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How to Scan a Document on a Multi-Function Printer

By eHow Computers Editor

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A multi-function printer with a scanner makes backing up your important documents easy. The scanner function of the printer allows you to translate a paper document like a receipt or title deed into an electronic copy that is stored on your ... more »

How to Search eHow Using Google Chrome

By MARCUS

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Download Google's new browser Chrome at http://www.google.com/chrome. You can customize it to search ehow from a new tab... more »

How to Search for Text or Numbers in Excel 2003 When You Do Not Know the Full Spelling or Number

By SeventhSibling

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In an Excel spreadsheet, you may need to search for words, like a person’s last name, or numbers, like a phone number, but you do not recall the full spelling or number. Excel’s find feature includes an ability to use wildcards in the search ... more »

How to search the web

By WAHGirl01

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Having trouble finding what you need online? Try these tips for searching the internet... more »

How to Secure Your Wireless Network

By huanton

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Ever felt like your wireless network was a little slow? Everyday, thousands of people are getting free internet at the expense of paying customers. In this E-how, you will learn how to password protect your wireless network... more »

How to See All Available Font Characters Installed On Your System

By SeventhSibling

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Using Microsoft Excel and a simple formula, you can see all the font characters available to you on your system. In addition, you can use the resulting worksheet information to learn the keyboard shortcut for the characters... more »

How to See Changes in Word 2007

By SeventhSibling

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In Word 2007, the dialog boxes look the same as Word 2003, but how you get to them is vividly different, making tasks easier and faster to accomplish. Be sure to click the images to enlarge them for a better view... more »

How to See the Properties of an Adobe Premiere Pro Clip

By msmarymac

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If you are working with multiple clips in an Adobe Premiere Pro project, or clips that have been captured before you worked with them, you may need to view the properties of those clips... more »

How to Select a Display Style, Expand and Resize Adobe Premiere Pro Tracks

By msmarymac

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The Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline defaults to the same settings every time you open a new project. If you are working with many different layers in your Premiere Pro Timeline, you may need to expand or collapse some tracks. You can adjust the ... more »

How to select a Hosted CRM?

By Pathikrit

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Hosted/SaaS CRM vendors have made CRM affordable. You can go live within a day, can maintain without IT infrastructure, pay small monthly instalments and pay for what you need. Do you know what to look for before zeroing in on a vendor? Please ... more »

How to Select ANY Software

By ptaneja

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To state the obvious, existing without software in the modern business context is unimaginable, may it be email; accounting, intranet, collaboration software or an ERP system. But in spite of this omnipresence of software in our business lives, ... more »

How to Select Irregularly Shaped Objects in PhotoDeluxe

By eHow Computers Editor

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Yes, in Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2.0, you can select an irregularly shaped area of a photo - such as a flower or your bouncing baby girl. Once selected, the object can be copied and pasted to another location or another file, or you can add special ... more »

How to Select Multiple Clips in the Adobe Premiere Pro Timeline

By msmarymac

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When you are editing video in Adobe Premiere Pro, you may have to perform an action that affects a clip as a whole, part of a clip, or multiple clips at once. These may include applying effects, deleting clips, or moving clips around in the ... more »

How to Select the Average Value of Data in a SQL Statement

By Mike

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SQL offers a great way to get the average value of your data in a single statement. In my example I am going to use MS Access's Northwind Database... more »

How to Self-Checkout

By Melody

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I love pay-at-the-pump and I love the option to self-checkout at grocery and discount stores. Some of my friends have had bad experiences and refuse to self-checkout, but they’re passing up a huge timesaver. Self-checkout technology has ... more »

How to send a group or mass text messege for free from pc or phone

By torque63

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Ever have a group of people you need to contact and don't want to spend the next 2 hours calling when it could be done in seconds. I will show you a simple way to send mass text messages from your cell phone or pc... more »

How to Send a Scanned Document as a Fax

By Jennifer Claerr

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If you're planning to send a large number of documents as a fax, you're likely to run into problems. You'll run into particularly serious trouble if you're trying to send documents which are printed both on the front and back. The solution to ... more »

How to Send Romantic SMS

By abbeyroad920

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Digital technology has brought with it new ways to express emotions to your loved ones. Text messaging is now a perfectly acceptable way to tell your significant other how you feel about him. Short message service, or SMS, allows users to express ... more »

How to Send Voicemails to Friends using Windows XP

By Kilogramm

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Email is one of the main features when it comes to the internet. You can send documents, videos and audio files with the click of a button. Now you can take advantage of the audio file feature by creating voicemails on your computer and then ... more »

How to Separate Cell Data in Excel

By eHow Computers Editor

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If you have some cell data in a Microsoft Excel worksheet that needs to be separated, you can do so automatically using the "Convert Text to Columns Wizard." This wizard allows you to easily separate cell content into multiple columns. A good ... more »

How to Set a Password for The Screensaver in Windows XP

By coachmac4

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Do you ever want to leave your computer on but not let anyone else have access to your computer? Just follow these few steps for total privacy!.. more »

How to Set an Area of an Adobe Premiere Pro Project for Preview

By msmarymac

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When you want to play back a sequence of edited clips in Adobe Premiere Pro, the program "renders" the sequence for play back on the program monitor. Sequences of cuts that are fairly basic (single tracks) will render quickly, and more complex ... more »

How to Set an Out of Office Message in Outlook

By HudsonEdit

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The out-of-office feature in Microsoft Outlook can be a godsend. It helps keep people in the loop about your whereabouts, which can be vital in business. By setting an out-of-office message, an automated email that bounces back to a people when ... more »

How to Set Default Auto Archive Settings in Microsoft Outlook

By Tricia Goss

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You might not think about all the “stuff” you have stored in Outlook. You probably have email messages in your inbox, in folders and even in your Sent and Deleted Items folders. You also may have meeting requests, scheduled events ... more »

How to Set Outlook as Default email system

By mjbelluto

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Most computers come with outlook express, if you buy outlook, express might still be set as the default which could cause you to lose or not see information... more »