When you save, Word for Mac crashes or quits
When you save, Word for Mac crashes or quits. I had a friend have this problem today. This is a nice list of how to fix it. I like how Microsoft is doing a better job at documenting its problems.
Tagged: Microsoft Office
How can I clean up useless formatting from alien documents?
TextSoap. I just used this and it works great. I had a problem with some useless formatting that Microsoft Word applies. Why is Word so convoluted? Doesn’t Microsoft understand that most people are not typographers?
TotalFinder brings tabs to your native Finder and more!
TotalFinder brings tabs to your native Finder and more!. This is an interesting way to interact with Finder. Probably power users would benefit from this more. The average user just gets confused with this kind of UI change.
Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion | Office | Macworld
Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion | Office | Macworld. This probably won’t prevent most users from upgrading. People usually stick with their messaging system.
How to troubleshoot issues that occur in Office for Mac on a computer that is running Mac OS X 10.4.x or a later version
How to troubleshoot issues that occur in Office for Mac on a computer that is running Mac OS X 10.4.x or a later version. These are great instructions for solving problems with Office for Mac. Throwing away the preferences can be frustrating for advanced users who like to customize, but sometimes you have no choice. Time Machine can sometimes solve this problem by using a valid but uncorrupted preference file.
Review of Central Desktop SaaS
Review of Central Desktop. I ran across a reference to central desktop in another article I read. I am not sure that business will want to pay $25 per user. If this could be self-hosted and less money then I would agree it would be a big seller. Still if you are a small company and you need to track collaboration it might do the job.
Is Outlook 2011 a resource hog on your Mac?
It was for Hsoi. Here is what I suggested in his comments:
Have you tried rebuilding your email database? This has fixed the sluggish problems that I have had in the past with Entourage and people who have thousands of messages. Also, Entourage doesn’t seem to like thousands of messages in a folder, so if you keep the totals less than 2000 msg per folder it seems to perform much faster.
Here is the link to the Microsoft KB on how to fix rebuild the database. It’s very easy and generally safe.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2360509
Saving to a pdf in Google docs is twice the size of a word file and larger than Word saving to a PDF
Has anyone used Google docs to save to a word file and also to a pdf? Without changing anything between the two the PDF is 180kb and the word doc is 90kb. Isn’t the advantage of a PDF that it compresses unnecessary information? When I compress the same file from the 90kb word file in Microsoft Word 2011 to a PDF on a Mac I get 150kb. What is the other 30k doing in that PDF file? Has anyone else noticed that Google docs makes chunky PDF’s?