Eric Hepperle

Eric loves to write code, play guitar, and help businesses solve challenges with code and design.

Office 2007: Why Does Drawing Object Or Shape Disappear When Deleting Text near it?

http://word.tips.net/Pages/T001743_Pictures_Move_on_their_Own.html http://www.faultwire.com/solutions-application/Microsoft-Office-Word-*3945.html You cannot put drawing objects into a text box,… These were the most helpful links I could find, but none quite exactly addressed my problem.  However, after an hour or so of tinkering I figured it out: SOLUTION:  Format the AutoShape as “In line with text” — then you can move cut text

Office 2007: Why Does Drawing Object Or Shape Disappear When Deleting Text near it? Read More »

Windows 8 won’t wake up from sleep mode & Power Off goes into sleep mode after BIOS update

Apparently this is a common issue with Windows 8. Here is what I know from my own experience: It does not help to upgrade to Windows 8.1 No Windows Update has fixed this issue The problem seemed to start about 2 months after I bought the laptop, after a BIOS update (update must have been

Windows 8 won’t wake up from sleep mode & Power Off goes into sleep mode after BIOS update Read More »

Google Docs spreadsheet script: compare dates, highlight past dates, highlight weekends, and highlight today

ORIGINAL PROBLEM I spent hours tonight struggling with this Google Apps script I wrote to serve as custom functions or advanced macros. I adapted it from this StackOverflow post. The main issue I ran into was comparing dates. Here is my research path, and hopefully, some indicator as to why it took so long: STEPS

Google Docs spreadsheet script: compare dates, highlight past dates, highlight weekends, and highlight today Read More »

Quick Link: Headers and Footers in Word 2003 – Unlinking To Remove Header From Only One Page

Linking and Unlinking Headers and Footers In Microsoft Word 2003: Here are instructions on how to remove headers or footers from any single page in a multi-page Microsoft Word document.  This applies to Word 2003, but may work with other versions as well. [Excerpt] You can link and unlink headers and footers as long as

Quick Link: Headers and Footers in Word 2003 – Unlinking To Remove Header From Only One Page Read More »

Screenshot of my jQuery Fancy Paragraphs code in JSFiddle 2013

Fancy HTML Paragraph Styling with jQuery

I wrote this jQuery fiddle in about 5 minutes. It is really simple, but amazingly powerful at the same time. The purpose of this is to instantly style paragraph tags. Here are the style parameters: Background color: Manila (light beige-ish/yellow) Border color: Orange Drop-shadow: Yes Rounded-rectangle: Yes I want to make the code easily available

Fancy HTML Paragraph Styling with jQuery Read More »

marsRoverDrawsPenis_Huffpost

Mars Rover ‘Draws’ Penis On Red Planet & NASA Picture Goes Viral (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Mars Rover ‘Draws’ Penis On Red Planet & NASA Picture Goes Viral (PHOTO, VIDEO). (EDITOR’S NOTE:  Ok this was news about 3 weeks ago but I just heard about it last night and had to post about it anyway.  Was this truly accidental, or some sophomoric “Easter Egg” deliberately programmed into the rover?  Only time

Mars Rover ‘Draws’ Penis On Red Planet & NASA Picture Goes Viral (PHOTO, VIDEO) Read More »