Monthly Archives: August 2009

SCNA The path to craftsmanship as a software developer and more.

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Well, I am attempting my first live-blogging session.  I am at the Software Craftsman North America conference in Chicago.

Here are my notes, I’ll refine them later and and plan on updating them as I go.

Updated 2009-08-27.  I added bookmark links to the different sessions. Still plan on editing some of this to make it more readable.

Here’ are the sessions I attended and took notes for:

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Is your success your own?

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“You can’t be successful at everything. You can’t have it all. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonesense. You can’t have it all. You can’t. So any vision of success has to admit what it’s losing out on, where the element of loss is. ..So what I want to argue for, is not that we should give up on our ideas of success. But we should make sure that they are our own.”

View Label Gridlines or Label Outlines in Office 2007

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As part of my IT Director position, I often have to support users with various end user questions.

One of the questions I had recently,

We upgraded our Microsoft Office from Office xx to Office 2007. I now open my labels for mail merge, and I don’t see the gridlines. How do I get them back?

How to enable the virtual outlines or gridlines for labels in Microsoft Office 2007:

  1. Open a Document that has been set-up for labels.
  2. click the Table Tools Menu Panel (I forget what Office 2007 official terminology is for this)
  3. Select the Borders Choice
  4. Click View Gridlines

Here are some screenshots:

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