Tip of the Day Windows 7 for everyday tasks

Windows 7 for everyday tasks

Windows 7 in simple is making your PC simplified. It has better ways to find and manage files, help you speed through everyday tasks, and is designed for faster and more reliable performance. We shall explore through some of these features in this article.

HomeGroup:

You can share your music, pictures and documents from your home computers with HomeGroup that is available in Windows 7. Even domain joined computers can be part of your HomeGroup.





Having created a HomeGroup, you can share devices and libraries in your home as well including videos and printers. You can find your HomeGroup in the Explorer`s navigation panel.

MS Office Pasting to Match In MS Excel

Pasting to Match In MS Excel

Do you frequently copy / paste information from documents, emails or the Internet into MS Excel?

If you don't have your paste options set to match the destination formatting (and quite frankly don't want it set that way) then you may be getting tired of all the formatting changes you have to complete to make the pasted information match the formatting of the existing data in the worksheet.

Computers 101 Q: What's the difference between "run" and "save" when I download a program?

Q:
What's the difference between "run" and "save" when I download a program?

A:
When you are downloading a file off the internet you may get the option to "Run" or "Save". Either of these options will lead you to the setup for the program and install it on your computer, but the difference lies in where the setup file opens from.



If you click "Save" you can specify where the setup file goes (Downloads or the desktop). From there you could put it on a disk just in case you need to reinstall it or want to put it on another computer.

Quick Tips Boolean Searching

Boolean Searching

There's something about learning a funny technological word that brings out the geek in everyone! Today's subject is one that will help everyone work more efficiently while searching on the Internet. It's called “Boolean”.



Say you're looking for a specific thing on the web, but every time you search it seems as though there are too many results, and to go through all of them would take hours! Boolean operators can streamline this process; giving you a more refined search. Here are a few to try out: