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iOS 7 Tip #4: Do You Need Another Flashlight App?

September 25, 2013January 24, 2023 Kent ChenTips & Tricks

It’s time to remove another app from your phone. Since the new iOS 7 includes a native app that turns on/off the built-in flashlight right from the control center, you don’t need an app that does this for you anymore. All you need to do is launch the control center by swiping up your finger from bottom of your phone, […]

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iOS 7 Tip #3: How To Access the Control Center in Lock Screen

September 24, 2013January 24, 2023 Kent ChenTips & Tricks

The Control Center is one of the new features I loved the most in iOS 7 that lets you easily toggle on and off certain settings, such as Air mode, WiFi, Bluetooth, ect., even when you are in the lock mode. On iOS 7 lock screen, you will see a short white bar sitting in the bottom of the screen. […]

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iOS 7 Tip #2: How To Go Back or Forward in Safari

September 23, 2013January 24, 2023 Kent ChenTips & Tricks

You don’t actually need the back or forward button anymore to browse through the pages back and forth in Safari on iPhone or iPad that is running the new iOS 7. And here is what you can do: Simply swipe from the left side edge of the screen to the right to go back to the previous page, and swipe […]

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iOS 7 Tip #1: How To Kill A Running App

September 22, 2013January 24, 2023 Kent ChenTips & Tricks

In iOS7, when you double tap the home button, you not only see the list of apps that are currently running in the background, but also a preview window of each running app. What also changed is the way you shutdown any of the running app from the list. Instead of holding down the app until it’s wiggling and clicking […]

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How To Export Excel Spreadsheet To A Fixed-Width Text File

September 4, 2013January 24, 2023 Kent ChenTips & Tricks

The easy way is to Save As to a Formatted Text file (Space Delimited)(*.prn). But you will be struggled to find out that it’s really hard to precisely specify the fixed-width, almost impossible to use to export the data into a perfect space aligned text file. What I am luck to find out is this with VBA. It’s a far […]

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How to deleted a folder named with spaces

March 21, 2012January 24, 2023 Kent ChenTips & Tricks

I had a folder on the network named just with a few spaces and I had a heck of difficult time trying to delete it. When I tried to delete it from Windows Explorer, I got message saying that Cannot delete file: cannot read from the source file or disk And when I tried to rename, or copy & paste, […]

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How to repair a corrupted Excel spreadsheet

March 15, 2012January 24, 2023 Kent ChenTips & Tricks

I store all my documentations in my Dropbox so I can get access to them at anytime from anywhere. But this morning I found that one of the excel sheet I have in the Dropbox corrupted. And because it’s in the Dropbox, the corrupted version was on every single device I have Dropbox installed. Ooops, even on the Dropbox web […]

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Force PDF open in browser on SharePoint 2010

March 13, 2012January 24, 2023 Kent ChenTips & Tricks

SharePoint by default turns on a security feature that prevents people from opening PDF files directly in the browser. Need to open and read a PDF file from SharePoint website you need to download and save it to your local computer first, which is annoying. While I understand the necessity of this feature turned on at a large scaled public […]

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