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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/15
I always forget that, when moving a folder, instead of finding all references to that folder and fixing them, you can create an NTFS symlink from the old location to the new one.
[Wayback] how to move MSOCACHE folder from C-drive to D-drive ?? – Microsoft Community (thanks [Wayback] tgunda numbering and casing updates mine):
There are too much entries in the registry to correct them manually one by one.
An easier and quicker solution is to copy the full MSOCache folder to a new place and to make a soft link to it:
- Create a new folder, e.g.
F:\MSOCache
- Copy everything from
C:\MSOCache to the new one.
- Rename the old folder
C:\xMSOCache (Don’t delete it, just in case).
- Open a command prompt window in administrator mode.
- Write:
mklink /d c:\MSOCache f:\MSOCache
Now there is an MSOCache link at C, pointing to the new place.
If everything is OK, you can delete C:\xMSOCache
This can be very handy when moving around large software development installations, circumventing a full uninstall/install sequence loosing lots of configuration settings.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/11/09
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/01
Every now and then, for instance with a document including other documents, like in a homework assignment, you might want to exclude part of your Heading 1 (or Heading 2/Heading 3) entries from the table of contents.
Since presence in the Table of Contents is a ToC feature, not a style feature, you have to set the correct options in the ToC.
This is how you do it:
- Create new styles for the headings you do not want in the ToC (I call them “Heading 1, no ToC”; “Heading 2, no ToC”; etcetera) and base each on the corresponding style “Heading 1” or “Heading 2”
- Modify your Table of Contents to exclude these new styles (as they are automatically included)
This is contrary to many advices to use the “Reference” toolbar, then “Add Text” marked “Do Not Show In Table Of Contents”. That advice will remove the heading formatting completely and remove it from the navigation pane, so do not follow [WayBack] Quick Tip: How to exclude headings from the Table of Contents in Microsoft Word – jeffreykusters.nl.
The above solution both keeps the formatting, and the appearance in the navigation pane. It only disappears from the Table of Contents.
It is based on:
Following the above steps, you get styles like this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/23
On an old system, I found some x86 installers with names like RbudLR.cab, RosebudMUI.msi, RosebudMUI.xml, setup.xml.
They appeared to be the (now deprecated and never released as x64): MSDAIPP – Wikipedia (Microsoft Data Access Internet Publishing Provider).
Searching for RosebudMUI many returned detection scams like solvusoft, but somewhere further down was this only meaningful result: [WayBack] What is the RosebudMUI AddOn in Visio 2007?
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/06/11
Steps to have only the body parts of your Winword document Heading 1 numbered, but parts like Summary and Table of Contents without numbering.
Related:
Steps:
- Create a document with
- some paragraphs of body text, intertwined with:
- some paragraphs that should become numbered headings,
- some paragraphs that should become non-numbered headings
- room for a table of context
- Go to the “Styles” popup (keyboard shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S, or ribbon “Home” -> section “Styles” -> small button on the lower right of the ribbon section
- For each paragraph that should become a heading, apply style “Heading 1” (you can also use keyboard shortcut
Ctrl+Alt+1 for this)
- Modify the various heading levels so they become numbered: see [WayBack] How to create numbered headings or outline numbering in Word 2007 and Word 2010 | ShaunaKelly.com. I prefer the hierarchical numbered multilevel list without the numbers being indented for the body text, but with indented numbers in the Table of Contents, so lets go.
- Start with the stock multi-leveled list definition:
- Change from “None”
to the multi-level one: 
- Now create a new one based on it:
- “Define New List Style…”:
- Rename from “Style1”
to “Heading 
- This involves creating a new list style called “Headings”, based on the numbered list style you like
- Since by default, these bind to all levels, your document styles “Heading 1”..”Heading 9″ are covered. If for one or more styles, you do not want numbering, see below how to fix that (I do that for a “Heading 1 – no-numbering” style used for the “Summary” heading, and for the “TOC Heading” style.
- Mark the “Summary” heading as a new style “Heading 1 – non-numbered”:
- Press
Ctrl+Shift+S to get to the “Apply Styles” 
- Enter the new name “Heading 1 – non-numbered” and press the “New” button:
- Press the “Modify” button
- to view the current style
- Press “Format” ->
- Change it from “None”
to “None” and press “OK” 
- Observe the numbering is gone:
- Unlike the “Heading 1” style, the “Style for following paragraphs” is wrong: it needs to be
- Now we are done, so press the “OK” button:
- Then observe the first numbered “Heading 1” now has got the number “1” instead of the “Summary”:
- Insert a “Table of Contents”, for instance after the “Summary”
- You might think it will start with a heading “Table of Contents”:
- Im some localisations of office, it is prepended with a “1.” and becomes “1. Table of Contents”. If it does, then you have to change style “TOC Heading” and undo the numbering as done with “Heading 1 – non-numbering” by pressing
Ctrl+Shift+S when you are in the “Table of Contents” heading: 
- From there, press the “Modify” button and continue as done with “Heading 1 – non-numbering”:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/06/07
Choices:
=lorem(...): Ramdom Lorem Ipsum text paragraphs.
- The sentences are roughly between 0.25 and 1.0 document widths in length.
=rand(...): Random English help text like paragraphs.
- The sentences are roughly between 0.5 and 1.5 document width in length.
=rand.old(...): “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” paragraphs (up until Word 2003, this was what rand(...) returned).
- The sentences are always the same length.
(...) parameters:
(x,y): x paragraphs of y sentences of text(y): y paragraphs of 3 sentences of text (lorem more towards 1, rand more towards 3)(): depends on the function:
=lorem(): 5 paragraphs of 3 sentences of text=rand(): 5 paragraphs of 3 sentences of text=rand.old(): 3 paragraphs of 3 sentences of text
Note:
- There is no way to specify x paragraphs of random number lines of text.
- They need to have “Replace text as you type” enabled (see menu option “File” -> “Options” -> “Proofing” -> “Autocorrect Options”)
- Word 2003 and lower only have
=rand(...)
Based on:
Related: [WayBack] 10 awesome Lorem Ipsum alternatives – Justinmind via [WayBack] rand () in word – Microsoft Tech Community – 325554
For a random document demo, I usually do this:
=lorem(100,1) to get 100 paragraphs of 1 line of text- About every 10 paragraphs, I mark a paragraph with a relevant Heading style
- Inside the remaining text, I combine some paragraphs to get longer ones
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/05
For my link archive:
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/02/12
I was trying to get the love of my life from using a mouse into keyboard shortcuts.
They come natural to me as I learned them step by step from Word for Windows 1.0 until now as I have been a keyboard person since the early 1990s.
But she has been a mouse person all her life, struggling to become faster using word. The mouse became a hindrance, especially since so much has moved around to deeper levels in the Word user interface over time.
This is what I came up with after doing a few searches on-line:
I was amazed at how scattered out and incomplete the information in these links is.
–jeroen
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