Category Archives: SIdelights (SI newsletter)

Extracts from these postings are published in a regular column in the Society of Indexers newsletter, SIdelights

Including email addresses on Web pages

Not unreasonably, if you have a web-site you will want to include your email address so that potential clients can contact you. Unfortunately, if you have your email address in plain view on a webpage without encrypting it in any … Continue reading

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Printing A3 PDFs

Printing two-page spread Occasionally clients send PDF proofs in which the pages are in double-page spreads, with two A4 pages on each PDF page. Printing them with only an A4 printer can be a problem. If it were only one … Continue reading

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Set up your own Domain

Why would you want a domain? Many indexers will think that if they don’t have a website, then they don’t need a domain but actually having a domain has serious advantages for client communications.

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Recovering old versions of files

There is only one thing more annoying than deleting a file accidentally, and that is overwriting it – for example, accidentally deleting the content and then saving. At least, with deleting, the Recycle Bin saves us sometimes. Well, with windows … Continue reading

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Using the Twitter Search Box

On the right of the Twitter home screen is a Search box which lets you search the tweets. If used correctly it can help you find work opportunities. Indexers have a particular problem. Searching for indexing will find thousands of … Continue reading

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Handling PDFS

The topic today is PDFs and there is probably something for everyone here, whether you aren’t sure how to handle them or why you would want to, or whether you have Acrobat Pro and think that is all you need.

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