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Friday, October 21st, 2005
Sun Microsystems is betting that individuals, businesses and government agencies may be willing to try a new full-featured office productivity suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office at just a slice of the cost.
Sun's new StarOffice 8 offers powerful and integrated word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database capabilities. With ...
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Sunday, October 9th, 2005
When you travel, it can be a pain getting your email, even if you have access to an internet connected computer other than your own. You have to remember all of your bookmarked pages, usernames and passwords. Well, John Haller has made things a lot easier by developing portable ...
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Sunday, September 11th, 2005
Everyone who uses a computer quickly learns how to cut and paste information from one location on the computer another using Windows Clipboard. Of course, the Clipboard is a temporary storage area within Windows that holds the copied information. Is this process dangerous to use when on the ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2005
You have backed up all of your photos and critical data to CDs or DVDs so they are safe - right? Well, maybe not. CDs and DVDs that are burned could have a short life. The "burning" process uses a laser to inscribe information on the disc. The ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2005
An on-line address book of your personal contacts is a really useful tools. You can access your address book information from any computer. You're not just limited to e-mail addresses.
You don't have to enter each person's contact information one by one.
Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com), Hotmail (http://www.hotmail.com), AIM
(http://www.aim.com) and Gmail (http://www.mail.google.com) ...
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Saturday, August 13th, 2005
Word has a lot of great features but there are a few that cause you to just pause and ask, "Why?". For instance, when you copy and paste something, Word displays the Paste Options button. This gives you the option of changing the formatting. I don't want to change ...
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Monday, August 8th, 2005
ASAP Utilities is probably one of the world's most popular FREE add-ins for MS Excel 97/2000/2002/XP/2003. ASAP Utilities contains over 300 useful and powerful utilities to fill the gaps in Excel, and automate frequently used tasks. This free program is guaranteed to save you many hours of time!
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Sunday, August 7th, 2005
Is it a nuisance to have Word automatically assume that you want "bullets" or numbers? If you know how to create bullets/numbers when you need them, you can permanently turn off the automatic feature.
Turning off bullets and numbering is easy. Use the Tools/AutoCorrect Options in Word 2002 or ...
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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
If you are tire of paying the high costs for Microsoft Office, it may be time to look into the Open Office suite. Open Office is an open source project which means it it FREE. It is compatible with Microsoft Office files (it can read and write them). ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
If you are one of the millions of people who have purchased an iPod Shuffle, you probably noticed that it came with very limited instructions. This is because the device is very simple to operate. However, there are some little tricks that are nice to know which will ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
Probably most PowerPoint users know that they can set the default format for the title or objects (such as bullet-point text) in the body of a slide using the Slide Master. Simply move to the Slide Master (use the View/Master Slide Master command) and format the objects on the ...
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Monday, June 13th, 2005
Lets talk a little about using templates. Templates are very useful since they eliminate repetition and save you time. In addition, if you are working in an office environment, they will help standardize documents among many users.
To create a template, start with a blank document. Enter the repetitious information you ...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
You can check your hard disk space any time. Click Start>>My Computer. Right-click your hard disk drive (usually drive C). Select Properties from the pop-up menu. Select the General tab to see your disk space.
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Sometimes when you install a new program, it will change your files associations in Windows. For example a music playing software may change your associations so that when you click on an mp3 file the new program opens as the default player. Be careful when you are installing ...
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