Office and Browsers

Properly Validate TextArea Length (IE vs. Firefox)

Let’s consider this example, where HTML page has a TEXTAREA and an INBOX.  When user types inside TextArea, Inbox should show the length of TextArea string. <script type=”text/javascript”> function TTLength(objTT){ var tt= document.getElementById(‘TXT1’); tt.value = objTT.value.length; } </script> <textarea onKeyDown=”TTLength(this);” onKeyUp=”TTLength(this);” rows=”10″> This Text Area Contains a string With Newline […]

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Office and Browsers

Count Number of Cell with Errors in Excel

This problem occurs, when you have a column with a formula that sometimes returns an error.  That is very typical for all kind of look-up situations .  Let’s say, you have a column E with formula that returns good values and errors.  You need to count how many errors are […]

Office and Browsers

Read Registry value into a batch variable

Before I forget, let me share with you a fantastic way to read values from Registry into a batch file variable. Say you need to determine, what is the date format of this machine.  Normally you would read a value from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International like this: REG QUERY “HKCU\Control Panel\International” /v […]

Office and Browsers

IE10 is not saving passwords and user names

I hope this post will help a lot of frustrated users out there. PROBLEM: IE10 was working fine, but at one point it stopped saving user names and passwords for web sites. This most securely-configured browser, so switching was not an option.   Here is my solution.  Please see, if it […]

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How to Remove Search Box in IE8

Do you hate an extraneous search box that is cluttering your valuable real estate space in an IE address bar? This article was tested with IE8 on Windows XP and Windows 7.   Remove Search box using gpedit.msc If you are using IE8, there is a simple way to remove […]

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Office and Browsers

Excel Macro to Toggle Wrap Text

This Excel macro allows changing cells in selection based on the first cell in a selection: If Selection.Cells(1, 1).WrapText = True Then Selection.WrapText = False Else Selection.WrapText = True End If   This is useful in Excel 2003 and bellow.  Starting from Excel 2007, there is a button to perform […]

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Office and Browsers

Photoshop 6.0 Still Shines Even After 12th Anniversary

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Adobe Photoshop® CS5 Extended Adobe Illustrator® CS5 Adobe InDesign® CS5 Adobe Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 Adobe Flash Professional CS5 Adobe Dreamweaver® CS5 Adobe Fireworks® CS5 Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro * Adobe Bridge CS5 Adobe Device Central CS5 12 years in Software is longer than life.  […]