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July 17

Removing hyperlinks in one go

What is the best way to 'remove hyperlinks' from 'a paragraph', and from 'a document' consisting 'words'? -- Space Ghost (talk) 09:10, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You need to further define what you are talking about. For example, are you using Microsoft Word and you have a paragraph with links and you want to remove them? Or, do you have an HTML text file and you want to open it in some program and remove the anchor tags? There are many many many more possible ways to interpret your question. 209.149.113.45 (talk) 13:10, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm talking about MS Word, say I copy and paste a paragraph from WP into MS Word, say that paragraph consist of few hyperlinked words, instead of removing it one by one, how do I remove them (all) in one go? -- Space Ghost (talk) 18:51, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You can avoid the problem by not creating it in the first place. Before you paste into Word. press Ctrl to bring up the little "paste icon" image (it shows up on the lower right for me as a clipboard with a down arrow). You can then press 1 as the shortcut for "paste text only" or click the down arrow and then click the "text only" option. Then, when you paste (until you change the option back to normal "paste all kinds of crap I don't want") it will only paste the text and it won't add styles and other garbage like hyperlinks. 209.149.113.45 (talk) 19:24, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for delaying in getting back to you, yesterday was a festival day in the country I'm living in, so I was celebrating...

I found what you stated, my one comes on the 'right click mouse button's list'. Thank you! -- Space Ghost (talk) 18:30, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

When pasting into other document types that don't come with that drop bar (Google Docs, Wordpress etc) you can also paste the entire passage into Notepad and then copy it from Notepad. This will strip out everything except the text itself. --Aabicus (talk) 22:46, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A clever move indeed. Thanks. -- Space Ghost (talk) 18:27, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Heading creation in MS Word 2010

I’m trying to create the ‘10th and 11th Heading’ on MS Word 2010, problem is, it appears the same as ‘Heading 9’ on the ‘navigation’ pane, but I need 10 and 11. Can someone help please?

Note: On the top of the MS Word software (i.e. open) you'll see a 'Home' pane, 'Styles' section is on the right hand side, clearly visible, there is a small option underneath 'Change Styles' option arrow, after clicking that small option arrow, a window appears called 'Styles', 'click the bottom left button' which allows you to create a new style, another window appears called 'Create New Styles from Formatting', 'click the bottom left button' named 'Format', a list of options appears, click 'Paragraph', its window appears, under the 'General' section, there is a option with a 'drop down list' called 'Outline level', I believe I need to do something here...

Space Ghost (talk)

9 heading levels is the maximum Word allows. Indeed if you look at the 'Outline level' dropdown you referred to you'll see it only allows you to select up to level 9. Why do you need more levels? For specific situations, there might be some sort of workaround, but there's no general way to get round this limit. —Noiratsi (talk) 15:23, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To creating 'Headings'

-- Space Ghost (talk) 18:51, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Word probably isn't the best too for making outlines with 10 levels of depth. You might want to look at our article Outliner, it lists several programs, many free. Also see some recommendations here [1]. Orgmode is crazy powerful, but Emacs can take a while to learn. You also might be interested in trying out LaTeX - it will let you do pretty much whatever you want. SemanticMantis (talk) 21:22, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey bro, sorry for delaying in getting back to you, yesterday was a party day for the country I'm living in, so I got into it...

Anyway, thanks, I'll have a look through... -- Space Ghost (talk) 18:30, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comparision software

Is there a software which will compare two MS Word documents and highlight/not highlight the matching/non-matching words/sentences/paragraphs, just like Wikipedia, what we can find after going to the 'view history' link page. -- Space Ghost (talk) 09:10, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

MS Word has tools for comparing documents. (In Word 200, go to "review", select "compare">"compare two documents", then select the two versions of the document and what you want to check for). Does this meet your needs, or do you specifically need something that displays the results Wikipedia-style? Iapetus (talk) 09:37, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Word knows history of the document which allos to trace edits. It might be a good idea to send agreements in PDF file format only. --Hans Haase (有问题吗) 10:05, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Iapetus: WP style is preferable; its hard to understand the MS Word one. I'm used to WP style as well... -- Space Ghost (talk) 18:52, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There are various types of diff utility programs out there. See also Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools. Many are free, so you can just try them out. Many will not word directly on .doc/.docx formats, so you would have to paste in as raw text. You can also try various online tools, like this one [2]. SemanticMantis (talk) 19:04, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I bookmarked the web page and some other links you guided for future use. Hopefully I find a good comparison tool from your guided list. Thank you! -- Space Ghost (talk) 18:30, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Chrome and Java Applications

Are any of the big Java application providers rewriting their code to use PPAPI instead of NPAPI, or are they just abandoning Chrome? I assume Google are hoping for the former. I know Pogo.com are just displaying a notice saying "Important Update: Java No Longer Supported in Google Chrome". Rojomoke (talk) 17:34, 17 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a problem that Java application developers can solve. This is up to Oracle to develop a java plug-in for PPAPI if it is possible at all. Ruslik_Zero 19:02, 18 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As Ruslik0 said, it's the Java plugin that uses NPAPI, not the applets. Surprisingly, I see no evidence that Oracle is working on a new version of the Java plugin for Chrome. Their official advice is to switch to another browser. In the long term, it appears that all of the major browsers want to ban all plugins and require everything to be written in HTML5+ECMAscript. -- BenRG (talk) 01:40, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]