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File Integrity 7 : Which other file formats are resilient?

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Looks at plain text, CSV, XML, JSON, RTF, RTFD, .docx, .xlsx, and PDF. Which should you trust with your important documents in archives?

April 22, 2020 Macs, Technology

Should you use document metadata?

Is it worth entering author name, title, keywords and so on in a document’s Properties?

August 3, 2019 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Which word processors support Rich Text in Dark Mode?

Which app should you use when you want styled or Rich Text to remain readable whether it’s displayed in Light or Dark Mode?

December 12, 2018 Macs, Technology

Rendering Rich Text in Dark Mode

A proposal for ensuring consistent display of Rich Text across apps and tools in macOS, and elsewhere.

December 10, 2018 Macs, Technology

Last Week on my Mac: Crippling Rich Text with Dark Mode

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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.

December 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Redact and obscure: how to release or publish without leaks

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Passing documents containing sensitive or protected information without leaking that requires redaction – a minefield unless you know what you’re doing.

August 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Regex: searching with regular expressions

Stop wasting time wading through hundreds of hits: refine your text searches using regex, as supported by many Mac apps.

August 4, 2017 Language, Macs, Technology

Regular Expressions

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Regular Expressions turn search terms into a programming language. Are they just for Unix wizards?

July 26, 2015 Macs, Technology

Mark my words

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For reasons known only to Microsoft, Word will never tell you that your document is too tough for a 17 year-old to read.

July 3, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Words of old

Q I have some important old documents which were created using Microsoft Word before 2002; most are from […]

January 25, 2015 Macs
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