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Pull All the Images from a Word or PowerPoint Doc

November 11, 2018July 15, 2019 Thomas Leave a comment Workflow

Sometimes a Word Doc or PowerPoint will contain images you want. The problem is, it takes for ever to save images from an office doc.

Today’s post will show you how to break open an office document and extract all the images at once. A real time saver!

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Do 100 Searches with Batch Searching

November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 Thomas Leave a comment Workflow

Google’s made it fast and easy to perform a search, but what about a hundred searches?

There’s a lot of great things you can do by performing the same kind of search over and over again, but only if you automate the process.

Expand your toolkit and learn how to do infinite searches all at once.

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Copying App Icons Using Keyboard Maestro

October 25, 2017November 7, 2017 Thomas Leave a comment Macro, Workflow

Content creators know that sometimes you’ve just got to focus up, hunker down and do the difficult work of writing. They also know that sometimes screw that. I’m an advocate of “Productive Procrastination”. A selfserving rationalization of my laziness philosophy that says if you’re not going to do what your supposed to be doing, you […]

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Screencast: Pulling App Icons Using Keyboard Maestro

October 23, 2017November 8, 2017 Thomas Leave a comment Screencast, Workflow

Some of my favorite problems to solve are figuring out how to automate big multi-step, multi-app tasks. Clicking spots on the screen, copying and using multiple lines of text, switching apps, accounting for UI lag, etc. Getting big stuff to a single keypress can tough but feels so good when you get it right. Today’s […]

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Create Inline Links in One Step

October 17, 2017October 25, 2017 Thomas 1 Comment Macro, Workflow

I’m a bit of a neat freak when it comes to proper formatting and I abhor naked URLs—the sometimes 100 character-long strings of text you get by copying your address bar—and always, always create actual inline links in my notes. I was doing this like crazy back when I was a research associate. Each day […]

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Transcribing a Facebook Group to CiviCRM Group

October 10, 2017July 7, 2019 Thomas Macro, Workflow

The Task I needed to create a new group in CiviCRM, the CRM we use at my alumni foundation. This group would contain all the individuals who had joined our discussion group on Facebook. I wanted it so that whenever a new person joined, I could easily find who from their graduating class was also […]

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Checking Hella Radio Buttons

October 10, 2017July 7, 2019 Thomas Macro, Workflow

The Task I needed to check two radio buttons in everyone’s profile. These would add them as having marked “Yes” to a couple of mailing lists. This was no problem for all the contacts for whom we had emails. That was just a matter of doing an import. Unfortuneately,about half our contacts are just names, […]

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