Monthly Archives: April 2008

Visual Styling problem creates filing mayhem

A funny thing happened today, but wait let me start at the beginning. Yesterday I was playing around with visual styles for Micro$oft Windoze XP and was toying with changing font sizes, trying to get bigger taskbar icons etc, i.e. generally trying to squeeze water out of a bloody stone. Lo and behold, without installing [...]

Resize embedded Excel sheet to show more columns

I had difficulty resizing an embedded Excel sheet in MS Word. I’d edited the embedded object by opening it in Excel, but could not get the extra columns I added to show in Word. I tried to use Word’s crop feature but wasn’t satisfied with the level of control there because it wasn’t precise enough [...]