Basics of Computer and Information Technology

Occasionally we have to make use of subscripts or superscripts in our documents. The most common use of these is with dates, as in 20 th . T...

After a long hiatus, keyboard shortc ut of the week returns to 'Bloody Computer!' This week, we will look at new features of the Wi...

Writer , the word processor in OpenOffice.org , uses many of the same keyboard shortcuts as MS Word . The shortcuts for selecting, editing a...

Do you wish to be able to use your word processor more efficiently? Would you like to be able to edit a piece of text without having to rea...

Hopping Between Windows Have you ever needed to swap windows while you are using the keyboard? Have you needed to jump quickly from that ema...

In a previous post I mentioned that you can hop between open windows by holding down the Alt key and pressing the Tab key repeatedly. A li...

Regular readers will know that I have recently started falling out of love with Mozilla Firefox (but not enough to switch back to Internet ...

There are a number of ways in which you can view a document in MS Word. You can switch between these different layouts by selecting them fr...

Just about every Windows application works with documents, which you will create, open and save at various stages. These three functions hav...

Here are a few keyboard shortcuts for Firefox to mark the release of version 3 of that browser (which I express my initial opinions about a...

By default, all text in Microsoft Word is aligned to the left (except if the default language is set to Arabic or another script that reads ...

If you have a program that you use a lot you can create your own combination of keys to run it. In this tutorial we will set up a keyboard s...

This tip should be of interest to all the Entrecard chain-droppers out there (you know who you are). It works in Internet Explorer (version...

If there are things that you find yourself typing regularly, there is a way of increasing your productivity. By using Word's AutoText f...

When using a word processor it is quite common to forget that that the CapsLock key has been left on, or you might decide that a piece of t...

When using MS Outlook , Outlook Express and Outlook Web Access on Internet Explorer you can quickly look up names in your contacts and addre...

Just about every windows application has an 'undo' feature and most have a 'redo' feature. These are a lifesaver on those fr...

A short and sweet post today, after so many lengthy ones. Here is a shortcut that I have mentioned in passing before: to open Windows Explor...

The first thing to do when your mouse stops working is to check the cable connection. There is no point reinstalling the mouse if it isn...

I was writing a post on how to reinstall the mouse using the keyboard when I realised that rebooting the PC using the keyboard would be a re...