Year: 2019

Christmas is really for the children.Especially for childrenwho like animals, stables,stars and babies wrappedin swaddling clothes.Then there are wise men,kings in fine robes,humble shepherds and a hint of rich perfume. Easter is not reallyfor the childrenunless accompanied bya cream filled egg.It has whips, blood, nails,a spear and allegations of body snatching.It involves politics, Godand the…

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Sub SPRtextbox() Dim mySlide As PowerPoint.Slide Dim strMsg As String Dim myTextbox As PowerPoint.Shape strMsg = InputBox(“Enter Text”, “SPR Macros”) Set mySlide = ActivePresentation.Slides(ActiveWindow.View.Slide.SlideNumber) Set myTextbox = mySlide.Shapes.AddTextbox(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _ Left:=0, Top:=10, Width:=200, Height:=50) myTextbox.Fill.BackColor.RGB = RGB(127, 127, 127) ‘grey myTextbox.Fill.Transparency = 0.3 ‘translucent myTextbox.Height = 150 myTextbox.Width = 300 myTextbox.TextFrame2.AutoSize = msoAutoSizeTextToFitShape ‘https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/how-to-vba-code-shrink-text-on-overflow.3537036/#post-12183384 With myTextbox.TextFrame.TextRange…

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ADVENT 1 (The Patriarchs) Reader lights purple candle and says Blessed are you, Sovereign Lord, God of our ancestors, to you be praise and glory for ever! You called the patriarchs to live by the light of faith and to journey in the hope of your promised fulfilment. May we be obedient to your call…

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I know my ego shouldn’t have this kind of plaudit, but thank you, Mother A!

to the Eucharistic Prayer, from the 1975 Roman Missal. Advent 1 Father, all-powerful and ever-living God, we do well always and everywhere to give you thanks through Jesus Christ our Lord. When he humbled himself to come among us as a man, he fulfilled the plan you formed long ago and opened for us the…

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@RevDaniel, like me, has misgivings about this new ‘Creation Season’ (I thought the whole of Ordinary Time was about creation, hence the green vestments). He draws in this wonderfully vivid quote to change the focus from the created to the creator… St. Augustine’s “Confessions” sums it up well: “I asked the earth and it answered,…

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Sometimes my CrashPlan running on Linux will stop unexpectedly and you don’t know about it until there hasn’t been a backup for three days. 🙁 Here is a simple script that will check if your specified service is running and will start it if it’s stopped. You will have to replace “replace_me_with_a_valid_service” with the name…

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I must admit I don’t really understand the complexities of Regex, the text matching spells which manage to make sense whilst appearing like a line of gibberish. Thank heavens for sites like https://regex101.com/ which help idiots like me experiment until I can get what I need. In this case, I have text strings which contain…

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