I have used CCleaner for many years to clean the temporary and other files that are no longer necessary. I have also used it to clean the Registry stripping off unneeded entries. However, many articles have appeared recently about issues with CCleaner that have made […]
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Most computer users are used to having spell checking a normal part of most programs. Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Google Docs and even email all have a spell checker built-in. I don’t know about you, but that sure helps me. I remember my grade school
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We all know how to search on the web by entering a word or even a sentence in a search engine. The results are amazingly quick and often the result has thousands and even millions of possible websites to view. The most relevant according to
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I am involved in a number of organizations/clubs and each month I need to create a flyer announcing the next meeting/event. This I do in a word processor such as Google Docs or Microsoft Word. The creation is simple and includes pictures and graphics and
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Years ago, I took pictures using a 45mm camera and developed them as slides. I would put the slides in a carousel to show them. To get them in the correct order, the order I wanted to show them in, I used a Slide Sorter
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When writing, I find the need to change the case of words or groups of words. This can be done one at a time but I have been used to being able to select a drop-down list in Word. I would select the words and
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Microsoft Word gives you the option to allow automatic hyphenation. This evens out left-aligned paragraphs and minimizes the extra spaces between words in justified paragraphs. Hyphenation splits words into syllables separated with a hyphen so the first portion of the word is on one line
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Many retirees I meet are working on compiling their memories or memoirs into a book to pass on to their offspring. The typing although tedious is not the difficult part. Often they type each portion of their life on separate documents. Of course, these individual
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How often are we required to enter an email address before getting into a site or maybe to download a white paper or an ebook? We think nothing of it, just a door to go through to obtain what we were going after. Then we
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How many times have you typed your document in Microsoft Word and had it continue on a new page for just a few lines? There is an easy way to make it fit on one. To demonstrate, we will create a document that is a
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I had a PowerPoint file that contained over 200 images and I needed the images for another project. I could have right-clicked each picture and downloaded them one at a time, but I thought there should be a better way. Then I remembered that the
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I have been teaching word processing for decades. WordPerfect was what I used and taught for years. Then the college I taught at entered into an agreement with Microsoft and I learned Word and the rest of the Office suite. Now, most of my work
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Last month I wrote about creating a shortcut to websites so one can go directly to the site from the desktop. Some of those shortcuts have icons with images and others are just plain squares. Then we saw how to assign an icon image from
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The first question might be, “Why should I save a web page?”. Sometimes I see something I might want at one of the big box stores and think I can get it next week. When I go back and look for it, they no longer
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