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As someone who reads my posts or knows me, you should know that I am all about saving time and keystrokes. I hate to waste a minute! In that vein, below is a very handy, dandy, little shortcut that will do just that for you […]
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In this article, I’ll present a step-by-step guide on how to add natural voices to the Windows 11 Narrator. Narrator is an option among Windows 11’s accessibility features which provide assistance for disabled users. Narrator already includes a number of computer-generated voice options but now
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Recover Word, Excel, And PowerPoint Documents Have you ever started an Office document and switched to something else before finishing it? You might forget you started it and shut down the PC or perhaps you were in the middle of a document, and you accidentally
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Overview Recently, my main computer suffered misfortune and I had to get a new one and set it up. As I was nearing completion of the setup, I noticed that the context menus were overloaded. I thought this would make an interesting article. I am
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There are a fair number of folks out there who consider it very tricky and difficult to create a custom table. I suppose if you want to get all fancy-schmancy with it, it will quickly become a lot trickier than it needs to be. Me?
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Microsoft has announced that it will soon be removing WordPad from Windows 11. WordPad is a basic word processor that has been included for free with every operating system since Windows 95. One can only assume that this decision by Microsoft is purely to entice
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Using Quick Create In Hyper-V Manager In the previous articles, we installed a Linux system using an ISO file by following the steps offered in Hyper-V Manager. This method gives you the widest choice of options and experienced users can modify settings to fit their
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Fixing Blank Icons Have you ever experienced blank photo icons on your Desktop or in a Folder? Instead of seeing that thumbnail image of your last vacation, it appears as a blank image with an icon of the default application for opening photos on your
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I have had more than one complaint about how it is becoming more and more difficult to resize very large documents by dragging the column divider. It seems as if this has only been occurring with very long documents with lots and lots of tables.
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Whether you’re running Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or 10, in this article I will explain your upgrade options. Upgrading from Win 7/8/8.1 to Win 10 Yes, it is still possible (at the time of writing this article) to upgrade from those older operating systems to
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How To Install Linux In Hyper-V Once you have completed the steps to enable Hyper-V on your PC, the next step is deciding which new Operating system to install. Operating Systems range from Windows XP through Windows 11 to full Linux and FreeBSD systems. Search
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I sometimes copy and paste some notes from websites into another document to print for personal use. When you do this with a website you can end up with the formatting of the website page as well – colours, bullet points, etc., which I don’t
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In a previous post, I told you how to insert a table in Word. Now that you have that down pat, I will tell you how to draw a table in Word. Yes, it is possible to manually draw your table in Word. Me? I
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What Is Copilot Microsoft has released Copilot on both Dev and Beta Insider channels. Usually when a preview is released, I am reluctant to write an article about it because it might not make it to the final version of Windows. But once Microsoft releases
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