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Using How to Use the Side by Side View and Synchronous Scrolling in Windows 2007

The Side-by-Side view in Word 2007 is a great option to view two Word documents for comparison reasons. You can also lock the scroll bars so when you scroll, the scroll bar for both documents will move at the same time. This is called Synchronous Scrolling, which you turn-on by clicking on Synchronous Scrolling [...]

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Using the Auto Fill Handle with Excel 2007

The Auto Fill handle in Excel 2007 is a nifty way to quickly auto-complete  or auto fill data on your spreadsheet. For example, you can use the auto fill handle to complete months, days of the week, even numbers. This is an often overlooked productivity tool in Excel and remember:  Excel is designed to save [...]

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Why Should I Use Firefox?

I received an e-mail from Mary-Anne inquiring about Firefox. Her son has been trying to coax into installing it on her personal laptop. And, she wanted to know why she should install it.
If you are not familiar with Firefox, it’s a web browser similar to Windows Internet Explorer, which is the default browser on Windows [...]

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Get Your Work Done With Portable Apps

A portable application, or portable app for short, is a software program that does not require any kind of formal installation on a computer’s permanent storage device to be executed. Just store it on any removable storage media such as USB flash drive, flask card, iPod, etc., plug it onto any computer available, then run [...]

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