Questions tagged [formatting]
Process of preparing a disk for storing data. Specifically, "high-level formatting" involves the creation of a new file system and/or a boot sector. For text formatting, use [text-formatting].
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How good is the long formatting of a hard disk of windows 11, from a security perspective?
I have an old hard disk that I want to completely format. I have found online that the windows quick format deletes the partition table and labels all the data as "Available Space", but the ...
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Can't format entire Dynamic drive (Windows 10)
I have an SSD that I want to format, but there is a left over boot sector with GPT that I can't seem to write over. This disk had an Ubuntu OS installed on it with its own Dual Boot menu that I ...
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How to format a large amount of text to look as if they are text messages
I have downloaded my girlfriend and my conversations on messenger for our entire relationship and want to make something for her. We met through these texts. Moved in together, etc.
What I want, is a ...
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Why is Outlook Formatting this Column Header into text wrapped (2 lines) when pasting from Excel and how can I stop it?
I'm trying to spend a moment to figure out how to block Outlook from messing with my tables each time I paste one. Basically, each time, I have my data so there is no "text wrapping" and its ...
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How to clear persistent "Normal" style, after exporting from Google Docs
All right, this is really bugging me. I started a document in Google Docs and worked on it for several weeks. Finally needing some more advanced formatting options, I exported it to a Microsoft Word ....
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Mail Merge messing decimal places
When using an Excel spreadsheet as input to Word Mail Merge feature, the decimal places get all messed up:
8,1 becomes 8,0999999999999996
7,0 becomes just 7
(commas are the decimal separator, and ...
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Excel - how to handle custom timestamp format
I have some measurement data from a datalogging software, saved as CSV, and one column contains time stamps like this:
12.04.2024 15:11:32:684
12.04.2024 15:11:35:752
The format of this is:
dd.mm....
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W10 Can't see whitelisted USB device after formatting
I have implemented several security policies that block USB devices based on their device ID's. However, when I format one of these devices, the policies prevent the system from recognizing it after ...
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MS Word, cannot remove final blank page - Table at the end of document
On the last page of my Word document that I have text, I have a table. This table ends about an inch from the bottom of that page. However, Word has then decided that it will insert a completely blank ...
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My Seagate hard disk shows that's is RAW and also show that is 0 bytes
My Seagate hard disk shows that's is RAW and also show that is 0 bytes and in diskpart it shows that it is healthy, when trying to format to NTFS using diskpart it is stuck on 0%.
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Does windows ‘reset this pc’ format the drive?
Sorry if this is a stupid question, I tried to find this online but can’t see any answers.
When you use windows ‘reset this pc’ does it format the drive, and does it differ if you select the ‘clean ...
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Where is the Sparkline tab in the Show group for Excel?
How would I display the high points?
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Copilot says:
You Apply Blue sparkline color and display the high points for the
sparklines.
Copilot Certainly! Let’s create sparklines in Excel, apply ...
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How to use conditional formatting based on a different column?
Looking to format a column background color using conditional formatting based on the integer value from a different column. Where or how is the second column referenced?
Bing AI, copilot, says:
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Is it possible to recover files from quickly formatted HDD? [duplicate]
I have formatted my hard drive, now I wonder if it is possible to recover the files while I have reinstalled windows on the same drive and been using it for a few weeks and almost filled the hard ...
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How to quickly delete files and folders in Windows 10 so that they can never be recovered or accessed again
I have an application and txt files where the records of this application are kept. When I give a command via CMD, I want these files to be quickly deleted, irrecoverable and inaccessible. Depending ...
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