Of course, as a workaround for the afore-mentioned bug, I thought I’d try to use PowerPoint’s built-in AutoCorrect feature, which can automatically replaced mistyped words such as etre and coté with the appropriate spellings. I simply cannot believe how buggy PowerPoint X is. You cannot use the keyboard to jump directly to a specific portion […]
For the first time in my life, I have to design a presentation to be shown to an audience as part of a conference, using an LCD projector. Given my long and painful experience of having to translate PowerPoint presentations for various clients using the various flavours of Microsoft PowerPoint that I unfortunately have been […]
If, like me, you are a word processor user who likes to compose “smart” documents and use the proper text formatting options instead of ugly workarounds like double returns and multiple tabs (we are admittedly a small minority, but we do exist), I am sure that you will be delighted to hear that, in the […]
Do you ever get the impression that Microsoft Word 2008 is a flaky, unreliable Mac OS X application? Do you ever feel that the reason for this impression is something seemingly minor yet obvious that affects your interaction with the application at all times? Well, if so, I invite you to try the following experiment: […]
Some day, developers at Apple and Microsoft (and probably in a few other places) are going to have to wake up to the fact that, in the real world, table cells are not used just for numbers or other types of numerical data, but also as containers for blocks of text of varying length. And […]
Since my post yesterday on the lousy Adobe CS4 installer generated a fairly substantial amount of feedback (thanks in no small part to a link on Daring Fireball), including a post on Adobe product manager John Nack’s own blog, but also a fair amount of private e-mails, I would like to clarify a few things. […]
An improvement, but it’s limited to Word.
Microsoft’s approach to file extensions when saving files is not the standard Mac OS X approach, and it breaks down all too easily.
Erik Schwiebert responds on this particular bug, but fails to acknowledge the systemic nature of the problem.
What’s the language that you first learned? Check.
Microsoft has recently released the Office 2004 11.1.1 Update – an 18 MB download. If you only use Word 2004, though, don’t bother: The updater doesn’t fix anything in Word itself, which stays untouched at version 11.1.0. Here’s the list of updated files: Camera & Scanner Plug-in Microsoft Component Plug-in Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office Microsoft […]
If you own and use both Microsoft Office X and Adobe Acrobat 6, you’ve probably noticed that installing Acrobat 6 results in the appearance of a new toolbar in Word X, Excel X, and PowerPoint X: There are several irritating aspects in this. First of all, Adobe did that without asking for your permission. Second, […]
What it’s going to take for Apple to finally see the light about all this file type/creator and extension non-sense, I don’t know. But I do know that things can be a royal pain in Mac OS X. Case in point: I do most of my web development in BBEdit, so I want all my […]
In Word X, if you have a Word document open, and you go to the Finder and rename it, when you go back to work and edit the document, the next time you save it, Word automatically detects that you’ve changed the name of the document in the Finder and updates the name in the […]
Microsoft, those masters of simplicity, have just come up with a new scheme for selling Office 2003 (for Windows), which will include no less than six different versions of the product. “Microsoft Divvies Up Office 2003 Editions” by Thor Olavsrud, Internetnews Of particular interest is the difference between Office Standard 2003 and Office Student and […]