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

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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 […]

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

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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

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

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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

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Screenshot of my jQuery Fancy Paragraphs code in JSFiddle 2013

Fancy HTML Paragraph Styling with jQuery

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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

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SOLVED: So, Why Do I get “Unable to complete Genuine Windows Validation” When I Know For A Fact It Was Already Validated???

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Why am I all-of-a-sudden being required to RE-VALIDATE my copy of Windows, which I know for a fact is Genuine??? I started this post out looking at this article: How to Remove “Unable to Complete Genuine Windows Validation” | eHow.com. Well, I’ll let you know after I restart if these steps worked…. (… AFTER REBOOT

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Heroku Web Hosting — A Web Design Masterpiece

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Heroku | Pricing. NOTE: I dig this site because of it being a real “concept art” theme-type creating. Well designed, well crafted — associating different “characters” or “archetype” levels is brilliant — should strike a chord with those familiar with video games, or any sport or activity in which you progress through various levels (like

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Neon Home-built PC Computer Mods: Custom Computers Gone Wild!

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UPDATE:Only a few months since I last posted this and the hosting domain seems to be gone. It would be a shame to remove this post, so I’m updating it with some related photos of neon home-build PC mods. I hope you enjoy these excellent works of art & function. (The original article was posted

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