I found some papers I had written years ago and wanted to be able to digitize them. When I purchased a scanner back in the Windows 98 age it included the ability to do optical character recognition or OCR. It would scan the printed document
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When teaching about photos I am often asked how to put a caption on a photo. I was recently talking about using a cell phone to capture some of those old photographs hidden away in a box in the basement. I do have a few
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We are very comfortable with our normal keyboards and find it really easy to type a letter, write an article, create and answer emails. But what about when we need some kind of special character? The other day, I was asked how to enter the
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We often hear a warning that the email we are waiting for might end up in our spam folder. Then we can’t find our spam folder. Every Gmail user has a spam folder but it is not always visible. The same can be said for
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One of the first things I do after installing Microsoft Word is to add items to the Quick Access Toolbar. It makes many functions I use much easier to perform. Out of the box, when Word is first installed, it comes with access to Save,
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Back in the old days of Windows XP, we had a Quick Launch bar that when clicked next to the Start button would pop up a list of programs to access quickly. When installing a program today, I sometimes find a checkbox to allow the
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We are all familiar with using Word to create a document such as this one. It is done in portrait orientation on 8.5 x 11-inch paper. Some of our printers can even print on both sides automatically but others require printing all of the odd
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Photos is a program included with Windows 10. When I read the following description on a Microsoft page I thought it was describing Google Photos. It seems to me Microsoft has borrowed a number of ideas. The Photos app in Windows 10 gathers photos from
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I love that my smartphone takes such great pictures. Years ago when I got my first flip phone it took pictures but they were not good enough to print very sharp or large images. Size-wise they were about 100 KB or less. Today’s images are
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I often have to help someone who cannot remember their Wi-Fi password in order to connect to a new device. If they did nothing to change the password supplied by their ISP, it can usually be found on a label stuck somewhere on their wireless
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Typing a document is the easy part. Formatting a document for easy reading and printing takes a little more effort. This paper will look at the left, center, right, and full justify. Also, automatic hyphenation and using a non-breaking space. Let’s use the random function
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It seems like yesterday I was learning DOS commands on my IBM clone PC. It was one I had built myself from parts. I had a case from one supplier and a power supply from another. Add a motherboard, disk drives, and various plugin cards,
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Wise Disk Cleaner works well to remove temporary and other unnecessary files, browser cache, and other things. I leave the defaults set as is. Care 365 is like the Disk Cleaner on steroids. It checks a lot more things. I leave the defaults as they
I have seen a few blue screens in the past few weeks. This used to be referred to as a BSOD or Blue Screen Of Death. That is all the computer would do. You turn it on and the screen is blue and nothing else
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