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Insert a Page Break ? 2 options.
2008-04-21 15:17:00
Hi, folks I hope you all enjoyed the weekend and that you are ready for a week full of cool and useful tips and tricks. We are starting the week kind of slow with a tip for Microsoft Word.   First of all; what is a page break?   A page break simply means that you force text and ...
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WhiteSmoke, is it for Real? My Review of WhiteSmoke Writing Software 2008.
2008-04-21 04:02:00
The thing that I do most is I writing. Not only for my Dutch and English blogs but I’m also working on an e-book with step by step tutorials (like here) where I’m showing others how they can make a nice looking blog and how to make a good living from it. I do this ...
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Disabling Unnecessary Windows Features.
2008-04-18 13:36:00
It’s Friday and I want to close this week with a Vista Tip Trick. Vista is a pretty great system but a heavy system; it asks a lot of power. There are most likely a lot of Windows features running on your computer that you don’t need. In today’s tutorial I want to show you ...
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8 Tips and Tricks to Speed Up Microsoft Word.
2008-04-17 15:37:00
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 ...
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The Evolution of Storage Devices.
2008-04-17 14:56:00
I get quite number of requests per day/week from people that want a blog or product review. The most common reason for a product review is to promote a product. Then they client hopes that I write a positive article and that they might sell a "few" copies after my review. The (main) reason for ...
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Outlook Optimizing Tutorials nr.5 Reset your Toolbar.
2008-04-16 13:00:00
This is the fifth week that we are customizing Microsoft Outlook . In this series we have till now only talked about the toolbar because this is probably the most essential part for using Outlook. Let’s recap; what have we talked about.   The first week we added and removed buttons from our toolbar. In the second week ...
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Create a XP Shutdown Button on Your Desktop.
2008-04-15 20:54:00
Today I have another cool trick for you and it’s a Tip and Trick for Windows XP. Whether it’s real useful is debatable but its fun to know anyway. Today I want to show you how easy it is to create a icon on your desktop that closes down your system without any confirmations.   To ...
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Tag Your Documents in Vista.
2008-04-14 12:26:00
One of the new features of Microsoft Vista is that you can tag your documents and files. This is handy if you are searching for specific documents or when you are organizing your files. This Tip and Trick isn’t only useful for Microsoft Word document but you can use it for lots of programs. The ...
More About: Tricks , Microsoft Excel , Documents

Do You Need a Professional PowerPoint Presentation.
2008-04-13 18:38:00
As you know I’m a web entrepreneur and a Dutch Problogger.  Perhaps the greatest thing about being a blogger is that you meet so many great people from all over the world. And I mean this not only for the personal interaction but also for business purposes. And something like this happened to me earlier ...
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Maintenance and New Payment System.
2008-04-11 16:10:00
Hi All!! I just want to let you know that we are working today on the blog for maintenance and implementing a new payment system. It can happen that the lay-out of the blog seems “strange” or that the blog is down for a couple of minutes. If this is so, then stay tuned, we are ...
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How To Use Alt Keyboard Shortcut Combinations.
2008-04-11 13:00:00
Today’s Word and Excel Tip and Trick doesn’t need an intro. It’s a nice printable list with all the Alt keyboard shortcut combinations. I hope you’ll enjoy it.     Do you want to see more? This is related...Create a Shortcut to Open Microsoft Word With Out a Blank Page. The next Word Tip and Trick was submitted a while ...
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Give Some Color to Your Spreadsheet.
2008-04-10 16:31:00
Earlier this week we talked about changing the background picture of your Excel Spreadsheet. This isn’t an Excel Tip & Trick that you can’t live without and this Tip & Tricks isn’t going to simplify your life but hé, it is a fun one!! And that’s the same for today’s Tip & Trick. Although it ...
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Outlook Optimizing Tutorials nr.4: Create an Outlook toolbar button for ope
2008-04-09 15:28:00
And also in this week’s tutorial I’m sticking with some tips for your toolbar use. In the last couple of weeks we added and removed buttons from our toolbar, we’ve created a button for sending an e-mail with an already inserted receiver and we arranged the toolbar with the use of adding separators to it. ...
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Change the Background Picture of Your Spreadsheet.
2008-04-08 07:06:00
I hope you’ve liked yesterday’s Add Copy To and Move To to your right click menu trick.   I don’t have a trick for you today but a very cool excel tip for making your spreadsheet look a lot better than the normal boring white sheet. I don’t know why not many people use it because ...
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Add Copy To and Move To to Your Right-Click Menu.
2008-04-07 03:42:00
It’s Monday again and where continuing again with the regular weekly tips and tricks. I hope you all enjoyed last week’s Excel Tips and Tricks week. I’ve received quite a number of enthusiastic e-mails from readers with how useful they found the excel tutorials. I really think it’s amazing and I want to thank you ...
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Onsite Computer Services is Easy!
2008-04-05 10:45:00
There are hundredths if not thousands of sites like this one. I publish Tips and Tricks at least 5 times a week and if you have a problem with MS Office or your OS system you can always contact me for assistance. But in today’s world of computer technology, companies (and individuals) depend on fast ...
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Formula for Calculating the End Date of a Project.
2008-04-04 07:00:00
We covered some pretty cool Excel formula’s this week and I hope you’re ready for the last one. I used this one a lot when I still had a day job as a sales- and project manager. This excel formula can be used for determining the end date of a project or a certain time ...
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Calculate your Gains and Losses of your Stocks in Excel.
2008-04-03 07:55:00
And today were continuing with another Excel Tip & Trick. And it’s another Cool Excel Trick. I showed you on Monday a Formula to Calculate the Price Reduction or Discount. On Tuesday I showed you a Formula for Converting the Currency Dollars to Euros. And I’m having fun with the currency formulas so I have ...
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Outlook Optimizing Tutorials nr.3: Arrange and Add Separator to your Toolba
2008-04-02 07:25:00
It’s Wednesday and it’s time for another Outlook tutorial. The first two where about Adding and Removing Button s From Your Toolbar and how to create a Button for Generating Already Addressed E-mails.   Today I want to show you how you can arrange them and how you can group them the way you want them to be. ...
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Formula for Converting the Currency Dollars to Euros
2008-04-01 07:00:00
Yesterday we talked about a formula to calculate the price reduction or discount and today were sticking with the dollar formulas.   If you are considering advertising on one of my blogs or requesting a product or blog review, this might be an important one for you . I’m thinking of changing the advertising value to ...
More About: Microsoft , Formula , Tricks , Currency , Excel

Create a Formula to Calculate the Price Reduction or Discount.
2008-03-31 07:04:00
Hi folks, I hope you all had a great weekend and that you are ready for some cool Tricks . Well, I don’t have any cool tricks lined up for you this week. As I’ve told you last Friday I had planned for this week some very useful Excel formulas and for Wednesday ready another Outlook ...
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Clean Up Your Vista Backups and Restore Points.
2008-03-28 06:21:00
I showed you yesterday how what you needed to do when you want to make a backup of your Vista files. But that’s not the only option that Vista has for making backups. Vista has many new features for making backups. Vista saves the previous versions of your documents and the system state points which ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Clean Up Your Vista Backups and Restore Points .", url: "http://www.theworldofoffice.com/vista-ti ps-tricks/clean-vista-backup-restore-poin t/" });
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Create a Backup Schedule of your Vista Files.
2008-03-27 06:40:00
Did your hard disk die, got a virus or was your laptop stolen?? Now you whished you’ve backed it up earlier don’t you? First you should plug-in your external HD because you can’t keep the back-up on your C: drive (or you have to work in a network).   For creating a Backup schedule of your Vista ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Create a Backup Schedule of your Vista Files.", url: "http://www.theworldofoffice.com/vista-ti ps-tricks/create-backup-schedule-vista-fi les/" });
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Outlook Optimizing Tutorials nr.2: a Button for Generating Already Addresse
2008-03-26 05:08:00
We started last Wednesday with sequence of tutorials on how to optimize Microsoft Outlook . The one we’ve talked about last week was about how to Add or Remove buttons from your toolbar.   I’ve added several buttons; some of them where the mark as read, mark as unread and the office clipboard button. I’ve also added ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Outlook Optimizing Tutorials nr.2: a Button for Generating Already Addressed E-mails.", url: "http://www.theworldofoffice.com/outlook/ outlook-optimizing-tutorials-nr2-button-g enerating-addressed-emails/" });

Changing Single Pages to Portrait and Landscape.
2008-03-25 06:38:00
Hi folks, I hope you all had a great eastern and that you are ready for some cool Tips and Tricks this week! I’ve planned some pretty awesome tricks but we are starting today with a Word Tip and Trick.   Today’s tutorial is about changing or turning the pages in Microsoft Word. You can change all ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Changing Single Pages to Portrait and Landscape .", url: "http://www.theworldofoffice.com/word-tip s-tricks/changing-single-pages-portrait-l andscape/" });

Calculating in Excel Without Using Formulas.
2008-03-21 06:39:00
Where closing the week with a pretty cool Excel Tip & Trick. Excel spreadsheets can be really complicated when you are working with many formulas at a time. I try to cut back on all formulas because it’s just too complicated to work with. Fortunately there’s a quick way to display formulas in the Excel ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Calculating in Excel Without Using Formulas.", url: "http://www.theworldofoffice.com/excel-ti ps-tricks/calculating-excel-formulas/" });
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Use the Full Screen Mode in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
2008-03-20 06:33:00
Today’s Tip and Trick is a pretty cool one. It’s a simple but very useful one. I know it works in Microsoft Word , Excel and Power Point and I know for sure that it doesn’t work in OneNote. I haven’t tested it in other Office programs.   I personally think the new layout of the 2007 office suite ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Use the Full Screen Mode in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.", url: "http://www.theworldofoffice.com/word-tip s-tricks/full-screen-mode-word-excel-powe rpoint/" });
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Outlook Optimizing Tutorials nr.1: Adding and Removing Buttons From Your To
2008-03-19 06:40:00
Outlook automatically starts when I start up my system and I always have it open on one of my monitors. Microsoft Outlook is the program that I use most often and I’m not the only one. Without sounding too drastic: if I didn’t have MS Outlook my life would be a lot more complicated. My ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Outlook Optimizing Tutorials nr.1: Adding and Removing Buttons From Your Toolbar.", url: "http://www.theworldofoffice.com/outlook/ outlook-optimizing-tutorials-nr1-adding-r emoving-buttons-toolbar/" });
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Remove the Vista Security Shield Icon.
2008-03-18 06:24:00
I’ve told you yesterday that we would start the week slowly with a Vista Tip and Trick that wasn’t useful for every Windows Vista user. Yesterday we had a tutorial for disabling Vista Aero. Today I want to show you a Vista Tip and Trick that is useful for everyone. Today we have a Vista ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Remove the Vista Security Shield Icon .", url: "http://www.theworldofoffice.com/vista-ti ps-tricks/remove-vista-security-shield-ic on/" });
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Speed Up Vista by Disabling Aero.
2008-03-17 06:49:00
Hi folks, I hope you all had a great weekend!! And I hope that you all are looking forward for some cool computer tips and tricks because we have some special ones lined up for you this week.   Monday is a day that you take it a bit slower than usual, at least that was ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Speed Up Vista by Disabling Aero.", url: "http://www.theworldofoffice.com/vista-ti ps-tricks/speed-up-vista-disabling-aero/" });
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