HTML colors come in all sorts of flavors: hexadecimal (#0066ff), named colors (e.g. LightSkyBlue…here’s the link).

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Looking for the SAP Customer Master data? VD03 is the transaction code you need.

[Updated] This post is because I had to dig around a bit for this information and I wanted to make it easy to find. T-code SE38 is the ABAP Editor. Here, you can edit and execute SAP programs. If you are only looking to run programs, use transaction SA38 (thanks to reader Tuncay who pointed me the right direction below). You have several options including execute with Debugging (SE38 only) and execute with variants. [Updated] I’m still searching around for a t-code that only let’s you execute programs without the editor part. As mentioned above, Tuncay points out that SA38 is the transaction for Execute only.

Sometimes programming can make you question your sanity. If you don’t think you’ve crossed the line there, you might at least wonder whether you should take up something a little more tangible, like backhoe operator. Such was the case as I scoured the documentation for the Script.aculo.us Ajax Autocompleter. Ultimately, I was to blame it on the lack of a crystalline, 100% matched example for my problem. I must state for the record that Prototype and Scriptaculous are nothing short of miraculous when it comes to making Javascript accessible to the unwashed like me. All the same, I have spent many hours over the last couple of days getting the Autocompleter to work.

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This is for an obscure set of readers, I’m sure. But if you ever need to remove the page breaks from a RTF (rich text format) file, here’s how to do it: Read the rest of this entry »

Excel’s Camera tool is a really cool, but relatively obscure tool that lets you create a window on your spreadsheet that shows a vignette of a block of cells. The screen clip shown here demonstrates it in action. The Camera tool is pretty well hidden, so the first trick is finding the button to add to your toolbar. Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »

Had a question today from one of our Tax guys who was wanting to compare our SAP R/3 Cost Centers and Profit Centers with what they have in Vertex. To run a report of your cost centers that you can export or download to Excel, the T-code is: KS13.

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WhyPad is now using Wordpress 2.5. This latest version of Wordpress has a ton of new and exciting features, including a built in photo gallery, the ability to easily upload multiple files, and some changes to the Post authoring. The biggest changes are visible in the Admin pages. I won’t belabor the stuff that has already be written about by the experts, so you can read all about it here.

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