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How to Copy Plain Text from the Web
Over at Lifehacker there's a tip on creating a hotkey that pastes plain text into Microsoft Word. But it involves creating a macro, which to me seems overcomplicated, and it obviously limits you to Word-based pasting. What if you want to paste plain text somewhere else, like into a blog...
Tags: Web, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Marketing, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2009-07-17
Save a PDF Document as Plain Text
PDF documents are great for ensuring that recipients see a document formatted the way it was intended, and for making it relatively difficult - but by no means impossible - to muck around with the contents. But what if you want to take the information in a PDF and repurpose...
Tags: Adobe PDF, PDF Text Extractor, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-10-21
How To Create And E-Mail A Plain Text Resume
Unlike Microsoft Word and other word processors, plain text does not allow bold, italics or different fonts. While it may seem boring, this simplicity allows recruiters to view resumes the same way regardless of the software they use. If you don't already have a text editor (and most people with...
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Word Processors, Microsoft Word, E-mail, Software, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Online Communications
White papers 2008-01-01
Microsoft Word Tip: Clear Hyperlinks From Pasted Text
When you copy text from an e-mail, Web page, or another source into a Word document, any URLs or e-mail addresses contained within that text usually wind up hyperlinked. Word offers no clear-cut method of removing those links. You can right-click one and choose Remove Hyperlink, but that's a pretty slow...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., Clear, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, E-mail, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-06-23
Convert Scans to Text with Free OCR
I need to scan and convert text from printed documents about, oh, about once per leap year. So it makes no sense for me to own a scanner or waste hard disk space with OCR software that I virtually never use. Especially when I can use Free OCR to convert...
Tags: Optical Character Recognition, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-07-07
Marketing Effectively by E-mail
E-mail should be an essential part of any Internet marketing strategy. If you have someone's e-mail address, you can send them information directly, much as you would in a direct mail campaign—except the cost of mailing is free. Even so, that's only an advantage if the recipients have agreed to...
Tags: advertisement, BNET Editorial, database, direct mail, e-mail, e-mail address, e-mail management, Internet, Internet marketing, marketing, newsletter, software, spam, strategy, Web, Web site
Articles 2007-10-19
Smashwords Broadens its Reach to Publishers
Over its first year of operations, the eBook publishing platform and online book store Smashwords has catered mainly to authors, publishing some 1,200 titles from about 600 authors. As is fitting on its first-year anniversary, Smashwords announced today that it is broadening its services to add support for book publishers....
Tags: Adobe PDF, Publisher, Amazon.com Inc., Smashwords, Smashwords Service, Mobipocket, E-books, Personal Technology, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-05-05
Google Acquisition Will Help Correct Errors in Scanned Works
One of the issues swirling around the Google Book Search GBS case is the relatively high rate of errors in the images of the millions of old books Google has scanned. Google's Engineering Director for GBS, Daniel Clancy, addressed this earlier this month...
Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Acquisition, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-09-17
Microsoft Word Tip: Clear Formatting from Pasted Text
The other day I showed you how to remove e-mail and Web hyperlinks from text copied and pasted into a Word document. Okay, but what about formatting? What if you want to rid pasted text of weird line spacing, italics, and the like? Turns out there's an easy shortcut for...
Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Word Processors, Text, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., Clear, E-mail, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Rick Broida, Microsoft Office
Blog posts 2008-06-25
Generate Random Placeholder Text for Free
Have you ever written some sort of brochure, Web page, or newsletter, and needed to see how text flowed around graphics? Or wanted to record a training video but didn't want to show real corporate confidential documents in the screencast? Then I've got a trick for you: Word can automatically...
Tags: Document, Training, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Human Resources, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-07-16
What Should Your Email Signature Look Like?
What Should Your Email Signature Look Like?Adjust your signature block before leaving the emailI think the signature block gives you one final chance to leave a lasting impression, but one signature block for all emails does not cut mustard. The signature should fit the email. Ending salutation: personalise, Name: use...
Tags: e-mail, website link
Discussion threads 2007-08-16
Microsoft Will Not Support Smil
Microsoft Corp has withdrawn its support for the World Wide Web Consortium's Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced smile). The Redmond software company was an early member of the group that developed the specification, which uses plain text tags to control different kinds of media - text, images, video -...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., W3C
Research articles 1998-07-08
Microsoft Will Not Support Smil
Microsoft Corp has withdrawn its support for the World Wide Web Consortium's Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced smile). The Redmond software company was an early member of the group that developed the specification, which uses plain text tags to control different kinds of media - text, images, video -...
Tags: Microsoft Corp., W3C
Research articles 1998-07-08
Another Free OCR Option for Software Cheapskates
Need to turn a printed page of text into an electronic page of editable text? Try OnlineOCR, a free optical-character-recognition service. Traditionally, this kind of process takes place on your PC via pricey OCR software. With OnlineOCR, you simply upload a PDF, JPEG,...
Tags: Software, Optical Character Recognition, Try OnlineOCR, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2009-10-13
Add Plain-English Calendar Entries to Outlook with Easy2Add
Google Calendar users have the enviable option to create new events using plain English: "Lunch meeting with Joe tomorrow at Panera Bread," for example. Freeware applet Easy2Add adds the same capability to Outlook, allowing you to create appointments just by typing a line of text. The applet sits...
Tags: Applet, Easy2Add, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-06-06
askMEDLINE: A Free-Text, Natural Language Query Tool for MEDLINE/PubMed
Plain language search tools for MEDLINE/PubMed are few. The aim of this study is to develop a search tool that would allow anyone using a free-text, natural language query and without knowing specialized vocabularies that an expert searcher might use, to find relevant citations in MEDLINE/PubMed. This tool would translate...
Tags: Search Tool, BioMed Central, Natural Language, Tool, Productivity, Search
White papers 2005-03-10
FunMail Tests Animated Messages On NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode System.(Company Business and Marketing)
A northern California startup thinks it has a killer application for wireless. FunMail Inc., based in Pleasanton, Calif., recently completed testing of a wireless "animated instant message" product on the NTT DoCoMo i-Mode system in Tokyo. The product instantly turns plain text into unique, animated short...
Tags: FunMail Inc., NTT DoCoMo Inc.
Research articles 2000-09-25
Amazon.com Selling TwitterPeek Mobile Twitter Device For $99
Peek Nov. 3 launched TwitterPeek, a mobile device designed to let users send tweets and direct messages from the leading microblog service without incurring the data costs associated with texting on smartphones. TwitterPeek is available exclusively from Amazon.com for $99.95. The price includes 6 months of unlimited Twitter service. However,...
Tags: Twitter Inc., Smart Phone
News items 2009-11-03
Three Web Design Elements that Eyes Love
Type. Click. Look. Drawing in web visitors is its own game, but once you have them hooked, how do you get them to navigate to your ads? Jakob Nielsen says he has the answers. But he reveals them with one caveat in mind: they pose ethical dilemmas. Why? One of...
Tags: Web, Advertisement, Web Design, Channel Management, Marketing, Jonathan Haeber
Blog posts 2007-12-04
Online Public Relations
In online public relations, PR principles remain the same but technologies differ and communications ability is expanded. Credibility is key to public relations and essential to online Hence, online information is more suspect. Online is closer to direct than mass media. Interaction with individuals online is an element of public...
Tags: Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications
White papers 2003-01-01
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