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How to Create Simple Formulas in Excel

By SeventhSibling

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Microsoft Excel can make your mathematical calculations easy. From complicated financial data sheets to adding up the expense of your Christmas list, you will find that Excel can not only perform calculations, it provides you with a record ... more »

How to Create Stick Men Videos on Paint and Movie Maker

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Aspiring animators can sink a fortune into animation and art software, as it's easy to think you need the best applications and animation classes to launch your career. But, save your money and start animating now with simple stick figures and ... more »

How to Create Styles in PageMaker

By eHow Computers Editor

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Whenever you create a document containing four or more pages, you may want to create a style sheet that describes the fonts, margins, and other settings used for a paragraph. Once you've created the styles, you can easily apply them to other ... more »

How to Create Titles for Television in Premiere Pro

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One very handy function of Adobe Premiere Pro is its ability to create titles. Titles are also known as credits, and can include any type of text seen in a movie, including the title of the film or video, the names of the actors and crew and even ... more »

How to Create Variables in PERL

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As a portable, simple and versatile language, PERL has become popular for working on web-based scripts and programs. Originally developed for UNIX, PERL has a straightforward structure and a limber way of dealing with data. You can see this ... more »

How to Create Wallpaper for the Nextel Phone

By eHow Computers Editor

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The line of phones offered by Nextel range from simple flip phones to PDAs that maintain connectivity around the world. Most Nextel phones allow you to check sports scores, speak via walkie-talkie to Nextel users and browse the Internet. You can ... more »

How to create your own simple programs with AutoHotKey (even for Dummies)

By John the Expert

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You want to create a basic program to copy scripted events that you do routinely. This tutorial will show you how to make your own script programs to save you time. This tutorial is great for IT people... more »

How to Create your own Website for Free!!

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How to Create and Publish you own Website for FREE!!.. more »

How to Crop Photos Using Microsoft’s Image Viewer

By michaelgavin

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We all love to share photos with our friends and families. In the digital world of today it is almost necessary to know how to at least basically edit and crop these photos to the desired size and format. Windows already includes a nifty photo ... more »

How to Crop Photos Using Photoshop

By eHow Computers Editor

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The crop tool in Photoshop allows you to select a portion of a photo you want to cut away from the rest of the photo, keeping only that portion and discarding the rest. This powerful tool can be used to enhance your photos and create other ... more »

How to Crossfade Between Audio Clips in Premiere Pro

By msmarymac

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Once you have imported video clips and placed them in a sequence, you can begin to work with your audio tracks. When you have two clips adjacent to each other, you may find a “crossfade” transition between the clips an appropriate ... more »

How to Customize and Save Project Settings in Adobe Premiere Pro

By msmarymac

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Picking the correct project settings for your new Adobe Premiere Pro project establishes the parameters for each project. All project settings will apply to the entire work, and most of them cannot be changed after a project is created. Here is ... more »

How to Customize Helpdesk Software for External Support

By Pathikrit

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These two are related applications with overlapping functionalities. I cannot provide a detailed instruction but I'm trying to highlight the main features to be included in and excluded out of the internal helpdesk software to make it suitable ... more »

How to Customize Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop

By msmarymac

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Adobe Photoshop is a versatile photograph program you can use for various digital image editing needs. As you become more advanced and comfortable with the tools, palettes and workspaces, you may become more particular with how you organize your ... more »

How to Customize the Quick Access Toolbar in Microsoft Office 2007

By smdivin

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Microsoft Office 2007 has a brand new design, complete with tabs and groups that you can use to complete commands. If you prefer these commands on a toolbar that you can click on for immediate action, Microsoft created the Quick Access Toolbar. ... more »

How to Customize Tool Presets in Adobe Photoshop

By msmarymac

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As you become more advanced and comfortable with using Adobe Photoshop tools, palettes and workspaces, you may become more particular with how you organize your work flow. If you use the same settings for a tool often, you might want to save the ... more »

How to Cut & Paste a Subject or an Object from One Photograph into a Photograph

By Diane Uhlman

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You can place objects or subjects from one photo and paste it into another photograph... more »

How to Deal With Your Internet Obsession

By GreenMomma

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Let's face it, the internet is addicting. The more you know, the more you need to know. Here's how to handle your obsession with the internet so you can move on with your real life!.. more »

How to Defrag your Hard Drive

By coachmac4

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Is your computer running slower? Do you need to defrag your hard drive? Do you even know what defragging is? Just follow these few steps to make your computer run smoother and faster... more »

How to Defragment Your Windows XP Computer

By Kimberly Mathison

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Computer maintenance is very important to the wellbeing of you computer and your sanity! If you don’t keep up on things you may find your machine slowing down, crashing or even worse! Defragmenting is one way to keep your computer running ... more »

How to Delete a Form in TurboTax

By eHow Computers Editor

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You may want to remove a form or schedule from TurboTax (tax year 1999) if it transferred from a previous TurboTax return and isn't needed for this year, or if you wish to experiment with various options... more »

How to Delete Browsing History From Internet Exporer

By eHow Computers Editor

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You've got a problem. The family went and left you all alone and you decided to spend your time in front of your computer browsing the billions of porn related websites out there, and now you're afraid your family could find out. Don't worry, ... more »

How to Delete Cells in Microsoft Excel

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Excel is a highly customizable and generally user-friendly spreadsheet application. However, when you enter a lot of data and suddenly discover you've created some cells you don't need, you are faced with the challenge of removing the cells ... more »

How to Delete Cookies in Firefox

By coachmac4

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Have you ever wanted a website not to record that you have been there? Every website record cookies to remember your username and password, to remember your personal information, or show you different ads. Sometimes we don't want our personal ... more »

How to Delete Microsoft Excel Values, Keep Formulas

By SeventhSibling

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In Microsoft Excel, you can create a worksheet that will be used to input numbers, with formulas set to perform calculations on those input numbers (known as values). You can use the worksheet repeatedly by clearing the values while retaining ... more »