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Use Gmail, Yahoo mail and more from any application, with Affixa

You may want to avoid Outlook and use always your Gmail or Yahoo mail account. With Affixa you can handle “mailto” email links in web pages, send emails directly from Windows Explorer, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and all or almost all the applications on your PC, while automatically attaching […]

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Enjoy portable versions of Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math and Base, with X-LibreOffice

X-LibreOffice is just LibreOffice made portable, remaining absolutely free for any use. I’m not a fan of LibreOffice in the portable version or not, but I’m glad this Office suite gained significant popularity, because competition makes everything better. However, the more demanding your work is, the more necessary Microsoft Office becomes. If you just need […]

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How to create multiple tables of contents in the same Word document

It sounds complicated, but it’s not! If your main Table of Contents contains a lot of entries, you may like to add to each of your main sections a smaller table of its own contents to help your readers refresh their memory and gain a better orientation. First, you need to create a distinct Word […]

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Open multiple documents in MS Word with a single click

To open two or more documents in Word with a single click, you can create an empty txt file (e.g. openmydocs.txt). Open it and write the path to Word and the path to your documents in sequence and with spaces in between, such as: C:\WINWORD.EXE C:\Mydoc1.doc C:\Mydoc2.doc Save this file, close it and change its […]

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Using Microsoft Word: A powerful and gratifying book

You can use Microsoft Word to write a simple report, but its main purpose, where it shines and shows its abilities, is demanding tasks, such as writing a dissertation or any kind of complex books. Steven Adams’ nice priced Writing a book or thesis in Microsoft Word regards most important aspects of using MS Word […]

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Removing Outlook from an Office installation, without damaging other apps

Strange as it may seem, when I press the mail button on my keyboard instead of Thunderbird, which is my default mail client, Outlook opens, along with Thunderbird! Probably the system is configured to use Outlook for some services and Thunderbird for other services, so that both programs have to open. I don’t use Outlook, […]

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LibreOffice free productivity suite with six apps for document production and data processing

LibreOffice is a free productivity suite containing six applications for document production and data processing: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free and comes from a community of users, contributors and developers. LibreOffice is a decent productivity suite, not as feature rich and shining as MS Office, but it is […]

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Enjoy a small portable Office, with SSuite Office Blade Runner

SSuite Office “Blade Runner” is a free, small and portable Office Suite. It will run from any portable memory device e.g. Thumb Drive, Memory Stick, Flash Drive etc., on any netbook, laptop, and desktop computer, instantly. BladeRunner is based on SSuite Advanced Office for hardware compatibility and system performance. Some utilities are borrowed from The […]

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