PDF Converter Professional 7 – A First Look

PDF Converter Professional 7 – A First Look Program: PDF Converter Professional 7.0 Publisher: Nuance Communications, Inc. License: Commercial Price: List $99. Price on Apr. 3, 2011 at Amazon: $48.59 . Every once in a while, a program that’s designed for business use is so helpful and priced so reasonably that it’s useful for home
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Using Office 2003 on a Windows 7 Computer

Subscriber Carolyn Waterson wrote recently to ask about using Office 2003 with a new computer: Hi Terry My husband got an external hard drive for Christmas to back up all his research onto. However … it managed to strip everything off his internal hard disk and corrupt it – resulting in a brand new computer!! [...]

Security Update Will Not Install

Security Update for Microsoft Word Viewer will not install Subscriber Travis MacClendon wrote with an interesting problem. Fortunately, the solution should be pretty easy… Hi Terry, I’ve been reading and lurking for a few months now and finally have a question perhaps worthy of attention: I get the Microsoft automatic security updates and have never [...]

Word Documents as Outlook 2007 Email Attachments Won’t Open From Outlook

Last week, subscriber Ian Pitt wrote from the UK to ask about a problem he was having with his computer: Hi Terry, I’ve been reading your newsletter for some time, and appreciated your advice both in the newsletter and on the website. I suppose that I’ve been hoping that another subscriber would write with my [...]

Starting a Program in Full-Screen Mode (Maximized)

Subscriber John Roberts wrote from Australia to ask about opening programs in full screen mode (maximized) and in windows (not maximized): Please tell me how to ensure that Word opens full page and also tell me how to ensure that Mic.Outlook opens in “IN BOX” Windows has a nice feature that enables the user to [...]

Buttons for Multiple Printers in Word 2007

A site visitor wrote me a request about Word 2007 via my web site’s Contact Form. Unfortunately, he didn’t pay close enough attention to realize that the only personal responses go to subscribers. He wanted to know how to set up multiple printer buttons in Word 2007 in order to be able to easily switch [...]

Zooming in Microsoft Word, followup

After my article about zooming in Microsoft Word documents, Carol Bratt of Carol’s Corner Office commented in my Terry’s Computer Tips blog: There are a couple of rules of thumb to remember regarding zoom settings. If you are opening an existing document that you previously viewed in Page Layout view, Word will use the zoom [...]

Removing Carriage Returns — Solved!

Website visitor, and now, new subscriber Phan Thu wrote: 13 Sep 08 Hi Terry: This isn’t a question but a brief but heartfelt note to THANK you. I had had trouble with LINE BREAKS in both MS Word and OO.o Writer. Google pointed me to your wonderful web site and since yesterday, thanks to your [...]