Quickly display the number of pages, words, characters, paragraphs, and lines in your Word 2010 document.
For various reasons you might need to know how many words or paragraphs are in your current Microsoft Word 2010 document (school report or essay being a couple).
While the word and page counts may appear in the status bar, here are two ways to get the more detailed information:…
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Tweak an image’s brightness and / or contrast in Publisher 2010 without loading an external image editor.
While Microsoft Publisher 2010 does not include a full-featured image editor, you can make a few simple adjustments to images inside a publication without having to open an external editor.
If you need to tweak an image’s brightness or contrast to better fit a publication, making these changes requires just a few clicks:…
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Configure Windows Live Mail 2011 to ignore read receipt requests instead of prompting you each time.
You may occasionally receive an e-mail via Windows Live Mail 2011 that comes with a Read Receipt request. This is done by the sender to help ensure their messages actually make it to their destinations.
While there are many valid reasons for people to ask for read receipts, you may be concerned about privacy and never want to answer these requests. Thus, instead of always responding no to read receipt requests, you can quickly configure the software to ignore these silently:…
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If you open many PowerPoint 2010 documents daily and every author saves them with their own view, force PowerPoint to start on one particular view.
If you work in an office environment requiring the opening of many Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentations from a variety of authors, you may have noticed that presentations get saved with a variety of views. Perhaps one person was working on Notes when they saved their presentation, another likes using the Outline View, and yet another forgoes notes and displays slides along with thumbnails.
Instead of opening every presentation in the view saved inside the file, you can force PowerPoint 2010 to open every presentation in the view you desire….
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Handle RAR files with the Freeware RarZilla Free Unrar.
If you run Windows and need a utility to just process RAR files and nothing else, German developer Philipp Winterberg has created RarZilla Free Unrar. The software supports drag-and-drop unrar, and also integrates with Windows Explorer so you can double-click a RAR file to process it.
Password-protected RAR files are supported, and features include creating a new folder for extracted files and changing the interface language – German, Spanish, Greek, Russian, and others are available. Note that some languages only change parts of the interface, such as the main instructions tab….
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Boxer Text Editor supports a wide array of customizations, pop-up features such as a HTML color chart, spell check, and more.
Boxer Text Editor is a shareware text editor for Windows with a wide array of customizable options and features for developers. The software includes pop-up calendar and calculator tools, a collection of pop-up lists such as Internet country codes and metric to English conversions, a HTML color chart, ANSI character codes, and more. Syntax highlighting is supported for C#, HTML, PHP, and Ruby, as well as Ada, Fortran, LaTeX, TCL/TK, and more.
Configurable template sets allow quick inserting of C, HTML, and Pascal code, as well as smileys. A macro language is supported, with included example macros such as applying HTML markup to a file, extracting email addresses from a file, and searching for the highlighted text in Google. The software includes a spell checker supporting multiple languages and exception rules such as ignoring all uppercase text….
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This tip defines the following computer memory terms: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte.
Computers and storage mechanisms (CD-ROMs, hard drives, USB flash drives, DVD-ROMs, Blu-ray Discs, etc.) need to hold much larger values than what a byte can hold (0-255). Thus, the terms kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, and yottabyte were created to represent such large amounts of information.
The definition of a kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes; however many people think of it as 1,000 bytes….
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PrintFolders generates TXT or HTML files containing lists of directory contents for later distribution or printing.
For Windows users, while there is a free way to print directory contents, output customizations may take some work. Those who need more flexibility can try out PrintFolders, which generates TXT or HTML files containing the contents of a folder and its subfolders, or of all files on a drive. This file can be printed, shared, or stored with your backups as a file collection catalog. ID3 tags are supported, allowing you to record extra data regarding your MP3 music.
The output file can be configured: choose whether or not to include subfolders and limit the subfolder depth, toggle file extensions, support and display ID3 tags, limit files to those matching a filter, and include description headers for the folders. While the HTML output does not support stylesheets, you can change the background, title background, table border, text, and link colors, and a custom title may be supplied….
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Use a nickname or your business name when sending e-mail from Gmail.
Normally when you send e-mail from Gmail, your e-mail’s “From” name is the name you used to sign up for the service. However, if you’d rather use the name of your business or your favorite nickname, you can make this change.
1. After signing onto Gmail, click “Settings” on the top-right of the Gmail webpage….
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Learn about monopoly power as Kramer tries to sneak coffee into a movie theatre.
In today’s hard economic times you’ve probably been bored to tears hearing about economic terms such as nominal exchange rates, financial intermediation, and the depreciation of capital.
What better way to understand economic terms than to watch classic Seinfeld clips? That is exactly what Professor Linda S. Ghent, Associate Professor Alan Grant, and Assistant George Lesica of Eastern Illinois and Baker Universities thought. These educators have combined videos of Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer, so by watching them talk to a lawyer about spilled coffee, try to find an automobile in a huge parking garage, and discuss a “big salad”, you may learn economic concepts such as comparative advantage, opportunity cost, and rate of time preference….
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