We show you how to clean up after people who inevitably type two spaces after every period – quickly and easily. My last missive on co-opting the “backwards P thingy” button on the Standard toolbar brought an avalanche of mail. And I was shocked! Many of you took me to task for telling people to […]
We take you through a few of the more common sources of unexpected information in Word documents. Office Watch last week and again this week exposed all sorts of hidden information in Word documents posted on the Internet. I’ve heard from many of you, wondering how we got into this sorry mess in the first place. […]
We take a secondary look at one reader’s field code related problem. Okay. I blew it. What can I say? In the last edition of Office for Mere Mortals I told you about my friend and his untimely encounter with a weird {HYPERLINK …} thingy in one of his Word documents. I told you (and him) […]
If you’re going to send a .doc file to someone, or post it on the Web, seriously consider converting it to PDF before you let it go. Three years ago, I recommended that you convert your documents to PDF format before handing them out. I’ve mentioned PDF a dozen times since then, extolling its virtues, […]
