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This tip from Rob Griffiths at Mac OS X Hints was news to me, and SUPER-helpful: If you’ve got a scroll wheel mouse … you can zoom the active worksheet in Excel by holding Control and Command and then moving your scroll wheel up (increase zoom) or down (decrease zoom). Works with the two-finger [...]
The file extension is .docx So you may see something in your email inbox like “really_important_file.docx” that you cannot open. Luckily the resourceful people on the interwebs have come to our aid. Enter the DOCX Converter for Office 2007. This website will allow you to extract the text from one of these impenetrable “new & improved” Word files. Cons of this method: Much of the formatting is lost in the conversion and you have to read the file on your browser window unless you copy and paste the text into Word. The other, newer, Microsoft-sanctioned option is the Office Converter, a downloadable program that will chew up your useless .docx files and spit out a much more useable .rtf file (rtf stands for Rich Text Format). The Rich Text file is nice because a) it works in ANY text editor, and b) the rich text means that almost all text formatting will be preserved from the original file. Read on for detailed tutorials on using both of these methods. Including pictures! Continue reading WTF is .docx and why should i care? |
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If you are using a windows machine at home there’s a chance you are running Microsoft Office 2007. I’ve ranted before about this but in this version of MS Office the default filetype is different. If you’d like to change this aggravating “feature” so that you [...]
Microsoft has recently unveiled their latest version of the Office suite for the Windows operating system, but they do not plan on releasing a Mac version for quite a while yet. “So what?” you ask. Well, they’ve gone and changed the standard Word file format (as in Word, the program 98% of the business world is utterly reliant on). And because this is available on Windows but not on Mac, if someone with this newest version of Office sends you a Word file, you will not be able to open it on your Mac. Grr…