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RSS fontOracle plugs 33 holes that affect hundreds of products
News Oracle's update arrived on the same day as patches from Microsoft fixing critical vulnerabilities in DirectShow and Video ActiveX that had been targeted in attacks, as well as holes in Embedded OpenType Font Engine and... [16 Jul 2009]
Creating Your Own Worksheet Formats in ExportToXL
White Paper This is a set of commands which tells Excel how to format certain aspects of a worksheet such as font sizes and column widths. %exportToXL is a freely available SAS R macro which allows the user to create... [29 May 2009]
Apple invites public to go on Safari 4
News Windows users will notice a new "Windows-native look", according to Croll, that uses the standard Windows font rendering. Apple on Tuesday announced the release of a public beta Safari 4 for Windows and Mac, promising a... [25 Feb 2009]
Add Creativity to Your e-Mail
White Paper Users can apply WordArt styles like shadows or 3-D, as well as highlighting and font colors. Users can make their e-mail messages stand out with a few touches from the tools in Outlook 2007. Go from plain white to... [07 Nov 2008]
Add Colors, Fonts, and Effects With PowerPoint 2007 Themes
White Paper Themes pull together color schemes, font styles, and effects into appealing design packages that users can apply to many types of presentations. For those who have been using design templates in PowerPoint 2003, they are... [07 Nov 2008]
Photos: Wi-fi in the great outdoors
Photo Increase the font size in Word. The outdoor office was free to use and came complete with desks, chairs, coat stands, a water cooler and of course lashings of free wi-fi. Desk space could be booked for two hours at a... [08 Jul 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo The machine was sophisticated enough to be programmed with two different font sizes, various margin settings and other formatting options. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the... [12 May 2008]
Install a New Font on Your Computer
White Paper Many font packages one downloads from the Internet may be contained in compressed .zip files to reduce file size and make downloading faster. If one has downloaded a font that is saved in .zip format,... [26 Apr 2008]
Insert a Symbol or Special Character
White Paper The types of symbols and characters that one can insert depend on the font that one chooses. The built-in Symbol font includes arrows, bullets, and scientific symbols. The user can use the Symbol dialog... [16 Apr 2008]
Preview Formats, Fonts, and Styles Before You Apply Them
White Paper For example, if the user is trying to choose a font in Microsoft Office Word, just move the pointer down the font list to see the effect of each font on any text that one has selected.... [11 Apr 2008]
Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
White Paper The user can customize keyboard shortcuts by assigning keyboard shortcuts (or shortcut keys) to a command, macro, font, style, or commonly used symbol. The user can also remove keyboard shortcuts. Reassigning a... [11 Apr 2008]
Accessibility Features in Word
White Paper The user can assign keyboard shortcuts (or shortcut keys) to a command, macro, font, style, or commonly used symbol. Microsoft Office Word 2007 includes features that make the software accessible to a wider range of... [11 Apr 2008]
Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts
Case Study It wasn't the case that staff didn't care about font licensing. Fontwise gives a snapshot of which font is in which directory or drive across the company. Publishing giant Faber & Faber is wiping away... [22 Feb 2008]
Norwich Union goes Exstream to descramble customer documents
News We can then still be sending out letters in some 1970s Russian typewriter font. Financial services heavyweight Norwich Union has implemented a document automation project to make its communications with customers more... [14 Jan 2008]
PowerPoint 2007: Formatting and Laying Out Your Slides
White Paper This paper shows the user how to format slide using layouts, and how to reapply a theme or color scheme (a list of coordinating font colors). Finally - and most important when the user is in a time crunch - he or she... [17 Oct 2007]
