Back to the real world..

Well, I'm back home again, after 6 days in the alternate reality that is AU in Vegas. When you combine a 3-hour time change, the super-busy schedule of classes and events, and the fact that the casinos don't want you to know what time it is, your time-sense gets a little warped. If I hadn't put my schedule into a color-coded Excel spreadsheet (I know, I'm a nerd), I never would have been able to keep up.

I had intended to post more to the blog while I was away, but time just got away from me. (Hmm, wonder how that happened?) Now everything's back to normal, though, so we're back to the regular schedule of tips, tricks, and announcements. Speaking of which...

You've probably seen plenty of messages in LT pop up with a check box for "Don't show me this again". After a few times of seeing them (or maybe just once), you probably got tired of it and checked the box. But what if you need to get it back, either to change the setting you accepted or to see what the message actually was?

LT 2009 includes a setting to access these very messages, cleverly called "hidden messages". It's in the Options dialog, under System.

Once there, you can expand a tree of messages, grouped by category, to re-activate the ones you want to see. In the image below, I'm turning on the messages about Drawing Recovery, but leaving Annotation Scaling messages off.

After you get tired of your re-activated messages, of course, the "Do not show this again" option will still be there.