Archive for February, 2002
Wednesday, February 27th, 2002
Do you ever work with lists of personal names--authors, meeting lists, and so on? If so, you could probably use NameSwapper, our new add-in program that swaps last names and first names (or vice versa, if that makes sense) in a list of names. For example, if you've got a ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2002
Don't you love Word's shortcut menus? You know--the ones you get when you click the right mouse button. (If you're a Mac user, you can access the shortcut menus by holding down the Control key while pressing the mouse button.) Share
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2002
Last week I introduced a program that creates typographic spaces by changing a space's point size relative to the surrounding text. But why is that a good idea? If you save a document with such spaces in almost any other kind of format--HTML, XML, or even ASCII--those spaces are going ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2002
Two weeks ago, I explained how to "roll your own" typographical spaces (thin spaces, hair spaces, and so on) in Microsoft Word. Last week I explained how to use typographical spaces with Unicode. But if you don't want to make typographical spaces by hand and your version of Word doesn't ...
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