Microsoft Office 2007 Options and About
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You know how easy it was to look at program information by going to “Help > About”? Or maybe you are used to going to “Tools > Options” Not so easy in Microsoft Office 2007.
Here’s how to find “Options”:
- Click on the orb up at the top left.
- Down at the bottom right click “Word Options”.
- Continue on to find “About”.
- Now pick “Resources”.
- Over on the right you can see an About button.
There you go.
Oh and by the way, Microsoft Office 2010 brings back the familiar “File Edit View…” toolbar (albeit in a fancy new design). Still, hooray!
Webex .ARF conversion to something editable on Mac
You can’t import the Webex format directly into iMovie or your editing tool of choice.
I tried downloading the Mac ARF player, which supposedly has options to convert the file to WMV and SWF.
http://www.webex.com/downloadplayer.html
After installing and opening my video in the player, I didn’t have File > Convert options that everyone talks about.
There are lot of tools on the Support / Downloads page for Webex:
http://support.webex.com/support/downloads.html
Maybe the nbr2mp4 utility would work (http://support.webex.com/supportutilities/nbr2mp4.tar):
A Linux-based conversion utility that allows you to convert your Cisco WebEx network-based recording files, which are in WebEx Advanced Recording Format File (.arf), and which were created with WBS 26 or higher to an MPEG-4 (.mp4) format.
It converts in realtime, though, so I didn’t try that path, especially since I’m not sure if all of the linux libraries would be support on Mac.
Since I already had a virtual machine with Windows, I grabbed the ARF viewer for Windows and it had the conversion options.
Overriding Rails’ automatic timestamps: updated_at & created_at
When converting something in a project, I found that I needed to updated a field for every record in a Request table. No problem, except this client grabs a SQL dump and run reports on it. So, Rails’ automatic timestamping of the updated_at field made all of the Requests look like they’d just been updated. Which they had, but not by users.
So, this rake task will reset all of them, presuming you have something to set them to. In my case, I found the latest comment date and used that, but you could figure it out some other way.
git: pull is not possible because you have unmerged files.
I saw this error message the other day and I had no clue what it meant. I’d never seen that error before!
For reference, I was trying to pull from a remote branch and got the error message:
Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files.
A google search revealed this commit (d38a30df7dd54c5c6883) to the git source on January 12, 2010.
The error messages have been updated to be much clearer. Before, you’d get “needs merge” or “error building trees” errors, which didn’t really mean much.
In this case, I was pulling in many commits and had a conflict partway through. I just needed to resolve the files, add/delete them, commit the result and then continue with the pull.