It took years to figure this out and it’s not free, but I don’t ever lose files anymore. Not losing files is worth the $240 I pay for these services…
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I tinker with tech…
Replacing Paragraph Breaks with Double Paragraph Breaks in LibreOffice Writer
Here’s the problem I was facing. I had a document with a lot of text that I had to analyze. The text had been copied from a spreadsheet and pasted…
LibreOffice Calc – Conditional Formatting
I haven’t used this feature of spreadsheet software as much as I probably should, but I have a spreadsheet I have been working with a lot lately and conditional formatting…
How To Fix PDF Forms Not Showing Contents in Okular (Linux)
I have had this problem happen twice now, and I don’t know exactly what is causing it, but I found a solution. Here’s the situation… I received a PDF that…
Plex Playlists with Amazon Echo
My music library is stored on my NAS. On my primary desktop at home, I mount the music folder and use Clementine to listen to my music. Everywhere else, I…
LibreOffice – address label merge (from spreadsheet)
I’ve been using LibreOffice for over a decade and have only had to do an address label merge twice in that time – both of which have been in the…
R – Finding and Setting Working Directory
R, like many software programs, likes to have a folder or directory on your computer to operate in. When you start R, depending on how you start it and whether…
Launching HandBrake 1.4.0 in Kubuntu 21.04
The fine folks at HandBrake have updated their software and distribution system to a Flatpack approach. Their Flatpack for Linux is based on Gnome, not KDE, which is fine, but…
LibreOffice Calc – VLookup with dates
In a different post on this blog, I showed how to use Vlookup to match lists. Someone commented on that post and indicated that it didn’t work with dates. It…
R – changing mirror in RStudio
CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) is a distributed set of servers that allow people to download the various R packages from a bunch of servers that are all “mirrors”…