Category Archives: General

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Paste Unformatted Text with a Shortcut in Microsoft Word

By Amer Kachmar | Published: March 6, 2011

Many times when you need to paste text from the web, an HTML document, or even other MS Word documents, you may want to just get the text without the formatting and styling that is carried with it. There are several ways to do that, but out of the box, Microsoft Word doesn’t give an easy way, that is with one keyboard shortcut, to do that. The easiest way available with Microsoft Word 2010 is to right click and then click the “A” icon (“Keep Text Only” icon). Now, this is easy but if you need to use that feature… [Full Article]

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Reverse Numbered List in Microsoft Word

By Amer Kachmar | Published: March 6, 2011

Making Numbered lists in Microsoft Word is pretty easy and anyone with primary knowledge about Word would make one even without trying; like when you type “1.” followed by space, Word would automatically start a numbered list for you. But when it comes to making a reverse numbered list or a top 10 list with a count down style, Word provides no ability of making such lists out of the box.
So how could we make one? Microsoft Word provides a feature for developers to create Macros in Visual Basic programming language which we can use to manipulate data easily and in… [Full Article]

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Subscribe to RSS Feeds with RSS Bandit

By Amer Kachmar | Published: January 14, 2011

This tutorial is useful for those who don’t know how to subscribe to RSS feeds and also to point you to a nice RSS Feed Reader, RSS Bandit, that you can download and is totally free.
What is RSS useful for?
To put it simply, if there is a blog that publishes posts considered interesting by you, how would you be able to stay up-to-date with that blog? How would you know that the blog has published a new post? For sure you can go that blog (or website) on a daily basis, or even several times during the day,… [Full Article]

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VLC multiple instances

By Amer Kachmar | Published: November 1, 2010

Sometimes, you may need to run multiple instances of VLC so that you can view several videos at the same time or even listen to music of a certain video while viewing another. Here is quick tip on how to make VLC run and show multiple windows of videos.

  1. From the menu, click “Tools”, then click “Preferences”
  2. In the “Preferences” dialog, look to the bottom left where you will see “Show Settings” label, hit the “All” radio button
  3. Select “Advanced” from the left pane
  4. Look for the “Performance options” section, and uncheck “One instance when started from file”

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Make VLC repeat video playback

By Amer Kachmar | Published: November 1, 2010

A very useful and wanted option for all media players is to repeat playback. This option is somehow hidden in VLC and many users may fail to find it and are not willing to dig in to find it. Here is how to make VLC repeat all Videos:

  1. From the menu, click “Tools”, then click “Preferences”
  2. In the “Preferences” dialog, look to the bottom left where you will see “Show Settings” label, hit the “All” radio button
  3. On the left panel, select “Playlist”
  4. check the “Repeat All” checkbox
  5. click the “Save” button

The above setting will make… [Full Article]

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Archiving your Emails with Outlook and Gmail

By Amer Kachmar | Published: April 30, 2010

Users who use Outlook with IMAP to access their Gmail account (whether regular Gmail or Google Apps Gmail) will have problems when they attempt to archive their Emails using Outlook AutoArchive or manually initiating an Outlook archiving process.
There are 2 issues that prevent archiving from being successful with Outlook:

  • Gmail Related Problem: Gmail manages Emails in a different way than what usually Email Servers/Services do.
    • Gmail uses labels instead of folders. Multiple labels can be assigned to the same Email; and when you get a new Email it will automatically have 2 labels: Inbox and “All Mail”.

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Converting Word .docx to .doc using Microsoft FREE programs

By Amer Kachmar | Published: December 2, 2009

Do you have a .docx Word file that you want to convert to .doc Word file but do not have Microsoft Word 2007 or earlier versions? You can convert it using Microsoft free programs, Word Viewer 2003 (Microsoft has removed “Word Viewer 2003″ and replaced it with “Word Viewer”) and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.
The instructions in this article refer to Word Viewer 2003 but since it has been replaced with Word Viewer, they may or may not be valid but you should be able to find your way to apply them with the new Word Viewer. However, I have not tested… [Full Article]

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MUST re_cover! AutoCAD virus, how to recover your drawings

By Amer Kachmar | Published: November 7, 2009

Have you seen MUST re_cover! text showing up when you open your AutoCAD drawing? This is not an error message produced by AutoCAD or Windows, it is a text produced by a variant of acad.vlx virus that appears as a drawing. Trying to recover your file with AutoCAD recover command will not help. Your file might appear as if totally corrupted but it is not. It looks like the virus creators were not that bad when they made it, because they have given you a hint on what to do to recover your file. As you may have already noticed,… [Full Article]

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