Microsoft Word 2010/2013, and earlier versions, include a random text option. With that option you can add random text passages, of various sizes, to a Word document. However, it’s not an option that you select from the toolbar or...
The open/save dialog box, in the shot below, is the window that opens when you click on File > Save As or Open in most software packages. There you locate document folder destinations. You can navigate this dialog box below wit...
Microsoft added new font options to Office 2010. With those options you can further format certain fonts with OpenType ligatures and alternative stylistic sets. Here’s a quick look at Word 2010’s OpenType font options. Note that W...
Windows Explorer includes thumbnail previews of images. However, as they are thumbnails the previews are a little small. With the FastPreview 4 software you can add an expanded image preview to the right-click context menu. Check ...
Easter eggs aren’t just sumptuous chocolate. They are also added to software packages as secret responses that occur after entering an undocumented set of commands. The OpenOffice Calc software package has a few Easter eggs....
You don’t have to print a whole OpenOffice spreadsheet if you require just a small section of it. One way that you could print a small section from a spreadsheet would be to copy and paste a group of selected cells into anot...
A progress bar is something that provides feedback on a given process. Most will be familiar with download progress bars that show you how much of the software has been downloaded in percentage terms. You can also add progress bar...
VLC Media Player is a freeware software package, for the Windows, Unix, Mac OS X and Linux platforms, which plays video/audio files. This is the VLC Media Player website from where you can add it to your software library. Like man...
When connecting to a WiFi network for the first time, you’re required to enter the security key in order to be able to use it and gain access to the internet. However, once the right key is entered, connecting to the same Wi...
Wouldn’t it be great if you can create your own custom characters on Windows? By learning how to do so, you can personalize your texts, documents and even the images and screenshots that you edit on MS Paint. Plus, it’s a fu...
If you use the internet a lot, chances are that you have used the DNS or Domain Name System without even realizing it. In layman’s terms, the DNS translates domain names to their numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose...
Do you have a folder with top-secret files in it? If so you can make the folder perma invisible. And by perma invisible I mean the folder won’t be shown even if someone enables “show hidden files and folder” in W...
Preme for Windows is a software package which enhances your windows switching. This is a fantastic tool with which you can dock windows to the side of the Windows 7 desktop. Moving the pointer to the edge of the desktop then reope...
If you need to copy a list of files from a folder in Windows there’s a better way to do that than copying and pasting each of the file titles. Instead you can set up a Notepad text document with all the file titles in a fold...
Word 2010/2013 probably isn’t the first software package selected for image editing. It is, after all, a word processor application. However, Word actually includes a variety of image editing options to select from. With the softw...
