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- Microsoft Word 2010 - Make Sure Others Can See Your Fonts
Embed fonts inside your Word 2010 documents to ensure others can see your texts as designed.
If you plan on exporting a Microsoft Word 2010 document to an earlier format for those with older versions of Office, or if you use non-standard fonts in your documents, others may not be able to see them as designed.
By default, Word 2010 does not include copies of fonts inside document files. If you send a file to a friend, co-worker, or family member, and they do not have the fonts referenced in the document, their copy of Word will try to substitute alternate fonts. Thus, your documents may not display as designed. However, this setting can be changed:...
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- Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Animations or Video Displaying Poorly?
An old graphics card or poorly-implemented driver may be causing display problems for your PowerPoint 2010 presentations. Learn how to switch to software-based rendering for increased compatibility.
In some situations, a complex Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation with videos, transitions, and animations may display poorly on a computer with an older or non-standard video card. This may be due to the fact that PowerPoint is trying to use the graphics card's hardware-based acceleration features, but these are not implemented correctly.
If updating your video card's drivers (if applicable) does not solve video and animation problems, you may wish to turn hardware acceleration off in PowerPoint. Note that doing so may slow down videos or animations, especially if you have other processes running....
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- [MODIFIED] Google Chrome - Report a Malfunctioning Web Page, Crash, or Other ...
If you are experiencing crashes in Google Chrome, pages that are not displaying correctly yet work fine inside other browsers, or if you have run into a suspected phishing site, report your findings to Google.
If you're having trouble with a particular web page while browsing the web in Google Chrome, and if the page displays and works correctly with Firefox, Internet Explorer, and other web browsers, you can report the problem to Google.
Or, is Google Chrome crashing often? Are you having difficulty with syncing preferences across machines? Have you run across a potential phishing webpage (a site that looks official but you can tell is trying to steal your personal information)? You can report these issues to Google as well....
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- Google Gmail - Show Unread Message Count as an Icon
Glance at your web browser's Tab Bar to see how many new messages are in your Gmail Inbox.
Do you keep a web browser tab or window open all the time waiting for an important message in your Gmail Inbox?
One way to more easily see at-a-glance whether or not new mail has arrived inside your Inbox is to place the number of new messages directly in the browser / tab icon - see the below screenshot for an example:...
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- Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Fade an Image to the Background with a Soft Edge
Apply customizable soft edges to photos and clip-art inside PowerPoint 2010 presentations.
Instead of simply placing a picture inside a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation, one option for stylistic effect is to apply a soft edge. This makes the picture seem to fade to the background around the edges, a sometimes pleasing effect. See the below screenshot for an example.
1. Select an image to modify....
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- Microsoft Publisher 2010 - Save AutoRecover Information More or Less Often
If you're worried about program crashes and power outages, you may want Publisher 2010 to save AutoRecover information more often to reduce the chances of losing work.
By default, Microsoft Publisher 2010 saves AutoRecover information for open publications every 10 minutes. So, if a program / operating system crash or power failure shuts down Publisher before you forget to save your open files, upon restart of the software you may be able to recover some of your editing.
10 minutes may be too long an interval; a theoretical crash 9 minutes and 59 seconds after the latest save or AutoRecover save can cause you to lose a great deal of work. Reducing this interval may cause less work to be lost due to catastrophic failure. On the other hand, you might find it quite annoying that Publisher pauses so often to save the information and decide to increase this interval....
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- Microsoft Word 2010 - Remove White Space Between Pages in Print Layout View
In Word 2010, if there is too much white space between pages when viewing documents in Print Layout View, here's how to reduce it.
When viewing Microsoft Word 2010 documents in "Print Layout" view, a small amount of space is added between pages, presumably to make the separation between pages more clear-cut onscreen.
If you perform document editing where you need to look at the bottom of one page and the top of the next page, you might find these few pixels a waste of space, especially on smaller monitors. Thus there are a couple of ways you can reduce the space between pages to only a couple of pixels:...
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- Microsoft Excel 2010 - Filtering Data in a Worksheet, with an Example
Instructions on how to filter data in an Excel 2010 worksheet, with screenshots showing filters performed on an example worksheet.
When viewing a worksheet in Microsoft Excel 2010 with a large series of data, it might prove useful to only display a subset matching desired criteria. Examples may include only showing salespeople with over $25,000 in monthly sales, budget items costing $5,000 or more, or students scoring at least an 80 on a test.
To display this subset you can use Excel 2010's Filter tool. ...
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- Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Toggle Gridlines, Guides, and Rulers When Designi...
Use rulers, drawing guides, and / or gridlines to arrange objects inside slides in PowerPoint 2010 presentations.
Designing complicated slide layouts in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010?
It might prove useful to show items to aid in arranging text, images, graphs, and other objects on a slide. With a couple of clicks you can view horizontal and vertical rulers, gridlines on which objects are aligned, and adjustable drawing guides....
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- [MODIFIED] Mozilla Firefox - Plugins and Extensions - Generate Passwords Auto...
If you're tired of creating passwords every time you log into a new web service, the pwgen extension can generate passwords for you.
Although some web services let you logon with a preexisting Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Yahoo account, many still require generating user accounts where you need to enter passwords. Required for security, good passwords should include a variety of characters including lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and punctuation symbol. However, generating these passwords can be cumbersome.
The "pwgen" extension for Mozilla Firefox can help reduce some of the annoyances when signing up for new accounts by creating passwords for you. New passwords are automatically copied to the clipboard so you can paste them into websites and (optionally) password management applications. And if you don't like a password or don't find it tough enough for your needs, just click the "P" again to generate a new one....
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- [MODIFIED] Yahoo Mail - Add a Signature to Your Messages
Automatically add text to the end of your Yahoo! Mail e-mails such as your job title, an advertisement, or an interesting quote.
Many people add signature texts to the end of their e-mails. Signatures may include one's job title and company, a brief advertisement, contact information such as one's Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, or a humorous or inspirational quote.
If you'd like to add a signature to the end of all messages sent via Yahoo! Mail, do the following:...
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- Docks - Program Launchers - Freeware to Launch Apps with a couple of Keystrokes
MadAppLauncher lets you set up groups of applications where you can launch one without using the mouse.
Looking for another way to group your Windows applications together and run them without having to navigate the "Start" menu?
If you're tired of using the mouse, you may wish to consider MadAppLauncher, a freeware (GPL) application launcher. This application launcher can be run via a customizable hotkey, and programs may be placed into one of ten tabs. After adding program information to the launcher (right-click a virtual button and select "Edit"), just start the software by pressing the launcher hotkey, then a number to switch tabs, and then a letter / punctuation / function key to start the configured application. See the below screenshot for an example configuration....
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- Mozilla Firefox - Plugins and Extensions - Restart Firefox via the Menu or Ke...
The "Restartless Restart" extension for Firefox provides a menu item and keyboard shortcut you can use to shut down and relaunch the browser.
There are various reasons you may need to restart Mozilla Firefox, such as if you open a lot of tabs or use complex web applications and find the web browser running slower and/or leaking memory.
While various extensions exist to restart Firefox, the "Restartless Restart" extension has a couple of nice features. After installation, it is ready for use immediately without restarting Firefox. And, the extension adds a "Restart" option to the menu and a keyboard shortcut - Ctrl + Alt + R (this may differ on non-Windows platforms)....
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- Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 - Change the Default Pen and "Laser Pointer" Colors
Make the annotating pen and virtual laser pointer appear in different colors while displaying a PowerPoint 2010 slide show.
When displaying a slide show in Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, you can access a Pen tool from the right-click menu and draw / annotate on top of the current presentation. Also, by holding the CTRL key down and then using the left mouse button, you can activate a "laser pointer" to draw attention to certain points of a slide.
By default, both the pen and laser pointer are red. If you want to change these settings, do the following:...
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- Microsoft Excel 2010 - Double or Accounting Underline Text
Choose from several underline styles in an Excel 2010 workbook.
It's simple to underline text in Microsoft Excel 2010 - either press the CTRL + U keys or press the U button in the Font section of the "Home" tab in the Ribbon. However, you may not know that a couple of other underline styles are available besides the single basic underline, such as styles that underline everything except currency symbols. See the screenshot on the right for an example.
1. Select a cell you want to underline in a different style. Note that you can only apply one underline style per cell....
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- Mozilla Firefox - Plugins and Extensions - Share Sites via Twitter, Facebook,...
The AddThis extension for Mozilla Firefox provides a toolbar where you can share websites via a variety of social networks and other services.
Do you often share websites via Facebook, Twtter, Reddit, or other social networks / services? Do you have multiple toolbars installed inside Mozilla Firefox and wish there was just one toolbar you could install to share pages with virtually any popular service?
The "AddThis" extension allows you to quickly share web pages via a customizable list of services. This Firefox extension installs a toolbar for quick access to popular services, or you can optionally turn on a toolbar button instead, and/or you can access sharing features via the right-click context menu or an icon on the URL bar....
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- Microsoft Word 2010 - Create Lists Without the Ribbon
Create bulleted, numbered, and multilevel (such as outline) lists without using the Ribbon.
Do you often need to create bulleted, numbered, and multilevel (e.g. outline) lists in your Microsoft Word 2010 documents?
Forgo the Ribbon and create lists just by typing. Word 2010 automatically converts the following characters into a list and will format your text appropriately. Note that to end a list, press the Enter key twice. Pressing Shift+Enter goes to the next line without advancing the list counter....
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- Google Chrome - Create Placeholder Lorem Ipsum Text
Graphics designers - generate placeholder Lorem Ipsum text via a button inside Google Chrome while designing layouts of publications and web pages.
If you often design documents and web pages, if you do not have content ready for the various elements you might resort to dummy placeholder text such as the famous Lorem Ipsum placeholders. While some software packages and web pages can generate this text, you may find the "Lorem Ipsum Generator" for Google Chrome convenient. This extension adds a button directly to the toolbar allowing you to generate paragraphs of varying words.
To install this extension:...
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- Microsoft Outlook 2010 - Enlarge or Change the Calendar Date Navigator Font
Make the Date Navigator easier to read in Outlook 2010, or customize the font.
If you find the small font of the Date Navigator in Microsoft Outlook 2010 difficult to view, or you find it hard to click on the small day numbers, you may wish to enlarge the font.
Especially if you have a larger monitor and resize the Navigation pane, you can increase the font size by a few points. Or, for the sake of customization you may also wish to change the font entirely from its default....
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- Microsoft Publisher 2010 - Draw Attention; Border Text with a Graphic
Add BorderArt to a text box to draw attention to important information or just to spice up a publication.
Looking to focus the reader's eyes on a particular block of text in a Microsoft Publisher 2010 document? Instead of applying normal dotted or solid line borders, why not surround text with apples, confetti, pumpkins, trees, or a design of your own choosing?
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