Long-running and often-saved documents can accumulate garbage, many saved versions, and could cause problems with Core Spotlight. Here’s how to freshen them up again.
Microsoft Word
Looks at plain text, CSV, XML, JSON, RTF, RTFD, .docx, .xlsx, and PDF. Which should you trust with your important documents in archives?
Is it worth entering author name, title, keywords and so on in a document’s Properties?
Which app should you use when you want styled or Rich Text to remain readable whether it’s displayed in Light or Dark Mode?
A proposal for ensuring consistent display of Rich Text across apps and tools in macOS, and elsewhere.
Mojave’s handling of Rich Text in Dark Mode is now broken in several places, including the new version of TextEdit, in QuickLook, and Pages.
Passing documents containing sensitive or protected information without leaking that requires redaction – a minefield unless you know what you’re doing.
Stop wasting time wading through hundreds of hits: refine your text searches using regex, as supported by many Mac apps.
Regular Expressions turn search terms into a programming language. Are they just for Unix wizards?
For reasons known only to Microsoft, Word will never tell you that your document is too tough for a 17 year-old to read.
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