Anyone living in the Vancouver area or the pacific northwest of the US these days can attest to the fact that our wind storms are becoming both more frequent and…

PDF files can be configured with various permissions to allow or deny certain actions from being performed on them. Perhaps one of the most annoying configurations however, is a security…

Table editing behaviour in Word is one of those features that almost works properly but still has a number of problems. One very annoying issue is that when a table…

Despite having worked on dozens of successful projects over the years, we frequently come across projects where the outsourcing of work is either very difficult or inefficient for the client….

When I look back on our school days, I can’t help but think just how much more we all could have learned and how much better we could have learned…

We’ve worked on a lot of documents in Word containing diagrams, but it was until recently that we discovered a little known feature called the “drawing canvas”. If you’ve ever…

Adding captions to the figures and tables of your documentation provides an excellent opportunity to solidify your point and help readers who are scanning the content to quickly understand the…

Prior to a recent plane trip, I decided I was going to finally pack light. So, not only did this mean leaving out all of the nice‑to‑have items, it also…

Over the years I’ve done projects for many companies and one of the most common recurring issues is what I call “tribal knowledge”. This basically refers to the “core” technical…

I’ll get straight to the point. Despite our ever increasing reliance on SAAS offerings, no online service can ever replace or match the performance of an application which has been…