Typography 101 – font terms explained
Font vs typeface, ascender, desender, X-height, finial … there’s a nice one-page guide to all the Typography terminology. Become a Read More
Font vs typeface, ascender, desender, X-height, finial … there’s a nice one-page guide to all the Typography terminology. Become a Read More
Free alternatives to the overused Comic Sans font. The Wall Street Journal has a history of Comic Sans, the font Read More
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Microsoft adds the Ruble symbol to Windows 8.1 and we show you how to add it to earlier versions of Read More
Word: how to find the character code used for a particular letter or symbols. Last week we talked about the Read More
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How can you get the new Unicode symbols in Office documents? There’s plenty of new symbols included in the Unicode Read More
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Unicode adds more characters to an already large list. Unicode has added another 2,834 new characters in the Unicode 7.0 Read More
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A guide to getting more life and value from your printer. The Guardian has a nice little guide to maintaining Read More
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An interesting font idea from Spain – handwriting of homeless people turned into fonts. HomelessFonts.org is a series of fonts Read More
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A quick look over the Word for iPad features, Here’s a look at the major features in Word for iPad, Read More
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How to convert a PDF into a Word document, even when Word 2013 can’t do it. Since Word 2013 can’t Read More
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Why won’t Word 2013 convert some PDF’s? Word 2013 lets you convert some PDF files into Word documents, but what Read More
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Windows and Office gives you Arial font when you ask for Helvetica. We recently told you about the Helvetica font Read More
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Farewell, Mike Parker who brought Helvetica to the mainstream but alas not to Microsoft Windows or Office for Windows. Mike Read More
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How to update Microsoft Office with the new name, OneDrive, and remove the old SkyDrive name. Recent versions of Office Read More
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An industrial dispute involving CAPS has ended. One of the most interesting industrial disputes of 2013 has now ended with Read More
Make eye-popping headlines in Word Word 2010 and Word 2013 have a greater range of text effects than earlier versions Read More
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What can Office for Mac users do instead of font embedding? Since Office for Mac won’t let you embed fonts, Read More
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Full list of fonts available in both Office for Mac and Office for Windows The following fonts are available on Read More
Some common characters don’t need help from Autocorrect in Word. Our good friend and budding woodworker, Rose Vines adds her Read More
How to type the micron/micrometer symbol in Word. Stuart H has an AutoCorrect suggestion: ” I need to use the Read More