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Take a look back at Jim’s 2020 article which rates Windows operating systems from XP through to Windows 10. Windows 11 can now be added into the mix but I wonder how Windows 11 would rate in comparison. Let us know your thoughts in the […]
Windows 10 still has the built-in backup utility from Windows 7. Here is how to use it. I’m not sure if it’s on Windows 11. My nephew gave me his old CyberPowerPC, slightly better than my current ASUS desktop, so I’m setting it up as
Caveat: You must have a Microsoft Subscription Account You should always start your work in Word for the Web so that your work will automatically save in OneDrive. This will allow you to share your files with your co-workers so you can collaborate immediately. If
I got a call from a guy who couldn’t turn off his “Caps Lock” key on his keyboard. The keys weren’t sticking or anything but no matter how many times he pressed on it, it wouldn’t go off. He was at his sign-in screen and
A recent Microsoft publication has sparked off another round of debate over the company’s plans to deprecate the Control Panel in favor of the Settings App. The paper, titled System Configuration Tools in Windows includes a section dedicated to the Control Panel which states the
Control Panel The Control Panel has been with us since the beginning of Windows. Even the most novice of users have probably been sent to the Control Panel at one time or another to change a Windows setting. Microsoft has threatened to deprecate the Control
Remember the controversy when Windows 10 was first released, all the claims of spyware? Take a look back at Marc’s tongue-in-cheek response to the conspiracy theorists, which elicited quite a few interesting comments. What do you think? Who’s spying on you? Spying is usually defined
Notepad is a simple text editor that has been included with every Windows version since 1983. However, additions of new features in Windows 10 and more recently in Windows 11 have finally started to bring Notepad into the modern era. New Notepad Features In Windows
If you have worked with numbered lists in MS Word, you may have noticed that once you have more than nine items in a list, the numbers do not line up properly. Normally we would line numbers up based on the decimal place. This is
Microsoft introduces support for creating 7z and TAR archives directly from within File Explorer. In late 2023 Microsoft introduced support for 11 additional archive formats, they are: .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.zst, .tar.xz, .tgz, .tbz2, .tzst, .txz, .rar, and .7z. Which means that Windows 11 users
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There is a great feature and shortcut in Word if you have already created section breaks in your document and that is the Go To command. It is used to navigate your long documents by section. Simply click on Home | Editing | Find |
When you are working with a TOC (table of contents) in Word and you decide you would like to customize something like your page numbers, navigating to the header and footer area is usually the last place you would think to look. So as you
What is the difference between a page break and a next-page section break? I cannot tell you how many times that question has been asked of me! The simplest answer I can give you is that the first one is merely a page break and
Changing your page orientation is fairly simple to do. Follow the steps below to learn how: Select the Layout tab and click Orientation, which will open a menu with two options: Portrait and Landscape. Select Landscape – Your section should now appear in Landscape, whereas
