About Katherine Murray
Katherine Murray is the author of Microsoft Office 2010 Plain & Simple (Microsoft Press, 2010), Microsoft Word 2010 Plain & Simple (Microsoft Press, 2010), and Microsoft Word 2010 Inside Out (Microsoft Press, 2010). She also coauthored, with Woody Leonhard, Green Home Computing for Dummies (Wiley 2009), and she writes and tweets(@kmurray230) about green-tech issues.
We include pictures in everything — from blog posts to annual reports to letters to Grandma. But easy as it is to insert pictures into a doc, we’re often flummoxed by how to keep them exactly where we want them. This article explores a few of the maddening Word picture-placement issues our readers (and editors) have faced.
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In a hardworking, digitized world, it’s hard to imagine tools more sought after than those that show up reliably on any portable device and work well — or at least as well as advertised. Whether Microsoft’s Cloud-based Office 365 is that tool — in fact or even in potential — is still an open question.
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Once upon a time, researchers and writers might have debated the virtues of paper notebooks versus index cards for recording their thoughts and findings. Today, it’s all gone digital. The choice between two leading note-taking apps — OneNote or Evernote — depends in large part on how well they integrate with the platforms and software you’re already using.
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If you enjoyed spending time with family and friends over the holidays and are looking for good ways to keep in direct contact, look to the Web for free services. When an e-mail or Facebook post just won’t do, here are popular voice/video-communication tools worth trying out.
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For prolific producers of digital images, there’s one overriding concern: preservation. Online photo services provide a secure place to store and organize hundreds — or even thousands — of images. While none is ideal, some are more useful to the serious photographer than others.
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Whether you prefer taking photos with your digital camera or the camera in your phone, downloadable tools can help you make your pictures pop. If you don’t want to share lackluster photos, you can use some of these full-featured (and free!) photo-editing programs to spruce up your images.
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Windows 8 Developer Preview is getting a lot of attention because of its colorful Metro interface and its touch-centric approach. But some of Windows 8′s so-called new features are already available in the OS you might be using now — though in a relatively primitive form.
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Microsoft’s colorful, work-in-progress Windows 8 made a big splash at the Microsoft BUILD conference. But if you’re concerned about where Windows 8′s flashy new approach leaves users of legacy systems, the news isn’t bad.
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Are you happy with the way your current version of Windows — whether Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 — behaves when you’re copying, moving, renaming, or deleting files?
Windows is notorious for showing inaccurate percentage complete, time remaining, and other information during file operations. Windows 8 is on track to do better.
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Personal or small-office printers have been fundamental components of our computing environment since the earliest PCs. But they can also be expensive and temperamental beasts.
With the growing prevalence of cloud computing, PDFs, and other means of handling digital documents, it’s time to re-evaluate your printing practices.
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