Hot answers tagged formatting
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Turns out the quote button is buried inside the align menu on the formatting toolbar. When you click Align, a submenu pops up with a few options for indentation and quoting, in addition to text justification.
11
This Digital Inspiration blog post helped me out. Basically, you can copy content from any web page and paste it into the Gmail rich text editor. The editor will do its best to keep the formatting.
In my case, that meant that I had to do the following:
Publish the spreadsheet to the web, but just publish the sheet with the data I wanted to copy;
Get the ...
9
What you'll need here is to add a double-space, or two spaces, at the end of the line before you hit the Enter.
So in this case, the keys entered would be:
George SmithspacespaceEnter
27 Smith StreetspacespaceEnter
Smithsville
Markdown requires the addition of those two spaces at the end to mark a new linebreak.
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I've created a Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird extension that allows you to write email in Markdown (in Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or Thunderbird) and then convert to HTML before sending.
If someone sends you raw Markdown it won't render it for you, but it lets you send rendered Markdown to others.
Hope it helps.
https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here
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Unfortunately the markup for Google+ (and Google Talk by extension) is fairly limited.
You're missing:
-item- for strikethrough
@name or +name to tag someone.
See screenshot for more posting tips:
Reference: Posting Tips, section "Posting tips"
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Might be worth checking out these:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27175
Fluid app userscript, build to support Markdown in Highrise and Basecamp
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/2531
Based on js-markdown and it enables you to convert Markdown formatted text to HTML in one single click.
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If you have GMail Labs enabled you can use the "Nested Labels" feature:
Nested Labels by Manu C
Manage your email by sorting it into a
hierarchy of labels. Add slashes (/)
to label names to express inheritance.
For example, if you want a Home label
with two child labels named Kids and
Shopping, create the three following
labels: Home, ...
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To add a newline, simply type Shift+Enter. This will insert a newline character (thus making a new line) rather than enter, which causes the form to submit.
Note that in some cases, Facebook strips newline characters, and it isn't consistent. For example, you can type newlines into status updates, and it will show the line breaks on your wall and in the ...
5
Yes, we're aware of some problems with formatting between Gmail and Outlook. You can follow this discussion in the Gmail Help Forum.
Some folks have reported that turning off Default Text Styling and/or Signature Tweaks helps.
4
As @Barry states in his answer you can use this option to put page numbers when printing a document. You can actually add it to the document itself with some HTML code in the header of footer section. See here: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/03/adding-page-numbers-to-google-documents.html
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It does work, you are mostly likely placing a block after a list. Consider separating it with a header
---
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
^ Four spaces
Will turn into this in your card
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
4
Create the table in Word then save the document as 'Single File Web Page'; select and copy the table ( Ctrl + C ); paste into your Gmail message ( Ctrl + V ).
It brings across the borders, shading, font size, etc. Column width appears to be determined by the number of characters in the column.
4
Go to Settings (Cog wheel on the upper-right side)
Search for Date format
Switch to 31/12/2012
Click Save at to the or bottom of the settings page
4
The text() function might help you out. There is better documentation of it on the Excel help site: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/text-function-HP010062580.aspx
What you're looking for is wrapping your average() function in the text() function like this:
="Daily Avg: " &text(AVERAGE(C3:C13),"0.00")
text() works like this:
...
4
I fetched my twitter profile with the Twitter API. Here is how it looks -
... "screen_name":"iAmBibhas","location":"Bangalore, India","description":"Hungry and lazy developer.\r\nCurrently building @lxidd. ","url":"http:\/\/bibhas.in", ...
As you can see, there is \r\n just before Currently building @lxidd. That means the line breaks are being saved in ...
3
Not currently possible in the new Google Docs interface.
You can still, however, use the old Google Docs interface, where you can set a default font.
Create a document in the old docs interface: https://docs.google.com/?action=newdoc
Open the Format menu
Select Document Settings...
Set the font etc. the way you want
Check "Make these the default styles ...
3
Warning: this is a very self-serving answer so, beware.
When we were building Stack Overflow Careers CV entry we looked at all the web forms out there and tried to synthesize the best parts of each. I was surprised how few good web form examples there really were.
I feel our team built what is, in my humble opinion, one of the best web form implementations ...
3
GitHub's gist service has a rather neat embedding tool and recognises loads of different languages. I've use this to embed code snippet occasionally.
Also anything based around GeSHi works great, I've had good experiences with the CodeColorer plugin for wordpress.
3
You need to use the "Edit HTML" (under Template) link and add the relevant stylesheets to enable the MathJax feature in your blog. Add the link to the script using the <script> tag and you should be able to get it running using Javascript.
With that, you should create/edit posts using the necessary HTML code to make sure the math equations appear just ...
2
When adding a comment in a new-style group, there is no Comment button; you just press Enter to submit the comment. You can press Shift-Enter to insert a new line.
I have only seen this in the new-style groups. Old-style groups, as well as profiles and Pages, still use the Comment button, at least for me. However it may be that Facebook is planning to ...
2
This site offers one solution: by replacing the characters themselves with unicode equivalents, you can format text anywhere.
β₯
This is some example text showing all the different formatting options offered.
π§π΅πΆπ πͺπ΄ π¨π€π’π eΜΆxΜΆaΜΆmΜΆpΜΆlΜΆeΜΆ πβ―ππ ππ΅πΌππΆπ»π΄ π’ππ π©ππ dΜΆiΜΆfΜΆfΜΆeΜΆrΜΆeΜΆnΜΆtΜΆ π»β΄πππΆπππΎπβ πΌπ½ππΆπΌπ»π ...
2
Tumblr looks like it may fit your need, though I am not personally a user.
http://www.tumblr.com/about
Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme's HTML."
...
2
To insert page numbers you need to:
select Print settings from the File menu
select the checkbox marked Include page numbers and choose the location of the page numbers
click Print
This will add page numbers to the printed (or PDF) version of your document. It is worth noting that the editable version in Google Docs will not show the page numbers. This ...
2
Seems to be possible as of 2012.09.04, 13:50 GMT-6
1. Open a new document or an existing document,
2. Type some text (or select some existing text).
3. Change the size, style, and font to what you want.
4. Open the Format menu.
5. Point at "Paragraph styles", then at "Normal Text".
6. Select "Update 'Normal Text' to match".
Future new documents should ...
2
I just checked and currently it is not possible to do that, on the table itself. There's however a "hack" option available: add a table in a table !!
See example doc I've created: table in a table
If you set the color of the grid lines to be white, than it will fade away. It will also give you flexibility to position the table off-center.
2
I've seen it occur whenever I put a large image into a message (via insert image lab) that extends the width of the text input field.
Additionally, we've seen the issue when a user adds a signature with an HTML formatted table or large logo.
Lastly see this Google Group on the Gmail Product Forum: Here you'll see the following response: "There isn't an ...
2
There's a feature request in their moderated feedback forum:
http://feedback.yammer.com/forums/145382-how-can-we-make-yammer-more-useful-for-you-/suggestions/2326551-support-for-markdown-in-posts
So, I guess, if it would be an implemented or developed feature it would have a different status. I suggest you should simply vote for this feature and expect it ...
2
There isn't a way to add formatting to the event description; it does not accept HTML markup. If you have event details that you want formatted in a certain way, I suggest putting the details on a separate web page and pasting the URL into the event description, or post a link on the event's wall. It will open in a separate tab when clicked.
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Unless Google will decide to implement that feature, there is nothing you can do about it, since you don't have access to the HTML source of your email. If you had you could add some CSS rules (float:left) that would do the trick, but for security reasons Google is not giving you the chance to change directly the source of your message.
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Page numbers are now a part of Google Docs.
To include page numbers:
Open your document
Select Insert > Page number from the file menu
Choose either Top of Page or Bottom of Page to insert page numbers into the header or footer of your document respectively.
You can also include the total page count.
Place cursor where you want the page count total to ...
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