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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Facebook has successfully changed the meaning of a friend. When I grew up a friend was someone I could count on. They had my back and I had theirs. We spent most free time together doing what young boys did. We had fun together and
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Even though many communications are now sent electronically using email, Mail Merge is a useful technology to understand. Originally designed to simplify mass mailings using the USPS, it has many additional uses. Mail Merge is an important concept to understand. There are still businesses today
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