Saturday, April 15, 2017

Word Cross-Reference Pop-up Menu is not Appearing

Working on my journal and word isn't helping me out. Turns out there is a bug for multiple monitor setups:

You need to
  1. Close out all instances of Word
  2. Re-open the file
  3. Move Word to a different window
  4. Click on Cross References again
 source

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Need to find which USPS has my Package?

I had a huge problem where USPS claimed there wasn't enough room in the mailroom to leave my package, so they took it back to the post office instead of leaving it at the door. They left a pink note....but didn't put the post office location on the back! When this happens you can do 2 things:
  1. call the 1-800 number and wait for 40 min to ask a person OR
  2. http://www.melissadata.com/lookups/AddressCheck.asp 
The melissa data is actually crazy useful, I did both and turned out melissadata was right so I could have saved 40 min :( 

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Gmail Multiple Inbox Not Displaying

I've been recently forced to do some migration of my main emails to another one. I decided to setup multiple inboxes in gmail following these instructions: here

Unfortunately it would not display, thankfully the solution was to turn off all the other tabs with exception to "primary" see here

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Xilinx Product Licensing Page

I can't ever find it :(

https://secure.xilinx.com/webreg/login.do?goto=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.xilinx.com%3A443%2Fwebreg%2Fregister.do%3Fgroup%3Desd_oms%26tab%3DCreateLicense

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Windows 10 Phone, Sync specific google calendar events

I recently used google calendar to work through some complicated scheduling. I needed to see and cross reference schedules, but I didn't want it all syncing to my phone. Turns out you can click this link and select which sync to the phone:

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Netgear N900 WiFi Router WNDR4500 Not Working, No Internet Connection, All Lights Good

Strange issue I had configuring my new N900. After I had my modem enabled I could directly connect a laptop with Ethernet to the modem and get internet, but for some reason the N900 did nothing despite all the lights being green. I was also unable to get to the routerlogin.net Netgear Genie page.

Funny story, I called support for Netgear and they were so terrible, my issue got resolved! Turns out the N900 doesn't get the internet going for 15 - 20 min. I just had to wait.

So: If your N900 is not working, and you know it's not the modem try these steps

  • Turn Modem, Router, and Laptop / PC off 
  • Turn Modem back on, wait for internet connectivity light 
  • Turn on N900
  • Wait until all the lights are on and stead 
  • Do a factory reset by holding down the reset pin in the back down for longer than 7 seconds 
  • Let the N900 reset 
  • Wait until the lights are on again
  • Power off the N900
  • Power off the Modem
  • Wait 1 min
  • Power on the Modem, wait for internet connectivity light
  • Turn on N900
  • Seriously, go watch your favorite TV episode, cook a meal, do something else, and eventually the N900 starts working....
  • finish setup on routerlogin.net

Word Figures and Tables Missing from Table of Contents, Figure and Table Numbers Skipped

Ran into a weird issue when working on a paper. For some reason the paper would skip Fig 2. I had recently made some edits and couldn't figure out why it just jumped from Fig 1. to Fig 3.

It turns out that Track Changes (Obviously turned on for my co-authors) completely messes with the labeling.

Source

Post Below:

Well, I was finally able to answer my own question. the answer might be helpful to others. It turns out that change tracking was wreaking havoc with figure and table numbers in the cross reference lists. I finally went through and selectively accepted changes to all the figure and table titles and the missing figures reappeared in the list.

The problem is that when they go away in the list, they also disappear in the document because the reference IDs become stale, I suppose. So now I get to go through and find all the places I inserted one of the references that disappeared and reinsert it. Thank you Microsoft...