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A lot of people have no idea how to use illustrations, charts, and tables in Microsoft Word and unfortunately, they miss out on a lot because they lack that knowledge. Graphic items (ie, pictures, icons, shapes, charts, etc,) are referred to as Illustrations. Simply put […]
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Improvements In Edge A Quick Look Back With the 2015 release of Edge, I was eager to compare it to Chrome and Firefox, my most used browsers at that time. I was glad to see Microsoft move away from IE, a browser with an exceptionally
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Preventing Sign-In After Sleep Having the security of a password is a sound way to keep yourself safe from others using your computer when you are away. But if you are the only user, then having an extra step to access your computer after stepping
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I deleted a shared resource but it still shows up in my Network settings. I had a hard drive that I removed from one of my computers that was labeled Drive E. The drive is gone but the E drive still displays in the network
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There is a button called Shapes, which is very useful because it can be manipulated in a lot of ways. You will find that shapes are very versatile and there are many to choose from. In Word, shapes are known as vector graphics, which are
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One of my main grudges with Windows 11 is being forced to use a Microsoft account rather than a local one in the setup. There are a few posted tricks to bypass this online. I’m going to install Windows 11 on one of my old
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Microsoft Word gives us myriad shapes we can use to enhance our documents. We have gone over several of them this month. Today we will learn how to insert icons! Icons are images that represent other things. In Word, they are black-and-white line drawings that
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In this article, I’ll show you how to add the “Copy To” and “Move To” options into Explorer’s right-click context menu. This is a registry hack that has been around since Windows 7 days and still works today. This guide is specific to Windows 11
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Jim Hillier recently wrote an article explaining firewalls. In it, he posed the question, Is Windows Firewall good enough? Jim concluded that while a business may need an expensive enterprise-level firewall, the included free firewall is fine for the average Windows PC user. It is
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Although I don’t use Windows Search much anymore, preferring Everything, which I wrote about last December in Everything – Windows Search At Light Speed, it seems that Microsoft is determined to ram Bing down our throats at any given opportunity. Bing may be an excellent
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Windows Fax And Scan was first introduced in Windows Vista back in 2007 and has been an integral part of Windows ever since… if you can find it. Some may wonder why I’m writing about a program that’s 16 years old, especially since hardly anyone
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I received more than one question regarding an earlier post (How To Convert Handwriting to Text in OneNote 365) and so in an effort to clear up any more confusion, please refer to the post below. If your computer has a touch screen, you can
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Yes, folks, you read that correctly – the new TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) security mechanism that Microsoft insisted everyone must have to enhance security includes a serious security flaw. This recently discovered vulnerability in TPM 2.0 could allow hackers to execute malicious code, which
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You get a new version of Microsoft Word and boom! Nothing is the same as it was before! You cannot find your ruler! Try as you might, it seems to have disappeared. Or, you never had your ruler showing in your older version of Word!
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