There’s a curious trick which might let you print a PDF that’s causing printer errors. An Office Watcher started getting PDF’s which looked OK on the screen but produced errors when he tried to print out. Otherwise the printer worked fine so the problem seemed to be in the PDF files. The errors suggest a […]
A delightful piece in The New Yorker turns a resume cover letter into an ode about the applicants love of Microsoft Word. Eli Burnstein’s humorous article opens with: “Bold and italics are the oils that grace my palette. Cut and paste the strings upon my lyre. Fonts, bullets, columns, indentations—these stubborn materials are no match […]
There’s been an uptick in interest for coloring in pages, having the power to relieve anxiety and a form of mindfulness or just pass the time. No wonder Microsoft jumped on the bandwagon and provided a number of coloring-in templates for Word and PowerPoint. As you browse their template selection, you’ll notice some templates are […]
Why are the numbers on the numeric keypad are different from the number keys on the top row of the keyboard? How to use either set of number buttons in Microsoft Word. “I don’t understand why pressing a number on the main keyboard is different from the number pad (assuming you have one). Aren’t they […]
Here are the major marks Microsoft Word displays with the Show All option on. There’s common ones like Paragraph Mark, Tab and Space and lesser known such as optional hyphen and hidden text. Show All will also display the seven different types of break in Word. Paragraph Mark, the symbol is called a Pilcrow. It’s the symbol used for the ‘Show All’ button on […]
