My Mac Fixes

If you look at customer reviews of recent versions of Microsoft Word, you'll find those reviews divided between users who are tearing their hair out over Word's instability and users who are having no trouble at all. But what's more interesting is how they're divided. Those having trouble are generally those who have used Word for many years. Those having no trouble are the newbies. That's because the problem often isn't in the app itself. Chances are, it's in the fonts on your computer. Word comes with a large number of fonts, and over the years, it has changed where it places them on your drive. During these same years, Apple has licensed a number of Microsoft fonts to include in OS X, placing them in yet another location. The upshot is that a long-time Word user can easily have three or more copies of a font in different versions and in different locations, resulting in conflicts. What's more, Word caches the fonts it finds in your system, and th

You'd think that Adobe would do this for you automatically, wouldn't you. I mean, can they really think you'd want to leave all keywords and collections behind when updating? But this is Adobe, and user convenience is not their strong point. So here's how to take care of it yourself on the Mac. 1. Install the new version of Bridge. 2. In your home directory -- not the computer's root directory -- go to Library > Application Support > Adobe > Bridge CS5. 3. From that directory, drag the following to the adjacent Bridge CS6 directory: the file Adobe Bridge Keywords.xml and the directory Collections. To instead move copies while leaving the originals in place, hold down Option while dragging. That's it! Your keywords and collections will now be available in CS6. You can use the same method to move keywords and collections between other Bridge versions as well, and you might also find other settings you want to move. I'm told, though, that