I’m going to publish a series of Tech-tips for the techy readers to my website. For those of you who come here for Jeffrey-thoughts and sermons, bear with me. 
Did you know that since Mac OS 10.3 the Mac has a built in converter for Word .doc documents?
This means that Textedit can open Word documents much like Wordpad opens them in Windows.
This is fabulous, because I have been trying to migrate everything over to either Apple Pages or Devonthink. One reason is that i can sometimes wind up have upwards of 16 applications open including memory hogs like Microsoft Word. This can be a problem with slowing other apps down and winding up with memory warnings. So i’m trying to not launch word anymore except when absolutely nothing else will do.
I just did a “get info” on a .doc document and changed the default application to open it with to Textedit. Voila. All my .docs open with Textedit. Low memory. Less bells and whistles. Wonderful.
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Ezra Miller // Nov 9, 2005 at 6:55 pm
You just leave your wonderful Mac tools to yourself until I test SUSE 10 and Solaris 10. If they don’t work, then I’ll get a Mac. And I actually had a good day at work today.
2 Ezra Miller // Nov 9, 2005 at 7:21 pm
That’s right, my Firefox disables Java for me, unless I say otherwise. And I found a really cool way to block those stupid “click here for a free ipod” ads from Apple.
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