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Word - Refresh All Fields
In my work, I write a lot of documents. A surprising amount in fact, probably equalled only by the number of spreadsheets. The majority of these (Microsoft Word) documents are produced for clients and...
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TextExpander Wants
The cloud-based cross-platform release of TextExpander has been around for over a year having launched in early April 2016. Whilst there has undoubtedly been a lot of progress on the apps (the Windows...
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PowerShell: Sorting and Encoding Problem
Recently I was working on processing a file of data and in order to deduplicate and sort it, I decided to employ Windows' PowerShell scripting functionality. It's a very powerful tool-set and perfectly...
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SuccessFactors Q3 Update: Employee Central Service Centre
Every quarter SAP update their SuccessFactors product line and here is my review for the updates to the Employee Central Service Centre module.
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SuccessFactors Q3 Update: Platform & Technology
Every quarter SAP update their SuccessFactors product line and here is my review for the updates to the platform and underlying technologies.
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SuccessFactors Q3 Update: Reporting
Every quarter SAP update their SuccessFactors product line and here is my review for the updates to the reporting functionality.
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SuccessFactors Q3 Update: Jam and Mobile
Every quarter SAP update their SuccessFactors product line and here is my review for the updates to the Jam (collaboration) module and the platform's mobile functionality.
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TextExpander and External Keyboards on iOS
TextExpander is a fantastic tool that fundamentally allows you to enter a string of characters and trigger a response that can replace the text with different content (e.g. plain text, formatted text,...
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Changing My Work Twitter Handle
I've been on Twitter a while now, but since starting in my current business role I've had a separate account for my work posts. I've been posting non-work things to @sylumer and work items to...
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Excel: Count Lines in a Cell
Recently I was using an Excel spreadsheet to prepare some data and I had a constraint to work to in the number of lines of data the target system could display. Unfortunately rather than rows of data...
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XYplorer: Create a Time Stamped ZIP Folder
Something I find I need to do quite regularly is take a snap shot of a folder. For the purposes of saving space (and often for passing on the folder to someone else) I like to compress the folder into...
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2017 Thought Asylum Annual Review
2017 has passed into history and so I’m taking my annual look back at what’s been getting the page hits on thoughtasylum.com and a personal look at the past year.
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XYplorer: Concatenating Files
Today I’m going to share an XYplorer script for combining files through concatenation - i.e. merging them together by appending the files to one another in order to create a new combined file. Whilst...
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Mute Your Microphone with Keyboard Maestro
Whilst I’m not a presenter on radio or podcast show, I do actually spend a fair amount of time speaking to people via my computers. I join conference calls, webinars and everything in between. For this...
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XYplorer: Copy Last Screenshot Here
Another quick but useful script for the Windows file manager XYplorer today when using it alongside my favourite screenshot application on Windows, Greenshot. I use Greenshot to capture screenshots on...
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