Zoom Windows 8 Start Screen

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 […]

Windows XP End Of Life

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. […]

Disable Java In Your Browser

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 […]

Watermarking A Word 2010 Document

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 […]

Finding And Replacing Text In A Word Document

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.   […]

Copy, Cut, and Paste Text

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 […]