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Sep 09

Tools: Paste Clipboard Text with Tags in Epic Editor

When you’re working in the Epic Editor, you may not be able to paste clipboard text that contains tags, such as:

This is a sample text that contains tags <passwd>such as this</passwd>.

You’ll see a warning note at the left bottom of the editor, like this:

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3
Apr 09

Take care of your comfort, productivity and well-being

While we toil away in front of the computers day in and day out, we take for granted and ignore the most valuable resource we possess – our safety and well being.

Take a moment to review the ergonomic guide at http://www.hp.com/ergo/.

What we do today has an impact in the years to come, and not just on ourselves.

Take care!

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Apr 09

Blogging from MS Word 2007

Did you know you could blog from Microsoft Office Word 2007?

This blog post was published by clicking Office Button > Publish > Blog. If it is the first time, your blog has to be registered.

I could insert a category; however, I couldn’t find a way to insert a tag (had to add them manually).

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3
Mar 09

Error in Perforce: Can't clobber writable files

I use Perforce for version control of the documentation files. I noticed some files were revised and checked-in by other users. When I tried to get the latest version of the files by Sync to Head Revision, Perforce gave the following error:

Can’t clobber writable file…

I found it was because some of the files on my local drive were not in read-only mode. Its a known fact that when we check-in a file after modifications, Perforce marks our local copy of the file read-only. However, in this case, it was not known why that did not happen. It assumed that since the local file was not in read-only mode, the file was open for edit. If Perforce allowed Sync to Head Revision, the files could have been corrupted.

The solution was to manually mark my local copies of the files read-only. Now, Sync to Head Revision, Perforce did not throw any error message.

Click here to read about other users who encountered the same error message and their possible causes.

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Feb 09

2009 User Assistance Tools Survey

From http://www.writersua.com/surveys/tools09/index.html:

“Which tools do most of us find useful? Which tools provide us with the most satisfaction? This portion of the survey supplies you with a peer review to assist you in planning your tool acquisitions…"

"Note: Past surveys had consistently shown that well over 90% of respondents use Microsoft Word. We left Word off the survey to make room for other UA-specific tools."

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