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Tue
29
Jan
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'Fontspace', and 'Black Box'

Fontspace FontSpace is an online community of font designers and enthusiasts. All the 7433 free typefaces have been hand-categorized for you to use in your graphic design, scrapbooking, or document purposes. http://www.fontspace.com/ Black Box Black ... Box is a Steganography application, basically hiding a hidden message in plain sight. This secret message can be concealed within the image without any obvious changes to the Bitmap image. http://evilsystems.co.za/ (view more)

Mon
14
Jan
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Set a language to a Style in Word

When you enter text into your Word document other than English, chances are Word will not recognize it and will interpret it as misspelled. If it is necessary for you to have sections of non-English text within your English-language Word documents, ... then you know how annoying it is when Word checks the spelling of the non-English text using its English dictionary. Word is programmed to automatically proofread your document for the language version that is installed on your computer. If you purchased your licensed copy of MS Word in the United States, your text will all be marked as English (U. ... (view more)

Thu
13
Sep
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'Virtual Box', and 'Win Tabber'

Virtual Box Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Virtual Box has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming ... interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once; for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. http://www.virtualbox.org/ Win Tabber WinTabber can add tabs to many windows: a tabbed browser, ... (view more)

Thu
23
Aug
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Desktop Faxing in MS Word 2007 Using your Modem

Philip recently wrote to inquire: I would like to ask if it is possible to still send a fax through MS Word 2007 without actually having to connect to the Internet because since I upgraded to MS Office 2007, the option that used to allow me to send ... faxes through Word 2003 is no longer available. I hope you can help. My Reply: You can easily send faxes from your computer instead of a stand-alone fax machine and you can indeed send a fax using Microsoft Word using your modem instead of the Internet Follow the steps below to fax with MS Word 2007: Open your document in MS Word. Click the Office ... (view more)

Fri
20
Jul
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'Windows In A Box', and 'Kruptos 2'

Windows In A Box Inside Windows XP are hundreds of settings, many hidden, that require endless clicking through that can get really frustrating. Windows In A Box was designed to eliminate all that; it sits on your desktop, is easy to navigate, and ... puts an end to all the frustration of endless searching for settings. UPDATE: If you can't get it from the primary site, there's an alternate download site. http://bigdaddydesign.5gbfree.com/windowsinabox.htm Kruptos 2 Kruptos 2 is a powerful 128 bit file encryption utility that allows you to secure any sensitive files stored on your PC or portable ... (view more)

Wed
18
Jul
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Being Politically Correct in MS Word

Sometimes you want to be careful to use gender-neutral words in your documents. Word's grammar checker offers an option that will underline words that violate this gender neutrality with a green squiggly line, similar to what it does for sentence ... fragments, run-on sentences, and other grammar misfits. To ask Word to check for gender-specific terms such as 'policeman', follow the steps below: In Word 2002/2003: Choose Tools | Options from the main menu. Go to Spelling ... (view more)

Wed
13
Jun
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'File Box Extender', and 'Tera Copy'

File Box Extender FileBox enhances Windows by adding several advanced functions to the standard Open File and Save File dialog boxes. FileBox adds two handy buttons to these standard dialogs, which appear on the right side of the Windows dialog box ... title bars. These buttons appear next to the minimize, restore, and maximize buttons with which you're probably already familiar. FileBox can also forcibly resize the standard Windows file management dialog boxes so they're bigger, and thus easier to use if you've got lots of files in a folder. FileBox eXtender has a nifty option to display these ... (view more)

Fri
11
May
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Scheduling Appointments in MS Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007 makes it surprisingly easy to add appointments. It will also warn you when you have double-booked! There are two ways to enter an appointment. One is very quick and the other is more complete. If you know you're going to have lunch with ... your sister on Tuesday, it's not that big a deal and so you can simply click on the starting time of your lunch date on your calendar, type a description, such as Lunch with Sis, and press Enter. Voila! Your appointment is now scheduled. Oftentimes the appointments that you set up at work require you to include a bit more detail that you would ... (view more)

Thu
29
Mar
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Using the SUBTOTAL Function with AutoFilter: MS Excel

When AutoFilter is activated, Excel recognizes that a calculated total should reflect only the record that are currently displayed in the data list. For example, in a data list of business expenses with an Amount field, it would be possible to ... create a formula at the bottom of the field that reflects the total amount of only those amounts displayed by the filter. The SUBTOTAL function is used to calculate a total amount based on a filter. Follow these steps to use the SUBTOTAL function with AutoFilter: Click in a cell in the column to subtotal. Click Sort Ascending or Sort Descending. On the ... (view more)

Wed
21
Mar
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Defining a Custom List: MS Excel

There may be times when you will find it necessary to sort a data list on something other than the alphabet. You can define a custom list of elements on which to base the criteria for a sort. Excel provides a built-in custom sort routine that lists ... months in their chronological order from January to December. Other lists can be created from an existing range of cells or simply entered on the Custom Lists tab of the Options dialog box. Follow the steps below to see how it works: Choose Tools | Options. The Options dialog box opens. Click on the Custom Lists tab. Choose New List in the Custom ... (view more)

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