Web Applications Weekly Newsletter - Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Top new questions this week: Hide slide(s) in a Google Docs presentation? Can one cherry pick slide(s) to show/hide in a presentation? This feature seems to be missing (or it is UI-fail). The object is to use a single slide deck as the source material for different ... google-presentations   asked by Sri Sankaran 4 votes answered by pnuts 2 votes Can I see how many times my Google doc has been viewed? I've recently posted a Google document on a forum and I'd like to know how many people saw and when. I could see how people were opening and closing the doc live, with those user icons popping up next ... google-drive   asked by Morgan Wilde 4 votes answered by Fogest 1 vote Can you link directly to a new copy of a Google Doc or Spreadsheet? Is it possible to craft a URL (or bookmarklet) so that when clicked it opens a fresh "copy" of an existing Google doc or spreadsheet? Apparently it used to be possible by appending &newcopy=true ... google-spreadsheets google-drive google-documents url   asked by Simon 3 votes answered by Vembu 1 vote Why does offline Drive fail to enable for my account? I'm not able to enable offline drive in either the new or old Drive interface. In the new interface, I select "Offline" > "Sync..." > "Done", and when I open the dialogue again, my settings have have ... google-drive offline   asked by user5783 3 votes How to make an event repeat on the third last working day of each month in Google Calendar? Unfortunately my pay dates are a nightmare. I get paid on the third last working day at the end of each month. Here's a years worth of dates. 29/09/14 29/10/14 26/11/14 19/12/14 (exception due to ... google-calendar ical   asked by Ben 3 votes answered by oberron 2 votes arXiv: getting the list articles that cite an article When looking at an article on arXiv (e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.6444), is there anyway to see the list of articles that cited it (put aside going to some other scholar websites such as Gscholar)? arxiv   asked by Franck Dernoncourt 2 votes Does Twitter have any short name like Facebook's fb.com? Does Twitter have any short name like Facebook's fb.com? It would be easier to advertise Twitter accounts like Facebook pages. facebook twitter   asked by freethinker 2 votes answered by Al E. 3 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How to cancel an erroneous tag request on Facebook? I was browsing a photo album on Facebook and did some tag request. In hindsight, I noticed that I mistook the last name, so now I have issued a bunch of false tag request. I do not see an obvious way ... facebook photos tagging   asked by k0pernikus 3 votes answered by Deepak Kamat 3 votes A faster way to access Strikethrough on Google Docs I use a document on Google Docs as a simple to do list. I hate it that I have to access the Strikethrough command via a menu. Is there a hidden keystroke to toggle Strikethrough or perhaps a way ... google-drive google-documents   asked by AngryHacker 27 votes answered by Stefano 37 votes Can you answer these? Instagram shows non-followed people in my feed I logged on to my Instagram account for the first time in a year or two. I never really used it much. I only remember following 7 or 8 close friends. When I logged in, I was following over 2000+ ... instagram   asked by Jakobud 2 votes Google Docs — How to do lossless exporting? I have several documents created using Google Docs. They are not plain text documents, but documents with images, tables, etc, etc. How can I export this Google Document to my computer, such that I ... google-documents export import   asked by Pacerier 1 vote How to Prevent Gmail Previous Conversation Quotations? I have been exchanging emails with people and all was okay until it started to display all threads of previous conversations like you see below. And given it's annoyance and the fact that recipient ... email gmail   asked by Boris_yo 1 vote

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