When you write a Microsoft Word document it creates a temporary file (.tmp) that saves your file as you work. When Word crashes — even if you have NOT saved the file —the tmp file is still on your PC. Want to find where it is? Here’s how to do it.
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How do you convert 100 images to same file format, add a 1 pixel black border, and make them all the same size? I used to use Adobe Photoshop to batch process photos but have now moved to Snagit.
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How to Stop Microsoft Word Getting a Macro Virus
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This tutorial explains how to retrieve information from Microsoft Word documents that may have become corrupt. We have provided as many screenshots as possible to show you the steps you need to take. Let’s start.
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How to convert backslash characters into Yen signs in Word 2007
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Question: I have a serious problem, I am unable to edit any of the document. All documents/sheets are locked. Why do they say ‘read-only’?’
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You know the feeling. You’ve been working hard on the computer all day. It gets hard to read anything. You could change the text size by using the Zoom control’s drop-down menu on the Toolbar… but even that’s too much hard work.
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Like its brother-in-arms, the Screensaver, the Windows Desktop Themes eat away at your computer’s memory. Unless you really need them, uninstall! You’ll have a much quicker and more reliable machine.To change or remove desktop themes, follow these steps:
On the Desktop, right-click and click Properties.
Click the Themes tab.
3. In the Theme box, select the theme [...]
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The bright white text area of most word processors can become a quite tiring on the eyes after a few hours. You can of course jiggle the brightness and contrast settings on your monitor but a far better solution is to give your blank pages a light grey tint.
Open Word so that you can judge [...]
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If you are constantly fussing over fonts for your documents then there’s a very handy feature in Windows that allows you to quickly compare typefaces according to style and design.
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How to Fix MS Word After It Crashes – Fix the Normal.dot file
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Crop marks are markers that appear in the top left and right of your Microsoft Word documents.
These are called ‘crop marks’. To remove these, you have to disable Asian language support.
This often appear after you open a file which has an Asian language setting; Microsoft Office might activate this setting to display embedded fonts. It’s just trying to be helpful. The thing is: how do you remove it? When you open a document in Microsoft Word, margin marks or crop marks may appear on each corner of the page.
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If you want to know how many words there are in a paragraph, or block of copy, select the text and click on Word Count.
To create a keyboard shortcut to Word Count:
From the Tools menu, click Customize.
Select the Command tab and highlight Tools in the list of Categories.
Scroll down the list of Commands and select [...]
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When working on long documents it is sometimes useful to be able to see and edit other sections of the text at the same time. Word will let you do exactly that, though unless you stumble on the feature by accident you’ll probably never know it exists.
It’s really easy to use, all you have [...]
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