Today got a call from a friend and was told that her computer might be virus infection since a new anti-virus software always prompted up and warned her everything. And this new anti-virus is named “XP Internet Security 2010″, but she said she never installed it before. Now she was scared since too many viruses found on her computer according to the ‘XP Internet Security 2010″ application warned. Based on what she said, I could tell she got a new malware infected instead of a lot of viruses.
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Say you have a few hundreds WORD (*.doc and *.docx) files on your computer, and you need to convert them all into PDF format files. Yes, you can open them and then Save As into PDF in WORD 2007 one by one, or you can highlight all of them (provided they are in the same folder) and print them into PDF format. But you still need to click a few hundreds times mouse to answer Save As… questions within Word. Is there a way to automate it.
Hey, you might say I already mentioned this similar feature in my previous post (http://lichao.net/eblog/how-to-auto-find-and-replace-text-in-bulk-word-files-and-save-convert-to-other-format-with-script-201002475.html). But that script was mainly created for Find and Replace feature and there is a glitch in the PDF convert bonus feature. If you have Word 2007 installed on your machine, and that script will prompt you with READ-ONLY permission warning if your Word files are in 2003 version. But if you use that script on Word 2003 machine, the PDF convert feature will not work. So we need to create separate PDF convert scripts for Word 2003 and Word 2007.
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Challenge:
As I indicated in my previous post, I needed to rename thousands Microsoft Word documents based on the updated old/new catalog ID pairs.
But that was just one part of my requirement. Since these Word DOC files have the old catalog IDs inside the content which need to be updated with new IDs as well. The methods of my previous post could only resolve the file name part but not the contents.
Unsuccessful trials
I started with some existing utilities I found on the Internet but they were not working as I hoped.
1), I tried the Useful File Utility along with its free plug-in “Batch Replacer for MS Word” (Useful File Utility is a shareware which can allow you to use 15 times for free, then $29 for a single user license). It looks promising as it indicated on its web page, but it failed on me with too many un-successful replaces in a few hundreds files.
2), I was impressed with this VBA macro I found on Internet named VBA Find and Replace. But it could not work well with the Find and Replace text list. I always get an error saying my name list is not valid.
After one night’s trying, I decided to write my own script to handle such automate job.
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Challenge:
We have a few hundreds Microsoft Word documents with old catalog names as their file names. We need to rename them with these new catalog ID as their new file name. Good thing is that we already have these old/new catalog name pairs in an Excel worksheet.
To save the time of manually changing all file names, we come up two solutions/approaches to automate the process.
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Today I was asked to come up a solution to a simple request: a co-worker needs to show a form screen to the customer on a secondary monitor after she completed the entries on her primary monitor; after the customer verifies the form fields, my co-worker should be able to move that screen back to the primary monitor.
It sounds easier, but the problem is that the secondary monitor and the primary monitor are sitting back to back. It is impossible for the co-worker to position her cursor on the secondary monitor to drag any windows back without seeing them.
Cloning the two monitors could work, but the co-worker does not want the customer to see every steps during her work afterwards.
Continue reading ‘Use muliti Monitor app to resolve back-to-back monitors business challenges (Multimon Taskbar vs. UltraMon)’
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Recently I discovered a good web service to make the screen capture very easy. Using this tool, you can easily to record what you are doing on your computer, like running applications, browsing websites, etc. Then you can upload your screenshot videos to YouTube, or save as .mov file on your machine locally. This makes sharing the screen shots (or even video training) to your friend like a snap-it.
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Challenge:
I need to pull over a file from our FTP server every minute to the database server. I do not want to install any FTP schedule utilities on the database server. So I decided to use the FTP.exe comes with the Windows server OS. I brought up a DOS prompt, type FTP and hit Enter. I got some prompt screens, what I needed to do is to provide the remote server IP (host name) and user credential information. After I logged on, I then can use some UNIX like commands as LS and GET to download files. Great, it approved that we really do not need a fancy FTP client program.
But how can I make the above process automatically, since I could not put user logon credentials into a DOS batch file.
Research Results:
To overcome the challenge above, I need to come up an FTP “script” which can work together with FTP in DOS, since FTP.exe supports scripting with the “-s:” option.
For example, if your plain text FTP script file has a name of FTPSCRIPT.TXT (assume you put the same directory as you type your DOS command), then you can use the following command to execute FTP script:
ftp -s:FTPSCRIPT.TXT
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I installed Quicken 2008 Home & Business just wanted to upgrade my out-dated Microsoft® Money 2004, and the next step is to convert all data since I do not want to enter all data in Quicken again. I checked the Import… option from Quicken menu, but I could not find any import format for Microsoft Money.
After searching on Quicken support site, I found that I need an utility called Data Converter to do such job. The Data Converter converts your data from Microsoft® Money 2003 or later for use in Quicken for Windows version 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004. It might also work with other versions of Money. If your version of Money can copy .XML files to your desktop, the Data Converter will likely convert your data.
To convert your data, you create 2 transaction reports in Microsoft Money: an Account transactions report for the standard transactions and an Investment transactions report for the investment transactions. You import the reports into Quicken and add some information that will help you take advantage of several Quicken features.
Here is the an excerpt of how-to: Continue reading ‘How to convert data from Microsoft® Money 2003 or later to Quicken 2004 to 2008′
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Anyone using English or Non-Chinese version OS has to install something on PCs to input Chinese characters. Before we had Windows 2000 OS, we had to install some software like NJStar. Now with Windows 2000, XP, we can install IME from Regional and Language Options in Windows configuration. But it will not easy for anyone to install IME on the public computers.
How can we input Chinese anywhere without installing IME software?
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Today I found a good utility to adjust my audio volume on my computer easily. I used to click the volume icon and drag the slide, which is not hard but not easy either. Anyway, I found this utility through PC World magazine. The link to this utility is http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/volumouse.html
I hope you can enjoy it too. I am planning to translate it to simplified Chinese too since the current language file was for ver 1.2 and the latest version is 1.3 now.
Please download this language file here:
Language file for Simplified Chinese
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