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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple align inside the same line
« on: May 06, 2011, 02:17 PM »
All I could find was a setting in Options>Compatibilty tab:

               Don't expand character spaces on the line ending Shift-Return

which is only for lines ending in a manual line return.  Lines ending in an EndParagraph mark should automatically not full justify.

This is actually a trick to force full justification of the last line (use a manual line end).  Doesn't address your problem at all, sorry.

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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple align inside the same line
« on: May 06, 2011, 10:15 AM »
... the last short line of a paragraph across the whole page...
-Stoic Joker (May 06, 2011, 06:39 AM)

There's a setting to prevent the last line in a fully justified paragraph from doing that.  I could find it in Word 2002 if that would help.

Is there really an end-paragraph marker (pilcrow) at the end of the paragraph, or is it a manual line-break, which brings different behavior?

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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple align inside the same line
« on: May 05, 2011, 08:39 PM »
When tabs act like that, it's often because one is using tabs two different ways at the same time.

If you don't put tab stops in the ruler, the tabs default to a certain number of spaces.

If you use the tab stops, the tabs will align accordingly.

If you use the tab stops but put in extra tab characters, things don't appear as expected.

When setting things up with tabs, I always display formatting marks so I can see where the tab characters are (the little arrows).

The other thing that can affect tabs is where the right and left margins are, but if you display formatting all tab behavior should be, well, well behaved.

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General Software Discussion / Re: multiple align inside the same line
« on: May 05, 2011, 08:14 PM »
Put a left tab stop in the ruler at the top, all the way to the left.
Put a right tab stop all the way to the right.

Put an actual tab character before the "one" and another before the "two".

The first will align the "one" to the left and the second will align the "two" to the right.

HideFormatting.png
ShowFormatting.png
(second image shows formatting marks)

If you are doing multiple lines, when you hit the Return key to start a new line (paragraph), the tab stops will be created in the subsequent line (paragraph).

This is one way to do columns in Word, handy for short ones.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brilliantly Simple Programs, that's what I'm looking for
« on: May 04, 2011, 05:23 PM »
Fineprint and PdfFactory are two for me.
-wraith808 (May 04, 2011, 12:51 PM)
me too

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Living Room / Re: Can you read this?
« on: April 29, 2011, 08:31 PM »
This actually was pretty startling.  As soon as I stopped trying to decipher the words and instead just ran my eyes along the same way I do reading normally, the speed picked up to 99% normal. 

Interesting brain stuff.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: I think we should close the Company Complaints and Compliments Section
« on: April 21, 2011, 06:25 PM »
As this is to a large extent about allocating resources, I defer to Mouser, whose judgment in these matters is far better informed than mine.  Once he's heard the pros and cons, I'll go with what he thinks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Deduplication, encryption, security and... Dropbox
« on: April 16, 2011, 01:45 PM »
This:
Yes. Dropbox employees can't access the file's contents. ....  The only exceptions are the executive staff who have a vested interest the company.
makes this:
"Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files"

a lie.

Try telling the IRS that any executive staff, whether or not they are officers of the corporation, whether or not they own stock or have any other vested interest, are not employees of the corporation. 

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Coding Snacks / Re: Changing a folder's name text colour
« on: April 14, 2011, 11:09 AM »
I would like what exact command must introduce in the registry to change the color and background text of a folder or file.....
-Contro (April 14, 2011, 11:04 AM)
It might be worth asking this in the AutoHotkey forum.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Single hotkey to call an AddressBook
« on: April 13, 2011, 10:17 PM »
What AddressBook do you use?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Move dialog boxes to the center of the (correct) monitor
« on: April 13, 2011, 08:04 AM »
dunno, but you can get clever with the two size filters...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Move dialog boxes to the center of the (correct) monitor
« on: April 13, 2011, 07:01 AM »
Get a copy of Window Spy from the Autohotkey site.  It will give you the ahk_class of any window you hover the mouse over, including the kind of not "proper" windows you are talking about.

You can then use the ahk_class name in the include or exclude list of DialogMove.

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General Software Discussion / Re: DLS: Mozilla publishes name and shame list of slow Firefox add-ons
« on: April 07, 2011, 07:00 PM »
FF with 10+ extensions is near unusable, wish I knew how anybody has 50 or so
-rgdot (April 07, 2011, 06:16 PM)
40 (according to one of my extensions, Mr Tech Toolkit  ;)), and things seem to work pretty well.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Move dialog boxes to the center of the (correct) monitor
« on: April 07, 2011, 11:44 AM »
Of course, the same applies to lots of other popup windows and dialogs
-David.P (April 07, 2011, 09:03 AM)
Take a look at the Include and Exclude subroutines in the original script.

If you wanted to include or exclude certain dialog boxes from going to the center of the proper screen, you could probably do that.  (I don't have a dual monitor setup so I'm not going to look into the details.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make Firefox Not Open PDF Files
« on: April 04, 2011, 02:36 PM »
If you want a warning beforehand: install Stylish ...
-Winkie (April 04, 2011, 02:15 PM)

Or Link Alert

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General Software Discussion / Re: Make all Dialog Boxes and Browser Popups come up where the Cursor is
« on: April 02, 2011, 08:43 AM »
Probably a bit of an exaggeration to say I couldn't live without DialogMove, but I would find it most aggravating.

What nudone said, re a bit of tweaking.  I have several dozen dialogs listed as "always move" or "never move", but I also found the two settings for dialog box sizes very handy.  At the moment I can't remember why one is set almost square (anything less than 410 x 451) and one long and skinny (anything less than 1280 x 160), but I remember at the time that this fixed all the quirks in my setup.

One hallmark of a stable program is that once set up you seldom have to think about it anymore.  WAY TO GO JGPAIVA!!!!!  :up: :up: :up:  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

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Living Room / Re: The "Cloud" Goes Up in Smoke
« on: April 01, 2011, 10:31 AM »
I guess he felt he'd gyp some...
-cranioscopical (April 01, 2011, 07:59 AM)
;D

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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 4 (4.0) and QuickRestart Add-On Alternative (Restartless Restart)
« on: March 29, 2011, 10:37 AM »
 :Thmbsup: Mr Tech Toolkit :Thmbsup:

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General Software Discussion / Re: free, very fast FONT VIEWER
« on: March 25, 2011, 11:02 AM »
Nice Curt, thanks!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: free, very fast FONT VIEWER
« on: March 25, 2011, 11:01 AM »
Doesn't seem to work on non-installed fonts though.
-Renegade (March 25, 2011, 09:12 AM)

There's a button to select the folder (From Folder).  I copied one of my fonts to a different folder, selected that one with the  button, and only that font was displayed.

But it was an installed font (I don't have any uninstalled ones), so I don't know if that will make a difference.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Instant Notes - move mouse to top left corner to pop up a notepad
« on: March 24, 2011, 02:41 PM »
or Flashnote

http://softvoile.com/flashnote/

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Instant Notes - move mouse to top left corner to pop up a notepad
« on: March 24, 2011, 09:43 AM »
Second that. 

You are still going to have to take your hand off the mouse in order to type your note.  So leave the mouse where it was, hit your hotkey, which starts your script.  The script remembers which window was active when it was started, so after typing when you exit your note you are easily returned to your original active window just before the script ends.

I tried to make something in autohotkey to do this but I never managed anything usable.

Did you get stuck on the mouse activation (which we are suggesting you discard)?  Did you get something useable in the way of opening, editing, and saving your note file?  If so, try starting (and perhaps exiting) that with a hotkey, and look into the autohotkey ActiveWindow commands.

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Living Room / Re: My Movie Fantasy
« on: March 23, 2011, 08:56 AM »
Sounds like an outdoor political rally.
-MilesAhead (March 22, 2011, 09:12 PM)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Living Room / Re: Fascinating story about the consequences of sharing your art in the Internet age
« on: March 21, 2011, 10:42 AM »
I have no quibble with any of the logic here (can't say that very often about a conversation, except maybe around here).

I do think the question of choice is quite important, but in the real world there's often little or no choice about things that happen, and perhaps only some choice about how to deal with those things after the fact.

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Living Room / Re: Fascinating story about the consequences of sharing your art in the Internet age
« on: March 20, 2011, 11:45 AM »
One person is given 2 choices:
-jgpaiva (March 20, 2011, 10:26 AM)
Was he given a choice?

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