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…
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…
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…