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...

I have featured OpenOffice.org on this blog a few times in the past. It is a free office suite featuring a word processor, a spreadsheet pr...

Inserted images in Word and Powerpoint may appear small, but they are actually stored as their original size unless compressed. This can cau...

Cutting down on the amount of paper used in printing not only saves money, but is also more environmentally friendly. Some applications offe...

In order to create a launcher for a particular OpenOffice application, or if you wish to run one from a terminal in Linux , you will need t...

When copying charts into a word processor, whether in Microsoft Office from Excel to Word or in openoffice.org from Calc to Writer , the so...

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

As I mentioned in a recent post , I have recently switched to a Linux distribution as my operating system of choice. Many other users may b...

In a recent post about adding buttons to the toolbars in Microsoft Office applications I pointed out that there is no way to add buttons t...

A while ago I published an article that suggested that rather than printing directly from web browsers, such as Internet Explorer , it is b...

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...

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...

Sometimes a MS Word document requires separate numbering systems for different sections. The introduction may have to be numbered with Roma...

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

In the previous part of this article I looked at using the built in text recovery features in MS Word . But, what can be done if this doesn...

If Microsoft Word runs into a problem with a file it usually offers a recover option when you open the program the next time. But sometimes...

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...

I doubt many people do not make use the spellchecking facility in MS Word . Most people probably run a grammar check too. Nevertheless, few ...

Here is the scenario, you have copied some text from somewhere and pasted it into Word; however, the text ends up looking something like thi...