The start screen is packed with big chunky tiles that represent all your apps. unfortunately Microsoft made them big and chunky so that users with touch screen devices can hit them quite easily. The down side to this of course is that if you have a lot of apps installed then only a small percentage […]
What will happen on 8th April 2014? No, this is not some reference to the Mayan calendar, or the end of the world, although some would have you believe that is the case. On 8th April Microsoft will cease all support for the venerable Windows XP some twelve and a half years since its launch. […]
Java’s going through a pretty tough time at the moment, it seems that hardly a week goes by without there being some new Java based exploit being announced, with the usual call from security researchers and tech gurus to either uninstall Java completely or failing that, at least disable its use in the browser. We’ve […]
It is often quite useful to know that someone has received and read an email you have sent to them, maybe you want to follow it with more information or even a phone call. But how do you know they’ve received and read your email? The answer lies in the humble ‘Read Receipt’ this is […]
In the physical real world a watermark has historically been added to paper based documents to provide a guarantee of authenticity and aid in copy prevention. This has been carried forward into the digital age, and watermarks are used for a variety of purposes, ranging from identifying ‘Draft’ documents through to the assertion of originality […]
If you are working on a long document there will be plenty of occasions where you need to find a specific piece of text, and scrolling backwards and forwards throughout the document is usually either impractical, or unreliable. Fortunately Microsoft have included a useful search facility that also incorporates a replace option within it. […]
One of the most used features of Microsoft Word 2010 is the ability to easily copy or cut the text from one section of a document and then paste it into a different part of the same, or even a different document. What is the difference between copying and cutting? As the name suggests, when you copy […]
In another tutorial we showed you how to set up the ‘Autosave’ feature of Word 2010, so that should disaster strike you won’t lose too much work. Now we will show you how to recover those documents. Activate the ‘File’ tab. Click ‘Recent’ You will see a list of recent documents in the right hand […]