For several weeks now, Outlook has persisted in reminded me about reminders I have already dismissed and I kept dismissing them only to be reminded again. I finally got annoyed enough to do something about it.

Close Outlook
Start/Run
Type “outlook /cleanreminders” (without the quotes)

This doesn’t always cure it but it sure helped me.

I’ve set up a blog for our marketing people to start actually putting some content on our company website, and the first thing they did was complain that their first post looked strange on the blog.

Hmm, says I and had a look at the source. Full of Microsoft proprietary style information. I realised pretty quickly that he’d pasted it in from a Word document. Why? I don’t know, I really don’t. I though the Wordpress WYSIWYG was pretty user-friendly. Clearly only Word is inside the comfort zone at the moment. This will change, eventually, but in the meantime, there is a hidden feature in Wordpress 2.1 (I’ve not upgraded yet!) that will make life easier for my marketing guy.

In the visual editor, hit alt-v (IE) (alt-shift-v in Firefox) and you get a sekrit menu appear, one of the options being ‘paste from Word’. So clearly he’s not alone in his clinging to Word as an editor…

For those occasions when you are manually editing data and need to replace what you are removing with a NULL. The keystroke is control-0

The number of times I’ve googled for that, as I can never remember it..