Help Desk Geek – Help Desk Tips For IT Pros

OpenOffice is a free, open source business and office software suite with a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a drawing program, a presentation creator and a database tool. Not only does OpenOffice have powerful free tools to rival expensive professionally designed software programs, it also has free templates for creating files quickly and easily. These [...]

0 There are 0 comments, care to add yours?

In writing a long term paper, company manual, or other long document in Word, it is almost impossible to avoid inserting hyperlinks. Hyperlinks to relevant Web pages can make a document’s content more powerful. The problem is, the longer the document, the harder it is to do a final check of each hyperlink before submitting [...]

0 There are 0 comments, care to add yours?

One very neat feature that all recent versions of MS Word have had is the ability to record and play macros (recorded keystrokes or commands) so that things you find yourself doing over and over again can be done automatically, and Microsoft made it even easier to do so in Word 2007, and left it [...]

4 There are 4 comments, care to add yours?

One of the many things Microsoft has added to its latest version of Word, is enhanced graphics capabilities. In some cases, they are strong enough to preclude many users from turning to third party products such as Photoshop to enhance photographs and other images. Microsoft has clearly been listening to its user community as the [...]

0 There are 0 comments, care to add yours?

One of the most common things computer user’s do is cut, copy and paste stuff. When you’re cutting or copying from one place in a document to another, there’s not much to the story; when you’re cutting or copying text from a website perhaps, to a Word document on the other hand, things get a [...]

1 There are 1 comments, care to add yours?

One of the many gripes people have had about Microsoft products, at least in the past, has been the lack of customization regarding menus, which led to claims that Microsoft was out to tell us all what to do and how to do it all the time, rather than let us do what we want [...]

0 There are 0 comments, care to add yours?

One of the best proofreading techniques is to have someone read your work to you so you can hear errors you would not normally see. But, it takes time to find someone you trust enough to read what you write, not to mention most of us who write do so alone. WordTalk is an add-in [...]

0 There are 0 comments, care to add yours?

Microsoft Word not only rules the roost when it comes to word processing, the software giant has pushed most of its competitors out of the market. OpenOffice Writer, however, is a free word processor from Oracle to which many home and office users have turned to get the functionality of a high-quality word processor without [...]

0 There are 0 comments, care to add yours?

One of the things that is intimidating for a lot of Word users, is adding page numbers to documents when the first or second page is not to be numbered, or should be numbered with a different format, eg. i, ii, iii, and then 1, 2,3, in the second section etc. Microsoft still hasn’t made [...]

4 There are 4 comments, care to add yours?

Windows Update does more than just update files for the operating system. It also updates applications such as those included in the Microsoft Office suites. Sometimes, the update procedure fails and produces error 0×80070646. Learn how to troubleshoot and fix Windows update error 0×80070646, which is sometimes referred to simply as error 646. Windows Update [...]

0 There are 0 comments, care to add yours?