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I have a range of documents that are shared with a team of collaborators in a google drive folder.
Is it possible to view statistics on when and by whom a document was accessed?
Specifically I am interested in a Google Docs document but I believe this should also apply to Sheets and Slides.
I am aware of the activity feed which shows edit and comment history.
Unfortunately, Google has removed this feature sometime in 2013. You can still see edit history, via which you may know who has viewed them, provided they hace modified the file.
However, if they are simply viewing the document, then there is no possible way to determine the view statistics.
Possible alternative for you: DocSend
Looks as it they are revisiting this idea as part of the G Suite product, but I haven't found a free version of it:
https://9to5google.com/2018/03/07/google-drive-activity-dashboard/
and
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2018/03/docs-activity-dashboard-launch.html
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Is there any way to force Excel 2013 to open files within the same window instance?
I am extremely disappointed that Microsoft is forcing it's users to open multiple instances for every workbook they open. Why on earth would they take away this feature?
This is not making us more productive. Why don't we just start opening a new browser instance every time we visit another website?
I'm constantly opening CSV files throughout the day. I would prefer to have this consolidated to a single instance of excel and the option to drag a tab away from the window when I need a new instance. Microsoft please fix this!
Anyhow, if anyone knows of a hack to work around this I'd like to know.
Thanks in advance!
Apparently, according to Microsoft, this is done by design. They are so excited by this feature that they have even created this blog article to show it off and explain why it's so great.
Unfortunately, there's no way easy or free way to achieve what you want, at least I'm not aware of one.
However, there's a website called "Extend Office" (I have no affiliation with them what-so-ever) that sells various Excel add-ins. One of the add-ins is called Office Tab, which seems to be able to do what you want. There's a trial version for 30 days after which you need to buy. Up to you if you want to go for it or not, I merely point out its existence and I'm in no way endorsing or discouraging it (I've not even tried it!).
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I want to be able to parse the printer settings binary files that Excel saves inside xl\printerSettings\printerSettingsNN.bin inside the XLSX zip archive. Much searching for documentation avails little.
Is this a common format that I just don't recognize, or is it specific to Excel? Is anyone aware of where to find details on the format?
It looks to be a Windows device-specific structure, DEVMODE.
Tracked it down via http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrisrae/archive/2010/10/06/where-is-the-documentation-for-office-s-docx-xlsx-pptx-formats-part-2-office-2010.aspx, which links to ECMA-376, Second Edition, Part 1 - Fundamentals And Markup Language reference from www.ecma-international.org.
Except from the relevant §15.2.15 on page 160:
An instance of this part type contains information about the
initialization and environment of a printer or a display device. The
layout of this information is application-defined.
[Note: It is recommended that a Printer Settings Part contain well documented XML content for improved interoperability;
however, there is no requirement on the format of the content
contained in a Printer Settings Part. end note]
[Example: An Office
Open XML producer on Windows might store the DEVMODE structure defined
here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/prntspol_8nle.asp,
while an application on the Mac OS might choose to store the print
record defined
here:http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Printing/index.html. end
example]
(Even 5,568 page standards suffer link rot- see DEVMODE structure.)
That means, in C# for example, you can make use of the PrinterSettings' GetHdevmode and SetHdevmode methods to interop with the structure.
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I wanted to know that sometimes when I search for something on google it shows some results(website links), but it also shows some important links on that website.
I wanted to know that is it a feature of the website or Google uses something to find those main links of the website? Is it related to search engine optimization?
You probably mean Google’s sitelinks.
We only show sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them.
(See this [closed] question.)
It has to do with click-through rates of those links. For example, Googling 'Amazon' brings up amazon.com, with a handful of links below: Books, Kindle e-Books, Music, etc.
These are obviously popular categories on Amazon, and Google tracks where users click, then uses that data to make serps more relevant.
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I'm writing a small helper utility for obscure software that is used at a local shop. Basically, I would like to know if anyone searches for anything associated with that software and if publishing my work on the Internet would make any sense. I entered the name of the software into Google Trends, but my terms "do not have enough search volume to show graphs" despite the fact that Google lists 250,000 results for the software name, or 35,000 if I explicitly remove terms such as serial and warez from the search.
Does anyone know of alternatives to Google Trends? Or of another way to find out if people search for a particular keyword?
I found what I was looking for.
Google AdWords Keyword Tool
Yahoo Clues is a service similar to Google Trends. But I don't think it's as effective for any category that is non-entertainment.
If you don't get an answer here, another place to ask might be The Business of Software.
Google Trends was also telling me there wasn't enough data for my query. I found Google Insights to do job nicely. And unlike the AdWords tool mentioned in the author's answer, it actually shows a trend.
Here's an example which shows the emergence of 3 terms with too low of volume to show up on Trends: #bigdata, #datascientist & #datajournalism.
Here's a related SO question.
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VBA solutions can vary widely in size.
I would like to add user help documentation to all solutions but the level of effort to create and deploy the help needs to match the size of the solution.
You should check the VBA version of MZ-Tools. It is an add-in for VBA that can automatically generate documentation from your code (function name, parameters, comments, subject, etc.). You can also use it to automatically generate line numbers, onError labels, etc. More on the automatic documenting feature can be found here.
It is free, easy, and very efficient. Once you notice how much you save time by using it, please do like me: donate.
You may wish to consider HTML Help. It allows you to produce help files that are similar to standard Microsoft help. It is not particularly difficult to use, for the most part.