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MS Word shortcut to close the Navigation Pane 26 Aug 2013 | 10:44 pm
If you open the Navigation Pane, e.g. with Ctrl+F in order to search for something in your documents, sometimes you can not close it using the Esc key and you need to grab the mouse in order to aim th...
If PageDown key does not work in MS Word Print Preview mode 16 Aug 2013 | 06:38 pm
How strange! PageUp works just fine when you browse your document in Print Preview mode at Microsoft Word, but not the PageDown key. You are still able to move forward only by pressing Ctrl+PageDown, ...
Error importing registry settings, you can only import binary registry files 16 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
You may try to run a registry (*.reg) file only to receive this strange error: Cannot Import ... The Specified is not a registry script. You can only import binary registry files from within the regis...
Irfan View Recent Files 14 Aug 2013 | 03:02 am
According to an opinion I don’t share, a standard recent files list would be useless in IrfanView, because its users are supposed to open hundreds of files in a day so the chances of the one wanted be...
Color Picker of Adobe InDesign, an easier way to use it 11 Aug 2013 | 10:45 pm
When you need to select a color for an element using Adobe InDesign, you have to point your mouse to a small square at the relevant toolbar. This square is not only too small, but also adjacent to a s...
Make Windows Explorer image thumbnails larger 11 Aug 2013 | 12:35 am
Perhaps you are not satisfied with the default settings for the size of the thumbnails Windows Explorer shows when you select “large” or “extra large” view. Extra large can be sometimes more than you ...
Show languages as flags at the taskbar system tray 25 Jul 2013 | 11:24 am
In case that you use more than one language in Windows, you may find it easier to use flags instead of the usual Windows way of displaying languages as names. To display languages as flags at the syst...
If Microsoft Word leaves a few words isolated on the previous or next page 20 Jul 2013 | 03:38 pm
It is not professional to have a document with empty pages, having only a few words, the ending of the previous page paragraph, or pages that end with a few words from the start of the next page parag...
If Microsoft Word adds space when you paste 20 Jul 2013 | 12:02 am
You may need to paste a word or phrase in your document in several locations at exact positions, e.g. just beside some punctuation mark, only to find out that Word won’t let you do it, adding a space ...
Download CD/DVD Drive Locker, to unlock (or lock) you CD or DVD drive 29 Jun 2013 | 11:53 pm
It happened today that an application locked my DVD drive. Selecting the “Eject” command at Windows Explorer, even pressing the drive button, would not work. I realized that the only way to eject the ...
