Paste Unformatted Text (Slightly) More Easily In Word 2008
Posted by EsquireMac in Tweaks on Dec 4th, 2009 | 2 comments
In my professional writing, I often need to copy text from one source and paste it into whatever document I’m drafting. Legal writing, however, leaves little room for variation in formatting, and most paste jobs are better done with the formatting from the source stripped so that the pasted text matches the rest of the document I’m drafting.
As you know, the default paste command (Edit > Paste, or command-v), however, retains the formatting from the source (e.g., bold, underlined, font, size, color, etc…).
For most Apple applications (Pages, TextEdit, Mail, Safari, etc…), there...
Happy Black Friday, 8 Google Wave Invites For You
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Nov 27th, 2009 | 7 comments
Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. This Black Friday afternoon, the Googles blessed me with 8 Google Wave invites. The first 8 people to leave a comment with the email address you’d like me to send the invitation to will get the invites. Feel free to mask your email address to prevent it from being easily scraped, such as: “adam [at] esquiremac [dot] com.” If you miss out on my invites, you may want to check out Lifehacker’s Google Wave Invite Donation threads.
Google says the invites will not be sent out immediately, but I got mine within 24 hours of when I was invited,...
Herald Bumps Apple Mail Notification Up A Notch
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Tweaks on Nov 26th, 2009 | 1 comment
Herald, by Erik Hinterbichler, is a powerful yet lightweight email notification plugin for Apple’s Mail.app. Last year, I posted about another excellent email notification plugin for Apple Mail called mail.appetizer.
The reason I say that “Herald bumps Apple mail notification up a notch” is because Herald takes the idea first implemented by mail.appetizer and adds some nice improvements. In fact, Erik Hinterbichler freely admits that Herald is “[i]nspired by the excellent Mail.appetizer plugin.”
Herald improves upon Mail.appetizer in a few ways. Herald allows you to...
Convert WordPerfect Docs to Word Docs in Bulk
Posted by EsquireMac in Apple Applications, Switching on Nov 23rd, 2009 | 2 comments
A couple of months ago, I shared an AppleScript/Folder Action that enables you to convert Pages documents to Word documents, whether one at a time or in bulk. I now present you with a script I put together that will convert those pesky Word Perfect documents to Word documents.
As you know, I have joined a firm that runs primarily on Windows. I’m the only Mac in the place, and pretty much everyone there uses WordPerfect. Of course, simply opening and/or editing WordPerfect docs on a Mac is no problem, since there are a number of applications that can handle them (AbiWord, OpenOffice.org,...
Convert Pages Docs to Word Docs En Masse
Posted by EsquireMac in Apple Applications, Switching on Sep 28th, 2009 | 8 comments
After I started at my new firm last month, I decided to rethink my workflow. I began working with Pages (the ’08 version), and have found it to be much faster than Word for Mac: 2008. The main problem for me is that I need to save everything as a .doc file so that the others in my office can use them. As I noted earlier, I am the only Mac in this firm, and there is no way for a PC to use the .pages file format (except for doing something crazy like getting iWork ’09 and sending everything to iWork.com – like I said: crazy).
The next great hurdle is the fact that Pages will not simply...
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