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Posts Tagged Microsoft

Microsoft’s old headache

I recently blogged about some of the great stuff Apple ought to copy from Microsoft Windows RT and “paste” into its iPad. RT proves that Apple doesn’t have a monopoly on great design thinking. But Apple isn’t likely to worry much about RT. Why? In a nutshell:

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Stuff Apple's iPad should copy from Windows RT

I’m known as an Apple guy, but I gladly try a new technology before I form an opinion of it. That trait served me in good stead when Microsoft’s Canadian PR reps sent me an ASUS Vivo Tab RT running Windows RT for review. (Why not a

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Resizing table rows and columns

At times you may need to make certain Word table rows taller or shorter, or columns wider or narrower. You can do this using your mouse and the rulers at the top and left of the Word document window. To resize a table row of column, follow

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Finding large files

Is your computer’s performance slowing to a crawl? You might want to check for free space on your hard drive. No matter what type of computer or other device you use, your hard drive (or total storage – this counts for smartphones and tablets too) will slow

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The visible mouse pointer

I max out the resolution on my screen so I can squeeze the most detail possible into said screen. While I can read most everything on the screen, and quickly increase font size when I can’t, I sometimes lose track of the unfailingly black mouse pointer on

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Troubleshooting by TOC

Sometimes a table of contents (TOC) indicates problems elsewhere in a document. For instance, a heading style might be applied to body text and that text appears in the TOC. Check out this example:

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Rearranging a long document the easy way

Ever tried rearranging sections in long Microsoft Word documents? Even if you use Heading styles and can quickly find your headings, even if you created a table of contents to help you navigate the document, finding and moving stuff using the onscreen page is a cumbersome process.

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Tabling your prose

Want to make data-dense text more understandable in your document? Consider putting the information in a table instead of straight text. And when you do so, create the table the easy way.

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Reuse your own genius

Have you completed a document using Microsoft Word (or another word processor) and made it look exactly right? Did you hone the styles so that formatting is practically automated? Congratulations! You accomplished a grand feat, one that likely took lots of learning, work and revision. Here’s the

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Avoid overformatting your documents

If you’ve ever felt like you spend too much time formatting your documents, you aren’t alone. Part of the problem is the level of detail to which you CAN format a document. One solution: Draft documents using a word processor that doesn’t give you as many formatting

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