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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
There can be times when you may find it necessary to create a different layout or page orientation in a select page range in your document. Let’s pretend you want the first page to be oriented as portrait. Now let’s also pretend you would like
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Some time back Microsoft introduced a new option in Windows 11 which allows users to quickly kill unresponsive apps, but it is tucked away in Settings and disabled by default. We’ve all been there at some time or another; an app refuses to respond and
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My nephew had problems with AVG antivirus. He doesn’t know how it got on his system. He mentioned CCleaner so I had a hunch. Watch the install screens carefully. Be sure to uncheck any unwanted software. AVG kept crashing and made the system unusable. The
When Microsoft removed the HomeGroup feature from Windows 10 (version 1803 and on) a lot of users complained, and rightly so – yet another useful feature gone by the wayside. By way of supposed compensation, Microsoft introduced another method for sharing files across local PCs
Windows 11’s Start menu is arguably the worst Start menu ever produced by Microsoft. I don’t use the Start menu all that often myself and the last thing I want is for it to be cluttered with information I neither need nor want. The top
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In what is the most comprehensive collection of Windows 10 Tips available anywhere, this is just one of a total 680 Windows 10 Quick Tips articles written by Richard over the years. No matter what sort of advice you are looking for, chances are you’ll
I received the following email about updating my authentication method for my Hotmail account using the Thunderbird email program. Google made us jump through similar loops not too long ago. I went online to determine the proper settings for my Hotmail account and tried to
