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TechnoZen

Simplifying a word processing document

Have you ever set the format in one part of a long document only to find it messed up when you went back to it? The gremlin you’re hunting may be the flipside of a feature known as styles.

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The Digital SHIFT: A New Age of Freelancing

Like the rest of us, freelancers wonder how they’re supposed to navigate this new electronic media world of ours. PWAC Toronto will host a panel at the University of Toronto downtown campus (a few minutes’ walk from the Queen’s Park subway station) to discuss thriving in a

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Heaslip House at Ryerson University

They are no longer squatters on their own campus. That’s the main reason Ian Hamilton is thankful for Heaslip House, the new home for the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education at Toronto’s Ryerson University. “The Faculty of Continuing Education at Ryerson was experiencing incredible growth,”

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Applying a word processing style

Styles are neat things. They let you minimize the amount of time you spend fiddling with the formatting in documents. This rarely matters if you only write two- or three-page memos, but try making a 185-page book look consistent – all fonts, headings, margins, graphical elements and

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Electronic discovery

When businesses sue each other, they commonly need to turn over any relevant documentation to the opposing party. Given the massive increase in electronic documentation, the discovery process can get so complex and potentially expensive that companies will settle otherwise winnable lawsuits to avoid discovery expenses. But

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Cloud computing, or Software as a Service

Tired of having to store install disks, boxes, manuals and other stuff you never need after you install your software? Sick of paying for software and hardware updates just to keep “your” systems running? Then cloud computing may be for you. A new(ish) breed of business hosts the

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Smartphones, tablets, and the new mobile computing

Netbooks and laptops seem ever more oversized next to smaller, lightweight smartphones and tablets. That pleases the people who use these devices for more than just email and surfing. Just think about their advantages: increasing numbers of  applications made specifically for tablets and smartphones instant-on performance lighter

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Running a legal blog takes commitment

Have you heard of the recent flick Julie & Julia? It came from a book which, itself, sprouted from a blog. The original blog (the vehicle in which the then-aspiring struggling writer Julie Powell published) contains individual posts (roughly analogous to journal entries) which became fodder for

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Niagara Peace Bridge

originally published in Award Magazine As today’s travelers traverse the second-busiest border crossing in Ontario, the Peace Bridge over the Niagara River, they might get the impression they are passing a massive overturned canoe that resembles, in shape if not in size, the canoes that First Nations

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Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Building Information Modeling

Originally published in Award Magazine Ever-savvier clients demand better-performing buildings. Interest in green technology continues to rise. Are you having trouble keeping up? Coordination (or lack thereof) within your own firm or with other disciplines working on a project may be to blame. Consider: communications inside your

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