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H: How can you add a conditional statement to a =QUERY function
How can I add a conditional statement (similar to an if elseif in .php) to the query listed below so that is will return columns D and E from Sheet2 if column C in the responses sheet == 1st or columns F and G if from Sheet2 if column C in responses sheet == 2nd? It must work within the =QUERY so it only returns column data from the appropriate row (based on the query).
=QUERY(Sheet2!$A$1:K; CONCATENATE("SELECT B, C WHERE A = ", responses!B1), 0)
I looked into IF(OR), but I don't believe that will work because final project will have more than two possibilities (there will actually be eight, 1st through 8th class period).
Here is a link to the Google Spreadsheet I'm working with.
Any suggestions?
AI: The following formula will display the corresponding teachers.
Formula
=ARRAYFORMULA(array_expression)
=VLOOKUP(search_criterion, array, index, sort_order)
=IF(test, then_value, otherwise_value)
=SIGN(number)
=ROW(reference)
=ARRAYFORMULA( // ARRAYFORMULA start
VLOOKUP( // VLOOKUP start
B2:B, // search_criterion
DATA!A2:G, // array
// index start
IF( // IF start
C2:C="1st", // test
{4,5}, // then_value
{6,7} // otherwise_value
) * // IF end
SIGN( // SIGN start
ROW( // ROW start
A2:A // reference
) // ROW end
), // SIGN end
// index end
0 // sort_order
) // VLOOKUP end
) // ARRAYFORMULA end
// to copy / paste
=ARRAYFORMULA(VLOOKUP(B2:B,DATA!A2:G,IF(C2:C="1st",{4,5},{6,7})*SIGN(ROW(A2:A)),0))
Explained
The SIGN and the ROW function are there to meet up with the criteria, set with using an ARRAYFORMULA. It will return an equally long array as setout in the search_condition. The IF function sets the condition for the index, by using the test.
Screenshot
Example
I've copied your file and added my solution to it: teacher references |
H: In Google+ if I +1 a post shared only with me then will my friends be able to see it
Say one of my friends shared a picture only with me on Google+ and I +1 it. Will my other friends (or people in my circles) be able to see that post? In Facebook if any of my friends like a post which was shared with them and not with me then I can see that post with something like <FRIEND NAME> likes <OTHER PERSON?'s picture.
AI: No - privacy settings are always respected on Google+. |
H: See all shared items in Google Drive
In Dropbox there is a place you can see all the shared items in your account (i.e., all the items you have granted others access to).
Is there a similar feature in Google Drive?
I'm not only trying to find items that are shared with other "named people", but also documents that are shared on a "anyone with link can view / edit" or "public on the internet" basis.
Franck's answer seemed to work back in 2013, but Google Drive's interface has changed quite a bit since, and I'm struggling to be able to perform the same task with the new interface. I wonder if anyone knows how to do it in the new interface.
AI: Search for to: to retrieve all documents shared with someone. You can also search by visibility:
For more information, see Search your Google Drive. |
H: Get Row-Number of a MAX(Range) Value?
I have a spreadsheet with several items, their volumes and margins. I have no problem in finding the maximum margin with =MAX(Range). What I need to find is the row number of that value.
Let's say I have these values:
A B C
1 Item1 5m³ 70%
2 Item2 10m³ 80%
3 Item3 2m³ 50%
The maximum margin would be 80%. Now i need to know that this value belongs to Item 2 in Row 2.
Is there a way to find that out?
AI: Use the following formula to do that.
Formula
=MATCH(MAX(E2:E4), E2:E4, 0)
If you want to include the header, then you have to use this formula:
=MATCH(MAX(E2:E4), E1:E4, 0)
Screenshot
Remark
The last criterium in the MATCH formula, 0 will trigger the function to find the first entry. Use 1 to show the last entry.
Example
I've created an example file for you: Get Row-Number of a MAX(Range) Value? |
H: Does Google Hangouts live streaming have a viewer count limit?
Looking at the Hangouts On Air common questions - and within those FAQs under "Invites and Viewership" there is this question, How many people will be able to watch the broadcast? with this answer:
Your broadcast will be viewable by the public once you click Start broadcast from within the Hangout On Air. The number of viewers watching your broadcast is displayed at the top of the video call window next to the “Embed” link.
Thing is the answer is either vague, or doesn't answer the question; meaning does the "viewable by the public" mean 1000s of people, or those within some unstated maximum.
Just to be clear, I'm not referring to how many people are able to outbound stream from within the hangout, which I believe is limited to ten users - but how many users are able to view a live stream.
AI: There is no stated upper limit because there really isn't a maximum of Hangout viewers.
There is no limit for the number of viewers who can watch the live broadcast. However, if you do believe that you will have an extremely large event with a lot of users, please do reach out and let us know.
-- Dori, Google Community Manager, 28 May 2013 |
H: What happened to the ability to go back in an already-loaded YouTube video?
For many years, my experience with YouTube had been, consistently and on any computer/browser, that once a section of that video was loaded, or the whole video, if you wanted to see an earlier part of the video again, you could simply click on the loading bar to that area and you would instantly go to that part.
More recently (six months?) this has changed. Now, clicking in an earlier part of the video forces a reload of the whole video (that is, the grey bar goes back to 0) and you have to hope your loading will be fast enough to make waiting to watch it again even worth it. It is a huge regression in usability for me.
Is there any way to watch YouTube videos in the "old way"?
I use Firefox 17.0.1 at this point and have an updated (I think) Flash, but I'd be willing to try other browsers or versions if it made a difference.
EDIT: Yes, disabling DASH did the trick! Much better, thanks!
AI: This is due to DASH, or Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP. Youtube introduced this new streaming protocol quite a while ago.
You can disable it via a browser extension called YouTube Center. Instructions on doing this are on this Lifehacker page. Basically, you download the addon for your browser of choice and manually install it by dragging on and dropping the extension file onto your browsers extension page. |
H: How can I save a set of directions in Google Maps?
How can I save a set of directions in Google Maps? If I have some directions that I searched for, How can I save these so someone else can use them as well?
AI: From Google's help, they say simply share/keep the entire URL. Of course, you could use a url shortening service, but give this a rip to see if it takes you from Golden, CO to Taos Ski Valley, NM:
https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!data=!4m29!3m20!1m1!1sGolden%2C+co!1m1!1sTaos+Ski+Valley%2C+NM!2e0!3m8!1m3!1d122222!2d-97.636522!3d35.5823774!3m2!1i424!2i452!4f13.1!6m2!1m1!1e4!8m2!1e1!2b1!5m2!13m1!1e1!7m4!11m3!1m1!1e1!2b1!6m1!1e1&fid=0i1
Short: http://goo.gl/YMbK8n
Alternately, if you're signed into Google, there should be a "Share" button at the top right corner of the page where you can put a message and add email addresses to share with.
Edit: The "Share" service takes an extraordinarily long time to deliver the email in my tests, just FYI. |
H: Why is google.com not showing doodles anymore?
i have noticed tha my google.com page is not showing doodles anymore. Thinking better i've not been seeing doodles for a while, i guess since they introduced the new page layout. This is what i always see.
Is there a way to bring doodles back?
AI: Google.com is not only the US version of Google but also the International version of Google. As Google Doodles are country specific I would hazard a guess that they have probably decided to exclude Google Doodles from their international search page. Perhaps what is celebrated in one country is offensive to another country (you never know...).
You will have to visit another countries Google Page.
Try:
https://www.google.nl/ |
H: OpenID: Custom fields as provider
OpenID can be used to deliver login information, and some more information than that.
Can I as OpenID provider provide 100 custom fields defined by me (as provider) that OpenID acceptors can request from me?
Or can OpenID acceptors only request pre-defined (non-custom) fields?
AI: Yes. See specification:
http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute-exchange-1_0.html#attribute-value-definition
OpenID Attribute Exchange can be used to transfer any kind of data. If the data contains newlines, is not a UTF-8 string or it is so desired by the parties transferring the data, the data MUST be encoded to a UTF-8 string without newlines. |
H: Google Calendar Email Notification
Just now, for the first time, I am attempting to use the calendar system Google provides. I am having one difficulty, however. I am not quite sure I understand the email reminder feature works.
What I want to do is set all of my events for the 7:00 AM slot, and then have Google send me an email at the actual time it takes place. For instance, suppose I have research meeting with one of my professors at 12:30 PM. How I figured I would do this is, set the event on the calendar for 7:00 AM, and then have a email reminder sent at 12:00. To do this, I would edit the event, go to the reminders section, type 5 in the box, and select hours. What I expected was, that the five hours from the time the event is scheduled (7:00 AM, in my case), I would get an email. This didn't work.
How does the reminder feature actually work?
AI: That's an unusual calendar strategy.
Reminders work by sending an alert (email, popup, SMS) at X minutes/hours/days/weeks before the start time of the event.
You can set multiple reminders for an event, so you could do something like have a reminder sent three hours prior, then two hours prior, then an hour, then fifteen minutes. (If that's something you want to do.)
So, for your 12:00 appointment, you would create the actual event at 12:00. To receive a reminder at the time the event starts, create a reminder for 0 minutes "before" the event. If you want a reminder sent at 7:00, just create a reminder for 5 hours before the event.
Having a reminder sent after the event is to have taken place would seem to make no sense and it's no wonder to me that that's not how it's implemented. (For what it's worth, I've never seen any other calendar app implement reminders after the fact.)
Perhaps if you edit your question to explain why you're trying to do what you're doing, we might be able to offer a more viable strategy. |
H: How to search only totally free images in Google?
I needed an image of a robot for a presentation, and I wanted an image with a free (e.g. creative commons) license. I searched in Google images "robot free", but got mostly royalty-free images (i.e. after you buy the image, you are free to use it).
I remember that once it was possible to search in Google for images with a public-domain or creative-commmons license, but now I cannot find it. Where is it?
AI: CC Search gives access to Google free images, and a few other types too. |
H: How to use old Gmail audio player instead of Google Drive
Gmail had included a simple audio player for a few years (since at least 2006); it used Flash and it was great. You didn't have to download the entire file to play it, no need for a dedicated player, etc.
Now Google has replaced it with a Google Drive integration that won't work in my browser / OS, has no native player, requires more clicks, needs 3rd-party apps that won't work too, and requires lots of account access permissions:
Is there a way to get the old player back?
AI: It looks like for some reason Google doesn't like Firefox on Linux. I wasn't able to find any way to get Google's built in player to work, nor any indication from Google that they're even aware it has a problem.
Fortunately it's very easy to play files with a third party app.
Select one of your MP3 files by ticking the check box. Then, from the More menu, choose Open with then Connect more apps.
Type music player in the search box and press Enter. Several search results will appear.
Choose a likely looking app and click Connect. For this example I chose Music Player for Google Drive.
Allow the app to associate itself with its file types, and click OK.
Now click your MP3 file. A new window or tab should open with the third party music player. |
H: Searching for messages in Gmail sent by myself to myself
When sending email in Gmail, the last message in the mail is sometimes sent by me. I hit the reply button, meaning to send the email to everyone else, but the email ends up being addressed only to myself.
What happens next is that I end up wondering for several days why no-one has replied before checking the mail and discovering the mistake that I made.
Is there any way to filter mail in Gmail sent from myself to myself? I use my Gmail as a client to send mail from multiple accounts.
The current search I'm attempting is as such, but it's not working as I would like it to.
(From: johndoe@gmail.com OR johndoe@outlook.com -*) AND (To: johndoe@gmail.com OR johndoe@outlook.com -*)
AI: Even though the two halves (From:...) and (To:...) are enclosed in parenthesis, I think you will get more accurate results if you prefix both addresses in each half with the From: or To: accordingly(see below). As it is now, I think it is searching for the second email address of each half anywhere in any message.
Example:
(From: johndoe@gmail.com OR From: johndoe@outlook.com) AND (To: johndoe@gmail.com OR To: johndoe@outlook.com) |
H: How to update cell value to max if value is smaller than other cell in Google Spreadsheets
I would like cell A to have the max value that another cell B has ever had. How can I do that? Cell B changes value dynamically according to a =GoogleFinance() formula (every few seconds or so).
AI: The only way to accomplish that, is through a script, Google Apps Script that is.
Script
function getMax() {
var sh = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var cValue = sh.getRange("C2").getValue();
var hRange = sh.getRange("B3"), hValue = hRange.getValue();
if(cValue > hValue) {
hRange.setValue(cValue);
}
}
Trigger
Explained
The script is retrieving the two values, at 1 minute intervals, and compares them. If the "real" value if higher than the highest value, then the highest will be replaced by the "real' value.
How-to
Add the script under Tools>Script editor. Press the bug button to authenticate the script (as it need access to the Google Spreadsheet). Select Resources\Current project's triggers in the script editor and set it to the screenshot given.
Example
I've created an example file for you: get max value from formula
Second Best
=MAX(INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("GOOG", "HIGH", "01-01-2011", TEXT(NOW(), "dd-MM-yyyy"), "1"),"", 2))
Explained
This formula will show all the highest day values of the Google share, from the beginning of 2011. The INDEX formula will show only the second column and the MAX formula will show only the highest value. |
H: How to force "Switch to SoundCloud Classic"
SoundCloud has an option within it's "More..." drop down menu to switch back to classic layout.
How to always force SoundCloud Classic layout to begin with?
if it were a greasemonkey script:
@include *soundcloud.com
AI: This two line of JavaScript will do it.
updated code
var menuDropD = document.querySelector(".header__moreButton").click();
document.querySelector(".moreMenu__classic").click();
This code will trigger a click on the dropdown menu and then the link that will take you to the old Layout.
To add the script in Greasemonkey, click on the dropdown next to Greasemonkey icon in Firefox and press "New User Script.."
Fill up the details :
Now click "OK", a new window may open, paste the script below the last line and Save
The script has been added. Go to the soundcloud homepage and you will be redirected to the old layout in seconds. |
H: What does the GitHub contact gold star mean?
On the GitHub contact page, I see the following message:
If you use 140 characters or fewer, we'll give you a gold star.
I sent a message that contained 139 characters and I got a gold star.
What does this mean? Is it just for fun or does it have any usage?
AI: It's just for fun. It's much the same as if you vote my answer up 100 times and I get a badge. If you could do that, I'll let you know if that or the gold star gives more virtual satisfaction.
The advantage is more for GitHub, it's a very clever way of reducing support requests down to the absolute minimum text. If the same were applied to answers on this site, I'd not have added the attempt at humour which adds nothing to my answer. |
H: Google Apps forward email from non-account address to an actual user
In my Google Apps account I have only one user: admin@example.com. How can I configure Google Apps to forward emails for info@example.com to admin@example.com?
AI: I would not recommend either of the ways listed by Ankur Mhatre. Creating another account is an admin headache (not to mention the cost) and the catch-all is not recommended by Google because it can lead to increased incidents of spam.
Instead you should either create a nickname for admin@ :
https://support.google.com/a/answer/33327?hl=en
Or create a group with admin@ as a member:
https://support.google.com/a/topic/25838?hl=en&ref_topic=9197
Generally, if the mail sent to info@ only ever needs to go to admin@ use a nickname. If you have multiple users who need to receive mail from info@ use the groups. |
H: Send mail to Gmail where message is marked as Priority in the user's inbox
How can I send an email to a Gmail account where the message will be flagged or marked as Priority, or Important, in the user's inbox?
AI: You can’t control if a message will be marked as important in the recipient’s inbox. The priority marks in Gmail are algorithm-determined so you can’t control them.
How importance ranking works
To predict which of your incoming messages are important, Gmail automatically takes into account a number of signals, including:
Who you email: If you email Bob a lot, it’s likely that messages from Bob are important.
Which messages you open: Messages you open are likely to be more important than those you skip over.
What keywords spark your interest: If you always read messages about soccer, a new message that contains those same soccer words is more likely to be important.
Which messages you reply to: If you always reply to messages from your mom, messages she sends are likely to be important.
Your recent use of stars, archive and delete: Messages you star are probably more important than messages you archive without opening.
See this help page for more details. |
H: Remove word values from the output of UNIQUE(SourceArray) in a Google spreadsheet
I am trying to list all the "other" options of a Google form. As such, I am using UNIQUE to list all results from a row so:
=UNIQUE('Form Responses'!S2:S)
I would the want to exclude the following from my unique query or prevent Unique form listing the following: No explanation/don’t know, to far, Too costly.
How can I do this?
AI: You can filter out the unwanted results by using the FILTER function:
=UNIQUE(FILTER(A1:A; A1:A <> "No explanation/don't know"; A1:A <> "To far"; A1:A <> "Too costly"))
Check out this example spreadsheet. |
H: How to create fixed mail in Gmail?
These days I send my CV every day to lots of contacts, such that each time I send the same mail but with different "To" address.
In order to avoid re-uploading the CV for each sent email, I uploaded the CV (doc file) to Google Drive and when I want to send it I do: right click > Share > Email as attachment.
Now, how could I create a fixed body for these mails instead of re-typing it each time?
AI: In Gmail you can make templates.
To enable templates you have to use a Labs Feature called canned responses.
Click the Gear Icon in the top right.
Select Settings from the menu.
Click on the Labs tab.
Look for Canned Responses
Enable It
Make Sure you click "Save Changes" at the bottom
To Set Up a Template:
Compose a new message as per normal.
Once done, click on the more options dropdown(next to the discard button)
Select Canned Responses
Select New Canned Response
Give it a name
Done
To use a Template:
Compose a new message
Click on the more options dropdown
Select Canned Responses
Insert your template
Please note: Gmail only allows you to save the body of an email as a template, and not the attachments, but these can be added before sending just as with a normal email.
Source |
H: Can I view attachments as HTML in the new Gmail interface?
Gmail has recently changed the UI for attachments. The options offered for an attachment is to download it to disk, save it to Google Drive or right click to open it in a new tab.
In the old interface I quite often used the view option when the attachment was a PDF or DOC file or something similar. I found the option view as HTML in the built-in viewer quite useful, in particular when I wanted to copy some part of text from the attachment.
Can I somehow view the attachment as HTML in the new interface?
I mean something like the plain HTML mode—see the following picture:
AI: Yes, you can. Click anywhere else but on the Download or Save to Drive buttons and it will open the document inline, in an overlay.
Like this:
And here you can see that the document is rendered as HTML: |
H: Where to manage an email account set up through Microsoft Small Business?
I've redesigned a website for a client and am soon to set it live. However, his business emails appear to be hosted with Hotmail and I need to create a couple of new email accounts. He has told me that he originally used Microsoft Small Business to create the accounts, however it was then replaced by Office 365.
I've tried logging into Office 365 with his email login details and can't find anywhere to manage email accounts. I also can't find any guides on how to do so on their help pages or even on Google.
Could it be I'm looking in the wrong place?
I'm familiar with how to do this kind of thing on Google Apps, but I didn't even realise there was a Microsoft equivalent until now.
AI: You can go with outlook.com. They do have support for custom domains. Just head to http://www.domains.live.com/ and sign up. You will get all Microsoft services for your domain. |
H: Given a particular Question on Quora, how to find as to who has posted the Question?
How do we find a person behind the question, (obviously) if it was not posted as Anonymous.
AI: Go to Latest activity and scroll down. E.g. https://www.quora.com/Chess/Could-a-computer-consistently-beat-Magnus-Carlsen-at-chess:
then scroll down: |
H: Prohibit the translation of pieces of text in Google Translate
How do I Google Translate such that all desired texts are left untranslated?
For example, when translating “Have you tried the Clipboard History window” to Hindi, the “Clipboard History Window” is translated to Hindi instead of being left as it is, as it is a technical term.
I have tried <span class=notranslate> but as it should be, it is valid only in HTML.
AI: I don't think there's any special tag or character to insert to keep the text untranslated in Google's Translate form.
But since you are willing to manually add tags to keep your text untranslated, a trick is to prefix each word that you want to keep untranslated with a random string, for example "KEEP".
So Have you tried the KEEPClipboard KEEPHistory KEEPwindow will be translated to आप KEEPClipboard KEEPHistory KEEPwindow की कोशिश की and then with a text editor replace all "KEEP" with an empty string.
Definitely not the best work around, but there you go :) |
H: How do I recover my Google account, password, or username?
Google Account Recovery Questions
This is the canonical target for Google Account questions about recovering usernames and passwords, as well as problems logging in for other reasons. For example:
I am unable to login to my Google account.
My Google account has been hacked, how do I recover it?
I've forgotten my Google account username and password.
Google Account vs. Services
A Google Account is common across Google Products/Services such as Gmail, YouTube, and Drive.
Related Meta Post, Do we need a canonical "I have forgotten my Google username and/or Password" answer?)
AI: I have forgotten my password, but my browser remembers it
If your browser remembers your password (that is, the password field is automatically populated when you log in to your Google account, and you're able to log in), you should be able to retrieve your password through your browser's password manager.
See the instructions for your browser:
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Opera
I have forgotten the password for my private Google (Gmail) account
Visit Google's Account Recovery page;
Select the I don't know my password option;
Follow the instructions shown.
I have forgotten the username / email address for my private Google (Gmail) account
Visit Google's Account Recovery page;
Select the I don't know my username option;
Follow the instructions shown.
In order to recover your Google username using this form, you must already have specified a recovery email address or recovery phone number.
If you haven't specified any recovery information, you may still be able to find your username if you have fairly recently accessed your email account through a browser. Gmail displays your email address in the browser's title bar, so searching your browser's history for Inbox or Gmail might reveal your email address.
I have forgotten the username / email address / password for my work Google account (Google Workspace)
If you have an account on the Google Workspace service, you may still use the method described above. If this proves unfruitful, contact the administrator for your domain, who will be able to reset your password and/or find your username.
I have forgotten the admin username / email address for a Google Workspace account that I manage
First, try the methods described above. If this is unsuccessful, you may still reset the admin password by domain verification.
I have forgotten my username / email address / password, but I have a desktop / smartphone email client that still can fetch mail from my account
If you have already set up an email client to fetch mail from your account, you might be able to extract the username / password from that client.
Instructions on how to do that will vary depending on which client you use. Here are links to instructions for some of the most common clients:
Mac OS X Mail
Outlook Express
Eudora, FoxMail, The Bat!
I have no access to my recovery email, phone, or any other option
You may still be able to restore access to your account by manually verifying your identity.
Go to the Google Account Recovery page
Enter your email address and click Continue.
If you are asked to enter the last password you remember, click I don't know.
Click Verify your identity which is located under all of the other options. (It is a small link.)
You will then be asked a series of questions which you must answer to the best of your ability. If you can provide enough accurate information, you will get your account back.
How do I prevent losing access to my account in the future?
See How do I protect my Google/Gmail account? |
H: Delete YouTube channel in order to unlink G+ from YouTube
I want to get my old YouTube username back and completely abandon the nightmare that carries the name Google+. In order to do so, I need to delete my G+ channel, and in order to do that, I need to delete my YouTube channel.
I have a lot of playlists and favorites on my YouTube and I don't want to lose them. If I read correctly, with deleting your new YouTube channel you will also delete all information from the site, that you have posted since the creation of the channel.
According to the YouTube channel delete confirmation page it will delete 0 videos, 1 abbo, and 23 reactions from my account.
However, it does not list if it will delete any playlists or favorites from my account.
Does anyone know for sure, if you delete your YouTube channel, will the playlists that existed before creating that channel also be removed?
AI: To answer the question.. well I've found this out the hard way. The answer is yes, if you try to delete your Google+ page then all information on your Youtube account is lost as well.
Please do NOT follow in my footsteps and leave all your settings as they are, unless you really want to delete your Youtube account :) |
H: Counting blank cells based on the information in a related cell
I'm trying to use information from a table to display a count of blank cells based on the type of data in the table. See my example below - I want to count how many of each fruit I'm missing, regardless of their color, and ignoring the apples I do have.
Table:
End result:
AI: The following formula will almost retrieve the table you want.
Formula
QUERY(data, query, headers)
=QUERY(
DATA!A1:C7, // data
"SELECT A, COUNT(B) WHERE C IS NULL GROUP BY A // query
LABEL COUNT(B) 'Amount of Empty Types'"
)
Explained
Column A is selected to be shown. It is not possible, with the QUERY formula, to perform on the same column a count and select operation. Therefore I performed the count on column B. The where clause on column C is set to contain nothing. All results are to be grouped by column A. At the end of the query, the header/label is changed (otherwise it would show "count Color".
Result
Example
I've created an example file for you: Counting blank cells based on information in related cell |
H: Create Gmail filter that contains a special character
I'm trying to create a search filter when I receive automated emails .
The emails that I want to filter always contain the following format:
Gitlab | foo | bar | herp a derp
How can I create a filter for emails that meets the following requirements?
Match:
"Gitlab |"
But does not match emails with the subject
"gitlab"
"Gitlab"
What I have tried
subject:+"Gitlab |"
subject:"Gitlab |"
subject:"Gitlab \|"
subject:("Gitlab |")
subject:(Gitlab |)
Yet I find that Gmail matches any email that contains the word "gitlab" in the subject, regardless if there is a "|" present.
How can I filter just emails with "Gitlab |"?
AI: Unfortunately, you probably can't do what you want.
From About Gmail Search
Gmail doesn't recognize special search characters like square brackets, parentheses, currency symbols, the ampersand, the pound sign, and asterisks
You'll need to find some other unique information about the messages you want to filter. (Advanced Search Operators) |
H: Twitter updates of the people I follow
Does Twitter operate on the principle that people with whom we interact (the most) only their updates are shown in our timeline?
One of my fiends is tweeting but am not getting his/her tweets. Whereas other friends' tweets are showing in my timeline.
Or has it to do with the handle me and my friends follow (in common) and my friend replies to them will show in my timeline? And the ones which we don't follow in common will not show in my timeline?
AI: Tweets from your friend whom you are following, starting with an @mention are only shown in your Timeline if you also follow the @mentioned friend. If you want everyone to see the tweet it shouldn't start with an @mention. That is why sometimes people start just with a "." > ".@mention tweet". |
H: Google spreadsheet column to have same function throughout column
I have three columns. Two columns have values in them. In the third column I want to have each row be a percentage of the other two values in that row (ex. =N2/L2).
How can I have this third column always have the values of the numbers in that row?
The next row in this sequence would be =N3/L3, then =N4/L4. I want the values to be in the corresponding row.
AI: To copy a formula from one cell to more cells within the same column (or row) and have the references change to match the appropriate cell, simply use the "auto-fill" tool. Click the cell you want to copy. In the lower right corner should be a square. Simply drag that handle to populate however many cells you need. Each reference to another cell in your formula will be incremented to match.
Google Support: Auto-fill |
H: Mass importing documents into Google Doc
I'm looking for a way to import a lot of documents to Google Docs (not just uploading to drive).
Is there some way to do this?
AI: You can upload a folder at once:
Make sure to check the settings for upload; conversion to Google Drive format, OCR of PDF files. |
H: Why does Wikipedia capitalize usernames?
From their page about username policies:
Wikipedia usernames are case sensitive, but the first letter is always automatically capitalized.
But I've also noticed that, even though I always login by typing "matt" (not actually my username, of course), I can still login, even though they change it to "Matt". So is it really case-sensitive? And why do they do this? I've never seen any other site capitalize the first letter of a username before.
AI: Usernames are a subset of page titles, and must follow the rules for
page titles. Mediawiki, the software behind Wikipedia, treats by default all article titles as beginning with a capital letter (unless the first character is not a letter).
Note that $wgCapitalLinks can be used to disable auto-capitalization for page titles. According to this discussion, usernames are always capitalized for compatibility though. (might have changed since then?) |
H: Why is Gmail “is:unread and label:random” not returning unread emails with label “random”?
label:random shows a bunch of emails with three unread. But when I search for label:random and label:unread, no results are returned.
When I only search for label:unread, or is:read, all unread emails are returned, including the three that have label:random. Why?
AI: The solution was pretty simple. The and was creating problems. It was supposed to be capital.
All of these worked:
is:unread in:random
is:unread AND label:random
label:unread label:random
label:unread AND label:random |
H: How to find people who +1 my comment?
Anyone knows how can I find the full name of a person who +1'd my comment?
I get a notification of several people who +1'd it recently, but I can only see all of them in a small square and their first names. And there's no way of opening their URL's by clicking on their names or pictures.
AI: If you view the full post page, there comment +1'ers list has full names and link to the users profiles. |
H: "Welcome" Email for New Google Group Members
How can I set up an automated welcome email to be sent to all new members joining a Google group?
AI: You cannot. The best you can do is to create a welcome message. |
H: 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 to remove those tag requests.
How do I cancel these photo tag requests?
AI: Open the photo and hover the name next to "With..", a tool-tip must appear click on "Remove Tag" to cancel the tag request. |
H: Can I stop notifications from a Facebook Page I administer going to my personal account?
I have a Facebook Page that I am an administrator of. I have already disabled all email notifications, but here I am referring to notifications that show up within the Facebook interface.
When I am using Facebook under my personal account, I get notifications from the Page, such as who has liked a recent photo or event.
I would like to set it so that I don't see these notifications. I only want notifications relevant to my personal account when I am within my personal account interface, and notifications for my Pages when I am using Facebook within the interface for those Pages.
Is that possible?
AI: In the Admin panel, Beside the "Like" Button, there is a "Follow" option. Click on it to "Unfollow". Hope this solves your problem. |
H: In Google Calendar, if I remove an event's guests and then save it, will it notify the guests by e-mail?
I imported some Thunderbird events into Google Calendar and, without my permission, it e-mails all the guests of the event. I now want to delete the event from Google Calendar, but I do not want it to re-send all those e-mails like it did last time. Can I delete the event? Or if I remove all the guests and then delete the event, will it still send the e-mails?
AI: When you remove or otherwise change guests on an event, then save it, you should be prompted whether or not guests should receive a notification. Something similar to:
Simply click "Don't send" and none of the people you removed will get notifications. It should just be silently removed from their calendar.
There is a similar confirmation when you delete an event. |
H: Can I mark a Google Groups topic as unread?
How can I mark a Google Groups topic that I click accidentally as unread to know that I still not read it at all?
AI: (I assume you mean from the web interface.)
Unfortunately, no, you can't. (At least at present.)
Oddly enough, you can only mark messages as "read" but not the opposite. |
H: How to COUNTIF cells are years in Google Spreadsheet?
I have several dates in let's say:
A1:A
with this syntax:
dd/mm/yyyy
and I would like to COUNTIF the cells that are years. I started with this formula, but that didn't work:
=COUNTA(UNIQUE(YEAR(A1:A)))
AI: Use this formula:
Formula
=COUNTUNIQUE(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(YEAR(A1:A15))))
Explained
The ARRAYFORMULA around the YEAR formula makes it possible to accept a range. The COUNTUNIQUE counts the unique entries. It's simply a combination of COUNT and UNIQUE.
Example
I've created an example file for you: COUNT UNIQUE YEARS |
H: Resending an email to a list of address in the Bcc
I sent an email to several addresses, that I put in the "Bcc" field. Now I want to send another email to the same addresses. How can I do this? I tried "reply", but it replies only to me—I didn't find a "reply all" option. I tried copying&pasting but got strange errors about "unidentified addresses".
AI: If you sent the email using a mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) then I believe you are out of luck as most of these strip out the BCC fields upon sending. If you sent it from the Gmail site, then you can recover the addresses.
To do so, go to the Sent folder and select the message, then click the dropdown arrow in the bcc: field location.
The popout window this provides will include all the addresses in the BCC field. You can copy these and then paste them into a new email to send to them again. Because you are copying from a "display" field, not truly an email field, you may unintentionally include extra characters or non-email words (display names, etc). When you paste into a new email, check to see which Gmail has recognized as true email addresses and remove or correct any that it is unable to recognize. This should prevent any further "unidentified addresses" errors. |
H: Unidentified address in Gmail
Many times, when I copy&paste an email address into the "To" field in a Gmail message, it refuses to send the email, saying that “the address has not been identified”. This is very frustrating. Is there any solution other than just manually typing the address?
AI: Such an error message typically looks like the following image and might be due to the fact that the clipboard contains some special characters in addition to the email address that you are trying to copy, which Gmail doesn't display but complains about. Copy your clipboard to some ASCII editor like notepad.exe on Windows or the address bar in Google Chrome to see the special characters. |
H: How to copy incoming and outgoing email to another account in Google Apps?
What I want is that all emails sent to/from user1@example.com are copied to user2@example.com. The configuration solution must not be modifiable by user1 (due to that requirement I think any solution that includes the creation of a filter in the user1 account won't suit, unless a filter in user1 account that user1 can't delete), and if the configuration is hidden from user1 all the better.
AI: Here is the doc to do that.
The Content compliance setting enables you to specify what action to
perform for messages based on predefined sets of words, phrases, text
patterns, or numerical patterns. The content compliance setting scans
messages for content that matches one or more rules that you configure
within the setting. You can choose whether these messages are rejected
or delivered with modifications -- for example, to notify others when
the content of a message matches the rules that you set. |
H: Pulling column from sheet 2 and importing into another workbook
So I need to find the formula to pull a column out of one page of my Google Docs spreadsheet and insert it into a separate workbook.
Here are some more details: all rows from column C (part number) from sheet 2, workbook 1 and insert it into sheet 1 of workbook 2 (under column C "part number").
AI: This Formula gives you the perfect solution:
=ImportRange("0Anrm0HgYyzzRdGR3TWpBelFCenJYM01ZUDZsaWNsTkE";"Sheet2!C3:C13")
Write this formula in the "C3" of your "workbook 2,sheet 1". |
H: How to ask questions on GitHub?
I am using the Flickr4Java library, which is hosted on GitHub. I have a question to the authors. On the main page it is written:
Comments and questions should be sent to the GitHub Repo.
How do I do that?
AI: I guess they meant that the comments and questions should be sent to the issue tracker, in this case https://github.com/callmeal/Flickr4Java/issues. |
H: Google Calendar (Google Apps): Can I share a calendar with the outside world (to see all events) but require a password?
I want to share my Google Apps calendars with the outside world (users not in my Google Apps) but I want to require a password for access. When I configure the calendar to allow outside access like so:
and then on the individual calendar basis like so:
I get big scary warnings that this makes the calendar available public via Google search etc. I want to make the calendar available to the outside world but require a Google account so I can authenticate them if I want.
AI: Google had support for private calendar links until about a year ago. They removed this feature, which I had been using for years to share calendar events for my cub scout pack, which needed to be easy to share but not public for the safety of the boys. I switched over to Outlook.com this year, as it includes this feature. |
H: View all one-star ratings for an app in the Google Play Store?
Just what the title says, how can I view all one-star ratings for an app in the Google Play Store? I cannot see how to do it.
AI: The best you can do is ordering the ratings (but the order is "surprisingly" descending...): |
H: Facebook is stealing my eBay search history
I have recently noticed that when I search for something on eBay, I start seeing ads of similar items in my Facebook homepage. I suspect Facebook is somehow stealing my search history.
Is there a way I can block Facebook from doing this? I am sure I can do this without permanently deleting my Facebook account so I just want to give one last try before I actually go ahead with that idea (and I am on the verge of doing this).
AI: The reason behind this could be advertisement (Behavioural) Retargeting.
Cookies on eBay may enable advertisers to show the similar or the same item again on Facebook.
See more infomation on:
FBX: How to Create Retargeted Facebook Ads with PerfectAudience
As Karthik VU pointed out, you can use Privacy mode / Private browsing to limit leakage of your browsing trail.
Safari — Private Browsing
Google Chrome — Incognito
Internet Explorer — InPrivate Browsing
Mozilla Firefox — Private Browsing |
H: Get value of cell based on the value of another cell
I'm looking for help on the following :
Exemple sheet
I need the word Frisbee to be put in the green cell
Any idea ?
The value researched will always be text, and depending on a date.
Edit :
Just made the spreadsheet public and open to comments, sorry.
I have a column C with items acquired and a column B with the date of the acquisition. It's not sorted by date, so I first have to acquire the most recent date (with =TO_DATE(MAX(ARRAYFORMULA(B2:B9))) ), then I need to get the content of the cell that is corresponding to the date (on the same line, separated horizontally by one or more cell).
AI: You can use the following formula to get the "frisbee".
Formula
=QUERY(B3:C8; "SELECT C ORDER BY B DESC LIMIT 1")
Explained
The QUERY will take both columns as dataset, but it will only show column C. Furthermore, it will sort column B descendingly (highest first) and the limit option will limit the result dataset to one row.
In this case, there's no need to calculate the highest date first.
Example
I've copied your file and added my solution: FRISBEE |
H: Did Google groups really restore the ability to directly add members to a group?
Based on https://support.google.com/groups/answer/2465464?hl=en and my experience with the user interface just now, it appears that Google Groups restored the ability to directly add members to a group.
However, when I Googled for information about this, I found only articles about the removal of this ability in 2011. Is it really back? If so, did they explain why?
With Yahoo! groups not restoring this ability and groupspaces.com apparently going out of business, I'm once again looking for a new home for my groups.
AI: The option to directly add members to a group is indeed available again.
They had removed it due to spammers misusing the feature:
http://groups-announcements.blogspot.com/2011/07/new-in-google-groups.html (July 2011)
Spam improvements: Starting next week, we will remove the option to
“Add members directly” to googlegroups.com groups since spammers have
unfortunately abused this feature. Group owners will still be able to
invite you to join their groups and you will have to accept their
invitation before you start participating in and receiving messages
from the group. Learn more here:
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46373
I guess they made the option available again due to user pressure and by introducing or strengthening the confirmation code to avoid spammy use. |
H: Feels like a stranger likes posts with my account on Facebook
Sometimes I find I liked posts that I never seen/read before. Feels like a stranger likes posts instead of me!
My Facebook password is very secure and I'm sure no one has it but me.
Do you have any ideas why this might happen and is it possible?
AI: You probably leaked an access token to a rogue app with publish_stream permission or leaked your credentials to a site you thought was affiliated with Facebook.
Changing your password and turning off the app platform https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications§ion=opt_out&view should stop any suspicious activity. |
H: How does Google+ pick the image to put in a post?
We are trying to share a post on Google+. As you know, as soon as you enter a URL, Google scouts the page and adds an image to it. There's an image on the page we would like to have associated to the post, but unfortunately it picks the wrong one. We noticed that it actually picks a set and you can scroll between the possible ones, but the image we want is not in this set. It is, however, on the webpage we are posting about with no fancy tricks, and it actually comes earlier than the other ones.
The first idea was size, but our target image is not particularly unusual.
How does Google decide which images to pick, so that we can adapt to that?
AI: Google uses Schema.org Microdata information that you have included as part of the page to help determine what it will show on the page. See https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/ for details on how you can set this microdata yourself.
In general, you will want to make sure the page is recognized as having microdata by adding itemscope and itemtype attributes to the <body> tag, and then adding the itemprop="image" attribute to the <img> tag.
The exact value you might use for itemtype will depend on what is on the page. But if your page is showing a product, you might use markup like this:
<body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
...
<img itemprop="image" src="{image-url}" />
...
</body> |
H: How can I view the subject of an email when replying in Yahoo Mail?
I clicked reply and am typing an email, and it just shows the from and the to, but no subject. How can I view the subject?
(I'm on a slow laptop and have lots of tabs, and I’m not that keen on more with Yahoo Mail, so while I know I could open a new tab log in again if necessary and click inbox, I'd rather have a quicker way like choosing some option to view the subject while I continue to write the email in the browser; I'm wondering if there is such an option.)
AI: While replying, click on the arrow on the left of the “To” field;
From the drop-down menu, click on Edit Subject;
The Subject field will appear below the “To” field. |
H: Why do some Trello actions consistently fail inside my work firewall?
When I use Trello at work, certain specific actions consistently fail to get persisted back to the server. The two that I am always having issues with are:
Removing labels
Deleting items from checklists
As an example, let's say I create a new card and assign label A. I then come back later and remove label A, but assign label B.
The outcome is at first an orange message in the top right corner:
Sending...
This is followed by a red message in the top right corner:
Connection interrupted. Retrying 1 action.
This message never goes away. If I refresh Trello, the card will have both labels A and B assigned.
My workaround at the moment is to open the Android app on my phone and remove the label.
I'm guessing this is related specifically to our work environment - the firewall, proxy, ISA server, etc. I have tried using Fiddler to see which specific HTTP requests are failing, but as soon as Fiddler is hooked in as a proxy all external web sites stop working.
My question is, does anyone know what is special about these specific actions and why they might be failing inside my work firewall?
Note - I don't believe this a bug in Trello as it works perfectly outside of work!
AI: Both of the actions you described use the DELETE HTTP verb. Is your proxy blocking non-GET/POST/PUT requests?
Other things that use DELETE, for testing if this is in fact the root issue:
Removing a member from a card
Deleting a card
Removing a member from a board
Removing a vote from a card (requires the voting powerup to be enabled) |
H: No SSH link with Internet Explorer
With Firefox
You can clone with HTTPS, SSH, or Subversion
With Internet Explorer
You can clone with HTTPS, or Subversion
Why is Internet Explorer missing the SSH link?
AI: From: "John Greet (GitHub Staff)"
Are you signed in to GitHub in Internet Explorer?
SSH access requires a GitHub account with a public key associated with it, even
for public repositories, so we don't show the SSH remote in any browser if you
are logged out. |
H: Can I Block Twitter Users from Appearing in Search
I search Twitter a lot for information on a particular hash-tagged topic specific to the financial services industry. A couple of Twitter users have hijacked the topic and are spamming multiple posts per day using the hashtag in question.
I tried doing a block but apparently that only prevents them from seeing my posts. I want to block their posts from appearing in my search results. Is there a way to do this?
I typically use the Twitter web site directly or if on an iMac, Twitterific.
AI: In Twitteriffic, to "Mute" users i.e hide their tweets from your search, follow the steps here
But what I'd recommend you to use is Tweetdeck. It works on Windows or Mac as it's its pretty good client with good mute filers.
Have a look at this screenshot:
They won't be up showing on your TL anymore. |
H: Does Gmail forward Spam after you've setup forwarding?
Sometimes Gmail sees a genuine message as Spam by accident and then automatically marks the message, moving it to the Spam folder.
So in my case I've setup my Gmail account to forward the incoming mail to my alternative email address.
My question now is, does Gmail forward Spam messages as well? I need to understand how this works in order to setup either a filter to recognize important emails based on addresses or to go and un-mark the genuine emails in Spam every now and then.
AI: It does not. If you want the emails flagged as spam to be forwarded, create a filter on some gibberish like -sdflkmdfl87987 (meaning all emails that don't contain "sdflkmdfl87987") that includes all emails you're likely to receive and check "Never send it to Spam". |
H: How to "fix" Amazon Developer Account?
I've tried asking on Amazon forums, but no one seems willing to help there...
I signed up for the free developer account a while ago but I never used it. Last night, I signed up for Amazon's S3 service.
When I attempt to use Amazon's command line tools to access S3, I get an error:
$ aws s3 ls
A client error (NotSignedUp) occurred when calling the ListBuckets
operation: Your account is not signed up for the S3 service. You must
sign up before you can use S3.
When I visit Amazon's portal at https://portal.aws.amazon.com, I'm told I already have it. I believe this is correct since I previously signed up for it.
When I attempt to contact support, I'm told to purchase a support incident!
I refuse to purchase a support incident while trying out the service, and I'm absolutely befuddled Amazon wants money from me for a broken sign-up process.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
AI: Your best option would be to simply create a new developer account and sign up for S3 again with a different ID. This would appear to be a clear Amazon bug and I doubt there's anything that can be done by anyone except Amazon technical support. |
H: Google Dashboard claims that I have 26 open tabs, but I don't
When I open the Google Dashboard to view the data associated with my account, under the Chrome tab it says that I have 26 open tabs.
I run Chrome on my phone, PC, and VM, and definitely don't have that many tabs opened concurrently.
When viewing "tabs from other devices" in Chrome, correct tabs are listed?
Is this a bug or am I missing something? How can it be reset?
AI: In Google Dash click on sign out of all sessions and then check again the results. |
H: Can I prepare a Facebook profile completely off-public?
I want to prepare my new Facebook profile completely off-public, and publish it once it will be ready (in my opinion). Is it possible?
I've read this answer and assuming, that my new profile (account) will have (in the beginning -- in so called private phase) 0 friends, I assume that this is first step. I have also read this question + answer on about hiding certain data from searching.
I have set another (test) Facebook's profile, so if anyone not logged-in access it, he or she sees only This content is currently unavailable. But once someone is logged in, he or she sees a whole lot of unnecessary (from my point of view) things (photo, cover or recent activity as well as friends and likes -- if they exists).
It is extremely essential (for project's success), that nothing from my profile information (devoted to this project) is available / searchable / revealed to anyone before official "openning" (so called public phase). So, I'd like to ask, if there is anything else, I can undertake to protect my profile from anyone until it goes public?
AI: That’s effectively not possible at the moment—your current profile photo and your cover image are public no matter what.
They are killing the possibility to opt-out of search as well. Check this TechCrunch article for more info on the subject.
So, to answer you question, I’d say that you should not set a profile photo and cover image before the “opening”. And maybe use a fake name as well.
But the way I see it (and the way it is now), you’ll have a lot of work to do just before the “opening,” in order to reverse every “Only me” setting back to a more public option. Because, as Krampus was saying in his comment, you will have to set every bit of info to “Only me” in order to make sure your profile is “hidden”. |
H: Revert changes done to Facebook chat
I'm new to Facebook (yes, that is still possible!). Yesterday, when I registered, Facebook chat in my account was tiny (about 1/5 of screen height) and showed only true on-line Friends.
Today, though I'm pretty sure I didn't change anything, I have Facebook chat as large sidebar, stick to right margin of browser, it is as high as my browser window, and shows all (most) of my Friends, not only those, who are on-line (others showed with time of last activity).
What did I switched or which Facebook option controls this? Can I revert to "old" (yesterday) tiny little chat box? I don't see anything in Chat's settings (knob icon) or in my account's general settings.
AI: This is based on your browser size. Beyond a certain width, the chat window merges with the Facebook ticker. You can probably get your browser real estate by closing that window. |
H: Get rid of CAPTCHA in Facebook
I have a Facebook account for two days only.
How long will it take Facebook to believe I'm not a spammer (or my account to grow mature enough) so I don't have to write irritating CAPTCHA each time I want to paste a link into chat?
AI: I don't believe and haven't found this (length of time till maturity) listed. It's most likely intentionally ambiguous to keep those that are suspicious guessing. Things you can try
Verifying your account by cell number
Interacting with Facebook profiles (friends)
Avoiding proxies (sacrifice of privacy but some proxies allow many spammers to be welcomed) |
H: How to tell Gmail that these two email addresses are actually one email?
Our university allows people to use email alias. For instance, a guy names John White, his email addresses could be john.white.14@xyz.edu or jwhite@xyz.edu.
How to tell Gmail that these two email addresses are actually one email?
This is useful for convenience reason whenever I want to send email or search an email.
AI: One solution that works for me is to add both email addresses under the same contact in Gmail.
To do this, go to Gmail > Contacts, find the person (either email works if both already exist in the contact list), and click on Add Email right under the first email address already there. Then paste the second email for that person. Finally, make sure the full name is correct for you to be able to find it again later, when you're composing an email (sometimes, Gmail can't figure out the name of the person based on their email address only).
If both email addresses have never been used before in Gmail (and you haven't manually created the contact entry for that person), then you will have to create the contact yourself and enter both email addresses, with the full name of the person. If you already exchanged at least one email with the person, Gmail will have saved that email address, but again, beware it might lack the full name of the person which is important for you to be able to find it again later.
Bonus tip for the power-user: If you already have two contact entries for the same person, you can select both in the contact list, and click More > Merge Contacts. This will take both email addresses and put them in one contact entry, which is extremely useful. It also merges other infos, so if you created an entry for Bob with his phone number on your smartphone (assuming your Gmail contacts are synced), and have another entry for Bob Adams in Gmail, you can select both of them (knowing they are the same Bob) and merge and get one nice contact with all informations in one contact. |
H: What does "reserve not met" mean in eBay?
What does "reserve not met" mean, when using eBay?
In my particular situation, the starting price was "£1". I entered a maximum bid of "£40". Now the auction shows "current bid" as "£1" and "reserve not met" message.
Does that mean the reserve exceeds £40?
AI: From eBay Community Center:
It means that your bid (your full, maximum bid, even if the full
amount is not shown) is lower than the "Reserve" set by the seller as
the minimum sale price, and you cannot win that item with that bid.
The item might be at least for £50 for instance. |
H: Order of operations when using and in a boolean search on Twitter
How does Twitter search interpret the order of boolean operators?
Does it support parentheses for clarifying the order of Boolean operators?
If one does a search like
A AND B OR C AND D
what does Twitter actually search?
1: A AND (B OR (C AND D)) ?
or
2: (A AND B) OR (C AND D) ?
or
3: A AND (B OR C) AND D ?
or
4: ((A AND B) OR C) AND D ?
or something else?
I can now confirm that the answer of @w3d is correct, i.e., if you so a search like
A B OR C D OR E F
it is actually interpreted as
(A AND B) OR (C AND D) OR (E AND F)
AI: Does it support parentheses for clarifying the order of Boolean operators?
It does appear to, although I've not found anything in the help docs to support this.
If one does a search like A AND B OR C AND D
OR appears to have a higher precedence than AND (which I'm not even sure is an operator - see below), so this would seem to be equivalent to your #3:
3: A AND (B OR C) AND D
And this returns the same (or very similar) results for me. Placing the parentheses differently returns very different results. I say "similar", because... (and this is an assumption) including parenthesis occasionally returns marginally different results, but I have put this down to the very dynamic nature of Twitter searches. Searching for the same phrase just minutes apart can return different results and then a few minutes later the same results again. (?)
However, as mentioned, I'm not convinced that AND is actually an operator. "and" is the default operator when words are separated by a space. There is no mention of an AND operator on the Twitter Advanced Search Help page. And omitting AND yields the same results. It is quite possible that "AND" is simply stripped from the search phrase as being a "common" word. A AND B OR C AND D is equivalent to A B OR C D |
H: Free form input for new Google Calendar events?
Is it possible to add a new Google Calendar event using a free form input? Dumping in a chunk of unstructured English and having the app attempt to extract date and time automatically, instead of entering data into form fields?
An example would be writing "Saturday, 28 December 2013, 11:55 PM" and having the correct date and time pop up in the date and time fields.
AI: This is called Quick Add and it is described in the help pages at https://support.google.com/calendar/
You press the caret on the right side of the red Create button and write your free form input in the box that pops up. Alternatively, the box is displayed also by hitting q on the keyboard. |
H: How do I find the licensing agreement of a YouTube video?
Some YouTube videos are Creative Commons but I want to be able to discern which ones quickly without using the specific search feature. In short I want to see the licensing agreement per video at a glance.
Is there a place to do this on an individual video?
AI: You can see the license information in the video's about section as illustrated below: |
H: Google Analytics language suddenly changed to Polish
I haven't configured my language to Polish in any of the Google's sites ever. I am not living near Poland. My account language is English. Even when I'm logged out, Google Analytics is Polish to me.
I wanted to change the language to English. I have tried other solutions but they were no good for me. It is funny that this exact tool is used to learn visitors language/region.
AI: Ok. I found the solution. Before logging in, there is a language selection at the bottom-right of the page.
I couldn't find it because it was in Polish... Still can't understand why Google don't use general Google language settings on Google Analytics. |
H: Is there a search engine that allows you to search for a specific string including special characters that has similar coverage to Google
Let's say I want to search for "100-Coins Star" (with the speech marks to tell Google to search for that specific term).
Google comes up with results for 100 Coins Star.
Ignoring the spaces and dash.
Is there a way to get Google to behave they way I want it to. Or is there a site that does allow this and has similar coverage to Google?
AI: Unfortunately, Google doesn't allow that, the hyphen or dash is part of its search operators. However, having your search query between quotation marks does strongly indicate that you want that expression found as a continuous block. And the hyphens in between might also add to the relevance of the search, like for "devil-may-care".
I don't know of any search engines that favors match over relevance. |
H: How can I use row values to index into another sheet?
I have Google Sheets Data.
alpha | 0.1
beta | 0.2
gamma | 0.3
delta | 0.4
epsilon | 0.5
and another sheet in the same file, Data Subset, that holds an arbitrary number of row indices to the first sheet. E.g.:
2
4
5
What formula could I put in Data Subset that would allow me to pull data from the rows indicated by the first column?
e.g.:
2 | beta | 0.2
4 | delta | 0.4
5 | epsilon | 0.5
AI: I found three solutions for you.
Formula
=INDIRECT("DATA!A"&A1)
Google Apps Script
function dataSubset(data,subset) {
var output = [];
for(var i=0, iLen=subset.length; i<iLen; i++) {
for(var j=1, jLen=data.length+1; j<jLen; j++) {
if(parseInt(subset[i]) == parseInt(j)) {
output.push(data[j-1]);
}
}
}
return output;
}
Formula only available in the new Google Spreadsheet
=ARRAY_ROW(INDIRECT("DATA!A"&A1),INDIRECT("DATA!B"&A1))
Example
I've prepared two example files for you:
Old
New |
H: How can I change the font in Google Docs just with keyboards shortcuts?
Question
I have Google Docs open in the Google Chrome browser on a Mac. Now I select a piece of text and want to change it's font just with keyboard shortcuts -- without using the mouse.
Example before font change:
Example after font change to e.g. Courier New:
How do I do that?
What I have tried so far
I've read the Keyboard shortcuts for Google documents page, but haven't found anything useful.
There is the Ctrl+Shift+F keyboard shortcut to collaps the menu bar, which then displays the Search the menus (Alt+/) search box.
Menu before pressing Ctrl+Shift+F:
Menu after pressing Ctrl+Shift+F:
Now this search box is pretty awesome because I can just type "Courier New" and hit Enter. But! Alt+/ is not working! Why not? I can't get the focus into that search box.
At this point, I should perhaps note that the keyboard layout is set to German.
The US keyboard layout looks like this:
The German keyboard layout looks like this:
So the forward slash / is on the 7 key: Shift+7.
But when I press Alt+Shift+7, it opens the Mac OS X Help > Search menu:
I also switched to the US keyboard layout. But pressing Alt+Shift+7 (which is the key left of the right Shift key) produces the same effect.
I've also tried the forward slash key on the number block. No success.
Plus, I've tried Option+/ as documented on the Keyboard shortcuts for Google documents page (the Option key is the Alt key according to Wikipedia). No success either.
Is Mac OS X highjacking the keyboard shortcut?
Versions
Google Chrome 31.0.1650.63
Mac OS X 10.9.1
AI: Update 28.02.2016
They seem to have updated the possible keyboard shortcuts. With the new keyboard shortcuts, it also works now on my keyboard with the German layout.
For Windows:
For OS X:
Source: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/179738?hl=en
Original answer
I found a workaround.
Select a piece of text in the document.
Ctrl+Alt+H opens the Help menu.
Arrow down puts the focus in the Search all menus menu.
Type "cour", hit Enter. |
H: How to extend formulas and validation to newly added row (using "Add more rows" at the bottom, not using insert)?
I have formulas and validation in columns D, E, L, M and N. I want these formulas and validation to be automatic whenever I add rows using the option "Add more rows at the bottom", not using insert or copy & paste.
Is it possible to do it and if so can you please create a code for me?
AI: Edit:
fixed version of this: How to automatically insert a new row and retain functions/formulas from last row?
Also copies data validation rules.
Code
// global
var ss = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
function onOpen() {
var menu = [{name:"Add New Last Row", functionName:"addRow"}];
ss.addMenu("Extra", menu);
}
function addRow() {
var sh = ss.getActiveSheet(), lRow = sh.getLastRow();
var lCol = sh.getLastColumn(), range = sh.getRange(lRow,1,1,lCol);
sh.insertRowsAfter(lRow, 1);
range.copyTo(sh.getRange(lRow+1, 1, 1, lCol), {contentsOnly:false});
} |
H: Creating a document (e.g,, MS Word) attachment in Gmail from a spreadsheet script
I've created a document file in the spreadsheet script. What I want to do is, from the script, create an email message with the document file (NOT a PDF) as a Gmail attachment. I spent about 2 days looking for a way to do this but with no luck. It must be so easy, I assume, that there's no reason to talk about it! Can you point me in the right direction?
AI: Google Document 'files' are passed as links NOT as attachments in email.
Both Drive and DocsList provide getAs() to give you a PDF but NOT any other mime type. |
H: Where can I find GIF animations of Facebook Pusheen stickers?
I love to use Pusheen stickers in my Facebook messages a lot. Where can I find GIF animations of them?
I'd like to include them in my web page.
AI: Did you check this out? I'm not sure about copy rights.
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/pusheen-gif |
H: How can I organize my LinkedIn connections into different contact lists such as Facebook friend lists?
On Facebook I use friend lists to organize my connections. How can I do the same in LinkedIn?
AI: The equivalent of Facebook friend lists for LinkedIn are tags:
To add or remove a tag from the Contacts page:
Move your cursor over Network at the top of your homepage and select
Contacts.
Move your cursor over the contact in the list and click Tag
below the contact's information.
Check the box next to an existing tag
or click +Add new tag to create a new one. If you create a new one,
type in the name of your tag and click Save. To remove a tag, uncheck
the box next to it.
The tag will be visible to you on the person's
contact information and on their profile. You can click the tag in
these areas to see all other profiles with the same tag. Only you will
see the tags you've created.
Note: You can create up to 200 new and unique tags or delete old ones.
As of 2018-03-25, the LinkedIn tagging feature is no longer available. There does not appear to be a way to self-organize LinkedIn contacts within the system itself. |
H: How to make Gmail show date counting backward from today?
How to configure Gmail to show date of each email in a format like X days ago rather than the absolute date like Dec 3, 2001
Edit: Although Gmail shows for emails received less than 24 hrs in hrs/min like N min ago, but it doesn't seem to happen for days.
AI: With straight-up Gmail, you can't. There are no settings to change the display of the date (outside of the localization you get for your locale).
You would need something like a Userscript to accomplish what you're after. |
H: Automatically label newsletters in Gmail
I used filters to automatically label newsletters in Gmail. For example, I added a filter that matches incoming email id to newsletter@brainpickings.org etc. and labels them as READING. But for some reason, labels are not being automatically added as new emails arrive.
How to debug it?
AI: The first step in debugging is to try with only one From: address. Does that work?
You need to break up the various From: addresses separated by OR operators. No email is going to be from newsletter@brainpickings.org and NewYorker@newsletter.newyorker.com and ... etc.
You want to change your filter to:
Matches: from:(newsletter@brainpickings.org OR NewYorker@newsletter.newyorker.com OR team@email.digg.com OR harpers-weekly@harpers.org OR newsletters@fastcompany.com OR nytdirect@nytimes.com)
(Note that the "OR"s need to be in all uppercase for it to work properly.) |
H: Twitter mentions in the bio
When someone mentions @username in their Twitter bio, does the person get notified about this i.e their @username is mentioned in someone's bio?
AI: I just tested it with two of my accounts.
When I added an @mention of one of them in the profile of the other, while it made a nice link to the profile of that other account, I did not receive any sort of notification about it. Nothing in "interactions" or "mentions", and certainly nothing by email.
So the answer to your question would appear to be No. |
H: IF OR Google Spreadsheets Formula Problem
I'm getting an error back for this formula. I've tried with commas, without space, short formula and I still can't seem to get it to work.
Here's the formula that I'm using:
=IF(OR(C3 = "Jenna"; C3 = "Maureen"; C3 = "Kelvin"; C3 = "Kevin"; C3 = "Rafael"; C3 = "Sean"; C3 = "Wing"; C3 = "Ariel"); "ACCTG"; =IF(OR(C3
= "Randy"; C3 = "Becca"); "AP"; =IF(OR(C3 = "Jack"; C3 = "Candace"); "PAYROLL"; =IF(OR(C3 = "Mike"; C3 = "Amy"; C3 = "Brett"; C3 = "Noah";
C3 = "Erick"; C3 = "Derrick"); "PM"; =IF(OR(C3 = "Daniel"; C3 =
"Deep"; C3 = "Nicole"); "SRTGY"; "ERRR!")))))
I'm trying to get a text output based on a text value.
AI: All works, just replaced =IF with IF, (apart from the 1st one).
=IF(OR(C3 = "Jenna"; C3 = "Maureen"; C3 = "Kelvin"; C3 = "Kevin"; C3 = "Rafael"; C3 = "Sean"; C3 = "Wing"; C3 = "Ariel"); "ACCTG"; IF(OR(C3 = "Randy"; C3 = "Becca"); "AP"; IF(OR(C3 = "Jack"; C3 = "Candace"); "PAYROLL"; IF(OR(C3 = "Mike"; C3 = "Amy"; C3 = "Brett"; C3 = "Noah"; C3 = "Erick"; C3 = "Derrick"); "PM"; IF(OR(C3 = "Daniel"; C3 = "Deep"; C3 = "Nicole"); "SRTGY"; "ERRR!")))))
I find it best to start with something short then join the statements, after I have things working.
I wish they would auto indent long formulas, to make them easy to fix/edit. |
H: Allowing users of my private Blogger blog to request an invitation
I have a Blogger blog that is set to "Private - Only these readers" in the Settings->Basic->Blog Readers field.
I would like any reader who attempts to access our blog, but doesn't have permission, to be able to request access. Is there a way to do this? The most straightforward method seems like it would be to customize the "This blog is open to invited readers only" message that is displayed to users when they don't have permission to access the blog.
However, I have not been able to determine a way to do this. How can I handle this?
-Josh
AI: There's a contradiction in what you want, viz
"I would like any reader who visits our blog to be able to request
access."
By definition, once they visit your blog, they already have access.
But I'm guessing that what you really want is that
"I would like any reader who tries to visit our blog to either get
into the blog, or to be invited to request access."
Blogger does not have any tools to faciliate this.
But, I wonder how potential visitors who don't have access yet would find your blog? It won't be via search (because private blogs aren't indexed). So it must be because someone has told them about it.
If it's you who is doing the telling, then you could set up a 2nd public (but possibly not indexed) blog, which just has one post saying "Click here to see our blog - or email me@whatever.com to ask for access" - and only ever share the address of this public blog.
Or if it's your readers who might tell their friends, then put a widget etc into the blog saying "use this to share myBlog with your friends) - and again, have it link to the public "front window".
One warning though: Blogger allows only a maximum of 100 invitations to a private blog, ever. Once you've invited 100 people, you cannot invite any more. If there's a chance you'll go over that limit, then you might need to use a different blogging platform. |
H: Why is my debit card is recognized as a credit card on Venmo?
I have a MIT Federal Credit Union debit card, Venmo recognizes it as a credit card, subsequently subject to the 3% fee. Why?
AI: Payments using credit cards and debit cards issued from small banks such as MIT Federal Credit Union are subject to a 3% fee due to the high processing rates. Luckily, all bank payments are free, so there is no need to go through credit cards or debit cards. |
H: How do I find link of an embedded and unlisted YouTube video?
There is a website sharing scientific courses in video format. They upload videos to YouTube and then embed them in their website. They share their videos unlisted, so there is no explicit way to get the video link. There a lot of videos, and if you want to rewatch one of them, you need to search for it for minutes; the website has no content search feature. I keep a record of my favorite videos in my notes for watching them again in the future.
In order to find link of a video I use this workaround:
Click the "Watch Later" button on the video
Open/sign-in YouTube
Go to my "Watch Later" list
Get the video link from there
Is there a simpler way to do this? A Firefox extension or a userscript maybe?
AI: Whether a video is unlisted has no effect on whether you can get the link from an embed. This instead depends on how they have set up the player. It's possible to hide controls from the embed, which is possible to do whether or not the video is unlisted.
First make sure you have checked all the usual ways of getting the link:
The YouTube logo link in the lower right corner. (The most obvious one - almost certainly disabled.)
The symbol in the upper right corner which looks like three dots connected with lines. (Only visible when the video is stopped or when you hover the player.) Click that to get a clickable link and a text box that you can copy the URL from.
Right clicking the video might give you a "copy URL" option.
Assuming all of those don't work, there are of course various ways you can get the link from the source code. If you tell me more about the site, I can write a bookmarklet which does this for you. What I need to know: Does the site use frames? Which embed code does it use? New (iframe) or old(embed/object)? Could you post a sample? Can a single page have more than one video? |
H: Citing academic papers in Wikipedia
Wikipedia pages about scientific papers contain many citations. Usually the citations use the "Citation" template, which gives a uniform look to all citations in a page.
I have a large database in CiteULike, and I would like to cite papers from my database in a Wikipedia article I am working on.
Is there a way to automatically convert from CiteULike format, perhaps through BibTeX format, to the format of the Wikipedia Citation template?
I know that there is another template - "Cite doi" - which is much easier to use, but, in some Wikipedia pages it is not allowed to use this template from reasons of uniformity.
AI: One way could be to export CiteULike citations in BibTeX format, then use BibTeX2Wiki converter to convert BibTeX citations into Wikipedia's citation style 1 templates. |
H: Protect emails from accidental deletion in Gmail
Is it possible to lock some emails so that we don't accidentally delete them? I know that I can put star and mark as important and create search criteria in such a way that no starred message or important or messages marked with certain label are not returned, but I'm curious to know if it is possible to lock or prevent some messages from accidental deletion.
I use Gmail for most of my email communications. Hence, I have hundreds of emails. Sometimes I get a feel to cleanup my inbox and try to delete them by searching by some criteria. However, there are times I get some important emails in the search results and accidentally delete them. I only realise this after few days/months and have no way of getting them back.
AI: You can obviously create a label and mark it as don't delete. But the problem with accidents is that they happen when we forget to include the label.
The only absolute way of preventing from deleting accidentally in Gmail for now, is to follow two mail box approach. I have created another email address which I never give it to anyone. Any emails that I want to keep safe, I forward them to the other secret email address.
Only accident proof approach for now. Please don't ask if you forgot to send the email to this other account. |
H: Stop receiving notification emails from Facebook
I have searched through the options and settings (and searched for "Facebook email" questions on this website) to no avail.
What I want is very simple: I do not want Facebook to ever send me any notification email again. I'm getting friend request emails, friend confirmation emails, group post notification emails, private message emails...
I think there's a way to block just the group emails from each individual Facebook group, but that doesn't solve my overall problem. I'm being flooded with Facebook update emails, and I just don't want them.
Can anyone point me in the direction of a universal "unsubscribe" setting?
AI: On https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=notifications§ion=through_email&view: select
"Only notifications about your account, security and privacy". |
H: How can I upload several pictures at once on Foodspotting?
Is there any way to upload several pictures at once on Foodspotting?
AI: We currently don't have an easy way to do this... we used to allow bulk uploading via email and have always wanted to make a Mac widget where you can drop multiple photos and upload them. But unfortunately haven't had the bandwidth to do it. But we'll keep it in mind as we prioritize features for 2014!
Alexa (Foodspotting Cofounder) |
H: Google Spreadsheet Formula relating to dates
I need a formula that will do the following:
If cells in columns L, O or Q have a date of today or earlier then cell B must show the text "CHECK".
AI: Put this in B2, and copy it to where you need it:
=IF(OR(L2<=DATEVALUE(NOW()),O2<=DATEVALUE(NOW()),Q2<=DATEVALUE(NOW())),"CHECK","-") |
H: Google Doc shared with Google Apps account that doesn't have Docs
I have a personal Google account (example@gmail.com), as well as an institutional Google Apps account (example@example.com). However, the Google Apps account is set such that Google Docs is disabled on that account.
From time to time, I get Google Docs shared to my Google Apps account, which presents a bit of a problem. If I try using my Google Apps account to open the doc, I get an error message that says I don't have access to Docs. If I use my personal email, I don't have access to the document and have to request access. That's what I've been doing so far, but it's a bit annoying on all concerned.
Unfortunately, I can't associate my Google Apps email as an alternate email with my personal account, nor create a new Google Account with that email, since as far as Google is concerned, that email address is already attached to an account.
I believe, but am not sure, that if you share a Google Doc with, say, a Yahoo email, you get a special link that lets whichever Google account you login with have access automatically. This, however, doesn't seem to be the case if you share with a Google Apps email.
Essentially, is there a way of configuring my accounts so that I can somehow get access to the doc without having to manually request access each and every time?
(There are apparently legal issues involved in some way or other that make enabling Google Docs for the Google Apps account not a valid solution to this problem.)
AI: I think that the answer is most likely "no".
Your administrator has said that you cannot use Docs/Drive, so when you are logged in with your institutional account, you are simply not going to be able to access a file that's in Docs/Drive.
Now, yes, a Docs/Drive user can share a file with " a Yahoo email" - but that' only because it is possible to have an Google account whose account-name is a text-string that just happens to look like a Yahoo email address. When that person tries to access the file, the first thing they are asked to do is log in to Docs to look at the file which has been shared with them.
(I just tested this: when I shared a .doc to a Yahoo address that is not associated with a Google account, the Yahoo email got the emailed invitation to view the document, complete with link. But the first thing that account was asked to do was log into Google in order to view the file.)
Bottom line - the person who is sharing the file with your institutional account needs to be told that you cannot use Docs, and that the only way to share a file with you is to either share it to your personal account, or email it to your institutional one. |
H: Disable Gmail automatic categorisation?
Gmail has an automatic categorisation feature that sorts mail into various categories (social, promotions, updates, etc.). I would like to have an "Updates" tab, but I would like to disable the automatic categorisation so that the only mail that goes into this category is mail that I set up a filter for.
I currently have my mail going into a label, but labels aren't quite as nice as the tabs that categories have.
Is there a way to prevent mail automatically being assigned to a category?
AI: It's not possible to prevent mails from being automatically assigned to a category. You can disable tabs though. |
H: Mathematics cases in Google Documents
How can I write mathematics equations with multiple cases in Google Documents?
I can't get the code below to work. This is how I would create it in LaTeX:
\begin{cases}
0 & n = 0\\
1 & n = 1\\
f(n-1) + f(n-2) & \text{otherwise}
\end{cases}
It should result in:
AI: cases isn't natively supported by Google Documents as you can see in the list of supported LaTeX operators†. Some projects try to extend GDoc's LaTeX capabilities.
† Not at present, but Wayback Machine has a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20160409034821/https://support.google.com/docs/answer/160749?hl=en |
H: Can I view all time all repo commits of a user at GitHub?
Actually you can go https://github.com/ORG_NAME/REPO_NAME/commits?author=USER_NAME and get all the commits authored by USER_NAME on the repo ORG_NAME/REPO_NAME, but I want get all commits of all repos.
AI: There's no way to do this on Github.com right now. |
H: How to convert 1.33 hours to 1:20 (hours:minutes)?
How to add minutes in Google Spreadsheet?
I've got a Google Spreadsheet that looks roughly like this:
min | min | min | min | min | total min | total time
20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 80 | 1.33
But I want Total Time to show 01:20 or 01h20min or something like that.
How can I accomplish that?
AI: I just found this answer for Excel over at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/75618 and it worked for me in Google sheets as well. Returns a serial number that displays correctly as HH:MM when your target cell is formatted as Hours.
="Minutes"/1440
(There are 1440 minutes in 24 hrs)
example:
=SUM(A1:A5)/1440
results in
0.055555555555556
and in turn converts to
01:20:00
(when cell formatted as "Hours") |
H: Possible To Get Average Function For Accumulative Input?
I am trying to figure out an average function for my Google spreadsheet, but I am not sure if it is possible, see screenshot:
I could not fit all the spreadsheet in the pic, but column A goes all the way down to Dec 31st, so that is cell A366. Other than that everything that the spreadsheet consists of is visible.
The spreadsheet is to keep track of my goal of writing 1,000,000 words in a year (for article based projects I am working on). I manually enter the number of words I have written each day into the chart in column B.
In columns D/E is the simple function "Total Words Written", which is simply a sum of column B; and function "Total Words Remaining" simply minuses the "Total Words Written" from the goal of 1,000,000 words.
Now, the function of "Daily Average Words To Reach Goal" is the one I don't now how to figure out, or if it is possible. The function needs to take the "Total Words Remaining" figure in cell E4 (which is presently 980586) and divide that by the number of cells in column B that have not been filled in. This will keep a daily running score of what I need to aim for each day. So as the spreadsheet presently stands, the number in E4 needs to be divided by 357. There are 357 empty cells in column B from B10:B36.
Of course, with each new day, there will be 1 less cell that needs to be divided by to create the average.
Let me know if this is possible with Google spreadsheet, or if I would have to settle for using Excel? I would rather keep it in the cloud.
AI: This is another solution.
Formula
=INT(E4/COUNTBLANK(B2:B))
Explained
The COUNTBLANK formula will count the blank cells, independent of the range and E4 will be divided by it. The INT formula will simply round the value to the nearest integer, since it concerns days.
Example
I've created an example file for you: Count Blank Cells |
H: In Google Spreadsheets, how do you iterate over a cell range and use the index counter?
I have a table in which I have a list of amounts, each belonging to one of 15 categories
A B
1 cat | amount
_____|________
2 1 | 12
3 1 | 4
4 4 | 18,90
5 15 | 19,79
6 4 | 23
7 4 | 12
8 15 | 19
9 9 | 1,90
10 8 | 18
I want to list each category with the sum of all amounts belonging to this category.
For each category, for example 1 I could do =SUM(IF(A2=1;B2;0) + IF(A3=1;B3;0) + IF(A4=1;B4;0))
I was hoping to find something like =FOR((A2:A10);SUM(IF(Ai=1;Bi;0))) that iterates over all rows A2 to A10 and sums up all amounts where category is 1.
AI: That's best done via the QUERY formula.
Formula
=QUERY(DATA!B:C, "SELECT B, SUM(C) WHERE B IS NOT NULL GROUP BY B")
If you want to sort by amount, then use the following formula:
=QUERY(DATA!B:C, "SELECT B, SUM(C) WHERE B IS NOT NULL GROUP BY B ORDER BY SUM(C) LABEL SUM(C) 'Total Amount'")
I've added this formula to the example file.
Example
I've created an example file for you: sum by query |
H: Is there a way to finish the Trello card description editing process without using the mouse?
Is there a keyboard shortcut for finishing edits to a Trello card's description?
You can use the [Esc] key to cancel the edits to a card's description, but once you're in editing mode, the only way I've found to exit editing mode while saving the edits is to click on the Save button with my mouse.
AI: Yes. Use Cmd+Enter or Ctrl+Enter to save your edits without using the mouse. |
H: How to identify common queries for a topic?
I'm trying to understand the most common queries entered on Google (or Bing or Yahoo!) for a given topic, in the context of a study. This is not exactly SEO, but it's closely related.
In my study, I want to investigate what search engines return regarding (for example) the causes of the war in Iraq, and see what content is being displayed. I don't manage any site on the topic: I am interested in the most popular queries entered on search engines for this topic.
The problem is: as a user, I can enter a variety of queries to investigate that topic, such as:
iraq war causes
war in Iraq causes
causes of the war in iraq
war iraq democracy
war iraq oil
war iraq terrorism
etc
Each query obviously returns different results - although some pages are returned for most queries.
Unsurprisingly, it seems that no big search engine like Google or Bing release precise data on popular queries around a topic.
So basically I can't assess exactly the most common queries.
To solve this issue, I could select a set of arbitrary but reasonable queries for a topic, and analyse the results, but the study would be heavily biased by my choices.
What method would you adopt to select a set of queries that represent well a given topic? I couldn't find any well-established methodology to do this.
AI: Look to Google Trends.
For example, here is the trend page for the search iraq war.
The bottom of the page shows similar queries and rankings.
At the top of the page, you can download a csv of more complete statistics (under the gear icon). |
H: Know part of a URL
I know part of a URL, is there any way to search for URLs that contain at least the part of the URL I know?
I know this is not a "programming question" exactly, but I feel this occasionally happens to others. I wrote down a URL during a seminar, and most of it is legible (and the words make sense), but a few parts are uncertain.
AI: It's a pretty simple solution.
In Google search, you would use their advanced search parameter - inurl.
inurl:"product"
Surrounding the search term in quotes will ensure the whole word is there. |
H: How can I download all the videos I uploaded on YouTube?
I uploaded many videos on my YouTube account: how can I retrieve them easily?
AI: The Google Data Liberation Front provides Google Takeout, which allows Google users to export their data to a downloadable ZIP file. Here is the link to export one's Youtube videos: https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/youtube . It will create and Containing all the original uploaded videos. |
H: I keep receiving Facebook password reset emails. How can I avoid that?
My Facebook username is Francky and I keep receiving Facebook password reset emails. How can I avoid that?
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From: Facebook Date: Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 12:31
AM Subject: Somebody requested a new password for your Facebook
account To: Franck Dernoncourt
Hi Franck,
Somebody recently asked to reset your Facebook password. Click here to
change your password.
Alternatively, you can enter the following password reset code: 241041
Didn't request this change? If you didn't request a new password, let
us know immediately. Change Password This message was sent to
franck.dernoncourfght@gmail.com at your request. Facebook, Inc.,
Attention: Department 415, PO Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303
AI: People who confuse first name and Facebook username request password reset with your Facebook username (which turns out to be a first name in your country). There is no way to prevent such e-mails, apart from creating in your e-mail client a filter based on some keywords present in such password reset e-mails.
UPDATE (2014-02-05): Just saw this screen:
right after
which is the page you land on when clicking on "Click here to change your password." in the email. Not sure how often it appears. |
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