WPS Office v11.* dictionary
Posted: 2021-04-03 Filed under: office | Tags: dictionary, libreoffice, spellcheck, WPS Office 2 CommentsI noticed that an old post of mine about adding dictionaries to WPS Office, has been receiving some attention recently. I quickly checked the links and it seems they are dead, also the file paths listed there no longer apply for WPS Office v11. Therefore, I decided to check how to add dictionaries to version 11.
bioRxiv docx template
Posted: 2021-02-28 Filed under: academic, office | Tags: bioRxiv, doc, docx, template Leave a commentI’ve been working on a manuscript in the last couple of months (more, actually). I am not going to discuss whether pre-prints are cool or not, however, they sometimes are necessary. For example, when writing a grant application, it definitely looks better to show the actual work in progress, rather than just stating “manuscript in preparation”, “submitted” or “under revision”.
Average every n number of rows in a spreadsheet
Posted: 2021-02-27 Filed under: academic, office | Tags: gnumeric, spreadsheet Leave a commentI have a long column of data that I want to make into a chart. The problem is that the column has over 50000 rows and processing it gets problematic. I looked for a way to average every Nth number of rows, in order to speed up things.
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Venn diagrams online
Posted: 2020-11-04 Filed under: academic, office | Tags: chart, diagram, venn Leave a commentI’ve been preparing some figures, where I need to include Venn diagrams. I am looking to make them proportional to the values. So far, I have not found a way to do this in Gnumeric, WPS Office LibreOffice or OpenOffice.org. I guess, I should find the time to learn a little bit more of R. Meanwhile, I’ve been searching for a quick solution online.
Keep lines thickness in Inkscape
Posted: 2020-09-26 Filed under: drawing | Tags: border, inkscape, line, proportion, scale, stroke Leave a commentI am preparing some figures in Inkscape. Something that always gets on my nerves is fixing lines (border) width when scaling objects. The solution is quite simple and actually obvious.
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