- Fetch Softworks
- Readers Like You!
- MacSpeech
- Bare Bones Software
- Web Crossing
- Microsoft
- Circus Ponies
- Mark/Space, Inc.
- VMware
- CS Odessa
Track Changes Dates Reset on Save As in Word 2008
If you regularly use the Save As feature to create new drafts while working in Word 2008, you might notice that with Track Changes enabled, previously time-stamped comments and edits have their times reset to the Save As date and time. Work around this by sticking with your original file, but using Save As (or just File > Duplicate in the Finder) to make backup copies.
Written by Jeff Carlson
Recent TidBITS Talk Discussions
- How Safari 3.2's Anti-Phishing Does, and Doesn't, Work (1 message)
- Comparing Five iPhone File Transfer Apps (5 messages)
- iPhone Saves Weary Road Warrior (1 message)
- Improving the HTML Accessibility of Our Cart (4 messages)
Published in TidBITS 452. Subscribe today to receive TidBITS in email every Monday.
- Expansive Communicator 4.5 Limited to PowerPC Only
- MacsBug for the Merely Geeky, Part Three
- Delving Further into Mac OS 8.5
| Internet Luminary Jon Postel Dies
Internet Luminary Jon Postel Dies -- Jon Postel, a networking pioneer who had enormous, unsought power over the Internet, died on 16-Oct-98 during heart surgery to repair a leaky valve. He was 55. Postel was part of the group that created the first Internet protocols under the Department of Defense's ARPAnet project, and he continued his involvement until his death. More recently, Postel headed the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), the organization that manages the process by which domain names are resolved into numbers, among other tasks. Because of his leadership at the IANA, Postel drafted a series of successive plans in the last several months to change the domain name registration process. The most recent draft was issued early this month.
Like Plato's postulated philosopher-king, who is given power precisely because he or she doesn't want it, Postel never imagined himself in the middle of things but didn't shy from performing much-needed jobs. He chose his battles primarily for technical, not political reasons, and was noted for facilitating change rather than acting as a roadblock or capitalizing on development. Postel was a key figure in helping the Internet grow and become commercial, as well as in developing new standards and procedures. His impartiality was well known and well respected, especially in his management of RFCs, the seminal documents defining technical specifications for general adoption by software and hardware developers. Postel's death may further extend and exacerbate debate over the future of domain name development and registration. [GF]
<http://www.tbtf.com/archive/10-19-98.html#s01>
READERS LIKE YOU! Support TidBITS with a contribution today!<http://www.tidbits.com/about/support/contributors.html>
Special thanks this week to Tad Davis, Marc Chavannes,
Keith Holzman, and Bruce Hobbs for their generous support!