IT tips #9: Download Youtube videos as MP4/FLV files
There are many, many ways of doing this, but Download YouTube Videos as MP4 is one of the simplest and most reliable plugins I’ve ever used. I use it for…
IT tips #8: How to embed a Youtube clip in a post
I’m going to explain this in relation to WordPress, but the principle is broadly the same in several other contexts. It’s very straightforward, but it’s the part in point 7…
IT Tips #7: use PureText to strip off unwanted formatting
Yet another copy-and-paste trick this: if you copy and paste text from a website, the likelihood is that it’s got all kinds of fancy text decoration, tables round it, different…
IT tips #6: Print just a portion of a PDF file
For the first time ever in the eight and half-year history of my blog, I have a guest blogger! Thank you to David Leonard of Dance Books for contributing today’s…
IT tips #5: Grow font sizes with the keyboard in Word
This is really handy when you’ve got just a few words to put on a poster, title page or address label, and you want to get the maximum size possible,…
IT tips #4: Sort things in Word, even when they’re not in a table
Anything you put in a table in Word can be sorted – alphabetically or numerically, ascending or descending (go to Table>Sort and click on the options). But you can also…