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15,344 | <p>I'm trying to generate some simple plots of shapes on the coordinate plane using Wolfram Alpha. I've had success with plotting the shape, but sometimes the plot output doesn't look nice. For example, the following plots the vertices of a rhombus on the coordinate plane:</p>
<pre><code>Plot {(-5,3), (-1,0), (-1,-5... | [
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```
Plot {(-5,3), (-1,0), (-1,-5), (-5,-2) (-5,3... | You can: just add [AspectRatio 1](https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AspectRatio.html) at the end.
For example:
```
plot cos(arcsin(x)) for 0<=x<=pi/2, plotrange ((0,1),(0,1))
```
vs.
```
plot cos(arcsin(x)) for 0<=x<=pi/2, plotrange ((0,1),(0,1)), AspectRatio 1
`... |
15,348 | <p>I'm trying to paste some example XML snippets into a blog post on blogger, but every time I save or preview the post, blogger seems to remove my XML tags and just display the parameters. I can't find a way of retaining code, there is no "code" button on the WYSIWYG editor</p>
<p>For example, </p>
<pre><code><My... | [
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For example,
```
<MyTag>
<myValue>some valu... | I've been using [tohtml](http://tohtml.com/) to format code for a while, and I just tested its output with blogger and it works. It will even give you syntax highlighting. |
15,373 | <p>How can I get an alert when changes to an online PDF have occurred? Simple solutions will carry the day.</p>
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"text": "<p>Do this once:</p>\n\n<pre><code>wget -O file.pdf http://example.com/file.pdf\nmd5sum file.pdf > file.md5\n... | 2011/05/15 | [
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```
wget -O file.pdf http://example.com/file.pdf
md5sum file.pdf > file.md5
```
The set this up in a cron job:
```
wget -O file.pdf http://example.com/file.pdf
md5sum -c file.md5
```
Of course, you'll need to modify the paths in the code sample so that the `wget` and md5sum commands can find the dow... |
15,434 | <p>I have multiple pages in my blog. Now I want to post in different page.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>Page 1: Local
Page 2: National
Page 3: International
Post 1: Local Topic 1
Post 2: National Topic 1
Post 2: International Topic 1
Post 1 needs to be under Page 1
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Post 3 needs to ... | [
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"text": "<p>That's not really how Pages work in Blogger.</p>\n\n<p>But you can achieve what you want, using labels, and ... | 2011/05/17 | [
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Example:
```
Page 1: Local
Page 2: National
Page 3: International
Post 1: Local Topic 1
Post 2: National Topic 1
Post 2: International Topic 1
Post 1 needs to be under Page 1
Post 2 needs to be under Page 2
Post 3 needs to be under Page 3
``` | Blogger isn't a great system to work with to do this. The link above is one way. Another (which I found simpler for my purposes) was to publish to my home feed, but set the date of the post to some time significantly in the past so the posts are buried underneath my more recent posts. Then, I link my posts to the new p... |
15,449 | <p><em>Is it possible in Google Forms to give a unique value to each row it inserts into the spreadsheet as well as the timestamp?</em></p>
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"text": "<p>You can do this by adding a script trigger.</p>\n\n<p>Supposing your current Form has two columns <code>Timest... | 2011/05/17 | [
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Supposing your current Form has two columns `Timestamp` and the answer to one question. So you currently have columns A and B populating with data. Lets assume you want column C to have you auto increment number.
You need to first go to `Tools` **>** `Script Editor`
In the... |
15,451 | <p>Although Google Docs documents seem to have a unique ID in the URL, I'm wondering if there is a way to get a hash (MD5, SHA1) of a document without downloading it again. Has anyone attempted something similar? Is there some API call I can make?</p>
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"text": "<p><a href=\"http://hashify.me/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hashify.me</a> stores the entire content of a webpage in its url.... | 2011/05/17 | [
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>
> md5Checksum: string, An MD5 checksum for the content of this file. This
> is populated only for files with content stored in Drive.
>
>
>
In java you can retrieve it by adding a line to [this java examp... |
15,458 | <p>I want to be sure all my Google Spreadsheet work can be converted OK to Excel. How many of the Excel formulas match the formulas of Google spreadsheets?</p>
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"text": "<p>If you're only worried about formulas, it shouldn't be a big problem, as Google Spreadsheets is now mature enough ... | 2011/05/17 | [
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If you want to make sure that Google Spreadsheet files are properly converte... |
15,465 | <p>In Gmail, let's say I have 7 contacts in Group A and 9 contacts in Group B.</p>
<p>2 contacts are in both Group A and Group B.</p>
<p>Is there a way I can filter to get results of only the contacts that are in both groups?</p>
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"text": "<p><strong>No</strong></p>\n\n<p>What you're looking for is the <strong>label:</strong> filter for the search bar.</... | 2011/05/18 | [
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2 contacts are in both Group A and Group B.
Is there a way I can filter to get results of only the contacts that are in both groups? | **No**
What you're looking for is the **label:** filter for the search bar.
It works on the mail/inbox section of Gmail but apparently hasn't been implemented in contacts yet.
If it worked you'd narrow the results by typing the following into the search bar:
```
label:Group-A label:Group-B
``` |
15,466 | <p>I have a subdomain currently pointing towards a blog I write on Blogger.</p>
<p>I would like to add a new page to this blog and <b>point an entirely separate subdomain to that page.</b></p>
<p>So, given that <code>status.mysite.com</code> points to the main page, how can I get <code>blog.mysite.com</code> to point... | [
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I would like to add a new page to this blog and **point an entirely separate subdomain to that page.**
So, given that `status.mysite.com` points to the main page, how can I get `blog.mysite.com` to point to page 2? | **No**
What you're looking for is the **label:** filter for the search bar.
It works on the mail/inbox section of Gmail but apparently hasn't been implemented in contacts yet.
If it worked you'd narrow the results by typing the following into the search bar:
```
label:Group-A label:Group-B
``` |
15,494 | <p>I have a very long structured text file I want to import as hundreds of wiki pages.</p>
<p>I got OmniOutliner, which allows me to export my file as a number of useful formats like Excel, CSV, OPML, etc.</p>
<p>But I can't find a wiki engine that will import any of that.</p>
<p>Ideas? I'm not concerned with what ... | [
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"text": "<p>I've imported into Mediawiki, which uses an XML format.</p>\n\n<p>I would set Mediawiki up, and then export a p... | 2011/05/19 | [
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I got OmniOutliner, which allows me to export my file as a number of useful formats like Excel, CSV, OPML, etc.
But I can't find a wiki engine that will import any of that.
Ideas? I'm not concerned with what wiki engine or hosted ser... | I've imported into Mediawiki, which uses an XML format.
I would set Mediawiki up, and then export a page so you can see what the basic XML structure is. Then write some scripts (or use search and replace) to generate an XML file for import. The basic structure is something like this
```
<mediawiki> <siteinfo> ... stu... |
15,498 | <p>I use Gmail and find it's very rare to get a spam message through. However I find when I do get a spam message, sometimes the "To:" address is not even my email address:</p>
<pre><code>from Sloane Crawford oraleemayark610@yahoo.com
reply-to clarkbid862@yandex.ua
to 0004045@yahoo.com
date ... | [
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"text": "<p>This is because they must have used the Bcc field. </p>\n\n<p>If you want more details, you should look a the message... | 2011/05/19 | [
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```
from Sloane Crawford oraleemayark610@yahoo.com
reply-to clarkbid862@yandex.ua
to 0004045@yahoo.com
date 18 May 2... | You will have to check your message header to find out if it was sent as a forward to you or a bCC. This company is out of Ukraine and has been sending me this type of "Crapmail" as well. The system Administrator is at sysadmin@yandex.ru if you want to voice a complaint. |
15,533 | <p>Is there any way in Google Docs to specify a default document template that all my new documents are based on?</p>
<p>Like most of the metric world, I don't use the legal paper size. I also generally don't print my documents much so I don't need 1 foot margins. </p>
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"text": "<p>Create a template in the gallery/repository and select them as the basis when making a new document.</p... | 2011/05/20 | [
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Like most of the metric world, I don't use the legal paper size. I also generally don't print my documents much so I don't need 1 foot margins. | Create a template in the gallery/repository and select them as the basis when making a new document.
1. Create your document and lay out the elements on the page
2. Save this document under a name you can remember or sets it apart as a template.
3. Go to the menu: **Create new > From template...**
* You'll be taken t... |
15,539 | <p>I came across a URL with non-Latin characters, featuring Korean glyphs:</p>
<pre><code>http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/여보세요
</code></pre>
<p>Copying it gives me another URL: </p>
<pre><code>http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EC%97%AC%EB%B3%B4%EC%84%B8%EC%9A%94
</code></pre>
<p>What technology is behind this? Is it jus... | [
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```
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/여보세요
```
Copying it gives me another URL:
```
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EC%97%AC%EB%B3%B4%EC%84%B8%EC%9A%94
```
What technology is behind this? Is it just Google Chrome browser "magic" or is there indee... | Technology behind this is called **Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs)** and it's defined in [**RFC 3987**](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3987). It's use in URLs is defined in [**RFC 3986**](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986). Characters are indeed encoded in UTF-8. The "unreadable" form is UTF-8 con... |
15,633 | <p>I want to look at a Google cached version of a webpage, but can't find it through the usual mechanisms, as per this <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/14878/how-to-open-google-cached-version-of-a-url">related question</a>.</p>
<p>Is there a way to modify the URL in the address bar to take me to th... | [
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"text": "<p>If you use Google Chrome, just use this query to get the cache page from Google:</p>\n\n<pre><code>... | 2011/05/24 | [
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Is there a way to modify the URL in the address bar to take me to the last cached page fo... | You can access the cached version for any page that has been saved by Google with this:
```
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://example.com/
```
Change **<http://example.com/>** to any URL. You can also create a [custom search engine on Chrome](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95426?h... |
15,635 | <p>I'm at a specific post of my Tumblr blog (its permalink). I want to edit it. Is there a quick way to do that? I don't see an Edit link anywhere. When I try to search for it in my dashboard by switching to the tumblelog in the dropdown and searching ("This Tumblelog") for words in the title or body of my specific pos... | [
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```
https://www.tumblr.com/edit/<post_id>?redirect_to=%2Fblog%2F<blog_name>
```
Replacing < post\_id>... |
15,727 | <p>As a programmer, I find myself somewhat frustrated when trying to use Google Spreadsheets, because there seems to be no definitive description of the syntax that I can use for formulae. For instance, I've read that I can use <code>F3:F</code> to refer to the <code>F</code> column from row 3 downwards, but I can't fi... | [
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"text": "<p>After searching around a little more, I find that</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Google spreadsheet formulas implement a de facto ... | 2011/05/26 | [
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**Formulas**
Formul... |
15,732 | <p>If I have a formula (of any kind) spanning <code>A1:A30</code> (just as an example), when I right click and insert a new row, it doesn't have the same formula. </p>
<p>Numbers (and I believe Excel) allows this, is there a way to obtain this behavior in Google Spreadsheets?</p>
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Numbers (and I believe Excel) allows this, is there a way to obtain this behavior in Google Spreadsheets? | I think what you want may be an array formula. Say B1:B4 contains 1,2,3,4 respectively, and the formula in A1 is:
```
=ArrayFormula(B1:B^2)
```
A1:A4 should show 1,4,9,16 respectively.
Select Row3 and Insert 1 above. The results in A1:A5 should now be 1,4,0,9,16 respectively.
Enter say `10` in B3 and the `0` in... |
15,755 | <p>I am having trouble writing a function for this need (in Google spreadsheets):</p>
<p>I have 2 columns A and B.</p>
<p>I want to be able to get a percentage based on those two columns. I want to count the number of times a specific value is found in A and only if B has a certain value in it.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
... | [
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I have 2 columns A and B.
I want to be able to get a percentage based on those two columns. I want to count the number of times a specific value is found in A and only if B has a certain value in it.
Example:
```
A B
name1 yes... | Answered I received in the Google Support Forum:
```
=counta(iferror(filter(B:B,A:A="name1",B:B="yes")))
``` |
15,761 | <p>I often write mails that partly consist of source code, like Java or C (or any other arbitrary code).</p>
<p>In order to get the formatting right, I always have to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Paste the code</li>
<li>Indent it correctly</li>
<li>Change the font to a monospaced one</li>
<li>Maybe apply boldface to some keywords t... | [
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"text": "<p>On Windows:</p>\n\n<p>You could use <a href=\"http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download\">Notepad++</a> to achieve the de... | 2011/05/28 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15761",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/4374/"
] | I often write mails that partly consist of source code, like Java or C (or any other arbitrary code).
In order to get the formatting right, I always have to:
* Paste the code
* Indent it correctly
* Change the font to a monospaced one
* Maybe apply boldface to some keywords to improve readability
* Hit `Enter` a few ... | [Markdown Here](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/elifhakcjgalahccnjkneoccemfahfoa)
===========================================================================================
I've been using [Markdown Here](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/elifhakcjgalahccnjkneoccemfahfoa) for quite some time now and... |
15,767 | <p>A friend posted an image that was animating directly in the messages feed on my Facebook start page. How is this possible? How can this be done?</p>
<p>This is the URL used by Facebook:
<a href="http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/29301_442976909814_310716489814_5773694_3162803_s.jpg">http://photos-c.ak.f... | [
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"text": "<p>Although the extension is jpeg, it's still a gif file</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.stack.imgur.com/EMKMI.png... | 2011/05/28 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15767",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/11152/"
] | A friend posted an image that was animating directly in the messages feed on my Facebook start page. How is this possible? How can this be done?
This is the URL used by Facebook:
<http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/29301_442976909814_310716489814_5773694_3162803_s.jpg>
* In Notes:
<http://www.facebook.com... | **May 2015**
<http://mashable.com/2015/05/29/facebook-gif-support/>
>
> The first thing to keep in mind is that the feature works with GIF links, not GIF uploads. At least for now, attempting to upload your favorite GIF will not result in a usable, playable GIF on Facebook.
>
>
> [...]
>
>
> Services such as Gip... |
15,773 | <p>I know you can go in Options > Go Offline. But since I use Pidgin to connect to Facebook Chat, it keeps coming online again. I only want to use it in pidgin. How to remove it from the Facebook web page?</p>
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] | I know you can go in Options > Go Offline. But since I use Pidgin to connect to Facebook Chat, it keeps coming online again. I only want to use it in pidgin. How to remove it from the Facebook web page? | Only
```
facebook.com##DIV[id="pagelet_sidebar"]
```
in Adblock worked for me in the latest version of Facebook |
15,781 | <p>I have been receiving spam emails from forged addresses to my Hotmail account. They are filtered and classified as junk. Here is a message source from one spam message:</p>
<pre><code>X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTA7YT0wO0Q9MjtTQ0w9Ng==
X-Message-Status: n
X-SID-PRA: oebqhvii@yahoo.com
X-AUTH-Result: NONE
X... | [
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"text": "<p>As a user of a web-based email service? I don't believe this is possible. Dynamic blacklisting of this type typica... | 2011/05/29 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15781",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/10734/"
] | I have been receiving spam emails from forged addresses to my Hotmail account. They are filtered and classified as junk. Here is a message source from one spam message:
```
X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTA7YT0wO0Q9MjtTQ0w9Ng==
X-Message-Status: n
X-SID-PRA: oebqhvii@yahoo.com
X-AUTH-Result: NONE
X-Message-Info:... | 1. Contact your ISP and see if they can/will do anything about it.
2. Buy a domain from a registrar that provides email services that include a mail server on which you can do sender address verification (either you have full admin control over the SMTP server and can install / configure as you wish, or their provided ... |
15,786 | <p>My Gmail account appears to have been accessed by IMAP from California. I am in Illinois.</p>
<pre>
IMAP United States (CA) (208.87.200.182) 11:20 pm (38 minutes ago)
Browser United States (IL) (98.253.XX.XX) 11:19 pm (39 minutes ago)
IMAP United States (CA) (208.87.200.183) 11:00 pm (58 minutes... | [
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"text": "<p>I'd change your password.</p>\n\n<p>It looks like those IPs that accessed your email were from this company:</p... | 2011/05/29 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15786",
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```
IMAP United States (CA) (208.87.200.182) 11:20 pm (38 minutes ago)
Browser United States (IL) (98.253.XX.XX) 11:19 pm (39 minutes ago)
IMAP United States (CA) (208.87.200.183) 11:00 pm (58 minutes ago)
IM... | I'd change your password.
It looks like those IPs that accessed your email were from this company:
<http://www.seven.com>
I'm not familiar with their software, but it looks like they offer some mobile apps that could have accessed your email.
I don't think anything malicious is going on. |
15,867 | <p>The problem is that I entered a lot of formulas like <code>=round(x+y)</code> into a Google Docs spreadsheet. Now I need them exported to MS Excel and the latter only accepts <code>=round(x+y,0)</code> as a valid format. Since the doc holds a few 10s of this format - any suggestion on how to convert these would be ... | [
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I couldnt find a way (using find and replace to search for wild card value though
EDIT:
Try out the script below
REF: <http://www.google.com/su... |
15,911 | <p>How do we search for all our archived messages in Gmail?</p>
<p>Non-archived messages should not be displayed,</p>
<p>Only the archived messages should be shown.</p>
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"text": "<p>In the Gmail search box, type</p>\n\n<pre><code>-label:inbox -label:sent -label:drafts -label:notes\n</code></pre>\n\n... | 2011/06/03 | [
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] | How do we search for all our archived messages in Gmail?
Non-archived messages should not be displayed,
Only the archived messages should be shown. | In the Gmail search box, type
```
-label:inbox -label:sent -label:drafts -label:notes
```
and press enter. That should give you all your archived messages. Once there, select **All** and then click **Select all conversations that match this search** to ensure that all messages are selected. Click **Delete**.
They'd... |
15,919 | <p>Given a Twitter username, where do you find the RSS feed for that user?</p>
| [
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"text": "<p>This bookmarklet will show you where the feed is for any user.</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http://alexch.github.com/bookmark... | 2011/06/03 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15919",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
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] | Given a Twitter username, where do you find the RSS feed for that user? | Give this a try:
```
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/{username}.rss
```
Replace `{username}` with the Twitter user ID.
Now, how to get the ID? Just switch to the old Twitter and go to your profile. There it is, the RSS feed link! Just hover over it, and you would know the Twitter user ID. |
15,938 | <p>Is there a way to show "who contributed to this line" of each line of a page of Wikipedia or of a MediaWiki site?</p>
<p>It would show per page and would be similar to the subversion blame tool.</p>
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It would show per page and would be similar to the subversion blame tool. | I often need something like this as well, but it looks like there's no ready solution.
What I've done is written a script that helps me grab revisions using the MediaWiki API and import them to the Bazaar version control system. `bzr qblame article.wiki`, then gives a nice view of who changed what. The script is not r... |
16,012 | <p>In Google Docs, I am trying to sum the values of selected rows in a table, from position START to END.</p>
<p>Imagining this sample data:</p>
<pre><code>Index VALUE
1 300
2 400
3 750
4 850
5 900
6 1000
</code></pre>
<p>And two cells where I input START and END:</p>
<pre><code... | [
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Imagining this sample data:
```
Index VALUE
1 300
2 400
3 750
4 850
5 900
6 1000
```
And two cells where I input START and END:
```
3
5
```
I would like the result to be the... | Ok - this isn't simple but it can be done. There may be a more elegant way but here's a way that will work, using only the terms you are providing.
Take a range of cells as follows
```
Col A B C
2 1 300 2
3 2 450 4
4 3 700
5 4 900
6 5 1000
7 6 1200
```
Ta... |
16,131 | <p>I'm making a website on a free hosting that doesn't have much space or bandwidth.<br>
So I considered using Dropbox <em>Public</em> folder for static files, such as:</p>
<ul>
<li>Javascript, CSS</li>
<li>Images</li>
<li>Downloads (each a few hundred kilobytes)</li>
</ul>
<p>Does Dropbox allow such extensive usage,... | [
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So I considered using Dropbox *Public* folder for static files, such as:
* Javascript, CSS
* Images
* Downloads (each a few hundred kilobytes)
Does Dropbox allow such extensive usage, and what is the limit? | As of May 2017, [the Public folder has been converted to a standard, private folder](https://www.dropbox.com/help/files-folders/public-folder) (this conversion happened for Dropbox Basic users on March 15, 2017).
The in-browser rendering of HTML files has also been/is being discontinued (see quoted paragraphs below fo... |
16,143 | <p>I know that say one wanted to search for posts tagged with <em>#LOL</em> you can use the following,</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/lol" rel="noreferrer">http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/lol</a></p>
<p>and for <em>#GIF</em> you can use </p>
<p><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/gif" rel="noreferrer">h... | [
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] | I know that say one wanted to search for posts tagged with *#LOL* you can use the following,
<http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/lol>
and for *#GIF* you can use
<http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/gif>
A tag with a space could be for example, Emma Watson
<http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/emma+watson>
*So my question is, if I wa... | You can't.
You have the correct syntax. But its current architecture only allows multiple tag browsing when the tags are single words. It will break or return nothing if you try and combine tags where at least one consists of more than one word.
Valid for "food" and "pizza":
```
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/food+pi... |
16,149 | <p>Using Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access <strong>in Firefox 4.0</strong> to work with my calendar, I'm only able to get one day up at a time, with a small monthly calendar on the side. In Internet Explorer it lets me log in choosing either Premium or Basic version, and Premium gives me the monthly options. Firefo... | [
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You have the correct syntax. But its current architecture only allows multiple tag browsing when the tags are single words. It will break or return nothing if you try and combine tags where at least one consists of more than one word.
Valid for "food" and "pizza":
```
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/food+pi... |
16,152 | <p>I use Postini spam protection for my example.com domain. My example.com production email is <em>not</em> hosted by Google. I also have a paid Google Apps for Business account for the <em>same</em> example.com domain.</p>
<p>I want to delete the example.com Google Apps account <em>without</em> deleting my Postini a... | [
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I want to delete the example.com Google Apps account *without* deleting my Postini account.
Is this possible or by ... | You can't.
You have the correct syntax. But its current architecture only allows multiple tag browsing when the tags are single words. It will break or return nothing if you try and combine tags where at least one consists of more than one word.
Valid for "food" and "pizza":
```
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/food+pi... |
16,235 | <p>I'm using Google Chrome 12.0.742.100 on OS X 10.6.7. It seems that Gmail takes an inordinate amount of time to load (2-3 minutes) as indicated by the 'loading' circle on the tab. Some images may help explain what I mean:</p>
<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/FPQ1c.png" alt="loading"></p>
<p>The loading tab is... | [
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The loading tab is a pinned Gmail tab.
To determ... | As Jeff mentioned, it doesn't appear to affect the way Gmail works. According to several different Chrome Bug reports ([1](http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85861), [2](http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85248), [3](http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=83583), [4](http://c... |
16,410 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20173/how-can-i-bring-back-the-google-cached-version-links">How can I bring back the Google “cached version” links?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>Until recently when I did a search on Google, ma... | [
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"text": "<p>Hmm I am using Firefox 3.6.2 and for some reason the cached link does not appear. Neither does the 'Similar' link... | 2011/06/20 | [
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] | >
> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [How can I bring back the Google “cached version” links?](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20173/how-can-i-bring-back-the-google-cached-version-links)
>
>
>
Until recently when I did a search on Google, many of the results would show a *'cached'* link beneath the main... | Hmm I am using Firefox 3.6.2 and for some reason the cached link does not appear. Neither does the 'Similar' link.
**However when viewing the same search results in IE, both links are there.**
So I can only assume something odd is happening in my local installation of Firefox or for some reason that particular versi... |
16,434 | <p>Everytime someone sends a mail to my company's support email address, it reaches <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/7/jeff-atwood">my boss</a>. He then forwards the mails to whoever of us he thinks could be helpful, usually with a message like "Could you check this and follow up with him?".</p>
<p>How... | [
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However, he always forwa... | After some googling this is the best answer I can give you
```
Click on "Options" then click on "Show original":
```
The view source of the new window and then save that to a file that you can then attach
[readnotify send as attachement (gmail)](http://www.readnotify.com/readnotify/attachment.asp#Gmail) |
16,491 | <p>In a Google Sheets I have two tables:</p>
<pre><code>Date BMI BMI Outcome
2011-06-21 22.1 ?
2011-06-22 21.8 ?
2011-06-23 21.5 ?
</code></pre>
<p>and</p>
<pre><code>Name From To
Severely underweight 15.99
Underweight 16 18.49
Normal ... | [
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```
Date BMI BMI Outcome
2011-06-21 22.1 ?
2011-06-22 21.8 ?
2011-06-23 21.5 ?
```
and
```
Name From To
Severely underweight 15.99
Underweight 16 18.49
Normal 18.5 24.99
Overweight ... | This will work. I've used the Named Ranges, Name and From. You don't have to use To at all, since your values are all contiguous. B2 is what I used as the value of the first BMI, you can just drag this formula down the column:
```
=IFERROR(INDEX(Name, MATCH(B2,From),1),INDEX(Name,1,1))
``` |
16,515 | <p>Is there any possibility to find YouTube videos using advanced criteria except text search such as all videos uploaded by users with only one uploaded video total and between 40,000 and 60,000 views?</p>
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] | Is there any possibility to find YouTube videos using advanced criteria except text search such as all videos uploaded by users with only one uploaded video total and between 40,000 and 60,000 views? | This will work. I've used the Named Ranges, Name and From. You don't have to use To at all, since your values are all contiguous. B2 is what I used as the value of the first BMI, you can just drag this formula down the column:
```
=IFERROR(INDEX(Name, MATCH(B2,From),1),INDEX(Name,1,1))
``` |
16,582 | <p>I need to use a JavaScript patch in my Google Sites, but the problem is I don't understand how to place them and use it as Google Gadget.</p>
<pre><code><!DOCTYPE <strong class="highlight">html</strong> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transition... | [
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```
<!DOCTYPE <strong class="highlight">html</strong> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<<strong class="high... | You cannot add JavaScript directly to your Google Sites page. You can, however add a Google Gadget that has JavaScript in it. You can try the [Google Gadget Builder](http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/promo/builder.html). You may not get the result that you want, however, since your JavaScript is not valid. For e... |
16,651 | <p>I understand that Gmail groups emails together by subject for its conversation view. I get it, I love it.</p>
<p>I am a member of a Google Group that receives an email at the same time every day, and these are forwarded to my individual email address instantly. The email sent to the Google Group email address is ... | [
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I am a member of a Google Group that receives an email at the same time every day, and these are forwarded to my individual email address instantly. The email sent to the Google Group email address is identical: s... | As a bit of a spoiler, we tested this last night. I have two email address (which I will call for the sake of example "test1@gmail.com" and "test2@gmail.com"), and then we did this:
```
To: Rebecca <Recip@gmail.com>
From: My Name <test1@gmail.com>
Subject: this is a test
Body: blah blah whatever
```
and add... |
16,724 | <p>What is the keyboard shortcut that will allow me to jump to a specific label folder in Gmail?</p>
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Anyway, you can access gmail default label with shortcuts :
```
^b chats
^f sent mail
^i inbox
^k trash
^r draft
^s spam
^t starred messages
^u unread mail
```
Or, you can use `l` to access the label menu (described [here](http://mail.google.com/support/bin/an... |
16,744 | <p>I did some searching on this and came across <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/16745/google-spreadsheets-conditional-formatting">this post</a>.</p>
<p>However, this solution uses an <code>onEdit()</code> trigger. I would like to see a solution that uses a formula approach, so in the OP's example ... | [
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However, this solution uses an `onEdit()` trigger. I would like to see a solution that uses a formula approach, so in the OP's example from that post, the formula woul... | Google Sheets could be expanded to implement "a formula approach" for certain tasks. This is called "custom functions".
Custom functions should only be used to display values, so they should not be used to set the conditional formating directly. Instead use the conditional formatting built-in feature.
**References**
... |
16,745 | <p>In my example I would like to conditionally format column B cells. Those marked with <strong>x</strong> should be formatted according to value in column A (in the example the value is <code>1</code>):</p>
<pre><code>A | B
1 | x
2 |
3 |
1 | x
1 | x
4 |
8 |
// x can be any value and is here merely to mark the cel... | [
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```
A | B
1 | x
2 |
3 |
1 | x
1 | x
4 |
8 |
// x can be any value and is here merely to mark the cell that should be formatted
```
***IM... | Complex conditional formatting can be achieved in Google Spreadsheets using Google Apps Script. For example, you could write a function that changes the background colour of an entire row based on the value in one of its cells, something that I do not think is possible with the "Change color with rules" menu. You would... |
16,753 | <p>I'm working on a spreadsheet that allows some basic collaborative hour tracking. </p>
<ul>
<li>Worksheet A contains an entity called Blocks where each block has a BlockID. </li>
<li>Worksheet B contains line items. Each Line item has a BlockID and # of hours spent for that block. </li>
</ul>
<p>I would like to inc... | [
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* Worksheet A contains an entity called Blocks where each block has a BlockID.
* Worksheet B contains line items. Each Line item has a BlockID and # of hours spent for that block.
I would like to include the total hours spent per block ... | **A solution to this problem is to utilize the `SUMIF` function.**
```
=sumif('Hours Spent'!A3:A10001, A3, 'Hours Spent'!C3:C10001)
```
**What's going on here?**
* We are referencing the other spreadsheet via the 'SheetName'! syntax
* We are only including rows in the sum if the value in column A in the `hours spen... |
16,754 | <p><strong>Is there any way I can check whether a cell is empty?</strong></p>
<p>There is a function <code>ISBLANK()</code> but it returns <strong>false</strong> when there's a formula in a cell even thought the formula doesn't return anything (or an empty string).</p>
<p>I would like it to return <strong>true</stron... | [
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There is a function `ISBLANK()` but it returns **false** when there's a formula in a cell even thought the formula doesn't return anything (or an empty string).
I would like it to return **true** when the formula doesn't return anything as well. So the cell se... | You can check whether a cell is empty or not by using the following formula:
```
=if(C2="";"The cell is empty";"The cell is not empty")
``` |
16,757 | <p>I'm working with Google Docs and want to create a spreadsheet of the following form:</p>
<pre>
Point A Point B Mileage
Los Angeles Miami 292100
Palo Alto San Francisco 90
</pre>
<p>In the spreadsheet, <code>Mileage</code> is automatically calculated. I am looking for "di... | [
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```
Point A Point B Mileage
Los Angeles Miami 292100
Palo Alto San Francisco 90
```
In the spreadsheet, `Mileage` is automatically calculated. I am looking for "distance driven", not "as ... | With the following little piece of code, you can retrieve the distance between two points.
Code
----
```
function getDirection(city1, city2, unit) {
var directions = Maps.newDirectionFinder()
.setOrigin(city1).setDestination(city2)
.setMode(Maps.DirectionFinder.Mode.DRIVING)
.getDirections();
var d = ... |
16,771 | <p>How can I approach this? Could you help me?</p>
<p>The format of the text file is not very important. An possible format would be:</p>
<pre><code>Email 1;Involved contact(s);Subject and preview;Date or time
Email 2;Involved contact(s);Subject and preview;Date or time
...
</code></pre>
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The format of the text file is not very important. An possible format would be:
```
Email 1;Involved contact(s);Subject and preview;Date or time
Email 2;Involved contact(s);Subject and preview;Date or time
...
``` | [GMail offers a RSS feed](http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13474) with the basic details of each mail.
I used this [XSL file](http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1162) to transform that feed to a more readable format
You can twea... |
16,877 | <p>When I receive an image attached to an email in Gmail I get a small preview image and <code>View</code> and <code>Download</code> links. When I click <code>View</code> in IE9 the image opens in a new tab but rather than it being the raw image, it is wrapped in some HTML which stops it from being automatically resize... | [
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```
<html><title>photo.JP... | I haven't tried it explicitly on IE9 but it works on the older IEs:
Click and hold (drag) the image to the tabs bar which should open a new tab with the image's URL, therefore containing only the image without surrounding HTML.
Automatic resizing should work in this tab.
**Update**
After trying on IE9 myself, i mus... |
17,021 | <p>Some time ago there was an advanced type of Google search, accessible via left panel (more search tools and time period limiting). The results of <code>latest</code> was almost realtime, and there was an autoupdater (new statuses were printed at top).</p>
<p>Now I can't find this feature. How can I do a realtime Tw... | [
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Now I can't find this feature. How can I do a realtime Twitter search? The sea... | Google "canceled" their Twitter realtime search recently:
<http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/twitter-search/google-contract-with-twitter-expires-suspends-realtime-search/>
Maybe they want to "push" Google+? ;) |
17,047 | <p>Does anyone know how I would go about putting formatted text in a stream update in Google+? Specifically I'm trying to put text links in a post, without having to show the URL or have the page information below what I write.</p>
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You've got the following options only at this stage:
```
*Purple* _Monkey_ -Dishwasher-
```
The above will render as this:
>
> **Purple** *Monkey* ~~Dishwasher~~
>
>
>
Li... |
17,113 | <p>Google Reader supports <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklets">bookmarklets</a> that allow for the quick sharing of anything that can be displayed on a browser. I believe the code for the Google Reader bookmarket is this (from the Google Reader interface):</p>
<pre><code>javascript:var%20b=document.bod... | [
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```
javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmark... | Not sure of a bookmarklet but have you seen Surplus;
<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pfphgaimeghgekhncbkfblhdhfaiaipf>
a Chrome extension for Google+
>
> Post or respond from within the popup
>
>
>
Hope this helps. |
17,140 | <p>I'm taking about the account bar that's at the header of the page, not the Google browser toolbar or the tabs in Chrome itself.</p>
<p>Is there a way to configure the Google account bar to open items in the same window when clicked? i.e. not in a new window but to replace the contents of the current page much like ... | [
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Is there a way to configure the Google account bar to open items in the same window when clicked? i.e. not in a new window but to replace the contents of the current page much like a tab shou... | I have just found a [Greasemonkey user script which does what you want](http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/106265), but it does not currently work from within Gmail. |
17,297 | <p>I have a local text file containing Facebook ids, one per line, like this:</p>
<pre><code>938751234570943
9875123457623
...
43639193242324
</code></pre>
<p>These ids actually are those of my Facebook friends interested in jazz.</p>
<p>Now I would like to create a "jazz" Facebook friends list ("<a href="http://clo... | [
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```
938751234570943
9875123457623
...
43639193242324
```
These ids actually are those of my Facebook friends interested in jazz.
Now I would like to create a "jazz" Facebook friends list ("[Facebook friends lists](http://cloudhighclub.com/sm... | I think this might change when Google Profiles and Google+ are fully integrated.
As for now, the best option I've seen is using [gplus.to](http://gplus.to), where you can manually choose your link in the form `http://gplus.to/yourname`.
It works quite well, but it should be noted that they are NOT connected to Go... |
17,439 | <p>Being a (productive) geek, I want to keep track of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trend_estimation" rel="nofollow noreferrer">trend</a> of my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flextime" rel="nofollow noreferrer">flextime</a>. I keep a personal document of my hours worked in Google Sheets, having one c... | [
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```
=if(istext(D1),C2,D1+C2)
```
in D2 copied down a chart might be plotted of this Data Sheet1!A1:A4, Sheet1!D1:D4 with Use row 1 as headers:
 |
17,451 | <blockquote>
<p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
<a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/10389/how-do-i-add-a-hyperlink-to-a-cell-in-google-spreadsheets">How do I add a hyperlink to a cell in Google Spreadsheets?</a> </p>
</blockquote>
<p>When I paste a URL into a cell in a Google Docs spre... | [
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> **Possible Duplicate:**
>
> [How do I add a hyperlink to a cell in Google Spreadsheets?](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/10389/how-do-i-add-a-hyperlink-to-a-cell-in-google-spreadsheets)
>
>
>
When I paste a URL into a cell in a Google Docs spreadsheet, it turns into a nice blue, underlined hype... | Enter the hyperlink formula for it to convert said custom text to an external link of your choice.
```
=hyperlink("www.example.com";"attack of the green honda civic")
```
From: [Entering links - Google Docs help](http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=44660&hl=en). |
17,533 | <p>So on the Twitter website, underneath the post there's a timestamp, but it's not very specific - it will just say something like Jul 10, or 11 hours ago or something like that. Is there any way to find the EXACT time a tweet was posted? Like to the second? I want to avoid messing around with programming or dealin... | [
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Right click the time link and inspect the source with an approriate browser.
![Web Inspect with Chrome](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fwp8... |
17,633 | <p>Let's say I ran the following query in Google's web search:</p>
<pre><code>site:"superuser.com" "windows 7"
</code></pre>
<p>This will return results on the blog.superuser.com subdomain.</p>
<p>How can I restrict results to only be from the superuser.com domain and not any other subdomain?</p>
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"text": "<p>This will do the trick:</p>\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows%207%22%20site%3asu... | 2011/07/26 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/17633",
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] | Let's say I ran the following query in Google's web search:
```
site:"superuser.com" "windows 7"
```
This will return results on the blog.superuser.com subdomain.
How can I restrict results to only be from the superuser.com domain and not any other subdomain? | This will do the trick:
[ ["windows 7" site:superuser.com -site:\*.superuser.com](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows%207%22%20site%3asuperuser.com%20-site%3a%2a.superuser.com) ]
>
> **This method has varying results and does not work for sites such as**
>
>
> * stackexchange.com
> * cnn.com
> * fox.com
> *... |
17,635 | <p>I use Google Bookmarks and all of my bookmarks are organized into lists.</p>
<p>When i hit export.. this is the file. and this is all i get:</p>
<pre><code><!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1... | [
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"text": "<p>Works for me. This is what I did:</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <a href=\"https://www.google.com/bookmarks/\" rel=\"nofollow\">... | 2011/07/26 | [
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] | I use Google Bookmarks and all of my bookmarks are organized into lists.
When i hit export.. this is the file. and this is all i get:
```
<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1>Bookmarks</H1>
<DL><p>
</DL><p>
```
How could... | The problem is that you are using lists.
You cannot export lists.
As seen in the following example
```
<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>
<H1>Bookmarks</H1>
<D... |
17,785 | <p>I tried to graph <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/54506/is-this-batman-equation-for-real">this equation I found on the Math SE</a> on <a href="http://www.wolframalpha.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wolfram Alpha</a>. I got the following error:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Wolfram|Alpha needs more time to ... | [
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>
> Wolfram|Alpha needs more time to respond to your query...
>
>
>
When I clicked on *Go on computi... | WolframAlpha is only a limited subset of what the software behind it (Mathematica) can do. The computation time and complexity restriction is in place to make it harder to flood the server with request to bring it down. |
17,828 | <p>Does Google provide any documented, official recommendations about how to format an email that will easily import the event into a user's Google Calendar?</p>
<p>Let's say that I want to send an email about an event to a Gmail user. I might be sending this email using Outlook, Gmail, mailx, etc. The recipients are ... | [
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Let's say that I want to send an email about an event to a Gmail user. I might be sending this email using Outlook, Gmail, mailx, etc. The recipients are using Gmai... | I have had limited success with the following format:
```
Subject: My test event
```
Email body says:
```
This is my test event!
When: May 7, 9-10AM
Where: 123 Main Street, Berkeley, CA
```
Using the keyword "Location" instead of "Where" seems to work also.
In Google Calendar, this will populate the Subject, th... |
17,953 | <p>If I comment on a blog post on <code>whateverblog.blogspot.com</code>, and I want to get an email notification when there are further replies / comments on that post, how would I go about that?</p>
<p>As an example
<a href="http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/2011/07/god-based-abortion-policy-fail-open.html" rel... | [
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As an example
<http://atheistexperience.blogspot.com/2011/07/god-based-abortion-policy-fail-open.html> | This largely depends on if the Blogspot user allows people to subscribe to the comments. If they do, you will see the option when you click through to view the comments for the post.
At the bottom of the page (or on the side depending on their layout) there usually is a link in the form of:
>
> Subscribe to: **Post ... |
18,045 | <p>I need some help with a Google Sheets. Let's say I've got a column and in the column I have three rows containing the values A, B, and C:</p>
<pre><code>Column:
A
B
C
</code></pre>
<p>I need to transpose the column so that it reads horizontally:</p>
<pre><code>Columns:
A B C
</code></pre>
<p>In an empty... | [
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```
Column:
A
B
C
```
I need to transpose the column so that it reads horizontally:
```
Columns:
A B C
```
In an empty cell, I can use the function `=TRANSPOSE(A1:A3)` ... | In new Google Sheets there is no need for a function. Just select `B` and `C`, Ctrl+c, select the cell immediately to the right of `A`and Edit, Paste special, Paste **transpose**.
This creates copies of `B` and `C` but there is no linkage so those *below* `A` may be deleted without affect those *to the right of* `A`. |
18,066 | <p>I'd like to be able to call a script, which will add a row to a Google Spreadsheet, and manage stuff like user login. For example,</p>
<pre><code> gdocs_addrow --id <doc-id> name="John Doe" age="31"
</code></pre>
<p>I know there are nice Python APIs but I want to work at an even higher level.</p>
<p>My use ... | [
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```
gdocs_addrow --id <doc-id> name="John Doe" age="31"
```
I know there are nice Python APIs but I want to work at an even higher level.
My use case is that I want to make a script th... | I wrote such a tool. It's written in python, but designed to be used from the command line. Have a look at [logss](https://github.com/happygiraffe/logss). I've been using it to upload daily stats from a cron job.
Beware: I've not got great python installation skills, so running it is a little ad-hoc. |
18,067 | <p>Using MS Excel I can go to Format of the cell and choose the text orientation from horizontal to vertical fairly easily.</p>
<p>How do I alter text orientation to vertical in Google Sheets?</p>
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How do I alter text orientation to vertical in Google Sheets? | 1. Select your cell
2. Replace its content with the following formula:
```
=ARRAYFORMULA(CONCATENATE((MID( "Text to become vertical"; ROW(INDIRECT("YY1:YY"&LEN( "Text to become vertical" ))); 1)&CHAR(10))))
```
3. Repeat for each cell
Observation: make sure the text you want in your cell is the same in both instance... |
18,072 | <p>I have two rows of data</p>
<pre><code>Row B = price of product
Row C = quantity of producst
</code></pre>
<p>I need to get the summary price: </p>
<pre><code>(B1xC1)+(B2xC2)+(B3xC3)+..+(Bn+Cn)
</code></pre>
<p>I don't know <code>n</code> (quantity of columns) because <code>n</code> is changing from time to time... | [
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```
Row B = price of product
Row C = quantity of producst
```
I need to get the summary price:
```
(B1xC1)+(B2xC2)+(B3xC3)+..+(Bn+Cn)
```
I don't know `n` (quantity of columns) because `n` is changing from time to time (from 50-1000). And I don't want to specify all `n` in formula.
Is it... | Use `sumproduct()`.
You could either change the formula every time (only involves changing two cells) or just go with:
```
=sumproduct(B1:B1000,C1:C1000)
```
Alternatively you could write yourself a short function that:
1. Checks the two input ranges are the same size
2. Calculates the size of the ranges (say 'X')... |
18,104 | <p>I edited a <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/14106/making-tags-visible-when-using-a-tumblr-theme-that-doesnt-show-them" title="Making tags visible when using a Tumblr theme that doesn't show them">Tumblr layout to show tags on each post</a> but for some reason the tags are showing up below the... | [
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Starting with the first you'll end up with this:
```
{block:Text}
<li class="post text">
<!-- HTML layout for Text posts -->
{block:HasTags}
{block:Tags}
... |
18,153 | <p>How do you remove Disqus "comments" link from Tumblr pages?</p>
<p>I've managed to remove the Disqus comment box from all pages, so it only appears after posts. I used the following code:</p>
<pre><code>{block:PermalinkPagination}
...disqus code...
{/block:PermalinkPagination}
</code></pre>
<p>But I still have th... | [
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I've managed to remove the Disqus comment box from all pages, so it only appears after posts. I used the following code:
```
{block:PermalinkPagination}
...disqus code...
{/block:PermalinkPagination}
```
But I still have the 'comments' link showing up on t... | I used the fact that the `{PostID}` variable is empty for static pages.
So declare a CSS class like this:
```
.hiddenOnStaticPages {
display: none;
}
```
Then wrap the comments link (and the actual comments) in a `div` like this:
```
<div class="hiddenOnStaticPages{PostID}">
Comment HTML goes here...
</div>
`... |
18,169 | <p>I have a Google Forms with a question that contains a drop-down box with the following values:</p>
<pre><code> - Fewer than 10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- More than 50
</code></pre>
<p>If the user selects <code>11-25</code>, Google Sheets renders the response data like this: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9icGb.png"... | [
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] | I have a Google Forms with a question that contains a drop-down box with the following values:
```
- Fewer than 10
- 11-25
- 26-50
- More than 50
```
If the user selects `11-25`, Google Sheets renders the response data like this: 
Under the formats dropdown in the... | You have to format the column in spreadsheet mode *before* any data is entered.
Here we have a form about waffles. The cells have been formatted before sending it to the recipients.
And here is the result after a user fills out the result.
![A ... |
18,171 | <p>I am looking for a website that allows me to convert time between different timezones in an ubiquitous way.</p>
<p>Most websites have input restraints that only allow me to type in a specific city or to select a time zone from a pre-determined list. I am searching for something that has a set of features similar to... | [
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"text": "<p>You can use the <a href=\"http://time.is/compare\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\">compare</a> feature from <a href=\"http://t... | 2011/08/16 | [
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] | I am looking for a website that allows me to convert time between different timezones in an ubiquitous way.
Most websites have input restraints that only allow me to type in a specific city or to select a time zone from a pre-determined list. I am searching for something that has a set of features similar to these:
*... | You can use the [compare](http://time.is/compare) feature from [time.is](http://time.is/)
For example,
Comparing New York and GMT at 9:00 gives the following
>
> When the time was 09:00 on Tuesday, August 16 in New York, it was
> 13:00 in GMT.
>
> Time since then: 7 hours, 18 minutes and 24 seconds
>
> New... |
18,245 | <p>I am trying to download all available files that are different qualities of a single video using the YouTube API, but every URL I follow to download the video results in a 403.</p>
<p>Script:</p>
<pre><code>#!/bin/bash
_video_info=$(wget -qO- -- "http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=$1&el=detai... | [
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Script:
```
#!/bin/bash
_video_info=$(wget -qO- -- "http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?&video_id=$1&el=detailpage&ps=default&eurl=&gl=US&... | You're likely getting a `403` error due to not being authenticated via your `wget` command. Youtube only allows downloading videos that you own. For that you'll have to be authenticated.
[Youtube TOS](http://www.youtube.com/static?gl=US&template=terms)
[Youtube downloading Support](http://support.google.com/youtube/b... |
18,277 | <p>I want to return the sum of all cells in ColumnA only if the value of a cell on the same row is equal to a specific value. </p>
<p>For example, sum C4 if D4 = "Bob". Assuming there are six rows whereby "Bob" appears in ColumnD, I would expect that the sum of six values from ColumnC would be added together. </p>
<p... | [
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"text": "<p>You can use this formula:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>=if( D4=\"Bob\",sum(A0:A0),\"null\")</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>... | 2011/08/19 | [
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For example, sum C4 if D4 = "Bob". Assuming there are six rows whereby "Bob" appears in ColumnD, I would expect that the sum of six values from ColumnC would be added together.
My suspicion is ... | `=SUMIF(D:D,"bob",C:C)`
in C column are numbers, in D column are ("bob" or others)
if you wish do not sum all column you can use for example
```
=SUMIF(D2:D6,"bob",C2:C6)
```
Note: Text is case sensitive (Bob is not equal bob) |
18,287 | <p>I want to find the oldest videos matching a certain search string - can this be done in any way?</p>
<p>Unfortunately the suggested method of sorting by date and viewing the last page limits me to 1000 results back, which in the case of most searches is a only few months. I want to find the oldest results.</p>
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"text": "<p>Sort video on 'upload date' and go to the last page.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Insert your search keywords</li>\n<li>Then sel... | 2011/08/20 | [
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Unfortunately the suggested method of sorting by date and viewing the last page limits me to 1000 results back, which in the case of most searches is a only few months. I want to find the oldest results. | I couldn't find any option that works from within Youtube and as OP mentions there is an annoying 1000 video limit preventing going back further with popular searches.
~~The best alternative I found is to use Google with `site:youtube.com` and `Sorted by date` with the additional option of using `Custom date range` to... |
18,434 | <p>I have a couple on-going conversation threads in Gmail with a number of different people. Is there a way to setup a filter so that it will add a label if the body of any new, unread email contains my name? Then remove the label once I've read the email?</p>
| [
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"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18434",
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] | I have a couple on-going conversation threads in Gmail with a number of different people. Is there a way to setup a filter so that it will add a label if the body of any new, unread email contains my name? Then remove the label once I've read the email? | Remember that you can use any [Gmail search operator in a filter](http://lifehacker.com/166172/gmail-search-operators-work-in-filters-too) via the `Has the words:` textbox since Gmail just AND's together the operators that are filled in via the filter dialog.
I'll suggest you start by trying this:
1. Create a filter ... |
18,670 | <p>I've tried to apply this recipe: <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12994/getting-the-rss-feed-for-wikipedia-articles-ive-created">Getting the RSS feed for Wikipedia articles I've created</a> to see the files I've uploaded recently on Commons (e.g: <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T%... | [
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"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>You're requesting NewPages, but an upload may not be counted as a page..</p>\n\n<p>How about this - <a href=\"http:/... | 2011/09/05 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18670",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/751/"
] | I've tried to apply this recipe: [Getting the RSS feed for Wikipedia articles I've created](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12994/getting-the-rss-feed-for-wikipedia-articles-ive-created) to see the files I've uploaded recently on Commons (e.g: [this file](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T%C3%AAte_de_... | You're requesting NewPages, but an upload may not be counted as a page..
How about this - <http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Plindenbaum&feedformat=atom> ? |
18,697 | <p>Is there a way of keeping the formatting of text when pasting text from Google Docs to MailChimp?</p>
<p>This is just for bold and italic formatting.</p>
| [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Sorry to say so, but when copying text around from one program to another, only the text is getting copied and not t... | 2011/09/06 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18697",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/12527/"
] | Is there a way of keeping the formatting of text when pasting text from Google Docs to MailChimp?
This is just for bold and italic formatting. | This is not actually true, when you copy from Google there are 3 data types:
`text/plain` - the one without formatting
`text/html` - the one with formatting
`application/x-vnd.google-docs-document-slice-clip+wrapped` - a crazy Google JSON formatted one which is huge and virtually indecipherable probably used interna... |
18,790 | <p>At the end of every post type in my Tumblr theme, I've got this code:</p>
<pre><code><p class="permalink">
<a href="{Permalink}">{NoteCountWithLabel}</a>
{block:HasTags} &nbsp;&nbsp; # filed under:
{block:Tags}
<a href="{TagURL}">{Tag}</a>
{/block:T... | [
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"author_id": 13240,
"author_profile": "https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/13240",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Try some CSS trickery (to get it to work in IE 8, you need to specify a <!DOCTYPE> at the top of the docume... | 2011/09/10 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18790",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/12437/"
] | At the end of every post type in my Tumblr theme, I've got this code:
```
<p class="permalink">
<a href="{Permalink}">{NoteCountWithLabel}</a>
{block:HasTags} # filed under:
{block:Tags}
<a href="{TagURL}">{Tag}</a>
{/block:Tags}
{/block:HasTags}
</p>
```
(I know the `&nb... | I've got another idea.
```
{block:Tags}<a class="tag" href="{TagURL}">{Tag}</a><span class="tagtail"></span>{/block:Tags}
```
This will add a *span* with the "tagtail" class after every tag.
Then, add this css:
```
span.tagtail + a.tag:before {
content:", ";
}
```
This will select every *tag* anchor that come... |
18,850 | <p>Is there a way to print your Facebook Friends List? Not their information, just the names on your list. </p>
<p>It would make it much easier to see who you lost when your amount of friends changes if you could have a list of who you are friends with. After you have so many, it is hard to determine.</p>
| [
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"text": "<p>Facebook's <strong>Download Your Information</strong> option (under <strong>Account</strong> >> <strong>Account Set... | 2011/09/13 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18850",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/13275/"
] | Is there a way to print your Facebook Friends List? Not their information, just the names on your list.
It would make it much easier to see who you lost when your amount of friends changes if you could have a list of who you are friends with. After you have so many, it is hard to determine. | Using the API is an option when tied into a Facebook app.
```
SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1=me()
```
That query will only produce user IDs, but that would solve your problem. You can also use the graph API to expand on that if you pick up your own access token.
This query will allow you to find usernames for... |
18,931 | <p>I have recently been exploring the new web application Trello and I want to add hyperlinks to a card.</p>
<p>Is this possible?</p>
| [
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"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Like Stack Exchange, Trello allows <a href=\"http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax\">MarkDown</a> in c... | 2011/09/15 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18931",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/9130/"
] | I have recently been exploring the new web application Trello and I want to add hyperlinks to a card.
Is this possible? | Like Stack Exchange, Trello allows [MarkDown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax) in card descriptions, so you can put links into them using this type of syntax:
```
Click [here](http://www.whatever.com) to go to the page.
```
Which will give
Click [here](http://www.whatever.com) to go to the page. |
19,021 | <p>When I look at the settings of one of my calendars in Google Calendar, it says Calendar Owner. And the string that comes after that looks hideous. It goes something like this:</p>
<pre><code>"my.name@gmail.com" <my.name@gmail.com>
</code></pre>
<p>In addition, if I look at the XML of a shared calendar, the a... | [
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"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Unfortunately, there is no current way to change the Google calendar owner.</p>\n"
},
{
"answer_id":... | 2011/09/16 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19021",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/3237/"
] | When I look at the settings of one of my calendars in Google Calendar, it says Calendar Owner. And the string that comes after that looks hideous. It goes something like this:
```
"my.name@gmail.com" <my.name@gmail.com>
```
In addition, if I look at the XML of a shared calendar, the author tag looks like this:
```
... | Unfortunately, there is no current way to change the Google calendar owner. |
19,046 | <p>I tried this</p>
<pre><code>1. Bullet one.
1.1. Bullet one. one.
1.2. Bullet one. two.
2. Bullet two
</code></pre>
<p>And that doesn't work.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if it's been documented <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list">here</a> and <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/help">here</a> :-/<... | [
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"selected": true,
"text": "<p>I don't use Tumblr myself, but on all other markdown-using sites that I'm familiar with (StackExchance included)... | 2011/09/17 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19046",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/11640/"
] | I tried this
```
1. Bullet one.
1.1. Bullet one. one.
1.2. Bullet one. two.
2. Bullet two
```
And that doesn't work.
I'm not sure if it's been documented [here](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#list) and [here](http://www.tumblr.com/help) :-/
How to format a sub list with Markdown on Tumblr? | I don't use Tumblr myself, but on all other markdown-using sites that I'm familiar with (StackExchance included), the syntax
```
1. Bullet one.
1. Bullet one. one.
2. Bullet one. two.
2. Bullet two
```
gives the result you're looking for as far as generating correct HTML is concerned:
1. Bullet one.
1. Bullet on... |
19,088 | <p>I generally search for images using Google Image Search and after any search, I select the minimum size as 640x480 from the left pane of the page. </p>
<p>Is there any way to set a minimum size for Google Image Search by default? I looked at my search options in my Google account but couldn't find anything related.... | [
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"text": "<p>There doesn't seem to be any way to save Google Image search preferences, even when logged in to Google, which... | 2011/09/19 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19088",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/88/"
] | I generally search for images using Google Image Search and after any search, I select the minimum size as 640x480 from the left pane of the page.
Is there any way to set a minimum size for Google Image Search by default? I looked at my search options in my Google account but couldn't find anything related. | There doesn't seem to be any way to save Google Image search preferences, even when logged in to Google, which is a bit strange. I would have thought this would be something that a lot of people would use.
Anyway, you could probably create a little piece of JavaScript and add to your toolbar as a bookmarklet to do thi... |
19,128 | <p>I need a web app that can automatically check a given web page everyday for given text, and if it detects the text inside the page, send me an email. I am not asking for a service monitoring the changes but monitoring a page for the desired text. The page can change everyday, every hour, but that word does not alwa... | [
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"selected": true,
"text": "<pre><code>curl -s http://webapps.stackexchange.com/ | grep twitter &&\nmail -s \"website references twitter\"... | 2011/09/20 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19128",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/88/"
] | I need a web app that can automatically check a given web page everyday for given text, and if it detects the text inside the page, send me an email. I am not asking for a service monitoring the changes but monitoring a page for the desired text. The page can change everyday, every hour, but that word does not always a... | ```
curl -s http://webapps.stackexchange.com/ | grep twitter &&
mail -s "website references twitter" youremail@company.com </dev/null
```
This will send an email to youremail@company.com when "twitter" appears anywhere on webapps.stackexchange.com site. |
19,258 | <p>Question 1:</p>
<p>In Gmail / Google Contacts, let's say I have 12 contacts in Group A and 8 contacts in Group B.</p>
<p>4 contacts are in both Group A and Group B.</p>
<p>Is there a way I can filter to get results of only the contacts that are in both Groups?</p>
<p>(in this example there would be 4 contacts in... | [
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"text": "<p>This worked for me:\nSelect group 1, select all, assign a new group call \"A and B\"\ndo the same for group 2. \nN... | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19258",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/12698/"
] | Question 1:
In Gmail / Google Contacts, let's say I have 12 contacts in Group A and 8 contacts in Group B.
4 contacts are in both Group A and Group B.
Is there a way I can filter to get results of only the contacts that are in both Groups?
(in this example there would be 4 contacts in the results)
Question 2:
Aga... | Short answer
============
Google Contacts search doesn't have the search operators to do such "search operations" [1].
Remarks
=======
From [2] could be taken several helpful keywords like `intersection` and `symmetric difference`.
Alternatives
============
One alternative is to use spreadsheet functions to do set... |
19,278 | <p>I tried using Markdown to add a link to a checklist item in Trello, but it doesn't work. </p>
<p>Is there any way to do this?</p>
| [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>It would appear that you cannot create a clickable link in a list item. However, you can create a clickabl... | 2011/09/23 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19278",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/13591/"
] | I tried using Markdown to add a link to a checklist item in Trello, but it doesn't work.
Is there any way to do this? | It would appear that you cannot create a clickable link in a list item. However, you can create a clickable link in the Description area (back of card) by simply putting in a well formed URL, such as <http://google.com> And you could create a list of such links using Markdown syntax. Start each line with either an aste... |
19,397 | <p>How do I format text in a checklist, or embed comments, within a single checklist item in Trello? </p>
<p>I would like to provide additional notes and a hyperlink for several items in a checklist, but I can't find a good way to do so so that it applies to the individual checklist item and not the entire card. Typ... | [
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"pm_score": 1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>There is currently not a way to format checklist items.</p>\n"
},
{
"answer_id": 58484,
"author"... | 2011/09/29 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19397",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/13729/"
] | How do I format text in a checklist, or embed comments, within a single checklist item in Trello?
I would like to provide additional notes and a hyperlink for several items in a checklist, but I can't find a good way to do so so that it applies to the individual checklist item and not the entire card. Typing in the c... | There is currently not a way to format checklist items. |
19,401 | <p>For example, I wanted to check the <a href="https://trello.com/board/trello-development/4d5ea62fd76aa1136000000c" rel="noreferrer">Trello for Trello</a> list to see if a feature request was already registered. When I search, it doesn't limit the search to the current board, making the search results considerably le... | [
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"answer_id": 19422,
"author": "Rich Armstrong",
"author_id": 9179,
"author_profile": "https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/9179",
"pm_score": 2,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Right now, you can't, but search will be improving soon. We'll update here when you can do this.</p>\n"
}... | 2011/09/29 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19401",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/13374/"
] | For example, I wanted to check the [Trello for Trello](https://trello.com/board/trello-development/4d5ea62fd76aa1136000000c) list to see if a feature request was already registered. When I search, it doesn't limit the search to the current board, making the search results considerably less than useful. Is there a way t... | You can now limit your search to a specific board by starting your search with "board:xxx". xxx can be the board id or part of the title. For example I have a board called "Current Development ". To find the string 'searchval' on it I use:
```
board:current searchval
``` |
19,462 | <p>I post using Tumblr's markdown support. I've tried embedding my gist snippets as links, etc. but can't seem to figure out the right combination. If I post using html, the gist links work fine. I would rather use markdown, how can I do this?</p>
<p><em>Updated with examples</em></p>
<p>I tried it with a basic embed... | [
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"text": "<p>It seems the real problem lies in the fact that embedded scripts are ignored in posts, most likely for security issues.</... | 2011/10/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19462",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/13787/"
] | I post using Tumblr's markdown support. I've tried embedding my gist snippets as links, etc. but can't seem to figure out the right combination. If I post using html, the gist links work fine. I would rather use markdown, how can I do this?
*Updated with examples*
I tried it with a basic embedded script tag, which di... | It seems the real problem lies in the fact that embedded scripts are ignored in posts, most likely for security issues.
But it is possible to load JS within the description field when you go to "Customize your blog" (Kind of defeats the previous statement)
So you may be able to use a JS library (I think [Write Captur... |
19,467 | <p>I have seen <a href="https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/931/take-sum-of-colored-cells-in-a-column-in-google-spreadsheets">this question</a> and altough I face the same problem, the answer to that question is not helpful to my case. </p>
<p>I have large spreadsheets which are changed frequently. So, accordi... | [
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"pm_score": 5,
"selected": true,
"text": "<p>Please see if <a href=\"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/25846/12705\">my answer to a similar questio... | 2011/10/01 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19467",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/10075/"
] | I have seen [this question](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/931/take-sum-of-colored-cells-in-a-column-in-google-spreadsheets) and altough I face the same problem, the answer to that question is not helpful to my case.
I have large spreadsheets which are changed frequently. So, according to the solution ac... | Please see if [my answer to a similar question](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/25846/12705) helps.
**Update:**
My submission for the Google Docs Script gallery was accepted and you can install it to get the functionality you wish.
The steps:
* Open your spreadsheet
* In the menu go to *Tools* -> *Script galler... |
19,513 | <p><strong>How to delete all events on many dates all at once but not the whole Calendar in Google Calendar?</strong> I tried to click on a date that got an event to delete and dragged my mouse to 2 days after that date, but then I always see "create an Event". I thought I could press <code>backspace</code> or <code>de... | [
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"pm_score": -1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>If you want to delete all the events in a calendar you can go to the calendar settings and delete the whole calend... | 2011/10/03 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19513",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/11640/"
] | **How to delete all events on many dates all at once but not the whole Calendar in Google Calendar?** I tried to click on a date that got an event to delete and dragged my mouse to 2 days after that date, but then I always see "create an Event". I thought I could press `backspace` or `delete` to delete all those events... | I've been able to do this with a Google Script like this. You can alter this to pinpoint the days you want to delete, etc.
```
function delete_events()
{
var fromDate = new Date(2013,0,1,0,0,0);
var toDate = new Date(2013,0,4,0,0,0);
var calendarName = 'My Calendar';
// delete from Jan 1 to end of Ja... |
19,517 | <p>Is there a way to do Markdown in Trello so that if you click the phone number on a card on the iPhone it will actually call the number?</p>
<p>I just realized that you can use Markdown in order to make URLs and email addresses clickable on the mobile web version of Trello and wondering if that extends to phone numb... | [
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"pm_score": -1,
"selected": false,
"text": "<p>If you want to delete all the events in a calendar you can go to the calendar settings and delete the whole calend... | 2011/10/04 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19517",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/13830/"
] | Is there a way to do Markdown in Trello so that if you click the phone number on a card on the iPhone it will actually call the number?
I just realized that you can use Markdown in order to make URLs and email addresses clickable on the mobile web version of Trello and wondering if that extends to phone numbers.
I tr... | I've been able to do this with a Google Script like this. You can alter this to pinpoint the days you want to delete, etc.
```
function delete_events()
{
var fromDate = new Date(2013,0,1,0,0,0);
var toDate = new Date(2013,0,4,0,0,0);
var calendarName = 'My Calendar';
// delete from Jan 1 to end of Ja... |
19,568 | <p>I can't log in to my Google Apps email from one of the computers as it keeps redirecting me to the general Gmail login screen. </p>
<p>The normal Google Apps sign in page is here:</p>
<pre><code>http://mail.google.com/a/example.com
</code></pre>
<p>But it takes me to here instead:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="... | [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>Try using <a href=\"https://www.google.com/a/example.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://www.google.com/a/example.com... | 2011/10/05 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19568",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/13861/"
] | I can't log in to my Google Apps email from one of the computers as it keeps redirecting me to the general Gmail login screen.
The normal Google Apps sign in page is here:
```
http://mail.google.com/a/example.com
```
But it takes me to here instead:
>
> <https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=http%3A%... | Your domain may have been upgraded. If so, you should still be able to login from <http://mail.google.com>. Just enter your full email address (not just your username) when you try to sign in.
As an admin, you should also be able to login to your cpanel at <http://www.google.com/a/example.com> and acces your mail from... |
19,613 | <p>In MediaWiki, if the Index at the top is large, it becomes show/hideable.</p>
<p>Is there a way to do this with other sections in MediaWiki?</p>
<p>I maintain technical documentation on an internal wiki, and I would like to be able to hide some documentation that 99% of users won't need:</p>
<pre><code>Before ins... | [
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"selected": false,
"text": "<p>This is possible, but requires some addition into the MediaWiki:Common.js file in your wiki. Such functionality is... | 2011/10/07 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19613",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/3221/"
] | In MediaWiki, if the Index at the top is large, it becomes show/hideable.
Is there a way to do this with other sections in MediaWiki?
I maintain technical documentation on an internal wiki, and I would like to be able to hide some documentation that 99% of users won't need:
```
Before installing Massive Application,... | Since v1.18, out-of-the-box you can do the following (as described [here](http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual%3aNavFrame)):
```
<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
This text is not collapsible; but the next is collapsible and
hidden by default:
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">{{Lorem}}</div>
</div>
``` |
19,658 | <p>Many of the acronyms or scientific words I punch into Google seem to be silently auto-corrected to something more usual, e.g. "MAPB agarose" is turned into "map agarose" without the </p>
<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>Showing results for <code>"fixed" word</code></em></strong><br>
Search instead for <code>what I w... | [
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"text": "<p>Google Search just suggests you some words which are related to your search terms, they are generally <strong... | 2011/10/08 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19658",
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] | Many of the acronyms or scientific words I punch into Google seem to be silently auto-corrected to something more usual, e.g. "MAPB agarose" is turned into "map agarose" without the
>
> ***Showing results for `"fixed" word`***
>
> Search instead for `what I want`
>
>
>
associated with the usual auto-correcti... | Put + directly in front of the word or phrase. I use this all the time. For example
```
+"MAPB agarose"
```
**Note:** This is no longer true.
>
> The + operator has been replaced.
>
> To search for an exact word or phrase, use double quotation marks: hacker "news"
>
>
>
So you just need the quotes now. |
19,669 | <p>While I am trying to surf, all of these Facebook notifications flood the right side of my screen one after the other. It freezes my computer and I have to wait until I can click one of the Xs on a notification. </p>
<p>I went to my account settings and have completely unchecked anything that says anyone or any appl... | [
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] | While I am trying to surf, all of these Facebook notifications flood the right side of my screen one after the other. It freezes my computer and I have to wait until I can click one of the Xs on a notification.
I went to my account settings and have completely unchecked anything that says anyone or any application ca... | Put + directly in front of the word or phrase. I use this all the time. For example
```
+"MAPB agarose"
```
**Note:** This is no longer true.
>
> The + operator has been replaced.
>
> To search for an exact word or phrase, use double quotation marks: hacker "news"
>
>
>
So you just need the quotes now. |
19,673 | <p>It would be very useful if Google provided a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression">regular expression</a> search.</p>
<p>Is there a way to do this?</p>
<p>(OBS: I am not talking about false regular expressions like <code>site:</code>, <code>filetype:</code>, <code>AND</code>, <code>OR</code> o... | [
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"text": "<p>No, unfortunately not :(. In theory you could make your own search engine and do it, but that would be pre... | 2011/10/08 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19673",
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] | It would be very useful if Google provided a [regular expression](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression) search.
Is there a way to do this?
(OBS: I am not talking about false regular expressions like `site:`, `filetype:`, `AND`, `OR` or `"Text"`. I would like to search with a regular expression like `.+[]^`... | This feature is not available in classic Google Search and it's not in Google's roadmap. You can learn more about this topic watching the Google video [Will Google implement the ability to search with regular expressions?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYiTIDgejas)
However, there's one exception. [Google Code Search]... |
19,849 | <p>An old client of mine has a Typepad blog that they’re looking to rename. This blog has a custom domain name, owned by the client, so they can change that just fine.</p>
<p>However, individual Typepad blog entries live in a root folder on the domain, like this:</p>
<pre><code>blogname.example.com/blogname/2011/10/b... | [
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"text": "<p>As far as I can tell from the following Typepad KnowledgeBase page, you can’t:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"ht... | 2011/10/14 | [
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However, individual Typepad blog entries live in a root folder on the domain, like this:
```
blogname.example.com/blogname/2011/10/blog_entry_title
```
... | As far as I can tell from the following Typepad KnowledgeBase page, you can’t:
* <http://help.typepad.com/add_blog.html>
As stated under “Blog Folder”, if you change the name of the blog folder (that’s the root folder on the domain that the blog lives in), links to the old name will break. |
19,917 | <p>In Google Maps, how can I have a place-marker appear for a place by using only it's coordinates?</p>
<p>The short code I'm currently using is:</p>
<pre><code>[map lat="46.090271" long="6.657248" zoom="9" type="" width="670" height="350"]
</code></pre>
<p>If I could enter an address, I would be able to use the fol... | [
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"text": "<p>You can use <code>description (name) @46.090271,6.657248</code> as the address.</p>\n"
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"answ... | 2011/10/17 | [
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The short code I'm currently using is:
```
[map lat="46.090271" long="6.657248" zoom="9" type="" width="670" height="350"]
```
If I could enter an address, I would be able to use the following shortcode to add a placeho... | You can use `description (name) @46.090271,6.657248` as the address. |
19,927 | <p>I have created a Google spreadsheet (acting as a database) that has numerous columns, name being one of them, and I wanted to make sure the name field is always unique and no row can be created if the name field is the same as another row. </p>
<p>Essentially I want to create a primary key for a database. Does an... | [
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"text": "<p>You are asking for the opposite of data validation from a list. In effect you want the data validation to fail, i... | 2011/10/17 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/19927",
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Essentially I want to create a primary key for a database. Does anyone know ho... | ```
=COUNTIF($A:$A,"="&A1) < 2
```
If you put this in as a Custom Formula for the Data Validation rule for Column A, Column A will reject all duplicates. |
20,003 | <p>I'm trying to write a SUM function in sheet B, summing all the data from sheet A in specific rows. I can't find a good explanation of how to do this.</p>
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"text": "<p>Try the solution on <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75943&topic=13614... | 2011/10/20 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20003",
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] | I'm trying to write a SUM function in sheet B, summing all the data from sheet A in specific rows. I can't find a good explanation of how to do this. | If you want to "retrieve" specific rows, then you need to use the following formula.
Formula
-------
```
=SUMIF(range, criteria, sum_range)
=SUMIF(DATA!A:A,"<="&10,DATA!A:A)
```
Explained
---------
In this case, the specific rows are summed , only if the value is smaller or equal to 10.
Example
-------
I've crea... |
20,770 | <p>Rather than subscribe (in my feed reader) to my YouTube feed of subscribed things (which bunches everything into one big stream), I'd like to subscribe (again, in my feed reader) to each of the things I'm interested in on YouTube <em>separately</em>. When interested in all the content from one <em>user</em>, the fee... | [
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"text": "<p>You can use the Youtube Data API to retrieve the feed of all of the episodes. The key is to use the special categor... | 2011/11/12 | [
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20770",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
"https://webapps.stackexchange.com/users/8469/"
] | Rather than subscribe (in my feed reader) to my YouTube feed of subscribed things (which bunches everything into one big stream), I'd like to subscribe (again, in my feed reader) to each of the things I'm interested in on YouTube *separately*. When interested in all the content from one *user*, the feed URL is simply
... | The short answer (the feed for Freeman's Mind) is:
```
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/49C3B7EDD1624C55
```
The longer answer (to find this on your own): you need to go onto the creator's account page and click on the playlist for the show you want. The playlist ID (in this case, 49C3B7EDD1624C55) is fo... |
20,780 | <p>How can I get the things which I like on Facebook on my RSS news reader?</p>
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"text": "<p>You can use the Youtube Data API to retrieve the feed of all of the episodes. The key is to use the special categor... | 2011/11/12 | [
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"https://webapps.stackexchange.com",
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] | How can I get the things which I like on Facebook on my RSS news reader? | The short answer (the feed for Freeman's Mind) is:
```
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/49C3B7EDD1624C55
```
The longer answer (to find this on your own): you need to go onto the creator's account page and click on the playlist for the show you want. The playlist ID (in this case, 49C3B7EDD1624C55) is fo... |