22nd April 2002

Some message board troll once called me a "bipolar egomaniac." How right they were. I'm often thinking of myself at opposite ends of the globe. Anyway, I shouldn't be splitting hairs; I should, however, be splitting windows! In Word, for example, I'll often want to be staring at two parts of a document at the same time. It's easy to do if you drag & drop that little nubby thing sitting directly on top of the vertical scrollbar's up arrow. And yes, I believe that "little nubby thing" is the technical term. Left- click, hold, and pull it down. There ya go, dude. You're set. Don't need the dual-view anymore? Drag it back up where from you got it. Wow. I really gotta stop watching those Jerry Springer reruns. Here's another nifty built-in feature that isn't turned on by default: the Word tip of the day. First, you'll have to open the Office Assistant (which you may have to enable in the Help menu). Right-click that critter, select Options, then place a checkmark in the "Show the Tip of the Day at startup" field. Missed a tip? Click the "Reset my tips" button. Or, ya know, just read Lockergnome.