Useful stuff for translators, every Tuesday.
Autocorrect is one of the best features in Word, but for some reason, Microsoft imprisons all of your time-saving shortcut expressions deep inside the program and makes it difficult to get at them, either to transfer them to another program, edit them, or use them in another program (like AutoHotKey). After a lot of digging, [...]
The client calls with a great sounding job – 10,000 words, interesting topic, generous deadline…and then the other shoe drops: “Oh, by the way, it’s a PDF”. Luckily there are ways to work around this and convert the PDF into a workable word file. Some are better than others, and which application you use depends [...]
One of my favorite functions in Microsoft Word is the autoreplace function. Over the years, I’ve created my own personal shorthand, but what happens when I use other programs? When I switched over to Studio, I found that the shortcut functions were replaced with a clumsy multi-click function. Luckily I happened upon a powerful program [...]
