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How To Take a Perfect Screenshot & Avoid Cropping the Screen Capture Image?

November 19th, 2009 · Comments · images

You want to take a screenshot of something and not have to fix it when you’re finished.
Screenshots can be tricky if the window, dialog box, or application floats over the main screen. Instead of taking a screenshots of the entire window, you can automatically take only the most active window.

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How to Convert Boring Text into Stunning Tables

November 19th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, Tables, Tips

Let’s say you have a large block of text that you want convert into a table. How do you do it?
I write many technical documents. This means that many times I need to reformat text so that it is more attractive and easier to read. One way to do this is to place the text [...]

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MS Word 2010: Is the new Find re-design better or worse?

October 17th, 2009 · Comments · Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Word 2007, Word 2010

In the new version of Word 2010, there is a new ‘integrated flavor of the Find feature’.
Scott Walker, Lead Program Manager, for Microsoft Word explains that ‘Rather than a modeless dialog box that jumps about on the screen to get out of the way, the basic Find experience now sits conveniently at the top of [...]

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How to Force Word to Close after it Crashes

September 27th, 2009 · Comments · Autoformat, Formatting, How To, Misc, Ribbon, Troubleshooting, Word 2003, Word 2007

Word crashed. But when you go to re-open it, it refuses to do so. What’s happening here and how do I fix it.
When Word crashes, the Winword.exe file may still remain open.

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How to Open and Repair a Damaged Word file

September 27th, 2009 · Comments · Autoformat, Formatting, How To, Ribbon, Troubleshooting, Word 2007

You can “force” Word to recover a document after it has crashed. Here’s how. Microsoft Word tries to automatically recover a damaged document if it detects a problem with the file.

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