Downloading videos to save bandwidth
With the popularity of video sites such as YouTube, many people are nowadays spending a lot of time watching videos which are hosted online. What most people are not realising is that every time they play a video they are using up a lot of bandwidth because every time a video is being played, [...]
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Tip: Microsoft Word hangs on the splash screen
Recently, I opened Microsoft Word to write a post for TechieViews and the application just hanged on the splash screen. All other applications in the Office suite such as Excel and PowerPoint were still working perfectly, and although Word itself offered me to launch itself in ’safe mode’ and later to ‘fix’ itself, nothing [...]
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Software Tip: Changing from Caps to Lower Case (or Vice Versa) in Microsoft Office
If you have text that is in the wrong case, select (highlight) the text, and then click Shift+F3 until it changes to the case style that you like. Clicking Shift+F3 toggles the text case between ALL CAPS, lower case, and Initial Capital styles. You’ll be surprised how often you will use this once you get [...]
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Browser Tip
Many important websites use the .com domain suffix. The latter is so common that the most popular browsers such as IE and Firefox let you add this suffix with a quick keyboard shortcut. For example everytime you want to visit TechieViews there is no need that you type http://www.techieviews.com ! All that is [...]
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Software Tip: Fast way to insert the current time in an Excel cell
To insert the current time in Microsoft Excel without having to access the menus just hold down Ctrl and Shift and press the colon (:) key. This works with both right and left Ctrl+Shift combinations.
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Temporarily prevent StartUp folder programs from launching
It is possible to prevent the programs in your Windows StartUp folder from automatically launching. This is helpful for troubleshooting issues or for fast boot-ups. Start your PC, and when you see the Windows logo screen, hold down the Shift key until Windows is fully finished loading (keep holding down Shift until the disk [...]
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PC Tip: How to avoid file disasters
There is a thing … a real bad one which I see frequently on PCs operated by beginners: data files (Word docs, Excel sheets, etc …) scattered around the hard-disk without any logical sense. It is of utmost importance that users understand from day one what is a directory/folder and understand their purpose.
If you don’t [...]
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Software Tip
Not many people know that in Powerpoint one can set up a presentation to run in a continuous loop. This is indeed an important feature for those who want to show advertising material in shop windows or during commercial events. This feature can be enabled very easily:
1. On the Slide Show menu, click [...]
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Software Tip
Have you ever been surfing the Internet and opened a number of different Internet Explorer or Firefox windows? This can happen many times and after some time one will realise that there is the need to minimise all windows because one might need to access an icon on the desktop! There is no [...]
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Software Tip
Did you know that you can control Windows without the use of the mouse? I will not argue on the fact that in most situations it is not recommendable to do such a thing but as many have already found out some keyboard shortcuts will give you faster access to some of the most [...]
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