The Digital Surgery (computer questions/problems here)

[hhinner]

Possibly silly question - have you tried googling "concatenate word documents"? If that's what you mean. Cheers.

[MajorBloodnok]

Hello,

I have explained this prpoblem on FB already.
A FB friend told me that I needed Photoshop!?

Anyway I just need ONE application, namely how to
remove the white background of certain IT images.

IDF A Ib1 LOGO; BADGE.png (72.44 KiB) Viewed 1921 times

IDF A Ib1 LOGO; BADGE.png (72.44 KiB) Viewed 1921 times

The first image has the white background.
The badge in the 2nd photo doesn't.
How do you achieve this?

Thanks for any advice.

Kind regards,

MB aka 'Mike the Fritz'

[Homer]

Hello,

I have explained this prpoblem on FB already.
A FB friend told me that I needed Photoshop!?

Anyway I just need ONE application, namely how to
remove the white background of certain IT images

What you need is a photo editor (program) and either learn how to use it or find a photo editor (person) to do it for you. It's easy for someone who knows the basics of a photo editor program. This took about a minute:

Flag and Badge.jpg (35.98 KiB) Viewed 1865 times

It takes longer to clean up the edges of the badge.

[MajorBloodnok]

Thanks mate! Have a nice weekend!

[Big Boy]

Received my new laptop yesterday, and have been getting it to work my way. I added the Hide My Ass addon to Firefox. I seem to have a 30 day trial, after which time I have to pay. Also asking for personal detail before it'll work. Has HMA changed?

[J.J.B.]

The first image has the white background.
The badge in the 2nd photo doesn't.
How do you achieve this?

Major, you can do this basic image manipulation in Microsoft PowerPoint. Open a blank slide and import your main picture, adjust the size and cropping to suit you but don't worry if the image doesn't fill the slide. Then import your second image and adjust its size to what you want. Select the second picture and choose the 'format' option from the toolbar. Click the 'recolour' button on the left hand side of the toolbar and scroll down to select 'set transparent colour'. The mouse pointer will change shape to a small right-angle icon and you move to the background the second image is on, and click. The white background will adopt this new colour and you should have the result you want. You can then save the slide as an image.

It may not work perfectly or with all image types and depends on how the image has originally been created and saved. Otherwise, you may need an image editing tool like Photoshop but that is not an easy program to use.

[Big Boy]

Thanks JJB - useful to know

[Edit] Works well

[J.J.B.]

Received my new laptop yesterday, and have been getting it to work my way. I added the Hide My Ass addon to Firefox. I seem to have a 30 day trial, after which time I have to pay. Also asking for personal detail before it'll work. Has HMA changed?

I don't have the HMA add-on for FireFox and use the standalone program. The interface has been 'improved' recently and it's not a change I like, there are fewer options for tweaking, but it seems to work just as well. I haven't been asked for personal details, outside of what most other programs ask for when you buy something, but if you go to their website and sign-up, you should be able to just enter the credentials in the plug-in.

[Big Boy]

My UK (Windows 7) laptop died last week. I received my new (Windows 10) laptop yesterday. I loaded my Office 10 disk, but date formats have been changed. In particular Excel has been particularly annoying.

My preferred date format is DD/MM/YYYY. The global format has defaulted to MM/DD/YYYY, and all existing workbooks have been updated.

If I look for the correct format, it isn't on the offered list. I can enter the correct format manually, but 12 dates (out of 31) were changed back to the wrong format overnight. Is this the first Windows10ism that I've been waiting for?

I've always considered myself as an advanced Excel user (at least, that's what the certificate tells me), but this one has me stumped.

Can somebody tell me how to correct things please? The answer has to be staring me in the face, but I can't see it.

[Big Boy]

belay that last request - I've just been back to look again, and everything is fine. It must have had something to do with the keyboard being set to English (US). So thanks again Nereus .

[J.J.B.]

belay that last request - I've just been back to look again, and everything is fine. It must have had something to do with the keyboard being set to English (US). So thanks again Nereus .

And if you have your English (UK) keyboard back again you should also have recovered the elusive £ sign!

[buksida]

Use this if you want to browse anonymously: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

I've actually ditched Firefox for Chrome now, it was just chewing so much memory.

[J.J.B.]

^^ +1

[PET]

belay that last request - I've just been back to look again, and everything is fine. It must have had something to do with the keyboard being set to English (US). So thanks again Nereus .

And if you have your English (UK) keyboard back again you should also have recovered the elusive £ sign!

How do I get the UK pound sign using windows 7?

[moater]

If you don't have a UK-layout keyboard you can always use Alt+0163 to produce the £ sign.