I'm going through the process of converting a PDF into a spreadsheet. After some effort, I found that I could get it into an acceptable format for in Writer, then copy it into Calc. But I can't select all, and there are too many pages to select, copy, and past individually. I've tried ctrl A, click and drag selecting, using ctrl and shift click, and 'Select All' in the Edit dropdown menu. I've been able to select at most one page, which isn't really helpful. I also can select all if I add text/stuff that isn't tables, but this stuff messes up the format for pasting into Calc and I can't deselect it before copying
Is there any other way of selecting all I haven't tried?
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I have a budget spreadsheet for simple money transactions. One of the columns is the transaction category (e.g. Grocery, Auto Supplies, Insurance, Entertainment, etc.)
Rather than spell out, let's say, Insurance, in a given cell, I would like a list of possible values to appear, so that I can select one of the values (e.g., Insurance) and have Excel put that value in the cell for me. That way I make sure that Insurance is spelled the same each time I use it.
Is there an easy way to set this up in my workbook, preferably without getting into VBA coding?
You can create a dropdown lists in Excel. What I found from this video:
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Select the cells that you want to contain the lists. On the ribbon, click the DATA tab, and click Data Validation. In the dialog, set Allow to List. Click in Source. In this example, we are using a comma-delimited list. The text or numbers we type in the Source field are separated by commas. And click OK. The cells now have a drop-down list.
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I want to select all occurrences of a search term in a text document to copy and paste them into another file.
For example:
abcd"efgh.dat"ijkl
mnop"qrst.dat"uvwx
When seaching for "[^"]*.dat" with checkbox Use regular expressions enabled, I am ably to successfully mark the desired results "efgh.dat" and "qrst.dat" with the Mark button under Find All. But they're not selected, so I can't copy them.
How can I select all marked search result?
In Geany 1.36, when you select "find all" in find, the results appear in a window at the bottom called "messages".
If you select one of the results in this window and right click, a pop up allows you a choice (among others) to "copy all".
You can then paste the results where needed,
Also, with Geany's CTRL-ALT select, you can block select the prefix file info and line numbers to delete it, leaving the search lines results.
Is there any easy way of making able to select from DBGrid just like selecting range in excell file?
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE5/en/Vcl.DBGrids.TDBGridOption
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE5/en/Vcl.DBGrids.TDBGrid.SelectedRows
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE5/en/Vcl.DBGrids.TCustomDBGrid.SelectedField
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE5/en/Vcl.DBGrids.TCustomDBGrid.SelectedIndex
It seems you can have any number of ROWS selected using dgMultiSelect option.
However for the columns your choice is between select nothing, select single, or select the whole row (using dgRowSelect) and there is no option to select few of those.
I think you'd try your chances using VirtualTreeView in Report (ListView) mode, though it would need wrting some code
I am looking at extracting some data from a Clarion .TPS file and I have been using the TopScan Application to open them.
When I look at the tables there are lots of hidden fields.
Are they just protected fields i.e. to stop someone from seeing the information or are they something to do with the indexes?
Also would using the ODBC driver reveal what they are?
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The first time you open a TPS table using Topscan, it only shows the first few columns (15 I think) and the rest are set as "hidden". This is only a feature of Topscan, not a developer or technical restriction.
To view them, click on the menu Column ยป Show/Hide.... It will show a dialog with all the columns in the table, click the button Select all and OK and all columns will be displayed.
After you close the table, a new file tablename.SCN will be created, it saves the visible/hidden status of the columns and any other changes you make the view (column width, position, picture, etc.)
I have a SharePoint feature which programatically creates 3 lookups in a custom list, one from each of 3 different lists via extremely similar CAML markup.
The only differences in the CAML are the List, ID, Name, DisplayName and StaticName properties yet one of these lookups looks slightly different (has a slightly more "modern" drop-down arrow) than the other two and this same menu requires I double-click in order to select an item instead of single-clicking as I do with the other lookups.
Might anyone have seen this before and have an idea of what I might look into to make this lookup operate as a single-click menu?
The style of dropdown displayed is usually related to the number of items, although it also renders as a standard select element when viewed in firefox.
For any other field type it would make sense to create a custom field control, but due to code that expects things to be named "Lookup", lookup fields are next to impossible to extend.
The best way to customize a specific field is probably with javascript/jquery. When you click on the dropdown arrow, ShowDropdown (in core.js) is called. This creates a select element with options set from the pipe delimited list in the choices attribute of the textbox.
Add some code to the page so that on load EnsureSelect and FilterChoice or similar are called to create the select element. Set properties on the textbox and select elements so that the textbox as hidden and the select element is a visible dropdown. Have SetCtrlFromOpt called on change rather than on blur/double click so that the control that the server will read and save is properly updated.
The same approach could be used to keep the combo box but add a click event to set the value rather than requiring a double click.
How many items has the source list of every lookup field?
Lookup fields shows a "Combo" when the source list has 10 items (I'm not sure if 10 item is the exact limit). When the source list has more than 10 items the lookup field shows a "ListArea" control that works as you said.
I have exactly the same problem. One difference I have noticed is that the one listbox that requires a double-click is a lookup field, whereas the one that doesn't is a choice field with pre-populated choices. Don't know if that helps.