hackbash

This is great; an error message from Google (in US English) telling me it couldn’t provide content in my language (UK English). I’ve whinged about regional settings before, but it turns out I’m bilingual. Who knew?

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Does Word keep bollocksing it up when you’re trying to mark a section of text? Here’s how you fix it.

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Find it hard to proof on Word 2007? Getting inconsistent spacing? Here’s the solution.

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I was always happy with hitting Enter once and getting one carriage return – you knew where you were with the deal – but Word 2007 has better ideas. If its default behaviour – which is to insert two line breaks each time you hit Enter – bothers you, here’s how you turn it off: [...]

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I got given a new laptop at work, and had to go through the usual rigmarole of correcting the dictionary language, turning off AutoFormat, and fixing the default paragraph spacing. I forgot to disable the grammar checker, but fortunately it’s set to nag you by being no bloody use whatsoever. In this case, by taking [...]

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I don’t think I’m putting it too strongly when I say that I fucking loves music. I listen to it all the time – mostly for pure enjoyment, but sometimes it goes beyond that. I’m not sure what it is, but it’s a joy. Like smells, old songs can evoke the strongest memories. I can [...]

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We’ve been doing a nice line in lazy blogging lately. My excuse is I’ve been swamped with freelance at the same time as work went crazy. I was trying to work tonight, but (sorry Dave) it’s just not happening. A couple of weeks back I wrote a post about the state of the economy, but [...]

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I’m hereby submitting a new support incident to every single helpdesk in the UK, asking that you each please make your monkeys set up computers for the correct country.

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I’ve just noticed that Hackbash is one and a bit, having had its birthday on 3 August. The year’s gone quickly – far too quickly, and a lot’s changed for me in that time. I wasn’t sure why we started Hackbash, except that it might be a useful dumping ground for the discussions Charlie and [...]

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Word processor: job number one = display text clearly on screen. Word 2007: fail. Is that two spaces to the left of the dash, one to the right? One space left, no spaces right? In fact, it’s a space on each side: But of course. Is it me? Is it Calibri? Has anyone found a [...]

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