate instructor which I don't think is
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2011/10/26-12/6 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54202 Activity:nil | 10/24 What's an easy way to see if say column 3 of a file matches a list of
expressions in a file? Basically I want to combine "grep -f <file>"
to store the patterns and awk's $3 ~ /(AAA|BBB|CCC)/ ... I realize
I can do this with "egrep -f " and use regexp instead of strings, but
was wondering if there was some magic way to do this.
\_ UNIX has no magic. Make a shell script to produce the ask or egrep
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2010/11/21-2011/1/13 [Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:53988 Activity:moderate | 11/21 Lifehacker's recommending Dreamhost as a personal web hosting service.
Apart from csua, who do you guys use? --erikred
\_ What do you want to use it for? Do you need CGI or PHP? My
brother worked for Dreamhost and said they are unethical. In
fact, he sued them. This refers to their treatment of customers
and employees both. I don't know who or what "Lifehacker" is,
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