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Category Archives: Document Formats

How to customize Mac Word

Hilarious rant about how difficult it is to assign a keyboard command to Find Next in Mac Word. Of course our own buzzword doesn’t offer programmable keyboard shortcuts at all, and it isn’t as Mac-like as it should be sometimes, so I shouldn’t throw stones. But this is so funny I can’t help it…

Living without Mac Office

I decided to go ahead and update my macbook pro to leopard. I decided I needed to do a clean install as my system had been getting a bit crufty with stuff and I’d heard nightmare stories about the upgrade path. The clean install worked like a charm, and it was amazing how much of [...]

Good standards

A nice post on making standards by Dave McAlister of Adobe: Good Standards. I posted on the same topic last April, and what I said there still stands:
Contrast that with the process by which Adobe is submitting PDF to ISO. We’ve bent over backwards to ensure that the submission is as clean as it can [...]

Sigh. Mac Office 2008 delayed again.

According to tuaw.com, Microsoft has delayed Mac Office 2008 until mid-January 2008 to “make sure the suite is up to snuff”. The comments are worth reading.
I’m bummed, personally - the current Mac Office just blows on MacTel. And of course it also means that all of us Mac Office users be dealing with the [...]