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A few killer keyboard shortcuts for Excel

May 22, 2008 3 comments

Using keyboard shortcuts is a much more efficient way of working than choosing options through the menu. Here are a few killer keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft Excel that can save you time. Action Shortcut Apply the outline border to the selected cells Ctrl+Shift+& Apply the Date format with the day, month, and year Ctrl+Shift+# Apply [...]

How to remove a user from the Windows XP welcome screen

May 21, 2008 1 comment

One of the unfortunate side effects of the Windows welcome screen is the listing of all the user accounts on the computer. What if there is an account that you do not want others to see? Using the same feature that Microsoft uses to hide system accounts from the Welcome screen, you can hide user [...]

TypeFaster – Learn touch-typing with this free typing tutor

May 19, 2008 1 comment

If you spend a lot of time at your machine, but you don’t know typing, then learning to touch-type can save you a lot of time. Once you can touch-type you will not need to look at the keyboard to find the letters you want to type. TypeFaster is a free typing tutor software that [...]

Word 2007 tips to make you more productive

May 15, 2008 1 comment

Here are a few tips to make you more productive with Word 2007. Compare docs the smart way You don’t need two windows to compare documents in Word 2007. Go to Review > Compare, and click Compare one more time. Enter two document names and you’ll see the difference. Look for private data Before sending [...]

Office 2007 – 6 tips to get you started quickly

May 10, 2008 1 comment

Never leave the key board Using keyboard shortcuts to choose options is definitely faster than reaching out for the mouse everytime. Office 2007 makes it easy. Tap the Alt key while in any Office 2007 application and the ribbon is instantly covered in small letters indicating the keystrokes. Type the for the different ribbon tabs [...]

OneLook Reverse Dictionary – A very versatile tool

May 4, 2008 0 comments

Onelook.com is a site that helps you find definitions, translations and stuff like that. It also has this tool called Reverse Dictionary, which I find really interesting. The Reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, [...]

Customizing ‘Send To’ context menu in Windows Vista

May 3, 2008 0 comments

Adding your own destinations to the ‘Send To’ context menu in Windows XP is quite easy. While it isn’t too difficult to do the same in Windows Vista, it is a little different. Here is how to do it in Vista. Open the Control Panel, then Folder Options, then move to the View tab and [...]

Vista – Copying file/folder paths made easy

April 29, 2008 0 comments

In the pre-Vista days, copying a file or folder path to the clip-board involved 5 steps. You had to right-click on the file or folder, select Properties, highlight the path, right-click again, and select Copy. That’s way too many steps for a task as simple as copying a path. In Vista you have a much [...]

Hide any file inside any other file

April 24, 2008 1 comment

If your computer has an NTFS partition, then there is a neat little trick to hide any file inside any other file. Unfortunately, this trick does not work on FAT32 formatted drive. As an example let’s see how you can hide the solitaire file (sol.exe) inside a text file. Let’s start by assuming that you [...]

SideSlide – Free tool to clear up your desktop clutter

March 6, 2008 1 comment

Recently I came across this little free tool called Sideslide that I find extremely useful in my daily computing. Sideslide is basically a desktop extension that helps you unclutter your desktop and is highly configurable. It has a great set of tools that any typical computer user would need in his everyday work. The main [...]

Access your favorite programs quickly from any folder

March 2, 2008 1 comment

Most people open an application in windows through the Start menu or by clicking on a shortcut on their desktop. Starting an application from Start menu takes a few clicks and as for the desktop, it could be hidden if you have an open folder. Windows XP has a way, that many people are not [...]

MultiClipboard – Copy multiple items to your clipboard

February 22, 2008 2 comments

Polar MultiClipboard is a great little replacement for your Windows built-in clipboard. One of the main drawback of the Windows clipboard is that you can copy only one piece of text at a time. Multiclipboard overcomes this issue. With Multiclipboard installed, you can copy different pieces of text one after the other and then you [...]

17 Firefox tips to enhance your browsing experience

February 21, 2008 1 comment

I have been using Firefox for quite sometime now and still there are features that I haven’t uncovered yet. Quite often I come across a useful feature that I was not aware of. I would like to share those tips as and when I learn about them. Here are a few Firefox tips which can [...]

Get things done fast with keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Word, Excel and Outlook

February 21, 2008 0 comments

Keyboard shortcuts are definitely great time savers. Here is a list of shortcuts for Windows, Word, Excel and Outlook for you to use. Of course, it wouldn’t be possible for an average person to remember all the shortcuts but then you wouldn’t need to. It would be enough if you remember the ones that you [...]

Create a password protected folder without any special software

January 8, 2008 129 comments

In an earlier post I had written about how to create an invisible folder. That’s a method to create a merely invisible folder with no real protection. Now, here we will see how to create a folder that will not just be invisible, but also require a password to reveal it and open it. The [...]

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