How To Backup Important Data.

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How to Backup Important Data

Research conducted by a major software company has reported that 9 out of 10 computer owners do not make regular backups of their data. If you belong to the majority in this survey, you have come to the right place.

This article provides a methodical approach towards developing an efficient backup plan. It discusses four important decisions that will help you create a backup strategy and ensure that your important data remains safe from hard disk failures, computer freezes and natural disasters.

Decision # 1: What Data to Backup

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5 Tips for Becoming a Faster, More Proficient Office User.

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Using the Microsoft Office suite is an amazing tool that can increase your capabilities as a PC user, as well as your overall productivity. As with all good things that are intended to save time, there are many features and shortcuts that are unused by the average user. Look through this list and see what you can do to become a faster, more proficient user of these programs.

Learn your shortcuts. You will save yourself a lot of time and headaches by learning shortcuts and hotkey combinations that will get the job done much more quickly. The most frequently-used functions all have shortcuts that will save you time and increase your productivity.

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Close All and Save All Word 2007 Hotkey!

Yesterday I wrote an article called Save All and Close All Commands in Word Including MS Word 2007. In this article I showed you how to add the Close All and Save All buttons to your toolbar.

But there is also a way that I didn’t think of but Erik Mulder did think of it. Erik send me an e-mail with a pointer that it is possible to add a hotkey and it works practically in the same way as yesterdays tutorial.

Follow these steps if you want to create a hotkey for the Close All and Save All commands.

Click on the small down arrow to the right of the Quick Access toolbar

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8 Tips and Tricks to Speed Up Microsoft Word.

This Word Tip and Trick is sent in by a nice guy called Peter Grudberg and they are some pretty cool and useful Word Tips and Tricks.

Working with MS Word can be great but it can also cause a real headache. Peter you just bought a new computer but noticed that Word was still a bit slow and that’s when he came up with these tips, tricks and tweaks to speed up Microsoft Word.

If you want to speed up Microsoft Word.

· Go to the view tab and uncheck the “Animated Text box”.

· If you use Word in Normal view, check “Wrap to window”.

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Insert a (YouTube) Video in Your PowerPoint Presentation.

This PowerPoint Tip and Trick is sent in by a great guy called Alexander Smith and he’s from ppt-to-video.com and it is pretty cool Tip and Trick.

In fact there are two tricks; the first is a very simple way to download a YouTube Video and how to convert this YouTube video in all kinds of formats and the second real PowerPoint Tip and Trick is how you can insert this YouTube video download into your PowerPoint presentation.

There are two steps for inserting a YouTube Video into your PowerPoint presentation.

The first step is to download the video from YouTube.

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Customize Windows XP; display your name in the taskbar.

This next cool little XP Trick was sent in by Dan who was customizing his XP operating system.

This XP trick proves that not all XP tweaks have to be difficult. If you want to personalize your Operating System it can be often done by simple things.

If you want to to show your name, your boyfriends, your company name or what ever name in the Windows Taskbar you need to take the next following steps.