TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

For whatever reason, Adobe Acrobat will not properly repaint the screen when resizing internal windows.  It 'sticks' the image at the previous window size. The only fix I've found so far is to show or hide a secondary pane, such as the bookmarks.  This forces Acrobat to repaint the screen to the new scaling. This problem may be unique to my FirePro 8800 triple monitor setup, or it might be a W7 thing, I'm not sure.  Acrobat is not the only program having this problem, but it is by far the worst. [Addition]:  You can quickly force a refresh with F4.

I've been reading a lot of conflicting information about what the "status bar" in Windows 7 does and does not show. For those that don't know, the "status bar" is the banner that shows at the bottom of your Windows Explorer windows.  (If you have it enabled, that is.)  It's intended to give you quick details about the file or folder that is currently in focus. (Note I said Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer.) Anyway, in XP, the status bar typically gave you fixed information.  One of these was the file size. For whatever reason, Windows 7 does and doesn't give you the same information. It doesn't in the sense that the attributes shown in the status bar change according to file type.  All files show an icon for the creating/assigned program, and the file name, which is redundant. After that, you get different tags.  The current folder gives "offline status" and "offline availability".  A text file gives "...

 My new PC came with Bluetooth on the mainboard, which is cool.  But pairing my headphones with the PC didn't work, which is not. Here's what worked for me.  Note my system has the Realtek audio installed. Go to the system tray, and double-click on the Bluetooth icon.  The Bluetooth Devices panel from the Control Panel should show up. Click "Add a device". Put the headphones into pairing mode; let Windows find it. Note:  If Windows can't find it, stop here and fix the problem.  I didn't have that problem. After pairing, you will see the "Stereo Headset" in your devices, but probably won't get any sound. In Bluetooth Devices, right click the new headset and select Properties.  Go to the Services tab and make sure "Headset" is checked. Go back to the system tray, and right-click on the speaker icon.  Note: my system shows two, which is confusing.  The one you want is shown in the tray by default - that is, you do not h...

A nice little bit of Excel macro magic allows you to delete rows if a particular column is blank. I deal with data sets that are always scrambled, but usually in different ways.  This precludes the use of macro-scripting programs (like my personal favorite, trusty old Automate 4) because the patterns just different enough for pre-programmed key macros to fail. Thanks to this little macro by Chip Pearson gets around the problem nicely.  Thanks, Chip!