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Has the “text effects” cheese been moved only in Word 2013 styles?

2014/10/07 plagwitz Leave a comment

Used to have its own separate button – don’t despair, it is still there, now under the “Format” button:

Categories: office-software Tags: 2013, MS-Word, styles, text-effects

We can nest controls in repeating content controls, including repeating content controls

2014/10/06 plagwitz Leave a comment

Just saying, since it seems not easy to find within web search results the ones that nest nesting….
Have not tried accessing the results in OpenXML yet which will have to be done via the control ID
1. since repeating:
2. does not autoincrement the titles and tags.

Categories: animated-GIFs, e-infrastructure, service-is-documenting Tags: 2013, content-controls, MS-Word

How to get Square brackets (and hide comments) with ISO690 in Word 2013 bibliography styles

2014/09/14 plagwitz 2 comments

Lots of people online seem to be looking for square brackets with citations in ISO690 style in Word 2013, but having no luck with getting the Bibliography XSL for older Word versions to work. Trying to edit the old XSL still results in it not loading into the MS-Word Citation Style dropdown.
What is needed is a way to parse the XSL and debug load errors. In the meantime…
I had better luck with starting from the current Word2013 ISO style. If you stream Office365, this is now in %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates\LiveContent\15\Managed\Word Document Bibliography Styles
1. Puzzlingly, there is also a %appdata%\Microsoft\Bibliography\Style which some of your edited files get copied to – go figure….
2. The ISO690 file I based my variation on is called : TC102851224[[fn=iso690nmerical]].xsl
3. Copy this file to %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates\LiveContent\15\User\Word Document Bibliography Styles\
4. Open it with a text editor (I use NotePad++).
5. Change “Openbracket” section like so: And the corresponding for closebracket
  <!– trp: –>
  [
6. Same principle change for the corresponding for “Closebracket“
  1. Lst time I carelessly introduced printing space characters before my closing brackets – just copy the leading chars from a working XML line if you run into this problem.
I also needed to not print “Comment”-field of the source in my bibliography”
1. Search for:
2. Comment out the “print”-action inside (easier than changing each bibliographgy type):<!– trp:
  –>
Change the style name. MS-Word 2013 uses “StyleNameLocalized” instead of “StyleName”, so I added a qualifier to each localized name within the test:
ISO 690YOURNAMEHERE
Restart MS-Word, and with luck, your styles will show in the ribbon References section style dropdown: . Apply them (using F9):
Download: TC102851224[[fn=iso690nmericalsquare0comments]]

Categories: e-infrastructure, e-research, office-software, service-is-documenting Tags: 2013, bibliographies, comments, iso690, MS-Word, square-brackets, styles, XML, xsl

MS-OneDrive “Get link” incompatible with MS-Word “Always create backup copy”, use MS-OneDrive versioning instead

2014/07/07 plagwitz Leave a comment

Symptoms:
1. If I edit my local MS-OneDrive copy with MS-Word, my collaborators lose access to the most recent copy via the link I shared with them.
2. Worse, the new file MS-Word generates when the backup is created, won’t get automatically synched with MS-OneDrive, and no sync error seems to get flagged in Explorer.
Root cause (presumably):
1. When saving in MS-Word, I can see my focus moving to the backup file
2. MS-Word, when creating a backup of the original file, actually rather creates a “fore-up”: The original file gets renamed (“Backup of…”) and the recent changes get copied into a new file.
3. The MS-OneDrive link keeps pointing to the old file “Backup of…”, “when after (which one can see normally, if the user renames a file manually, is a desirable feature)
4. Workaround: I managed to manually upload the files that got out off synch.
Solution:
1. Turn MS-Word backup off, it is not compatible with MS-OneDrive under File / Options /Advanced / section: Save:
2. Rather, rely on the MS-OneDrive versioning.

Categories: e-infrastructure, Glitches&Errors, office-software Tags: 2013, backups, MS-OneDrive, MS-Word, versioning

How to install and use a free dictionary/encyclopedia app in MS-Word 2013

2014/05/01 plagwitz Leave a comment

Installing is easy (our example is Wikipedia): Right-click a word, pick “define” from the context menu, the click download in the side pane for the app you choose.

Usage is also easy: To look up phrases, select, right-click and choose define:

To look up individual words, you can also just double-click the word:

You can also click “Expand”:

To install more dictionaries after the first one, click Insert / Apps for Office.

You can search for your L2 (too many to list):

It works for base forms:

But I cannot lemmatize (ouch):

I found out that when I go to Insert/ My Apps/ See all : , I can show more than one app in the side pane.

However,how o I change the default lookup that happens on double click on a word?

Categories: all-languages, audience-is-students, Dictionaries, English, German, office-software, Reading Tags: 2013, ms-office-apps, ms-office-store, MS-Word, wikipedia

Example 5: Watch how you can dictate to Windows speech-recognition (e.g. in English) and correct results in MS-Word

2014/03/07 plagwitz Leave a comment

Important: Listen carefully: I am not a native speaker, but have a reasonably low amount of errors, because it enunciate, speak clearly and slowly, and separate the words.
Consider it part of the exercise that you will have to re-read and re-type some your output – use track changes in MS-Word:
1. Make it a game: How good can you get?
2. If you get really good at it, make a screencast like this one and include it in your Mahara ePortfolio as authentic evidence of your foreign language proficiency.
Overall, it’s like how I refer to cycling: Beats walking. Anytime.

Code documentation for a quiz template based on MS-Word

2014/01/28 plagwitz Leave a comment

trpQuizGenerator allows for using simple markup (view training here) to produce cloze quizzes in large fonts, for easy screen sharing through the face-to-face classroom management system (see samples of quizzes based on this template here.)
Click the table of contents below to browse the VBA documentation built with Aivosto.

Categories: documentation, service-is-assessing, service-is-programming Tags: aivosto.com, MS-Word, trpQuiz, VBA

How to compare two MS-Word documents for plagiarism detection

2013/11/14 plagwitz 2 comments

You could start with the document properties
1. some students leave even the author and editing time in. However, author does not prove any wrong doing, a student may have borrowed a laptop, including its MS-word installation, to author a document and submit it
2. It may actually be more of an indicator of something illicit if document properties are empty.
3. Students have likely used the “Document inspector”:
  1. (1): File / (2) Info, (3) view the properties (this document looks like it had its privacy information removed), you can use (4) to view even more.
  2. to remove all privacy relevant information, like so: (5) unfold “check for issues”, (6) “inspect document””,
  3. in the window: “document inspector”, click , you will be given the option to “remove all”personal information:
4. However, removing personal information can be perfectly legitimate, unless something else was assigned. And it does not help plagiarizers cover their tracks anyway, for…
…there is the more substantial “compare” documents feature which (even though it was developed for the legal profession, as blackline) tracks what really counts: content changes.
1. Access it form the ribbon’s “review” tab:
2. point the tool to your 2 documents:
3. make your life easier by selecting on the “review” tab to view only content changes (formatting comparisons is noise for plagiarism detection):
4. You get a handy (here blurred, but still demonstrating the amount of similarity (=black), compared with changes (= blue), between the 2 documents ) overview of (from the left)
  1. list of changes
  2. view of changes in a merged document (which you can save)
  3. original document
  4. secondary (likely plagiarized) document:
  5. The feature is nice, but only moderately intelligent (see the first match, I would obviously not count that as substantially different) and best used with discretion, to make it easier for a teacher to decide how likely it is that these similarities are accidental.
  6. In this instance, even if the teacher questions are not counted, it seems obvious that only minor alterations were made to the original document and many responses, including quite lengthy sentences, are entirely the same.
  7. While this *is* an instructional use, you can find happier instructional uses of MS-Word’s reviewing/tracking changes feature here.