Links for the month of September.
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September 14th, 2009
Use Software Update to find updates for your Snow Leopard installation. September 3rd, 2009
When Mac OS can’t connect to the printer. October 16th, 2007
The race is on. It’s now official. You can read the press release here. This is one of the two dates I’d been debating with my editors at Peachpit. Cliff says that Apple likes to release hardware and software on Fridays. That would put it on October 26, the last Friday of the month. But lots of Continue reading It’s Official: Apple to Ship Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on October 26 March 28th, 2007
A how-to for Excel users. My Visual QuickStart Guide books for Excel — from the edition for Excel 95 for Windows through the edition for Excel X for Macintosh — have always included an Excel function reference. In an effort to make pages available for other content, however, we’ve cut that appendix from the Excel Continue reading Printing an Excel Function Reference Sheet December 21st, 2006
Look, Mom! No plugins! Although there are WordPress plugins that enable you to add links to bookmarking sites from your posts, if you’re just interested in a few sites and don’t want to deal with plugin overhead (or future compatibility), there is an easier way. Just add the links to your WordPress theme’s template file, inside Continue reading Adding Del.icio.us and Digg Links to Your WordPress Posts September 30th, 2006
Information from Software Update. The 10.4.8 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies: connecting to wireless networks using the EAP-FAST protocol Continue reading Mac OS X 10.4.8 Now Available September 20th, 2006
After two months off from writing, I begin work on an Excel book revision. I dove into a revision of my Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Excel: Visual QuickProject Guide book today. I actually got the first chapter — all 16 pages of it — done. If you’re not familiar with the VQJ (as Peachpit calls it) Continue reading New Excel Book in Progress June 13th, 2006
Maria Speaks Episode 27: On the Intelligence of Quotes. This short podcast is a reading from a recent article I wrote on my book support site for Microsoft Word users. It explains the difference between smart and straight quotes and tells you how to work with them in Microsoft Word. You can read the transcript of Continue reading On the Intelligence of Quotes May 30th, 2006
I add a post printing function to the site. One of the things that bugs me about WordPress is that when you print a page, the resulting printout does not have the same formatting as the page in your Web browser. Instead, styles are pretty much stripped out and sidebar components are added to the end Continue reading WP-Print March 24th, 2004
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A Closer Look at Word 2004’s Status Bar
There’s a lot of information there.
Word 2004 (and other versions of Word, for that matter) packs a lot of information into the status bar at the bottom of the document window. Here’s an example of what it looks like:
What appears depends on the view of the document, its contents, and the features you have enabled
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