Category Archives: Microsoft

How to find powerpoint slides that don’t fit the template

Posted on 2020/03/07 by

any slides that have been altered cause a new slide layout to be added to your template with same name as the original with the characters 1_ prefixed. Continue reading →

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MS Community Robot Finds Word Tables Offensive

Posted on 2018/12/04 by

I posted this question on the Micsoft Community board and in the course of the following discussion, I posted this picture of a MS Table with the Language incorrectly set. But suddenly, it was removed from my discussion.  Replaced by … Continue reading →

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Automated Document Revision Information Reference

Posted on 2016/09/17 by

I went looking for a solution that would automatically update the front cover every time I added a new version number in the Document Revision Information table. Continue reading →

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Conditional Page Break in MS Word

Posted on 2016/07/24 by

Background For many years I have put up with using MS Word’s Insert | Break | Section Break (Odd Page) (now Layout | Breaks | Section Breaks | Odd Page in Word 2016) to force a page break when you want … Continue reading →

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I Bought a MS Surface Book, so now I’m really P…d off with Apple

Posted on 2016/01/15 by

Because if Apple had kept up its history of innovation in Personal Computers, Apple Laptops would now be shipping with touch-screens and stylus pencils. Continue reading →

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GNS3 WorkBench v8.6 is finally out

Posted on 2014/04/07 by

Executive Overview The next version of GNS3 WorkBench is out.  You can download it several forms: An entire Virtual Machine as a single blob (although split into two files 2.5G-3G in size) The same Virtual Machine as individual files (in case … Continue reading →

Posted in CCNA, Certifications, Cisco, dynamips, GNS3, GNS3 WorkBench, ICND1, ICND2, Labs, Mac OS X, Microsoft, Routing, Wireshark | Tagged , | 7 Comments

Damn you Microsoft and your forced reboot! HOW DARE YOU!

Posted on 2013/04/04 by

I’ve just lost 30mins (at least) of work.  I was was in the middle of doing a complicated install of a virtual machine (I was installing FreeBSD on a QEMU virtual machine) and documenting each step.  All of a sudden, … Continue reading →

Posted in Microsoft, opinion, rant, Windows 8 | 4 Comments