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How to accept all changes in Word

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:00:54 +0000

Every couple of months or so, we have to collaborate at work on a Microsoft Word document and submit it without all the distracting markup in it. And it seems like it always takes four of us half an hour

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Who still uses Wordperfect?

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 11:00:15 +0000

I had an odd question come up the other day: Who still uses Wordperfect? It’s a fair question. Wordperfect, as you may know, is still very much in production. Corel releases new versions every year or two. It’s the #2

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Find words in all caps in Word

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 11:00:42 +0000

Sometimes it’s helpful to be able to find words in all caps in Word. Microsoft Word, that is. This helps you find all the acronyms so you can make sure you spelled them out or explained them properly. Double-checking acronyms is

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Calibre turns 1.0

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:00:34 +0000

Calibre, the free e-book management software, hit the magic version 1.0 this past week. That’s not to say the previous versions were unstable, because they weren’t. In the world of open-source software, frequently software doesn’t hit version 1.o until the

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EMET protects against what your antivirus cannot–and it’s free

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 11:00:24 +0000

A few years ago, Microsoft quietly released a security tool called EMET–the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit. EMET is now in version 4.0, and it’s probably the best security tool you’ve never heard of. And that’s a real shame. Modern versions

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Hide and unhide whitespace, headers and footers in Microsoft Word

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:56:29 +0000

For now at least, I edit a lot of security documents as part of my job. Today, I saw something I hadn’t seen before: Word 2010 was hiding all of the headers, footers, and whitespace in the document. That made

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How to fix blank table of contents entries in Word

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:16:30 +0000

A system security document I was editing had blank table of contents entries in Word. This was in Word 2010, but my research indicated it can happen in Word 2007, 2003, and very possibly earlier versions as well. Since the table

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How to find all the capitalized words in a Word document

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:50:19 +0000

I recently edited a long document whose original author capitalized way too many words. I needed to fix it. To speed up the process, I needed a way to find capitalized words in Word–all of them, and automatically. Then I could make a

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End of the innocence for Mac security

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:14:08 +0000

Antivirus vendor Kapersky has identified a new trojan horse targetting Macintoshes. It spreads a botnet based somewhere in China via an infected Microsoft Word document, typically sent as an e-mail attachment. The spin is that if you don’t use Word

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How to make a single page landscape in Word

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:55:19 +0000

Can I make one page landscape in Word? Yes you can. In Microsoft Word, it’s not difficult, but it’s anything but obvious. Here’s how to make a single page landscape in Word. It takes three steps. This is useful when

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