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Software Tips

Change default font in Office 2008’s Word and iWork ’09’s Pages

Posted by Ant on December 1st, 2009 at 9:22 PM  |  No Comments

Mac users have a dilemma! The platform’s two most popular word processors are pre-configured to use fonts people generally do not want to use. Folks who need Times New Roman to be the default font have to do some tweaking. One of the most…

Change default font in Office 2008's Word and iWork '09's Pages
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OS X Tricks

Scale text proportionally in OS X with mathematical expressions

Posted by Ant on May 12th, 2009 at 11:26 PM  |  5 Comments

The standardized Fonts window in Cocoa-powered Mac applications is surprisingly flexible. Did you know it’s capable of scaling fonts relatively with basic mathematical expressions? In order to take advantage of this tip, you’ll need to use an application…

Scale text proportionally in OS X with mathematical expressions
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OS X Features

Spell-check in a snap using Mac OS X’s contextual menus

Posted by Ant on December 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 AM  |  2 Comments

One of the key productivity tools I use on a daily basis is the dynamic spell-checker built into the contextual menus of many Apple-made applications. Say you’re typing a document in a text editor such as Pages or TextEdit and you happen…

Spell-check in a snap using Mac OS X\'s contextual menus
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