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It’s frustrating. Something you have used for years stops working. It is not just that the process has changed. Sometimes it becomes more complicated. What am I talking about?

Today someone asked me how to fill in a form inside Microsoft Word 2007. This was not a document formatted as a form. The person who sent it had just put rows of __________ where the answers should go. As you expect typing on the lines caused the formatting to go all wacky. The solution is to press the “Insert” key on the keyboard and “Overtype” the underlines. Except my Insert key was not working.

A bit of quick research revealed that Microsoft decided to override the entire Insert/Overtype process. Why? Nobody knows. We just have to file that under unsolved mysteries.

Here is the way to replace the functionality of your “Insert/Overtype” in your copy of Microsoft Office 2007. [click to continue…]

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Are the labels fading or vanishing on your keyboard? Here is a tip I found on how to protect them before it happens.

Coat the top of each key on the keyboard with clear nail polish…I use Hard As Nails.

You can read the original post and thread at the Seeds of Wisdom Forum.

I personally don’t care when my keys wear off. I already know where the keys are to start with. But this may help you. I would also *not* try this with a laptop. Too easy to slip.

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Leverage Your Signature File

May 29, 2009

A few days ago I sent you a strategy for leveraging your signature file. Do that and you will save time with every email you reply to. If you missed that email I’ve put it on the blog here:
http://www.tnpcnewsletter.com/blog/2009/05/24/how-is-your-signature/
A few people wrote and asked if this only worked with Outlook. Every email program I’m familiar [...]

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How is Your Signature?

May 24, 2009

I was helping a good friend change their Outlook signature last
night. It was an interesting experience for me since Outlook isn’t
installed on any of my machines currently. Fortunately my memory
held up and we got the task accomplished. Oh I was working over the
phone too.
After the fact I spent a few minutes talking about signatures. We
all [...]

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Two Quick Things

May 19, 2009

It’s a hit! Two quick things. A reminder about the Internet Archive
and an easy fix to a perplexing Firefox issue.
Yesterday I told you about the Internet Archive. Based on the
emails that are coming in it is quite popular.
If you visited the Archive or used the WayBack Machine why not
share what you found by commenting below.
The [...]

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Here is one of my favorite tools…

May 19, 2009

Thought I’d share a website that I find super useful. It is easy
for me to assume that you already know about all the cool useful
sites but as I talk to other people I find out that just isn’t the
case.
This week Archive.org came up as a solution to several challenges
we encountered. Any way you look at [...]

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