Eight Important Tips for Computer Users
(1) Yes, you can turn off the numbered lists feature in Microsoft Word. If you are tired of the computer taking an upper hand while you write, leading to numbered or alphabetical lists that could hardly be modified later if required, or auto-correction of your deliberate spellings etc., you can turn these features off! Just click at Tools, then at AutoCorrect, and remove the undesired tick marks!
(2) Has been offered a space in Internet by Geocities or Angelfire etc. to put your own website, but doesn't know how to put your main page in www.webcompany.com/yourname? Well, if you put a file index.html (or index.htm in some cases) in the main folder of your website, it becomes your main page available as the above URL.
(3) A similar situation is that you are ready with a CD-writer to write your professionally saleable CDs, but don't know how to let a particular introductory file auto-played when the CD is inserted into your customer's PC. Well, just download autoplay.zip from me, extract its three files, edit Start.htm herein (with, say, FrontPage) so that it contains your introductory material, and copy these three files into your CDs.
(4) Two or more papers come together and your printer gets jammed? Well, just do the obvious, just put one paper in your printer and give print order for printing one copy of one page at a time!
(5) Want to convert text written in a
different language (e.g., Assamese) into a low-bulk picture file so that you can
put it in the Internet to be viewed by anyone interested? Well, scanning the
print-out into a picture file will give you a very bulky picture file, besides
it's a lengthy procedure as well. Instead, just open a required page in its own
word-processor (e.g., PageMaker using RamDhanu), and press the Print-Screen key
on keyboard, as this action copies the page as a picture into clipboard! Next,
open a picture-processor software such as
IrfanView (it's a fantastic shareware),
paste that picture into a blank canvas, rectify as desired, and then save it as
a .gif or .jpg picture file. Next, paste the picture files into a
blank .htm file using FrontPage, and adjust size as desired.
Similarly, you can also convert a high-KB (but screen-size or smaller sized),
even compressed format (e.g., .gif or .jpg)
picture file into a significantly low-KB picture file by opening the picture anyhow, then
pressing the Print-Screen key, then pasting that copied screen picture into a
blank canvas in Irfanview and then further proceeding as above. (This is also
helpful for cases where only the paper-printed form of Non-English text is
available, and which has to be scanned into computer only as picture files.)
(6) Can't copy a large file in somebody else's computer to your own, because the donor computer doesn't have a CD-Writer drive, while the file, even after zipping by WinZip etc., is larger than the capacity of a floppy diskette? Well, just get hold of (available as shareware or freeware) and install a file-splitting software such as X-Split, vy-splitter or FileSplit, then split the desired file into fragments!
(7) Can't get a large file downloaded from the Internet because the Internet connection snaps in between? Manage (available as shareware or freeware) and install a download manager such as Gozilla or DAP that lets you resume a download from where you left.
(8) Getting exasperated when files seemed to have got successfully copied into a floppy diskette or a CD, can't be copied further into the destination computer long away? Well, whenever you take files to a long distance by such method, carry two copies of the files in two diskettes (a 2 x 2 rule of thumb by this author), and preferably not via old, doubtful disks/ diskettes.