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As if it wasn’t bad enough that people spread viruses through email, there are also email virus hoaxes! These hoaxes often instruct you to delete files from your hard drive or take other similar steps in order to “protect yourself” from a virus.
In the case of a virus hoax these messages are not true and […]

If you have been using MS Word for a long time, you will remember that the shortcut to close all open documents was Alt+F4. As of Word 2000, that shortcut no longer closes all documents and exits Word. Instead, it only closes the document on which you are currently working; other documents remain open.
If you […]

When you enter a number into Excel and tap the ENTER key, by default, it will change focus to the cell directly below. What if you think it should move to the right? Click Tools | Options | Edit. Now, see the ‘Move selection after Enter’ field? Either change it to another direction or turn […]

Is the password you use a proper name, place or word in the dictionary? If yes, your password can easily be hacked and your account security and your identity may be at risk.
There has been recent publicity on security after hacker attacks on major internet sites in the past months. Typically hackers employ a method […]

Microsoft Word has a strong outlining feature, you can use this to create a document with a hierarchal tree structure. You can then take this outline and use it to automatically create a PowerPoint presentation.
You can find detailed instructions on Using Microsoft Word to Create Your Outline here and Creating PowerPoint Presentations from Word Outlines […]

Need a few tips and tricks to improve the way you use Microsoft Word? You don’t need to look any further that WordTips Online. With more than 1,600 tips posted, you should find answers to most of your MS Word questions. You can also subscribe to the tips via e-mail or in your feed reader […]

PowerPoint will save pictures in a poorly compressed format by default. By asking PowerPoint to compress these pictures, you can optimize your presentations more efficiently. With this decreased size you can email them and transport them easily.
To allow for maximum amount of editing later, PowerPoint saves pictures within presentations in a poorly compressed format. When […]

A good way to signal the end of your presentation is to set the screen to black (or some other colour) at the end of your slide show.
To do this, open your slide show and choose Tools, Options. When the Options dialogue box opens, click the View tab. Now select the check box labelled […]

This tip is handy when you’re preparing computer training material. It’s also a quick way to get a picture from web content to use in a document or presentation. Take a picture of your Desktop, or a snapshot of the contents of a window.

Position items on your Desktop as you want them to be in […]