CyberText Newsletter

I’ve gone to the dark side! I’ve now used AI to do the voiceovers in some instructional videos I’m making. These videos are for some software I’ve been using (not related to technical writing and editing) that has no documentation. The aim is to upload these to YouTube once I’ve finished so that others can benefit from my experience using the software and not have to go throu...

This is a handy dandy little website that has all sorts of paper types (lined, music, grid, calligraphy etc.) that you can choose from, set up your preferences for colour, size etc. then download (as various file types) and print — for free: https://paperme.pixzens.com/en

But be ca...

In a forum, GM asked how to find a standard space used as a thousand separator between numbers (e.g. 23 456, 1 873, 658 924) and replace it with a thin non-breaking space (Unicode 2009), preserving the original numbers. The dilemma is that Word will only allow a Unicode symbol (^u2009) in the Find field, but NOT the Replace field.

Here’s what I came up with as a Wildca...