The Notepad replacement Notepad++ is storing sessions by default. This means that a user opening a supported document in Notepad++ is also seeing the documents of the last sessions in the tabs on top. This feature can be handy if a user works with the same documents most of the time; It can on the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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ODF Addins For Microsoft Office Suite
The Microsoft Office Suite is currently not supporting the Open Format (ODF), a file format for spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Most users will probably have come in contact with the Open Format in Open Office which fully supports the format. The most common file names are .odf for word processing documents and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Use The Computer To Fill Out Paper Forms
It looks much nicer and is better readable if a paper form is filled out by using a type writer or computer printer. The person who is working with the filled out paper forms will thank you if you do it that way. I once had to check and process thousands of paper forms that [...]
Acrobat.com Online
Adobe recently released a new set of office applications online to compete with the dominant Google Docs, Zoho and possibly Windows Office Live. It was released alongside Adobe Flash9 and received a small amount of coverage, so I decided to have a quick look at what it offered. Acrobat.com contains 5 services, 3 of which [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Notepad++ 5.0 beta
Notepad++ has been my Notepad replacement for the last years and I have never looked back since I installed it on my first computer. It combines the speed and low resource usage of Notepad with an advanced functionality that includes syntax highlighting, plugins and multi-views. Today the first beta version of Notepad++ 5.0 was released [...]
Open Office Extensions
Open Office recently pushed 3.0 as a beta release. It’s a bit slower the 2.4, it’s got a nice new start centre, an icon refresh, a zoom control on the status bar and is now capable of supporting extensions to increase functionality. To be honest I can’t say there are a great many useful downloads [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Find and Replace text across multiple documents
A colleague of mine build a static html website a few years ago. He slowly but steadily created hundreds of html pages which was great for him because he could simply use one already finished file as a template for a new one. It did however pose a problem as well. Updating information across all files was very time consuming. Think of extending the copyright notice each year, adding advertisement to the websites or changing the navigation.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Combine Text Documents
My old hoster had the habit of providing me with 20 Megabyte log file chunks that I could download to my computer. I did run a great forum back then that had lots of traffic and I always had to download several log files and combine them when they were downloaded on my computer. That’s one practical use for the software TxtCollector which combines text documents found in folders and subfolders that the user specifies.
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Text Statistics
Text Stat is a small program for Windows that analyzes text files and html documents displaying a wide variety of statistics about it in the end. It displays figures about the amount of paragraphs, words, letters, sentences, printable characters, spaces, carriage returns, number of words per sentence, syllables per word and a word list with [...]