Making Spell Checker Work for You

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Spellchecker Working for You! Add unusual names to spellchecker

Are you tired of Microsoft Word underlining your last name, Ullenschlagersmth, in red? Or perhaps you use medical or technical terms in your writing and spellchecker doesn't recognize them either. You can "teach" Word your vocabulary and stop that nasty underline. (Doesn't it make you feel like a third grader whose teacher got carried away with the red pencil?) The next time you type a document in Microsoft Word and it underlines a word you use frequently, RIGHT click the word. A shortcut menu will appear. LEFT click Add to Dictionary. You've done it! That word will never be underlined again. (In Microsoft Works use the same steps as above, but when you RIGHT click the word, LEFT click Add on the shortcut menu.) This tip is from my book, Taming Your Computer -- Beyond the Basics, on the page called Using the Right (Not Left) Mouse Button. This page also explains other uses for the right mouse button. If you don't already have this book, it's on sale on my website -- $15 (including shipping) instead of the usual $19 Click here to check it out on my website. If you'd rather not use your credit card online to order the book, click here to print an order form that you can mail with your check. Do you have friends or family who would find this information helpful? Please click on the link below, Forward email to a friend!, and send it to them. They're also welcome to sign up for my monthly newsletter as well as the Tip of the Week. Thanks for sharing.

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Overcoming Printer Problems

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Overcoming Printer Problems Showing your printer who's boss!

Welcome to the first Tip of the Week. I plan to keep the tips short and sweet and valuable enough that you might want to start a notebook to keep them in. I can almost promise that someday you will need this week's tip. Do you ever tell your printer to print a document ... and nothing happens? OR, do you tell your printer to print a document and it prints that document over and over and over .....? Here's the solution. Sometimes when you tell your printer to print, the print command gets "stuck." (That's a very technical computer term.) In other words, it just sits there. If you continue to repeat the print command, all of those commands will back up behind the first one and wait. The solution for printing nothing or printing too much is the same: LEFT click the Start button in the bottom left corner of your screen. LEFT click Control Panel about halfway down on the right side of the two columns. If you don't see rows and rows of icons, LEFT click Switch to Classic View at the top left of your screen. Now Double LEFT click the Printers and Faxes icon. You will see one or more printer icons on your screen, depending on how many printers are connected to your computer. Each icon will have 3 lines of text beside it. The first line will be the name of the printer, the second line will indicate the number of documents waiting to be printed, and the third line may say Ready. For example, on my screen I see: Brother MFC 9600 (name and model of my printer) 6 (The number of documents waiting to print) Ready (Indicates that my printer is ready) Double click the printer icon and you will see a list of documents waiting to print. To clear all of the documents, LEFT click Printer at the top of your screen. Then LEFT click Cancel All Documents. In a moment or two, all of documents should be deleted. If any of them remain, repeat the steps above. Then close the Printer menu and close Control Panel by clicking the red "X" in the top right corner of your screen. Now return to the document you were attempting to print and try again. If all else fails, turn off the printer and unplug both cables on the back. Turn off your computer also. Leave everything turned off for 5-10 minutes. (Call that a cooling off period.) Then, plug the printer cables back in, turn the computer on and turn the printer on. Try printing your document again. Good luck! Feel free to forward this tip to a friend by clicking Forward email to a friend below. If you have a computer tip you'd like to share, please send it to me. Thanks!

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Making Computers Easier to Use

Beginning computer users have asked me for help on learning the basic tips and tricks to using computers, so I've decided to begin posting them here for all to see. I will post a weekly computer tip on a wide variety of subjects and hope you find them helpful. Many of these tips will come from one of my books, Taming Your Computer -- The Simple Basics (for beginning to intermediate computer users) or Taming Your Computer -- Beyond the Basics (for computer users with some basic experience. Both books are written in Plain English that mere mortals can understand. They are also in large type so they are very easy to read. Diagrams accompany the step-by-step instructions, so you always know what should be appearing on your screen. If you like the books, you may order them from my website: www.TamingYourComputer.com. You may also sign up for my free monthly e-mail newsletter (ezine) on the website. It's filled with lots of computer information for computer users of all skill levels.

Feel free to share these tips with your friends and family. No one, not even Bill Gates, knows all there is to know about computers, so just keep learning, one little step at a time! Enjoy!