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There comes a point, in using Microsoft Word, where you realize you’re more productive using your keyboard than a mouse, and very often, it’s easy to encapsulate a mouse action into a keyboard-activated macro. For example, the text I translate often involves superscripts and subscripts, for which Word helpfully offers toolbar buttons. The following one-line macros [...] My attention was directed a couple of years ago to New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which had apparently made the decision to forego human translation, deciding instead to offer non-English speaking visitors machine translations of site pages. Presumably this was done as a cost-cutting move, despite the fact that the resulting translations were, by the [...] “PowerPoint is a necessary evil,” said an acquaintance of mine several years ago. “It’s necessary, and it’s evil.” Presentation or document? I disagree, because I’m not sure PowerPoint is entirely necessary. I say this because most of the PowerPoint presentations I’ve translated over the years are actually documents masquerading as presentations. They provide speakers with something to [...] |
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