Tired of buying Microsoft Office for each computer you use? OpenOffice is an open-source (i.e. free) software suite for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. It stores all your data in file formats that are compatible with Microsoft Office, and works …[Continue]
What’s Eating All Your Hard Disk Space?
Wondering where all your hard drive space has gone? OverDisk is a free Windows utility that displays a radial map that will graphically show you what’s eating your space. The author calls the current version beta, but the testers at …[Continue]
Easy Creative Commons Licenses for Office
The Creative Commons Add-In for Office is a free utility that licenses your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents in just a few clicks. The drop-down menu sits on a tab (on the Ribbon menu for Office 2007) and uses a …[Continue]
Windows 7 Guides and Reviews
An official release date for Windows 7 has not been announced, but several guides to Vista’s successor are now available from Gizmodo, Arstechnica and Microsoft….[Continue]
How to Track Changes in a Word Document?
Track Changes is a great Microsoft Word feature that gives an editor final control over changes made by collaborators. But in order to prevent others from turning off the Track Changes option, the document needs to be locked so only …[Continue]
How to Set Up Multiple Monitors
When visitors to my home office see the two large monitors on my desktop, and see the mouse travel seamlessly from one to the other, they are usually amazed to learn that support for multiple monitors is built into Windows. …[Continue]
Microsoft Word Problems Tying You in Knots?
Have a Microsoft Word problem that is “tying you (and your stomach) in knots?” Allen Wyatt’s…[Continue]
How to Really, Really Delete a File
Despite a common misconception that deleting a computer file (and emptying the Recycle Bin) will completely remove a file from a personal computer, it’s just not true. All the delete button really does is remove the file from the directory …[Continue]