How to Animate Text in a Word Document
How to update the Date automatically when you open Microsoft Word 2003
How to update the Date automatically when you open Microsoft Word 2003.
Archive of posts filed under the Writing category.
How to Create Dynamic Web links in your Technical Documents
Instead of using field codes to add filenames and file paths to your document, you can setup Word so that it displays these in the toolbar. You can then add these links to any page in an open document.
How to Improve Readability on Laptops and HD Flat Panel Displays
This free download from MS “delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.
5 Tips for Keyboard Fanatics & Time Poor Tech Writers
Donationcoder continue their excellent series of products with TapTap Hotkey Extender, a tiny super-efficient tray-based utility (under <100k) for keyboard fanatics.
7 Steps to Better Technical Writing
7 Steps to Better Technical Writing
New Wikipedia of Organization Charts
No Inc have taken AJAX and “Web 2.0-ness” to create CogMap, which is a terrific Wikipedia of organization charts.
Their own site is an organization chart wiki! This means that it is a collection of organization charts online that anyone can edit, add to, and help maintain.
How to Quickly Reduce Microsoft Word File Size – Secret #1
Ever had your Microsoft Word file explode from 1MB to 10MB in just a few minutes? In the tech writing world, Microsoft Word tends to get a bad rap.
One of the arguments put against Word is that its fairly unstable and prone to creating ‘horrors’, such as bloating in size until your (Microsoft!) operating system [...]
When is a Word document not a document?
When is a Word document not a document?
Review The Office 2007 UI Bible
Review The Office 2007 UI Bible
Visio Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7
Visio Hyperlink Problem in Internet Explorer 7
How to Change the Windows Desktop Theme
Like its brother-in-arms, the Screensaver, the Windows Desktop Themes eat away at your computer’s memory. Unless you really need them, uninstall! You’ll have a much quicker and more reliable machine.To change or remove desktop themes, follow these steps:
On the Desktop, right-click and click Properties.
Click the Themes tab.
3. In the Theme box, select the theme [...]
Word 2003 Tip – How to Change the Background Color in a Word Document
The bright white text area of most word processors can become a quite tiring on the eyes after a few hours. You can of course jiggle the brightness and contrast settings on your monitor but a far better solution is to give your blank pages a light grey tint.
Open Word so that you can judge [...]
How to Compare Fonts in MS Word
If you are constantly fussing over fonts for your documents then there’s a very handy feature in Windows that allows you to quickly compare typefaces according to style and design.
