Tagged: Word Processor

Are you worried about your grammer? Check it online.

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It can be difficult sometimes to have proper grammar. Sometimes I want to check my grammar but I don’t always have a word processor open to do it. Now I can do that with an online service to check grammar from the people who make WordPress. This is really nice and you don’t have to load up a heavy program like Word to do it.

Now if there was just a Mac system service that automatically checked grammar in every text box. After some reading, it appears that the link referenced above also offers browser extensions! So I downloaded and installed it for Chrome and it works great. You can grab the details for the Chrome version from my post about the Chrome Extensions I use post.

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Saving to a pdf in Google docs is twice the size of a word file and larger than Word saving to a PDF

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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?

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Missing Spaces in .docx Files (via Kan’s Home)

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What strange behavior. Why not just assume a .pdf format spacing as the default and only overwrite that if the user specifies a printer expressly?

I recently encountered a weird problem in .docx files. I have Microsoft Word 2010 installed at home, where I saved my homework in .docx format and synced it to Dropbox. But when I opened the same file on school computer, which has MS Word 2007 installed, I noticed that some spaces between words are missing. I thought “Wow how could I be so careless?” and added those spaces back. However, the spaces were gone again when I opened the document at ho … Read More

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Revision and change tracking in Scrivener (via davidhewson.com)

This is an easy way for a GUI revision control for Mac. Very helpful for small companies.

Revision and change tracking in Scrivener It’s amazing how rapidly Scrivener has developed over the years. I recall back when I first started using it, perhaps in 2007/8, whining that it didn’t have much in the way of revision facilities or change tracking. Keith, the developer, said very honestly that he didn’t have the resources to do something as fancy as the very capable change tracking you see in Microsoft Word. How things have changed. Scrivener 2′s approach to revisions and change … Read More

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Migrated Word now wants to connect to scanner and camera – slows launch

An example of WordArt in Microsoft Office Word.
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keriah found the answer:

I found a file named “Camera & Scanner Plug-in” in the Office/Add-ins folder (in Applications). I trashed that file and now Word starts up as usual.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Migrated Word now wants to connect to ….

 

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