A long time ago, I reported about this mysterious blank window that would show up sometimes in Word X for no apparent reason and cause rather strange behaviour. Well, you probably won’t be surprised to hear that this problem is still there in Word 2004. Here’s the proof: What the hell is it? I have […]
In most applications with a “Find” dialog box, you can keep the dialog open in the foreground and click repeatedly on the “Find” button to jump from one found occurrence to the next in the document in which the search is taking place, and the application will then refresh the contents of the document window […]
Fox Sports World Canada is very cruel. After spoiling Canada-based English football fans for a couple of years with lots of English Premier League coverage for regular channel subscribers, things appear to have taken a turn for the worse. We are still getting lots of games, thanks to the complementary coverage provided by both Sportsnet […]
Try the following… Select Word’s Customize… command in the “Tools” menu. This causes Word to display a new toolbar below your existing toolbars that is an exact duplicate of Word’s menu bar, so that you can customize that menu bar as well. Now click on the “Tools” button in that toolbar in order to customize […]
The Formatting Palette in Excel 2004 is similar to the one in Word 2004, but leave it to Microsoft to manage to introduce inconsistency even in such a simple thing as text alignment buttons. Like Word’s Formatting Palette, Excel’s Formatting Palette has buttons (under “Alignment and Spacing“) that can be used to align text horizontally […]
I’ve already reported that Microsoft changed the keyboard shortcuts for navigating and selecting text. This change is obviously meant to bring Word in line with other Mac OS X applications. Unfortunately, as a heavy user of these shortcuts, I cannot help but note that some things have not changed and are as irritating as ever. […]
Following the persistent recommendations of a Betalogue reader, I went ahead and tested various RAM configurations in order to identify a possibly defective RAM module in my G4 MDD. I have three 512 MB RAM modules: one that came with the machine from Apple, and two that I bought from Other World Computing, a usually […]
Here’s another totally inconsistent behaviour in Word 2004 that seems to be directly linked to architectural flaws in the design of the software itself. Take a Word document in Normal view that contains paragraphs of text with a manual page break before them, like so: By double-clicking in the small margin on the left-hand side […]
This picture is part of the bottom edge of an inactive document window in Microsoft Word: When you have several document windows open in Word, the bottom edge of the foremost window has a number of active controls that can be used to access certain features. Here’s what the same window looks like when it’s […]
The new English Premier League season is off to a good start, at least far as Arsenal is concerned… There were no 0-0 draws, which is really quite remarkable, but there were a large number of 1-1 draws, somewhat predictably. There were also a few possibly revealing moments. First, there was the Djibril Cissé substitution […]
As far as I am concerned, the latest incremental Mac OS X update (Mac OS X 10.3.5) has been painless. I waited the customary 48 hours before installing it. I saw no reports of any major issues that might affect me. Sure enough, I didn’t encounter any problems during the update, and I haven’t noticed […]
I’ve finally figured this one out. Sometimes, when you select the “Export…” command in InDesign (2.0 or CS), which is most commonly used for exporting the InDesign document as a PDF file, InDesign selects the “Adobe InDesign Tagged Text” file format by default rather than the “Adobe PDF” file format — even if “Adobe PDF” […]
With Mac OS X, we have an increasing number of database-like applications when a lot of data entry is required. Some of it can be automated, but there’s still a lot of typing involved, and a lot of work cleaning up text, etc. after it’s been entered. That is why I am finding it more […]
Until the various domestic European leagues are in full swing and the transfer market closes at the end of August, there will be as much football news off the pitch than on the pitch. This week could still turn out to be the most important of the season. In addition to the on-going sagas of […]
One little thing that I really appreciate in Apple’s Cocoa applications, such as Safari, Mail and Preview, is what happens if you have two monitors and drag an open window from one monitor to the other. In my situation, for example, the main monitor (a 23″ FP display) has a vertical resolution of 1200, whereas […]