One of the nice features introduced with Office 2007 and 2010 is that of Live Preview. With Live Preview, gone are the days of making formatting changes to your document, hitting ‘Apply’ and hoping for the best. Now with Live Preview you can see the effects of your changes before they happen. First you will […]
With the introduction of Office 2007 Microsoft made some pretty extensive changes to the file formats used across the whole suite. If you have sent someone a document created with either the 2007 or 2010 versions of Word and they say they can’t open them then they are probably using an older version of Word […]
The Amazon Kindle has become the ubiquitous portable eReader of choice in the last couple of years, partly because of the agressive pricing policy that Amazon have adopted, but also in no small part to the massive library available and the ease of which other devices such as phones and tablets can be turned into […]
Window 7 is the first version of Windows where a 64-bit version of the operating is easy to come by. Sure Vista had a 64-bit version, but that was generally quite hard to find unless it was pre-installed, and the XP version was one of those mythical products that did exist, but relatively few people […]
As with the majority of all Windows based applications, the only way to efficiently work with your document is to master some of the most useful shortcut keys. Word has over 150 different, shortcut key combinations, so listing and expecting users to remember them all is impractical. However by remembering and using the most common […]
Software Compatibility Issues If you’re moving from directly from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows 7 then there is a possibility that you may have some software compatibility issues that you will need to address. When Microsoft updated Windows XP to lauch Windows Vista they made a number of low level changes to the way […]
Intro, System Requirements and Windows Versions In October 2009 Microsoft launched Windows 7 to much fanfare, this launch was less than three years after the launch of the much maligned Windows Vista, and was seen by many as Microsofts last chance to win people back after the debacle of Vista. Due to the multitude of […]
Like all modern Windows based programs, Mozillas Firefox has a wide range of shortcut keys that can make using it a lot quicker and easier. There are quite a few here, and we wouldn’t expect anyone to remember them all, however just remembering a few of the ones you make use of frequently will greatly […]