The Intermediate Users Guide to Microsoft Word is an invaluable read for anyone seeking a better understanding of how to make Word work for them.Pay special attention to the recommended modifications to Word's initial set up and to the section on styles. It's written especially for the Mac but Windows users will be able to use it, if they make a few mental adjustments when reading (the manual provides tips for making these adjustments). Clive Huggan's Bend Word to Your Will is the best help in taming Word I know of.If you switched to Word from WordPerfect and are still moaning about Word's inability to reveal the codes, read John McGhie's How Word Differs from WordPerfect.Don't forget Dave Rado & Suzanne Barnhill's Some Tips and 'Gotchas' for those who are new to Word and John McGhie's Things to Avoid!.Suzanne Barnhill's Getting Started with Word.Shauna Kelly's Basic concepts of Microsoft Word.Even worse, most books treat the most basic thing to learn about Word, styles, as if it were an advanced feature, useful only to a handful of professional users.įortunately, all the information needed to tame Word is available for free on the web. They tend to ignore bad features and bugs, especially if these are pervasive. Unfortunately, most books are not useful to understand Word. If you use Word, you need to invest time and energy to learn and apply the Word-way of thinking and working, the knowledge to adapt Word to your needs and the wisdom not to use Word for things for which it is not fit (but pretends to be), otherwise you will spend the rest of your life moaning and groaning about Word's capricious behavior (if not worse). Word is a difficult program and I would never recommend it to people who want a user friendly program to write an occasional text (try Pages instead), nor to those who do serious writing but are not prepared to spend at least a week to learn and tame Word (try LaTeX instead - it only takes a day to learn, really!). Scanning with this device is slow, but I can live with that thanks to the document feeder. I have an HP Officejet 6500A Plus connected to my local WIFI network which I use for printing and scanning. My iPad mini with 64 Gb storage, is my preferred device for reading and annotating. My MacBook Air (1.8 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 Gb 1600 MHz DDR3) with Mac OS 10.9 (Yosemite) rapidly becomes the computer I most often use. I use an iMac 21.5 inch (2.7 Ghz Intel Core i5, 16 Gb MHz DDR3 RAM) with Mac OS 10.10 (Yosemite), a Magic Trackpad and an Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad. More about notes and information management.Reading and annotating PDFs on the iPad (GoodReader and iAnnotate).Dedicated outliners (including NeO, OmniOutliner and others).I will try to find time to gradually replace or remove outdated information (12 December 2014). I have added notes and disclaimers to this page to indicate this. I haven't updated this page for more than a year and some of its information is out of date.Updated info about my hardware (16 December 2014).Removed an outdated comparison of GoodReader and iAnnotate (16 December 2014).Removed outdated information on the iOS text editors I use (16 December 2014).Added a short note on RSS feeds (18 December 2014).Added a short note on the sudden death of Circus Ponies Notebook (13 January 2016).Replaced outdated information about my reference manager (14 January 2016).Added information about TaskPaper (16 January 2016).Added a note about the new iAnnotate 4 ().I occasionally drop random notes about the tech tools I use on Arno's tech blog. It is not my job to study software use, and, like most people, I often stick to old ways of doing or to the first way of doing I stumbled upon, just because I lack the motivation, time, energy, or money to try other ways. An overview of the tech tools I use for teaching and research in philosophy.ĭisclaimer: I do not think that the tech tools I use are the best for the job, nor that the way I use them is best for everyone (not even that it is best for me).
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