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I was setting up my mom’s new computer this week and noticed that the second hard drive was much bigger. The smaller one had the Windows operating system which is the C: drive but the other one had nothing on it. So I wanted to […]
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One of the most important things I can stress is learning the basic quick keys. It is a skill set that will help you the most. Your mouse navigates around your screen easily, but if you can move around without taking your hand off your
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2023 will almost certainly go down in tech history as the year of AI. 2023 has seen the emergence of AI as the next big thing, with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and its offspring DALL-E image creator, plus Google’s Bard AI creating much interest and discussion. However,
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Do you stutter, hem and haw, or use a lot of ums or ers in your PowerPoint show? I know many folks do and it is nothing to be ashamed of. The shame would be doing nothing about it! I am here to tell you
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I have no idea if this is a local (Australian) thing or a worldwide trend, but I am seeing refurbished older PCs running Windows 11 advertised at very reasonable prices. Now, here’s the problem: many of these refurbished machines are fitted with CPUs that do
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So in an earlier post, I told you about Bullets you could create using the Symbol Font. But there is more! One of my favorite fonts to use for bullets is Webdings! There you will find all manner of things to use such as spider webs,
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There is a growing demand for Microsoft to extend support for Windows 10, largely initiated by the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG). Support for Windows 10 is currently set to expire in October 2025, meaning that the operating system will not receive any security updates
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In some past articles, I have told you about bullets and how much fun they can be. Having said that, many folks find these automatic bullets and numbering a big pain! By default, if you key in an asterisk or 1., Word intuits that you
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I wrote before about creating greeting cards using OpenOffice. Read here: How To Create Greeting Cards In OpenOffice I purchased the “Hallmark Card Studio” sometime after that. It was on sale and, no, this is not a paid review. It’s merely one of the programs
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You know I am all about saving time and keystrokes and this is no exception. You can search your email for a single word or phrase, but Outlook also includes a number of built-in searches. Select the Filter Email button on your Ribbon to find
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Make Icons Look The Way You Want The icons used in most of the software and applications in Windows are beneficial because most people can recognize an icon quicker than only small text. However, Windows tends to make most of its icons blue for some
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Folks who are not in the know often make the mistake of creating new sections or pages by simply hitting their Enter key repeatedly until they have created the appearance of a new page or a new section in their document. It drives me crazy
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I firmly believe that many issues with Windows are caused by the user’s bad habits and can often be put down to what I call a “messy” system. What Constitutes A Messy System? Numerous factors contribute to a messy system, including: Continually Installing and Uninstalling
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I rarely turn off my desktop computer but sometimes I need a restart. Of all the programs that open automatically on startup, I would like my email program, Thunderbird, to be one of them. Thunderbird, at the time of this writing, does not support that
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