How to Continue an MS Word Numbered List Across Many Text Blocks
Imagine you have a MS Word numbered list in MS Word that continues across different text blocks. Word’s “natural reflex” is to start each list block from 1 even though you may want the step numbers continue as a single series. For example: (Click to enlarge image) You can try doing the logical thing by…
Read MoreOn the Idea of “Product Evangelist” in Technical Communications
I love product evangelists for two good reasons: (1) I love software products. I have no idea how we lived back in the 60s and 70s without any software doing all these wonderful things on our desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. (2) I like and admire the product evangelists that I’ve met both in person…
Read MoreHow to Edit Uneditable Text in Photoshop
A Photoshop incident that happened to me recently… Problem Imagine you have a drawing, a “legacy document”, which includes some text that you need to change. Since the drawing’s layers have been “flattened out” quite some time ago and it’s now a pure raster image (like .JPG or .GIF) you cannot obviously use your Text…
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