Articles posted on October 12th, 2004

Microsoft Office 2004 Service Pack 1

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 • 7:09 am

What happens when you use an ever-changing naming/numbering scheme for your software is that you end up using an ever-changing naming/numbering scheme for your software updates as well. So now Office updates are “service packs”. Why not, I guess? More importantly, if you’ve read the MacCentral article about this update and are wondering where on […]

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International week-end in football

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 • 5:59 am

No English Premier League last week-end as players were off on international duty in various locations around Europe. In Canada, we were “fortunate” enough to get to watch the England – Wales game on Sportsnet and the France – Ireland game on TV5. I put “fortunate” between quotation marks because the two games were rather […]

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Word 2004 Tip: How to prevent ‘Tables and Borders’ toolbar from appearing

Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 • 1:28 am

For years now, Word has had this extremely annoying behaviour where doing certains things causes toolbars to appear out of the blue even if you don’t want them to appear. For example, I have my own customized toolbar for creating and editing tables in Word. It has a whole range of buttons for adding or […]

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