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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Stop Asking to Save Ink Annotations!

06 Aug

Prevent PowerPoint 2010 from even asking to save ink annotations after a presentation.

When you give presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, you might choose to use the Pen or Highlighter tools. These can draw attention to a portion of a slide, draw shapes, write text, etc.

After exiting a presentation, PowerPoint 2010 asks if you want to save these ink annotations. However, if you give the same presentation to multiple audiences, the annotations may only be for the benefit of one group of people and do not need to be kept. So why have PowerPoint ask you this when you can configure an option that automatically discards them?…

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Windows 7 – Rotate Photos with the Keyboard

02 Aug

Stop switching between the mouse and keyboard in Windows 7 – adjust photo orientation using these keyboard shortcuts.

After copying a selection of photos to your Windows 7 machine over from a memory stick or digital camera, you might find that you need to rotate some photographs that were taken in portrait view into a landscape view orientation, and vice-versa.

One way to do this is to right-click a photo in Explorer and choose “Rotate clockwise” or “Rotate counterclockwise” as desired, as shown below:…

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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Quick Tip: Add a Manual Line Break

24 Jul

A keyboard shortcut to manually add a line break inside a cell.

If you have a lot of text that needs to be placed inside a cell in a Microsoft Excel 2010 workbook, you could decrease the size of the font to fit more text inside, but do so too much and the text will become ineligible. You could increase the cell width, but this affects every cell in the column. And you could merge neighbor cells together so the text flows automatically to the right, but depending on your layout this may not be feasible.

Or, one other option is to wrap the text in a cell. But pressing ENTER while typing data into a cell moves the cell pointer down, so how can this be done? …

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Miscellaneous Software – Open Source Freeware to Encrypt Files

20 May

AxCrypt integrates with Windows Explorer, allowing you to encrypt and decrypt files that need to remain private.

If you need to distribute files with private information to areas where those not intended to view their contents might also have access, consider AxCrypt. AxCrypt is an open source application that allows you to encrypt individual files on a Windows machine with 128-bit key encryption.

Files can be encrypted via right-clicking in Explorer, choosing “AxCrypt”, then choosing to “Encrypt”, “Encrypt a copy”, or “Encrypt copy to EXE’. Passwords or keyfiles are supported for encryption, and if your computer is secure, you can choose to remember passwords so encrypted files are automatically decrypted when on your machine. Or, decrypting a file is as simple as double-clicking the newly encrypted file icon and entering decryption credentials….

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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Working on a Wide Worksheet? Make ENTER Move to the Right

20 May

If you’re editing a wide worksheet with the 10-key, you might find it more convenient to have the ENTER key move the cursor to the cell to the right.

By default, when editing a worksheet in Microsoft Excel 2010, you can press the Tab key to move the selection cursor to the cell to the right, and Enter moves to the below cell.

If you’re editing a wide worksheet with a 10-key, you might find it more convenient to have the Enter key move to the cell to the right, just like the Tab key. The following shows you how to make this change. In fact, you can have Enter move up or to the left, if desired:…

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Screen Capture – Screen Capture Supporting Editing Features, Text Capture

20 May

HyperSnap supports a wide variety of screen capture modes, image editing post-capture, and capturing text.

HyperSnap, a screen capture application for Windows, supports a variety of screen capture types including full screen, active window, free hand, and “Entire Page with Scrolling”, allowing you to capture an entire webpage including elements “below the fold” in a web browser such as Firefox.

“TextSnap” allows you to capture a window or region and convert the capture to text that is placed in the Windows Clipboard. A variety of drawing tools are available to edit captured screenshots, such as shapes, freehand draw, stamps, flood fill, and text. Several image effects can be used such as emboss, sharpen or blur, frame, and shear. Other features include uploading screen captures via FTP, sending captures via e-mail, printing all screen captures, and special features to capture screens from games….

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Miscellaneous Software – Freeware to Copy Files and Verify

20 May

TeraCopy integrates with Windows Explorer to perform file copying with a verify option, and you can pause and resume large copies.

TeraCopy is a freeware (for personal or educational use) file copy utility for Windows. Besides performing high speed copying, other features include file verification via source and target CRC checks which you can manually run or configure to activate after every copy.

Other features include the ability to pause and resume file copying, integration with Windows Explorer, and playing a sound to alert you when file copying is complete, useful when performing a large copy operation….

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Microsoft Outlook 2010 – Display Formatting Marks When Editing Email

20 May

Display formatting marks for paragraphs, spaces, tabs, and other characters when editing e-mails and other items in Outlook 2010.

You may have Microsoft Word 2010 configured to show formatting marks when editing documents. Examples of these marks include dots to signify spaces (to help ensure you don’t have too many between words), right arrows to signify tabs (to differentiate between tab characters and just a group of spaces), and pilcrows to signify new paragraphs.

If you are accustomed to seeing these marks you can enable them in Microsoft Outlook 2010 when editing e-mails, even when doing so in plain-text mode:…

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iPhone – iPod Touch – Turn Keyboard Clicking Sound On or Off

20 May

Toggle the sound made when pressing keys on the iPod / iPod Touch virtual keyboard.

Many people like the clicking sound the iPod Touch and iPhone devices make when pressing a key on the virtual keyboard, especially if they have difficulty typing on the small device and need to be assured their key presses were registered. However, when typing a large amount of text in public this sound may annoy others. Luckily it can be easily turned on or off:

1. Access the “Settings” utility / app….

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iGoogle – Browse Over 200 Comic Strips

20 May

Create your own virtual funny pages on your iGoogle Page with comics such as Broom Hilda, Garfield, Non Sequitur, and Wizard of Id.

Need some humor when you wake up and start your day on your iGoogle page?

The “GoComics from Universal Uclick” gadget lets you display comics from strips Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Doonesbury, Garfield, Non Sequitur, and more. You can create your own virtual comics page with the “My Comics” feature allowing you to jump between the funnies with one click. Over 200 comics are available to make you laugh and sometimes even make you think….

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Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Stop Asking to Save Ink Annotations!

Windows 7 – Rotate Photos with the Keyboard

Microsoft Excel 2010 – Quick Tip: Add a Manual Line Break

Miscellaneous Software – Open Source Freeware to Encrypt Files

Microsoft Excel 2010 – Working on a Wide Worksheet? Make ENTER Move to the Right

Screen Capture – Screen Capture Supporting Editing Features, Text Capture

Miscellaneous Software – Freeware to Copy Files and Verify

Microsoft Outlook 2010 – Display Formatting Marks When Editing Email

iPhone – iPod Touch – Turn Keyboard Clicking Sound On or Off

iGoogle – Browse Over 200 Comic Strips

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