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>Several months ago, I launched Word and the following text was displayed in my
>"Tip Of The Day" window:
>Did you know...You can increase or decrease the size of selected text by
>pressing
>That's it! The rest of the tip was truncated...missing...gone...not
>there...went south...jumped ship...
>I'm not sure if my computer and/or software might have barfed or if the person
>at Microsoft working on these tips simply spaced out when this one was written.
Or there was the Microsoftie testing the Tip of the Day on itself, first
increasing the size of selected text (for a screen-sized tip), then
decreasing it to the point of excluding the how-to. It worked! Then went on
to more pressing
