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How to tell Outlook not to auto resize the columns of a table

I'm having a very frustrating experience with MS-Outlook, while creating a table inside an e-mail:I have some text, separated by pipe characters, and I've chosen the "Convert text to table" feature to...

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Is it possible to highlight a whole inbox entry, based on its category?

There is the possibility to assign a category to a mail, and as a result the mail gets a coloured rectangle:Is it possible to colour the whole message, like this?Thanks

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Is there a command for configuring Default apps in Windows 10?

I've written an installer, which associates an extension with my installed program. This is done modifying the registry and this was working fine for previous Windows versions.For Windows 10 however,...

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Why different behaviour on two PCs, connected to the same Wi-Fi?

On my personal PC, I'm connected to the internet with my Wi-Fi router.On my work PC, when being connected to the same Wi-Fi router, I see "No internet, secured".How can I have different behaviour on...

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Comment by Dominique on New volume error message: The media is write protected

That might be possible: I've seen the Bitlocker information on the C:-drive's properties, but I have no idea what this means nor how to apply this on my D:-drive.

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In Visio, is it possible to have the text of the decision of the UML activity...

I'm creating a flow chart, for which I'm using UML Activity shapes.While using the Decision shape, I notice that the text is put below the shape, which makes it difficult to read, once combined with a...

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Is it possible to modify the colours in windirstat for the file extensions?

While using windirstat, the file types are coloured according to their extension.Is it possible modifying that list? (Add file extensions, add colours, ...)

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Comment by Dominique on Which of my "user.config" files is the latest?

@Ramhound: I removed the "bad" reference and my comment, referring to it :-)

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Which of my "user.config" files is the latest?

My application regularly writes a "user.config" file. As a result, I might have several of those file, as you can see...

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How to get the first letter from a filename in windows commandline?

I have just tried to remove the first character from a list of filenames but it does not work:for %f in (_Telerik.Windows.*.dll) do set "filename=%f" && ren "%f"...

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How can I get rid of the "File Access Denied"?

Please pardon my frustration, but Windows file access permissions is really extremely bad:In SQL-Server Management Studio, I have used a stored procedure in order to create a trace file, something...

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Comment by Dominique on Do not start searching before I press "ENTER"

@Ramhound: I don't want Windows search to show web content. How can I disable that?

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Comment by Dominique on "Edit top ... rows" does not work anymore after...

You're right: nothing a good-old update can't fix :-)

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Comment by Dominique on Why don't I see my message in Wireshark capture?

@grawity: thanks for your quick reply. In the Wireshark capture, they all look very similar, nowhere do I see the ZA00 information I'm looking for.

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Answer by Dominique for Why don't I see my message in Wireshark capture?

As mentioned in the comments, the packet is only there if the application actually tries to send the packet: if the destination is not reachable, the application does not even try.In case the...

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How can I find TCP packets with specific data in a Wireshark capture?

I'm trying to find a bunch of specific data in a Wireshark capture.First of all I need to be sure that the data is actually there, which has been confirmed in my previous post.Now I'd like to go a step...

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How to handle error 417 : Expectation Failed : invalid model?

I'm setting my first steps in the usage of PostMan, a tool meant for sending HTTP requests to URLs.I'm trying to send a "POST" request to the machine http://PAPSVS01:5001/pxml/MES/Feedbacks (some local...

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How to set a weekly Out-of-Office

On Wednesdays, I'll be taking a day off, and I'd like to set an OoO in my Microsoft-Outlook.The point is: how do I set a rule only to have this OoO to work on Wednesdays?In the rule-section, this is...

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What are Base64 strings?

I have a column in an SQL-Server table, containing information like the...

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How to make sure my entire column contains similar comboboxes?

I'm working on an Excel sheet, and as several columns have a discrete number of possible entries, I've opted for comboboxes for this matter.This leaves me with the following situation (main page and...

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Why isn't a chosen value of a combobox not the actual cell value?

As explained in this other question, I'm creating an Excel file for doing follow-up on my tasks. For that, I have created some lists of values, to be used in comboboxes, which seems to be working...

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Why can't I find my "mspaint" program?

At work, I have a Windows-10 computer, which is working in a very logical way: if I want to locate a program, I launch Dir /S /B "*program*.exe and I find it.At home, I have a Windows-11 computer which...

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Comment by Dominique on What is xamlspysvc.exe?

@Darius: I'm quite certain it's not a virus but I'm more interested in what it really is, and if I can remove it without losing useful functionality on my PC.

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Comment by Dominique on How to convert text to emojis or smileys in Excel 365?

@Excellor: Thanks for your quick reply, but this looks me quite a burden :-) (Hey, where's the emoji here while typing in an incognito Google Chrome on my laptop? :-) )

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Comment by Dominique on Copy color from color scaled numerical cell to text...

@granular_bastard: that's my intake: I propose to replace their not-working case by another one for which I provided a solution.

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Replace checkboxes by data validation and make it impossible to insert a row

I needed to create an Excel file where two columns contain checkboxes.As explained in the corresponding answer, I've used data validation for that. (While I had no idea what data validation in fact is...

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Comment by Dominique on How to transform a 2x512 array in Excel into a 32x32 one

@Excellor: Thanks for introducing WrapRows() and WrapCols(), I had never heard of those before. Unfortunately, those functions only work with one-dimensional vectors, not with 2D matrices.

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Comment by Dominique on How to transform a 2x512 array in Excel into a 32x32 one

Although it looks easier than the accepted answer, I still find it quite complicated (introducing "new" functions like "Columns", "VStack", "Take", and then even nesting them, ...), isn't there a more...

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Comment by Dominique on How to transform a 2x512 array in Excel into a 32x32 one

No. This causes a first line like 1 v1 2 v2 3 v3 ... while I want a first line like 1 2 3 ... and a second line like v1 v2 v3 .... (vx stands for value of x)

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Comment by Dominique on How can I create a mounting point to a drive, mapped...

@Cpt.Whale: thanks for your quick response. I didn't react yesterday as I am not working on Wednesdays. The two posts you refer to are not relevant: one mentions the solution might not be possible, the...

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Comment by Dominique on How to make sure my entire column contains similar...

Oops. I have added an entry, but I don't see it, so I tried "Ctrl+T" again, but it doesn't show anything. What's the shortcut for modifying a table?

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Comment by Dominique on Why is "grep" unable to find matches in an SQL-Server...

As you guys can see, the file is UTF-16 indeed. My grep is an alias (alias grep='grep -aI --color=auto'), so indeed I'm using the -a switch.

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Comment by Dominique on Why is "grep" unable to find matches in an SQL-Server...

Thanks for your quick answer. I've edited my question, adding the information you requested. (But I don't know what UTF-16 exactly means, so I don't know how to handle that knowledge yet.)

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Comment by Dominique on How to grep search for text in an ISO-8859-1 encoded...

I just managed doing that, converting my file from ISO-8859 into UTF-8, using the command iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 filename -o filename.

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How to grep on accented vowels? [duplicate]

I have a logfile, written in French, containing the following information:Nouvelles données [Status : 32I was looking for all possible values of the mentioned status, but I didn't find anything:grep -o...

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