Today’s tip centers around the biggest changes in Microsoft’s newest version of Windows; Windows 8. To say it is different than anything we have seen before from them is a huge understatement. You really have to see it to believe it. In my video tip below, I discuss: The new start screen interface (Metro) basics How to get to a… Read More »Windows 8 Basic Navigation and Customization – Video Tip
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 in October and although it contains many improved features, it has also brought on a slew of new problems for computer users just moving to it.
This post is not outdated and kept for historical purposes only. Please visit this link for updated information on how NOT to buy Microsoft Office. Despite what big box store sales people try to sell you, don’t buy a copy of Microsoft Office. On all new commercial computers today, manufacturers install a trial version of Microsoft Office AND a copy… Read More »Don’t buy Microsoft Office when you buy a new computer
I created these notes for a customer who just moved to Windows 7 from Windows XP. He had many documents and spreadsheets saved from an old Microsoft Works (4.0) that we needed to convert to Microsoft Office since buying newer versions of Microsoft Works is not easy. Click here to view, save, or print the notes I generated for this… Read More »Converting Microsoft Works to Microsoft Office – Notes
This tip applies to Windows Vista and Windows 7, 8, and 10 users only. Since Microsoft opted to not include XP users in the upgrade path to Internet Explorer 9, you XP users can file this tip until you upgrade to your next computer (if you stay with Windows). If you chose or were automatically updated to Internet Explorer 9, you may… Read More »Enable your menus and toolbars in Internet Explorer 9 – Video Tip
For some unknown reason (to me), Microsoft has decided to make paragraph spacing in Word 2007, 2010 and Start Edition double-space by default. In all previous version of Word, you need to press the Enter key twice to double-space. When formatting street addresses, for example, a user typically wants them to be single spaced, but that doesn’t happen in the… Read More »Making Single Space the Default in Microsoft Word 2007 & 2010
Microsoft Outlook’s time is up…actually it has been up for many years. The interface gets worse and worse. The fact that very few of us work solely on one device makes it more irrelevant. And the fact that transferring of data gets more and more complex is absolutely unconscionable in this day and age of technology. Case in point: Today,… Read More »How to fix Microsoft Outlook email address lookup when composing email
This particular problem has come a few times lately, so I thought I better write out the solution for the website for both my memory and for others who might have the problem. Here’s what the problem looks like: Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 users try to open a Microsoft Word or Excel document and cannot do so. Usually this… Read More »Solution to Microsoft Outlook 2007 or 2010 not opening Word or Excel Attachments
I try to continually test and analyze what is available in the world of computers for my clients and web site visitors. Security tops the list of the testing, reading, and studying I do. Recently, AVG released yet another upgrade, and more bulk. As of today, I no longer recommend that users use AVG Antivirus. My current recommendations are as… Read More »How to download, install, and configure Avast Antivirus – Video Tip
If you use either of these programs, then you will find yourself using this tip often. How many times do you curse at your printer when you print a joke from email or some web page information and get two or more extra sheets of paper with useless information?
Follow this tip and experience printing bliss from email or Internet.
On the Web (using Microsoft Internet Explorer), if you first select the text (by clicking and dragging with your mouse) that you would like to print and then click on File and Print, you will have the option to print all pages, certain pages or only your selected text.