do you ever change the "preferences" of any of your programs

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On internet explorer I have all my text purple and all the buttons orange. It looks pretty.

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 4 April 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

I take hold of my preferences and aggressively assert my demands as a power user!

Okay not really, but I tweak things now and then, sure. Also at work I've started recording macros for Word and Excel. My biggest one so far is for these pieces of ad copy that have to have all of the special characters -- accents, m- and n-dashes, italics, boldface -- replaced with text coding: I recorded a macro that supposedly does or at least marks off most of this, except you still have to proof through and double-check it so I'm not sure how much I'm helping myself.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 April 2003 22:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am still working on a macro that will reply appropriately to all incoming email.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 April 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I think in order to do that I would need a fertile woman, 22 years, a lot of money, and the assistance of the U.S. education system.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 4 April 2003 23:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll bet you could do it in 10 if you limit the macro's other functions (does it REALLY need math?)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 4 April 2003 23:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

I almost never change anything in the prefs unless is actively annoying me or impeding me. Wallpaper means shag all as I'm usually alttabbing between 3 full screen windows and sounds are just a big pain anyway. Word gets spelling and grammar autocorrect and highlighting wacked, Visual Studio get its highlighting tweaked and that's it.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 4 April 2003 23:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

i change things. i put all the programs i use on a daily basis into the top level start menu (why is explorer, for instance, in a third level menu?) and i just hate the way that word defaults to capitalising the first letters of sentences (bad when writing documentation containing code)

oh and i must have 'set ts=4' and 'set sw=4' in my .vimrc 8)

andy

― koogs (koogs), Sunday, 6 April 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh yeah simple macros on BASH to do ls to "ls -F" etc. I'm a power-programmer and thus somehow NOT a power user. For example I do all my java and XML coding in wordpad, occasionally checking the XML with IE.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 6 April 2003 21:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

we're getting XP soon (and flat screens! yay!) and so the first thing I'm going to do is change the look to K-klassic.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 7 April 2003 07:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have really cool fonts on my window title bars.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

What's happened to the ability to change the Mac OS X Menu fonts. It appears to have disappeared. I just had the urge to change to Helvetica Neue

― Ed (dali), Monday, 7 April 2003 09:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

nine months pass...

i can't believe i didn't change my safari font to times new roman 12 a lot earlier.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 22:28 (twenty years ago) link

If I had Safari set to Times New Roman 12, I couldn't even read anything onscreen!

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago) link

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