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My god this is helpful, should have googled for th...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:00:00 +0000

My god this is helpful, should have googled for this before I wasted time on MS online. Thanks a million!

It has been bugging me since I started using Firef...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 03:45:00 +0000

It has been bugging me since I started using Firefox. Why can't Excel perform CTRL+TAB functionality. Thanks a lot.
Naveed

Thanks!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:09:00 +0000

Thanks!

thanks a bunch. you were my first google hit when ...

noreply@blogger.com (Seth C. Holler) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:45:00 +0000

thanks a bunch. you were my first google hit when I searched for "MS Excel keyboard shortcut switch between sheets".

Cheers Dave! It was just like you wrote above: goo...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 17 May 2007 07:39:00 +0000

Cheers Dave! It was just like you wrote above: googling for an obscure solution...

This had been annoying me since I don't know when... What bliss

WooHoo!!!Thanks for that! I dug through five pages...

noreply@blogger.com (YankDownUnder) — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:50:00 +0000

WooHoo!!!

Thanks for that! I dug through five pages of Help File Keyboard Shortcuts and STILL managed to miss it.

A colleague showed me this trick this morning. I f...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:02:00 +0000

A colleague showed me this trick this morning. I found this article while Googling to find out more about it. I was hoping I could do regular expression searches and replacements too... but I don't yet know why that would be useful. :)

Thanks for the global info... I'm sure I'll need it one day!

Phew, thanks for this - it was driving me crazy! I...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:42:00 +0000

Phew, thanks for this - it was driving me crazy! I am now in a zen-like state, flicking between worksheets...

Yes, from your cell phone, the phone number you ca...

noreply@blogger.com (spugbrap) — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:17:00 +0000

Yes, from your cell phone, the phone number you can send all text messages to (to reach any AIM user) is 265010. The AIM screen name you want to send to is then specified as the first thing in the message text (followed by a colon, then the message).

thanks for the tip. for clarification, is the AIM ...

noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Kopp) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:29:00 +0000

thanks for the tip. for clarification, is the AIM user always 265010, no matter what the person's AIM username is?

Fantastic - it worked like a charm. I applied thi...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:29:00 +0000

Fantastic - it worked like a charm. I applied this fix on my Windows 2003 server with Citrix on it. I had to apply to fix to all users, but once I did that everybody's problems went away.

I've been looking for that everywhere, thanks!!

noreply@blogger.com (Craig) — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:26:00 +0000

I've been looking for that everywhere, thanks!!

Thanks man,You just saved my day.Nawaz

noreply@blogger.com (Nawaz Ali) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:42:00 +0000

Thanks man,

You just saved my day.

Nawaz

Hmm.. Well, it happens to me at work (all jobs, ev...

noreply@blogger.com (spugbrap) — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:55:00 +0000

Hmm.. Well, it happens to me at work (all jobs, ever), at home (old house and new house), at school, etc... I think it's usually something flaky on the IM servers, or related to my switching from wired to wireless/vice versa, resuming from hibernation, etc. So, regardless of variable ISPs, over time, I still probably behave the same way in terms of laptop mobility, which is probably the #1 cause of my trillian funky-network-state issues. :)

Not trying to devalue your freakishly unusual broadband service, or anything.
[ok, maybe I am]

Great tip! I just tried that and it works for me!...

noreply@blogger.com (Dave O) — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:40:00 +0000

Great tip! I just tried that and it works for me!

kool

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:23:00 +0000

kool

I often do the type of previous command editing th...

noreply@blogger.com (spugbrap) — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:26:00 +0000

I often do the type of previous command editing that you described, clint.. but in this particular case, there are actually about 10 date-based filenames on the commandline, and changing them all manually got tedious.

The 's' is for substitution. :)
"s/old/new/
Substitute new for the first occurrence of old in the event line. [...]" (from the bash reference page mentioned at the bottom of the original post).

But yeah, the 'g' was crucial for doing what I needed to do.. otherwise, the method I already knew about (^old^new^) would have sufficed.

Cool trick! And I'm digging your l33t commandline...

noreply@blogger.com (Dave O) — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:01:00 +0000

Cool trick! And I'm digging your l33t commandline skills!

Thank you - it was my biggest pet peave!

noreply@blogger.com (luv my coughee) — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:41:00 +0000

Thank you - it was my biggest pet peave!

(1 line, if DATE is already set by OS.)SET MY_DATE...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:11:00 +0000

(1 line, if DATE is already set by OS.)

SET MY_DATE=%DATE:~10,4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%

(2 lines)FOR /F "DELIMS=" %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SE...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:06:00 +0000

(2 lines)

FOR /F "DELIMS=" %%A IN ('DATE /T') DO SET CURRENT_DATE=%%A

SET MY_DATE=%CURRENT_DATE:~10,4%-%CURRENT_DATE:~4,2%-%CURRENT_DATE:~7,2%

See http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ for more batch goodness.

Dang-- it is too bad I didn't start reading your b...

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:54:00 +0000

Dang-- it is too bad I didn't start reading your blog earlier. I just tackled the same issue in April. If I had been regularly reading your blog, I could have bypassed some research time!

:)
Vicky (Carolyn's Sister)
P.S. I'm going to put you on my Google Reader, so next time I can put your knowledge to work!

Awesome tip; I've been needing that sort of trick ...

noreply@blogger.com (Dave O) — Fri, 05 May 2006 16:48:00 +0000

Awesome tip; I've been needing that sort of trick for a while now! Thanks!

Thanks

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:23:00 +0000

Thanks

I think TweakUI sets these as well.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:38:00 +0000

I think TweakUI sets these as well.