I gave up writing Windows books a long time ago. It’s not that I wanted to.
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March 18, 2013My Sad Line of Windows BooksMarch 15, 2013Changing Page Numbers in the Middle of a DocumentI get this question a lot: How can you write a document so that page numbering goes from i through iv for the first four pages, then restarts number at 1 on page 5? Confused?
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March 13, 2013DOS For Dummies Knock-Off Hall of InfamyAfter DOS For Dummies hit, other computer book publishers decided to take it on the only way they knew how: Cheap knock-offs.
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March 11, 2013Oh, Yes, There Were Some Knock-OffsDOS For Dummies changed the computer book publishing industry over 20 years ago. You can read the history on this website here, but what’s not told on that page is how the other computer book publishers reacted at the time. It got ugly.
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March 8, 2013A More Programmable PhoneSmartphones and tablets are really the next generation of computer. While it took them less time to find their niche than the microcomputers and PCs of the early 1980s, a step in that evolution is missing. That’s the ability to program your mobile device. March 6, 2013Robot Apocalypse (Again)
March 4, 2013The New Word 2013
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March 1, 2013Jelly Bean Dictation, Yeah!Android dictation takes a major leap forward with the Jelly Bean version of the mobile operating system. It’s realtime and almost flawless.
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February 27, 2013Episodes of a Computer ConsultantWay, way back when, when computers were still exciting in the 1980s, I tried my hand at being a computer consultant. I did not like it, not one bit.
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February 25, 2013The Power of the ¶
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I’ve written about robots coming to destroy us — yes, in jest — in a few of my books as well as this blog. It’s silly, sure; but it’s most likely going to happen and probably before anyone wakes up to realize it. Time to throw myself into Full Robot Panic Mode!
The latest edition of my bestseller Microsoft Word For Dummies has appeared, this one to cover Word 2013, a part of the Office 2013 suite. Here’s what’s new:
Whenever I look at a Word document and it’s all screwy, the first thing I want to see is what doesn’t show up on the screen: Those tiny characters that affect the text in strange ways, but which are hidden. Somewhere in that mess is the solution to the formatting problem.