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  • Excel for Mac Breaks Up Spreadsheets Into Pages

    Excel for Mac seems to use “Page Layout” view by default. This can be switched to the more sane Normal view by selecting View -> Normal from the menu. You can change the default view in Excel -> Preferences -> View -> Preferred view for new sheets. Still trying to figure out if there is…

  • Trying to Dig a Little More In-Depth With Maven

    I’ve been reading Maven: The Definitive Guide (affiliate link) as a Kindle eBook and finally got to the point of trying the first example project. The book had mentioned that maven might be installed on Mac OS X already (due to usage with some versions of XCode). Magically, it’s there: So far, I like the…

  • MacBook Pro setup list.

    Some things that I’ve set up on my MBP: Terminal Settings ~/.profile Changed prompt Default is ‘h:W u$ ‘ [ Computer-Name: current-directory username$ ] Changed to ‘[w] ‘ man bash, find “PROMPTING” for escape codes Editors TextEdit – for simple text files, quick code tweaks XCode [default code editor] – for longer code edit sessions…