Articles posted in June, 2004

Word 2004 Tip: Adding an ‘Update Styles from Template’ command

Friday, June 18th, 2004 • 12:33 am

If you use document templates in Word on a regular basis, you are probably faced with the following situation occasionally: You open a old document originally based on Template X and realize that its style sheet is missing a number of styles that you added to Template X later on. So you want to update […]

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Word 2004: ‘New Style’ dialog box requires specific order for actions

Friday, June 18th, 2004 • 12:12 am

The new “New Style” dialog box that pops up when you click on the “New Style” button in the Formatting Palette or on the “New…” button in the main “Styles” dialog box is undeniably an improvement over the previous versions. But it still gets many things wrong. One of them is what happens if you […]

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iTunes: Needs a Inspector palette or Song Information drawer

Thursday, June 17th, 2004 • 11:25 pm

In the spirit of Harold Martin’s recent post at O’Reilly on “five things the next iTunes version should have,” here’s one that I would really find useful. I frequently have songs whose title is too long to fit in the “Song Name” column with the default column width that I use. I can increase the […]

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Word 2004: Misaligned button text in Find/Replace dialog box

Thursday, June 17th, 2004 • 10:47 pm

Look at this: Then look at this: Notice anything? The first picture is taken from the “Find/Replace” dialog box in Word X. The second one is taken from the same dialog box in Word 2004. In the second one, the button text (“Find Next“) is not vertically aligned properly inside the button picture. It’s too […]

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Euro 2004: First Round, Group B, Day 2

Thursday, June 17th, 2004 • 11:29 am

It was back to Earth for the French boys. They were fortunate to win against England in the first game, and they struggled to get even a single point from this second game, which appeared to be completely under control at half-time. They were definitely guilty of resting on their (meagre) laurels, since the opening […]

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Screen saver freezes in Panther: Maybe it’s the screen saver itself

Thursday, June 17th, 2004 • 4:20 am

The more I think about my latest screen saver freeze in Panther (yesterday morning), the more I think I might have been misguided in my troubleshooting endeavours all along… Instead of trying to isolate an external factor (USB devices, Mail application, Internet connection, etc.) that might be causing the computer to freeze as it is […]

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Euro 2004: Round 1, Group A, Day 2

Thursday, June 17th, 2004 • 1:14 am

The Greeks pulled out yet another surprise by holding Spain to a 1-1 draw, even though they were largely dominated by the Spaniards. They were less creative than they were against Portugal, but still managed to draw level in the second half after Morientes had shown the way forward for Spain with a nicely taken […]

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Mac OS X’s Mail: Enhancements for e-mail attachment handling

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 • 10:57 pm

In spite of the great progress made by Apple in recent years to improve Mac OS X’s Mail application, there are still many aspects of the program’s interface that could really use some improvement. Here’s a typical example: This e-mail message came with a single attachment, which is, as always, displayed with a document file […]

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Word 2004: Bug when customizing ‘Work’ menu

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 • 5:02 am

I want to customize Word 2004’s “Work” menu by adding some of my macro commands to it for quick menu-based access. So I go to the “Tools” menu, choose the “Customize Toolbars/Menus” command (under “Customize“) and do just that. And I end up with the following menu layout: The default commands already available in the […]

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Backup 2.0.2: Error if e-mail attachment is open in third-party application

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 • 4:17 am

The Backup application can be used to run automatic daily backups to an external hard drive. With the improvements made in the latest update (2.0.2), the process now runs smoothly most of the time. (See this article for more on problems with previous versions.) But I still experience a recurrent problem, which seems fairly easy […]

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Panther freezes: Trying to narrow it down

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 • 3:58 am

I haven’t mentioned my on-going problems with random system freezes in Panther lately, mostly because I am trying to narrow things down by eliminating possible culprits. Since the freezes don’t occur on a daily basis — weekly would be closer to the mark — I have to wait a long time between each step in […]

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Euro 2004: First Round, Group D, Day 1

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 • 3:46 am

Nothing too surprising in the ultimate outcome of the first two games in that group, called the “Group of Death” because 3 of the 4 teams (Germany, Holland, and the Czech Republic) are considered potential candidates to go through. The Czechs got a bit of a scare against Latvia, but recovered quite convincingly in the […]

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Where is the iTunes Music Store for Canada?

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 • 5:53 am

I am sure many people will ask the same question, but… now that the iTunes Music Store has been launched in Europe, where, oh where is the iTunes Music Store for Canada? I don’t have a billing address in the States, so I can’t buy anything from the iTunes Music Store for the US, like […]

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Steve Jobs and HD DVD burners

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 • 5:48 am

Following a report that Steve Jobs is wary of the new generation of high definition DVD burners, O’Reilly blogger Michael Brewer wonders what has happened to the Steve Jobs of years past, who used to argue that copy-protection mechanisms do not work and that the problem is of a social or economic nature — not […]

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Word 2004: Annoying split bar behaviour still there

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004 • 5:16 am

Try the following. You have a fairly long Word document in a single document window. You are currently typing more text at the end of the document. You want to check something you typed higher up in the document, but without losing sight of the place where you are typing now (i.e. the end part […]

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