Posts Tagged ‘Word’

Using Wildcards

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

You can use the asterisk (*) character to indicate a wildcard search. This is useful when you are trying to match a term that may or may not be plural or might use one of several verb tenses. For example chemi* will find results containing words that begin with ‘chemi’ (e.g. chemical, chemistry, chemist). You must have at least four non-wildcard characters in a word before you introduce a wildcard. This is not necessary for plurals because a search on cat will also return results containing the word cats, and a search on cats will return results containing the word cat.

Some search engines support two wildcards. The asterisk (*) is used to replace multiple characters and the percent (%) symbol is used to replace only one character. For example psych*ist will find all results which contain words that begin and end with ‘psych’ and ‘ist’ (e.g. psychologist, psychiatrist), and gene%logy will return sites containing words beginning with ‘gene’ and ending with ‘logy,’ separated by a single letter (e.g. genealogy and geneology) which is useful for commonly misspelled words. You can also use multiple wildcards within a single word.

Office 2007 Users

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Users who have Office 2007 on their computers can save each file in the earlier version. For example, when saving a document in Word:

1. Click on the Office button
2. Choose the Save As - Word 97-2003 Document

This will save the file in the recognized format for older versions (.doc).

A second option is to have Office 2007 users change the default setting for their files in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. to automatically save in a lower version. This is better than having to try and remember each time you save a file to change the file type. To change the default setting:

1. Open an Office application, for example Word
2. Click on the Office button
3. Click on the Word Options button at the bottom of the window
4. Click on Save to display the options
5. Click the down arrow next to the field for Save files in this format and choose  Word 97-2003 (*.doc)
6. Click OK to save the default

Trick To Create Table In Word

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

To create a table in Ms Word you can use this shortcut !

>> Just type : +======+=====+====+===+==+=+

>> And simply hit ‘Enter’ !

>> You will see that the text changes to a table. Here, the number ‘=’ represent the number of characters in each cell !

>> Just it makes your work easy and fast !

Convert Text Webpages E-mails RSS Feeds into mp3 or ipod book for free with spokentext

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

SPOKENTEXT is a web based free text to speech service that Converts PDF,Word,Ppt,Text ,e-mails,web pages and rss news feeds into mp3 file or ipod book.Many of you may have important files or documents that you want access while you’re away from computer,spokentext helps you convert them into audio format and let you carry them on your ipod or mp3 player wherever you go.Of course there are many text to speech converters online,this is one of the best free service i have tried out till now.It is really clean and handy with plenty of choices to record.Except the promotional link we hear while playing the audio everything goes fine with it.