Encourage Your Readers To Leave More Comments On Your Blog

August 26, 2010

Make new visitors feel welcome: New visitors aren’t familiar with you or your blog.  You want to make the experience as simple and pleasant as possible.  One very helpful plugin can help you accomplish this, the What Would Seth Godin Do plugin. With this plugin new visitors to your blog will see a small box above each post containing the words “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!” This text includes a link directly to your RSS feed.  After 5 visits the message disappears. You can customize this message, how many visits are required before it disappears, and its location. Read more

Automatically Format Pasted Text To Match Your Current Doument in Word 2007

August 10, 2010

As I a sure you have noticed when you copy from one document into a Word document, the pasted text retains its original format. In Word 2003 you could customize (or turn off) the  Smart Tag feature which let you change the format of the pasted text to either plain text or the matching format of the Word document. That was better than manually formatting the text but you still had to set the Smart Tag feature for each time you copied and pasted text.  Word 2007 changes all that, you can set your own default paste option. Read more

Customize Word's Smart Cut and Paste

August 9, 2010

Have you copied a block of text from one document into another only to have it show up all wonky and strange?  Is your paragraph spacing off or leading spaces missing?  Say thank you to Word’s Smart Cut and Paste Feature.  This feature is designed to enable Word to automatically adjust formatting when you paste text between documents.  The problem is, you might not want Word to change anything. Read more