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Fun with MS-Word inserting boilerplate text from the Quick part gallery
2014/11/17
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Consistency through reuse.
Categories: animated-GIFs, office-software, training
building-blocks, MS-Word, quickparts
Fun with MS-Word’s multilevel lists from the QAT style dropdown
2014/11/12
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Categories: animated-GIFs, office-software, training
bullets, headings, lists, MS-Word, qat, styles
How to fix MS-Word not creating PDF Bookmarks for your Headings
2014/10/29
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- Problem: No navigation bar in Acrobat Reader when viewing your PDF created from MS-Word.
- Solution: Check this setting first in the Save as PDF Options:
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But: Word 2013’s “Save as PDF” with “Create Bookmarks” may remains greyed out since it won’t even see your own heading styles, even if you based these styles on the built-in heading styles (which are known to contain “hidden magic” not easily replicated) , including their outline level, if
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Heading appears in Content control.
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Heading appears in Table.
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Workaround:
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Move headings out of Content Controls (you can still “lock”the text with Grouping, which will be enabled on the Developer Tab once you select at least a conten control and text (meant for form field labels).
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Move headings outside of tables.
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Categories: Glitches&Errors, office-software, service-is-documenting
2013, adobe-acrobat, bookmarks, content-controls, headings, MS-Word, outlining, pdf, tables
Can speech recognition tools be soundly applied for speaking practice in second language acquisition programs? Paper at SLRF 2014
2014/10/26
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For your convenience, I provide two versions of this presentation: the slide deck:
And a screencast of my presentation:
(Unfortunately, PowerPoint 2013 seems to have introduced a bug in alignment of narration and video. If they fix it, I will republish),
How to fix primary screen on Linux laptop not coming out of sleep
2014/10/17
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- Problem: My Debian (Jessie) Linux laptop has issues with juggling a secondary screen and sleeping at the same time. More specifically, it seems:
- It seems if you come out of sleep with a secondary screen connected, even if you put the laptop to sleep with “it” (o.k., not the same “it”, just spec-wise the equivalent FULL HD LCD screen on VGA – being able to easily move the laptop to work in multiple places is kind of the point of having one in the first place), the primary laptop screen seems to remain asleep completely. FN keys to switch primary and secondary screen on laptop have no effect.
- If you disconnect the secondary screen, Linux does fall back onto the primary screen, however, “forgets” to turn the backlight on. FN keys to up brightness have no effect
- have not found a reliable way avoiding the issue – maybe always disconnecting secondary screen before putting laptop to sleep? If you don’t want to have to do this, or forget, try to use this:
- Workaround:
- While I could get to the tty shell on secondary screen using
CTRL+ALT+F1, but usingxrandr --autogavecan't open display. - However, try installing this utility which I found recommended in a different context:
aptitude search xbacklightxbacklight - simple utility to set the backlight levelaptitude install xbacklight- Switch to a non-elevated user (or else you’ll get:
No protocol specified" , "Primary laptop", "Can't open display :0", Why can't I run GUI apps from 'root': "No protocol specified"? : " In Debian $XAUTHORITY is usually not set explicitly.", "xauth list xauth: file /root/.Xauthority does not exist"). - Then issue:
xbacklight -set 50ORissuexbacklight -inc 50. - Viola: “Fiat lux”…
- Sleep takes out your primary screen and you are not good at blind starting, finding and typing into your Konsole? Right-click on the desktop of your secondary scree, “Run command”, and issue the same command line.
- Thank you, xbacklight.
- While I could get to the tty shell on secondary screen using
VBA script to more easily examine the properties of your Content Control-based forms
2014/10/09
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- The routine loops through the Content Controls and outputs properties as text into the VBA-Editor immediate window,
- from where it can be easily converted into an Excel-table which makes it easy t o spot and mark inconsistencies and outright oversights, like so:
Sub ccPropertiesPrint()
On Error Resume Next
Dim strHeadings, strProps As String
Dim count As Integer
Dim response
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "count"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "Tag"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "Title"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "Type"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "DefaultTextStyle"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "Application"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "BuildingBlockCategory"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "BuildingBlockType"
'strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "Checked"
'strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "Creator"
'strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "DateCalendarType"
'strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "DateDisplayFormat"
'strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "DateDisplayLocale"
'strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "DateStorageFormat"
'strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "DropdownListEntries"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "ID"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "LockContentControl"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "LockContents"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "MultiLine"
'strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "Parent"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "ParentContentControl"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "PlaceholderText"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "Range"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "ShowingPlaceholderText"
strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "Temporary"
'strHeadings = strHeadings & "~" & "XMLMapping"
Debug.Print strHeadings
If ActiveDocument.ContentControls.count > 0 Then
For Each oCC In ActiveDocument.ContentControls
'debug
'If oCC.Type = 9 Then 'debug: repeating
count = count + 1
If count = 50 Then
'dim response = vbmsgboxresponse
Exit For
End If
' useless cannot access immediate window If count = 15 Then response = MsgBox("paused", vbOKOnly) End If
strProps = "" 'start over
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & count 'CStr(count)
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.Tag, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.Title, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.Type, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.DefaultTextStyle, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.Application, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.BuildingBlockCategory, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.BuildingBlockType, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
'strProps = strProps & "~"
'strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.Checked, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
'strProps = strProps & "~"
'strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.Creator, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
'strProps = strProps & "~"
'strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.DateCalendarType, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
'strProps = strProps & "~"
'strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.DateDisplayFormat, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
'strProps = strProps & "~"
'strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.DateDisplayLocale, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
'strProps = strProps & "~"
'strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.DateStorageFormat, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
'strProps = strProps & "~"
'strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.DropdownListEntries.count, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.ID, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.LockContentControl, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.LockContents, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.MultiLine, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
'strProps = strProps & "~"
'strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.Parent, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.ParentContentControl, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.PlaceholderText, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.Range, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.ShowingPlaceholderText, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
strProps = strProps & "~"
strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.Temporary, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
'strProps = strProps & "~"
'strProps = strProps & CStr(Replace(Replace(oCC.XMLMapping, Chr(13), "#"), Chr(10), "#"))
Debug.Print vbCrLf & strProps & vbCrLf
'End If 'oCC.Type=9 then 'debug: repeating
Next
End If
End Sub
Has the “text effects” cheese been moved only in Word 2013 styles?
2014/10/07
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Used to have its own separate button – don’t despair, it is still there, now under the “Format” button:
Categories: office-software
2013, MS-Word, styles, text-effects
Sample learner speech recognition speaking practice task assignments and screencast completions
2014/09/14
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- My initial test of W7ASR mV8MRY used an end-of-chapter web quest from a 1st-year German textbook. From reading for the gist to pronouncing an authentic target culture text is a challenge – make it extra credit.
- Turn existing writing exercises into speaking/ reading/ corrective writing exercises: Free form writing during note taking, e.g. when answering comprehension or short essay questions, fits the continuous speech optimization of W7ASR.
- You will likely see reduced recognition accuracy and less proofing feedback, but gain wider applicability for (grammar, but especially vocabulary) drills that use discrete writing, e.g. filling in cloze exercises (navigation need not be done by voice), even in a web browser from your LMS or online textbook.
- Turn “flipped classroom” homework preparation fill-in-the-blank conversation suggestions into more hands-on phrase dictations before your in-class communicative practice.
- Similarly, my Spanish screencasts, e.g. qK9fKV, flips our Spanish for Law Enforcement: If W7ASR can ”understand” your Miranda warning, a suspect likely can also.
- Finally, the most advanced language learners can replace writing of essay tasks from their textbooks by speaking them – use of only ASR for editing is optional.
- All above tasks are based on existing textbook and/or syllabus which are easily extended by Windows 7 “open response” speech recognition.
Categories: conferences, e-languages, Speaking, textbooks
speech-recognition
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