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40 votes
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Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos
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Antitrust case - Will the US Microsoft Activision merger go through?
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Sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie
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Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
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Help with converting PDF to Excel and back to PDF?
I may be asking a dumb question or going about this wrong but I'm not sure what to do here. So right now, I receive an estimation from one company in a PDF. It has a bunch of fields such as...
I may be asking a dumb question or going about this wrong but I'm not sure what to do here.
So right now, I receive an estimation from one company in a PDF. It has a bunch of fields such as customer name, product, address, etc. Then I type that data and put it into Excel, where I add additional data that I have. From there I have a second PDF which has form fields that I fill with the data of the Excel spreadsheet.
My problem is with the first PDF that I get from this other company, unless I am doing something wrong I am unable to get that first PDF to show the data as fields. If I convert the first PDF into an Excel then the table data is very messy.
The amount of typing or copy and paste that it's not hard but it is time consuming. What is the best way for me to go about doing this? I've been Googling things but I'm not sure the right words of action I'm looking for.
I hope this all makes sense, but if not please ask questions and I'll do my best to try and clarify further.
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Solving chemistry problems through AI
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FTC: Xbox-exclusive Starfield is “powerful evidence” against Activision deal
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EVE Online: Add-in for Excel
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Windows 98 icons are great
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Microsoft to raise Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Series X prices
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Microsoft has been temporarily restrained from buying Activision Blizzard, US judge rules
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Google parent Alphabet tells workers to be wary of AI chatbots
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Microsoft announces availability of replacement parts for Surface devices
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Microsoft launched Bing chatbot despite OpenAI warning it wasn’t ready
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Microsoft launches Devicescript, a subset of typescript that compiles to bytecode. What do you think?
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Announce trailer
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Windows 11's latest endearing mess contains rigorously enforced Britishisms
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US FTC will require Microsoft to pay $20 million over charges it illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent
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Microsoft to pay $20 million FTC settlement over improperly storing Xbox account data for US kids
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Inside the making of Redfall, Xbox's latest misfire
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Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025
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Microsoft's $68.7bn (£55bn) deal to buy US video game company Activision Blizzard has been blocked in the UK by the Competition and Markets Authority
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Microsoft crackdown disables emulators downloaded to Xbox consoles
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People Make Games get their asses beat in Microsoft Excel eSports
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Microsoft’s Bing is an emotionally manipulative liar, and people love it
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The emotional resonance of Microsoft Flight Simulator
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AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article / "It is a hoax that has been created by someone who wants to harm me or my service."
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Bing AI can't be trusted: Microsoft knowingly released a broken product for short-term hype
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Microsoft launches the new Bing, with ChatGPT built in
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Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees
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Netflix will be next on Microsoft’s shopping list
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In which I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft… and give it to you
11 votes -
The twisted life of Clippy
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Free AI bot that provides the Excel formula for any problem
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An experiment to test GitHub Copilot's legality
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Every new trailer from the Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022
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Microsoft trying to kill HDD boot drives by 2023: Report
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Microsoft to curb use of non-competes, drop NDAs from worker settlements, disclose salary ranges, launch civil rights audit
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My experience with Windows 10
I'm a longtime Linux user, and I haven't used Windows in a while aside from just launching games from Steam on my living room computer, but my new work laptop is Microsoft's flagship Surface Pro 4...
I'm a longtime Linux user, and I haven't used Windows in a while aside from just launching games from Steam on my living room computer, but my new work laptop is Microsoft's flagship Surface Pro 4 so I figured it'd be the best experience you can have on a Windows machine.
I got the laptop in yesterday, and here's the summary of my experience:
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I am required by IT to use Chrome. To install Chrome, I had to click through no fewer than three "Are you sure you don't want to use Microsoft's more secure, faster browser?" banners to do so.
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When I plug in my external monitor, by default, the two monitors were mirrored; when I went into display settings, it didn't show the external monitor until I closed and reopened the settings menu.
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I have an Apple Magic Touchpad 2, and I had some issues getting it set up on Ubuntu 20.04 when I initially got it. These problems are now solved on the latest version of Ubuntu, but I was expecting a nice contrast in a good plug-and-play experience on Windows. Instead, I had to install sketchy drivers from some random GitHub page to get it to work properly.
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I've had some minor annoyances with my audio interface (a Zoom R-22) not being set as the default when I want it to be on Ubuntu, and I was really looking forward to getting a smooth video calling experience with my nice mic and interface on Windows. Lo and behold, the R-22 audio input - the whole reason I have it - doesn't work at all, at least in the Zoom video calling app.
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On Ubuntu, I use QV4L2 to configure the framing, zoom, exposure, etc of my camera. It's a bit clunky, and I was looking forward to having a smooth experience with this on the premier business OS. Unfortunately, the camera on this laptop has extremely aggressive aperture priority mode enabled, and there is no first-party app to configure it! The documentation tells me to go to Settings -> Devices -> Camera but there is no such menu item. So, I just look either washed-out or ultra-dark in every video call.
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After running Windows Update and rebooting, I was greeted with a full-screen and quite annoying to exit tutorial for Microsoft Teams - an app I did not install, because my company uses Slack.
This in addition to some setup papercuts, but I think those were probably due to my corporate IT's process rather than Windows itself.
Is this common? Do people who use Windows just... put up with this kind of thing? Or am I having an exceptionally bad experience for some reason?
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Eve Online fans literally cheer Microsoft Excel features at annual Fanfest
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Microsoft is moving ahead with an Xbox Game Pass Family Plan
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Secrets of an Excel spreadsheet esports player
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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion USD
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Bliss - The story of Windows XP’s famous default wallpaper
4 votes