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A website designed for document sharing will soon allow authors to sell electronic copies of their books. The endeavor could mark a dramatic evolution in the publishing industry. Scribd.com will take advantage of its iPaper technology, designed to ... show any document format on any computer. The iPaper format works similarly to Adobe's PDF (portable document format), but is purpose-built for the web and does not require the user have any software installed. Readers can also download the entire file in its original format. At the moment, the site exists for a variety of purposes, such as allowing ... (view more)

There may be occasions when you want to omit a column or row of data from a printed copy of your spreadsheet, but still have the rest of your spreadsheet in your favorite format. Follow the steps below to learn how to hide a row or column: Select ... the column or row you would like to hide. Click Format | Column | Hide. To hide a row, click Format | Row | Hide. Follow the steps below to unhide rows or columns: Select the columns or rows you on either side of the hidden column. Click on Format | Column | Unhide to unhide the column. To unhide a row, click on Format | Row | Unhide. The column or ... (view more)

When you use the Caption feature in MS Word, a label and number can be assigned to each figure in your document. By default, MS Word assigns each figure a number beginning with number 1 and so on. However, if you do not want to use this number ... format for the figures, you have the option to change it. Follow the steps below to change the number format for a caption: Launch MS Word. Select the caption you want to change. Click Insert | Reference | Caption. From the Caption dialog box, click the Numbering button. Use the drop-down arrow beside Format, and select the number format you would like ... (view more)

Have you ever wanted to take a video file from your computer and watch it using a DVD player? If so, chances are you associate such activities with utter FRUSTRATION. How to Watch a Video File using a DVD Player Many users think that if you copy a ... video file to a DVD disc, a DVD player will show the video -- but that's not the case. The reason is that most DVD players can only recognize 1 video format ("the DVD format"), whereas computers can understand MANY different video file formats. Thus, attempting to play any video file format inside a DVD player other than "the DVD ... (view more)

Sometimes within your worksheet, you may have different, non-standard numbers. Perhaps you have dates and times and currency numbers. If you want MS Excel 2007 to interpret these different, non-standard numbers the way that you do, you will need to ... format the number properties in the cell in which they appear. Follow the steps below to change the number formatting of a cell in MS Excel 2007: On the Home tab of the Ribbon, find the Number group. In the Number group, there are various different options you can use to quickly format the numbers in your selected cells. The first option you will ... (view more)

Officials in India, Brazil and South Africa have all filed official protests against an international decision backing Microsoft's controversial 'open' document format. Office Open XML (OOXML) is Microsoft's own invented format where documents (such ... as those created in word processors or spreadsheets) are designed to work on all computers regardless of what software is being used. The problem is that there's already an open format named OpenDocument which was created by an independent organisation. Critics say it's redundant to have a second open format -- by definition there only needs to be ... (view more)

A reader asked if there was any formula in Excel that would convert a date shown in the European format of day-month-year to the U.S. version of month-day-year. Technically, it may not be necessary to do this. Excel maintains dates as numeric values ... and displays them using various formats. If the dates are numeric values in your worksheet, then you can simply change the format and the dates will be displayed in the U.S. format. The day you see in a worksheet could instead be a text value rather than a numeric value. To see if the date is truly an Excel date or text value, you can change the ... (view more)

The second major format war is over, and this time Sony has actually appeared to come out on top! Yesterday, Toshiba announced it was throwing in the towel and officially discontinuing its HD DVD format, former rival to Sony's Blu-ray. (Source: ... yahoo.com ) The announcement opens the way for Blu-ray to become the industry standard for the next generation of home video. The format war created a lot of hesitancy among customers to invest in second generation players while the two-tiered system existed. There are approximately 30 million high definition television sets in homes across the United ... (view more)

Just months after it appeared Paramount's decision to exclusively back Toshiba's HD-DVD would save the format from what seemed an inevitable demise, Sony's Blu-ray is again threatening to snuff out its competition. Sales figures peg Blu-ray movie ... titles well ahead of the competition with the 2007 holiday season now just another footnote in the history books. According to statistics filtering out of the Blu-ray Disc Association's recent press event, Sony's format outsold the competition from HD-DVD by 2-to-1 when it came to total 2007 movie sales. Moreover, there was not a single week during ... (view more)