Maria’s Guides

A few minor tweaks.

Just a quick note of some changes I made to this site today:

• Added a Subscribe by E-Mail option at the top of the right sidebar. Use this to get site content delivered to your in-box, one message per day (when there is new content). Guaranteed spam-free, you can opt out any time with a unsubscribe feature that really works. If you don’t follow this site with an RSS reader, this is the next best option to get it all.
• Added a visitor counter to the bottom of the right sidebar. It’s pretty sad right now with a single-digit number; hopefully, that will get pumped up as time goes on. I’m not particularly thrilled with it, but it’ll have to do for now.
• Added a Gravatar reminder to the bottom of the Comment form. This is a note with a link that reminds you that Gravatar images appear beside comments. If you don’t have a Gravatar, why not? They’re a great way to personalize your comments and you can get one for free.

It works but it’s not for everyone.

Tired of waiting for Word to optimize its font menu each time it launches? Tell it not to. This will speed up the launch process — especially if you have many fonts installed — but it will also stop Word from displaying font names in their typefaces.

Give it a try and see if it’s worthwhile for you:

1. With any Word document open, choose Microsoft Word > Preferences.
2. In the Preferences dialog that appears, click the General option in the list of categories on the left side of the window.
   
3. Turn off the WYSIWYG font and style menus option.
4. Click OK.

Try this for a while and see if missing out on the WYSIWYG menus bothers you. If it does, you can always turn this feature back on.