I thought Ctrl-[ was cool…
Cool keyboard shortcuts in Excel… (BTW Ctrl-[ and Ctrl-] (the square brackets) will increase or decrease a selected bit of text by 1pt – works in all Office products)
Christmas Is Really For The Children – Poem by Steve Turner
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 […]
Powerpoint VBA to Insert Textbox and Create Outlined Text
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 […]
The Lighting of the Advent Candles
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 […]
MA Dissertation: Sacraments in Digital Space – a theological reflection of three church’s position statements.
Cranmer Hall, St John’s College September 2019 M.A. in Digital Theology Word count: 14954 words This dissertation is the product of my own work, and the work of others has been properly acknowledged throughout. Acknowledgements I would like to acknowledge the support and supervision of Dr Karen O’Donnell which has been invaluable; for the inspiration […]
Prefaces
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 […]
Contra Creation Season
@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, […]
Script to check if a Linux service is running…
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 […]
Regex to Extract Bible References from a Text using VBA
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 […]