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Have you ever associated an application with a file type, and wanted to change that choice? For example, when working with an acrobat form, I accidentally answered “Yes” once to Acrobat’s question “Do you want
Continue readingBy default, Excel sees the enter key as a signal to move down a row. To set it to allow the enter key to create a return or line-break within the text inside the cell,
Continue readingOn my Windows 2000 workstation, occasionally, the tablet just stops working. It seems that this usually happens when the mouse (which is also still connected) has been moved accidentally. However sometimes it seems to just
Continue readingmail.app can’t connect to mail server smtp server connection blocked port 25 SBC dsl
Continue readingAfter testing out Checkpoint’ VPN client on my Mac, I disconnected from the server, but left the client on. In other words, the icon was still visible in the menu bar. It seems this can
Continue readingI’ve found that Norton Ghost will not go into DOS mode to perform a disk backup unless a non-USB mouse is attached to the machine. Probably you could also get around this by fiddling with
Continue readingMaybe I was dreaming, but I was certain that the last time I looked, the only way to get a Checkpoint VPN client for the Mac was to buy one – for around $100.00. Many
Continue readingYou can use serverside variables to drive client-side javascripts. Server-side variables get processed and the results output by the time the page is rendered, so the value of the variable can be used in client-side functions.
In an ASP application I’m working with, I wanted a different tooltip to show up on each tab, depending on what the tab title was. There is a server-side variable called “tabs[i].title”. So I created a little client-side function to test the value of the title on each tab.
<script>
var tabName ;
function whichTab(tabTitle){
if (tabTitle == 'Summary'){
tabName = Summary;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Plan Details'){
tabName = PlanDetails;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Certifications'){
tabName = Certifications;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Transcript'){
tabName = Transcript;
}
}
</script>
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Links to PDF’s can be made to target specific places in the document by appending a number/pound (#) sign to the end of the URL, followed by “page=[number]: Example: target page 10 http://server.com/title.pdf#page=10 Example: Target
Continue readingCoursebuilder is a Dreamweaver extension that creates learning interactions, like quiz questions. When I installed the extension in Dreamweaver MX 2004, it seemed to work fine, until I got to the point of using the
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