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29 Mar 2009
A few days ago I was speaking to one of my users about creating some PDF files from Microsoft Word and securing them so that they can’t be copied or printed. Rather than using expensive software from Adobe or a generic creator like CutePDF I recommended using the add-in for Word 2007 that Microsoft provide as it provides some useful accessibility options (thanks to JISC TechDis for highlighting that one to me).
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28 Mar 2009
Armed with my folder browser script I finally finished rounding out my script to clone / duplicate a folder structure.
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28 Mar 2009
Have you ever wanted to use the browse for a folder dialog box from your VBScript? Well maybe you can make use of this function? It’s an amalgamation of various other scripts tailored to my own needs so hopefully it’ll suit your purposes too, but if not just tweak it until it does.
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26 Mar 2009
I’ve been looking at a number of broadcast technologies recently like Adobe Connect and Instant Presenter. Several months ago I came across Dim Dim and in essence I have been fond of this Open Source option as it offers free meetings for up to 20 users and it is constantly being developed.
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19 Mar 2009
Microsoft Exchange is a fairly ubiquitous system for handling e-mails and I made a surprising discovery today whilst amending a user’s mailbox storage limits … they don’t get updated straight away.
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17 Mar 2009
After spending a bit of time looking at service desk records today I had the opportunity to look at a particular request where a SharePoint user wanted to include links to files on other web sites in a document library without uploading the file onto the SharePoint site. This is actually a really nice idea as then if the other site is updated (assuming the URL remains the same), the latest version is always accessible via the SharePoint site.
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17 Mar 2009
It seems that drop down lists are the in thing at work right about now. One of my colleagues dropped by with a query about creating drop down lists in Word 2007. So this is how to go about doing it…
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15 Mar 2009
I posted earlier about a better way for producing dynamic lists in Excel. One of the “tricks” I used to simplify things was using the text values of the items in a primary list to identify a secondary list to use.
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15 Mar 2009
I was recently asked to look at a problem a colleague was having with an
Excel spreadsheet where they wanted to use a drop down list in the cells
of one column and then a drop down list in the next column that was
dependent upon the selection in the previous column. This is something
I’d come across before and a little browsing of the help file refreshed
my memory and I gave them a solution based upon data validation and the
use of the INDIRECT function.
08 Mar 2009
I’ve been trying a number of applications recently on my Windows mobile device (Samsung Omnia) and it started grumbling again that I’m low on main storage memory. I’ve made it much happier now so I thought I’d share some of my tips with you on how to keep your storage memory free. Some of the tips may only be applicable if you have certain items of software installed.
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