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Does it sometimes seem that your bullets and numbers overpower the text on your PowerPoint slides? Or, are they so minute you can barely see them from the back of the room? To improve the appearance of your bullets and numbering, follow the steps ... below: Select the numbered text. In MS PowerPoint versions 2002/2003, click on Format | Bullets And Numbering. In version 2007, click on Bullets And Numbering from the Bullets And Numbering drop-down list on the Home tab. Click the Numbered tab. In the Size box, click the down arrow until 80 is displayed, as shown. Click OK. The numbers will now be ... (view more)

Isn't it so frustrating when after you create a table, have it all formatted the way you want it, and have even keyed in all your text -- that you decide you want to key in text above the table? Ever have that experience? I bet more than a few of ... you have. You certainly don't want to start over from scratch! Well you might not believe it but I am going to tell you the simplest way ever to get that blank space above your table so you can key in any sort of text you like leading into your table. Follow the steps below to learn how: Click in the upper left cell of your table. If there is text in ... (view more)

Wikipedia DVD Selection Wikipedia for your hard drive. Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has ... about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). http://www.schools-wikipedia.corg Text Mining Tool Text Mining Tool is a freeware program for extraction of text from files. The beauty of the program is that it works, extremely ... (view more)

Not long ago, Google agreed to pay $125 million to the book industry to settle claims of copyright infringement over its BookSearch scheme. The agreement means Google can now legally scan copyrighted books and put them online as long as they are no ... longer in print. The cash will go towards setting up a registry of books involved, compensating authors and publishers affected by Google's violations, and paying the legal fees of the case. The agreement will have to get the backing of a New York court (where the case was brought) before it takes effect. (Source: google.com) The case involved a ... (view more)

It is so frustrating after you create your table, have it all formatted the way you want it and have keyed in all your text and then you decide you want to key in text above the table. Ever have that experience? I bet more than a few of you have. ... You certainly don't want to start over from scratch! Well you might not believe it but I am going to tell you the simplest way ever to get that blank space above your table so you can key in any sort of text you like leading into your table. Follow the steps below to learn how: Click in the upper left cell of your table. If there is text in that cell ... (view more)

I am quite sure this has happened to you at some point: you copy and paste some text from the Web or one of your email messages and it ends up with leading spaces on every single line! There are ways to remove the offending spaces but as anyone who ... knows me, I am the queen of saving time and keystrokes and so I will tell you a little trick to get rid of these pesky spaces that is quick and easy! Follow the steps below: Select the text you have copied and pasted. Click on CTRL + E, which will center the text. With the text still selected, click on CTRL + L, which will left-align the text. That ... (view more)

A reader asked if there was any formula in Excel that would convert a date shown in the European format of day-month-year to the U.S. version of month-day-year. Technically, it may not be necessary to do this. Excel maintains dates as numeric values ... and displays them using various formats. If the dates are numeric values in your worksheet, then you can simply change the format and the dates will be displayed in the U.S. format. The day you see in a worksheet could instead be a text value rather than a numeric value. To see if the date is truly an Excel date or text value, you can change the ... (view more)

If you use the Find feature in MS Word, you know how very helpful it can be, but if you keep trying to find the same word or phrase multiple times, you most likely have found, as I have, that the Find window sometimes is in your way and you have to ... move it to get a good look. A lot of folks that I have spoken to about this have said that they find it much easier to just leave that Find window open and hitting Find Next rather than to keep opening the window. That is true, but there is an easier solution that you can use! Follow the steps below:Click on Edit | Find (or use the quick key ... (view more)

Nexus File NexusFile is a file manager for Windows that will increase your computing performance. If you still use Windows Explorer, you must try this exciting tool with far too many features to list here. http://www.xiles.net/ Incorporate Text ... Files Onto Your Desktop If you keep your daily worklog, grocery shopping list, to-do's, project ideas, or even your calendar in text files, you can embed that information right onto your Windows desktop. http://lifehacker.com/ (view more)

Remember those annoying TV interruptions testing the Emergency Broadcast System? Well, now federal regulators have approved a plan that would make your cell phone part of the emergency alert system by allowing blanket text messages to be sent to all ... cell subscribers within a given geographic area. Although cellular customers would be allowed to "opt-out" of the plan, the Warning Alert and Response Network Act of 2006 required the FCC to upgrade the ways the public can be alerted about emergencies. With more than 200 million cell phones in use in the U.S., and with texting becoming more ... (view more)