IT tips #14: Use Delicious to store and access web links anywhere
You might think that having a website is all about self-promotion, but the reason I got a website in the first place was to solve a particular problem: I wanted…
IT tips #13: Make a form in Word that you can *really* fill in
One of the annoyances of 21st century life is when you get sent what is called a ‘form’ to be filled in ‘electronically’ which is in fact just a Word…
Rain-mates! At last!
For all the many hundreds of people who’ve come across my site because of my posts about rain-mates this is for you: Bubble Betty™, “a vintage product brought back to…
IT tips #12: Select text in Word as a graphic block
Let’s say you’ve copied and pasted an enormous block of text from a document in such a way that you end up with bullet points or numbered lists or a…
IT tips #11: Use dummy text to help you write
Dummy text for dummies This much I know – it’s much harder to write an article of 250 words than one of 2,500. The word count of articles I’ve written…
IT tips #10: Customise keyboard shortcuts to enter weird characters in Word
If there’s an off-beat symbol that you have to put in to documents regularly (in my case, it’s the P in a circle that means ‘phonographic copyright’) you can cut…