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Remote Project Management Tips

If you are like me then you agree that working from home isn't as lucrative as it seemed for the first few days of "social distancing". I am taking this opportunity to explore and learn a skillset that I am sure will be useful in future - remote project management! As it goes with any guide, I am not the know all but here's somethings that worked for me. Give them a try and let me know your thoughts by leaving comments on this post. Take care of yourself - After 5 weeks of lock-down, if I learnt anything its that you have to put yourself first. Block time for yourself so that gives you to recuperate and be more productive.  Knock Knock - Block sometime on your calendar to just ping your team and chat with them. Ask what's happening with the project and otherwise. Offer any support they might need. This is equivalent to you just passing by them in the hallway and stopping by to say hi :)  Sock the blockers - This is when you put to use your "risk det
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Microsoft Word: Delete all those comments

Its a common practice to review your word document with multiple team mates, leadership. Each time someone adds a comment, you'll see a little comment popup shows up in the document. Well, if you are like me, you will want to reuse your word doc multiple times. So you will create copies. When you copy this document full of review comments, you copy the review comments too. Thus the requirement to delete all the comments in one go. Well its possible. Here's how:  Go to the Review tab Click on "Delete All Comments in Document" Poof ! The comments are gone, for real, they will be gone for good. So please be careful before you get rid of them. 

Can't delete the pesky page at the end of the document

Ever found yourself where you have this blank page in the end of the document and can't seem to delete it - no matter what you do! Phew, finally found how to delete it -  https://support.office.com/en-us/article/delete-a-page-in-word-174fedd3-b4e5-42e4-a4d0-5e25127a1404#StepTab=FullPageTables One of those voodoo magic tricks that only MS tools can do. Hope this helps!

What is ProGaurd?

ProGuard is a class file shrinker and its full implementation details can be found here - https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/android/sdk/android-sdk-linux/tools/proguard/docs/index.html#manual/introduction.html Its used highly in the android world - https://developer.android.com/studio/build/shrink-code

Can't scroll using arrows on excel

Usually, I use my arrow keys to navigate through my excel but lately, they (arrow keys) haven't been really helpful. Like at all! The issue was I had the scroll lock "on". But I am on Windows 10 and I can't see the scroll lock function key anywhere :O Here is how you can turn off the scroll key on Windows 10: Press the  Windows key . Type  onscreen keyboard  and press  Enter . When the onscreen keyboard appears, your ScrLk (Or scroll lock button) will be highlighted which means it was turned on. Click the  ScrLk  button to turn it off. Go back to your excel and you should now be able to use your excel.  Hope this helps!

Take screenshot using adb

Many times, when I am working with the Android devices, I just want to keep using the command line and be able to take the screenshots too. Yes, we can do that! Here is how: Start ADB server if its not already running. To check, type in adb devices on the command line -- if its not started it should start now and give you the device id for the device you have connected Now type in the following commands to capture a screen adb shell screencap -p /sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots/screen.png adb pull /sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots/screen.png adb shell rm /sdcard/Pictures/Screenshots/screen.png

Ubuntu: "Unlock login keyring" message "the password you use to log in your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring"

Resetting all the keyring passwords:  Navigate to  Places > Home . Press  ctrl   h  t o view "hidden files". Navigate to  .gnome2 > keyrings and delete   login.keyring Using the same keyring (resetting keyring password but keeping old passwords in keyring): 1) Make a backup of the keyring cd ~/.local/share/keyrings/ cp login.keyring login.keyring.backup and after that delete  login.keyring  file rm ~/.local/share/keyrings/login.keyring 2) Create a new keyring file from Gnome Keyring with the name "login" 3) Replace the new keyring file with the backup of the old keyring file cd ~/.local/share/keyrings/ mv login.keyring.backup login.keyring Note: before Ubuntu 12.10 the path to the keyrings folder was   ~/.gnome2/keyrings/   instead of  ~/.local/share/keyrings/