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Emails written by Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho have been released to the media via the school's own newspaper, the Collegiate Times. The messages make up just one part of a the nearly 14,000 documents related to the slayings made available ... last week. It's been a year and a half since the violence at Virginia Tech. A calm has finally settled over the campus, but most students, professors, and staff still struggle to imagine what could have possibly led Cho, the gunman responsible for the deaths of 32 other students, to embark on such a deadly, vicious rampage. The massive store of ... (view more)

Word 2007 by default stores your documents in the My Documents folder in Windows XP. If you are using Microsoft Vista, your documents will be stored in the Documents folder. The programmers most likely set this up in this manner so that you would ... always know where to find your files. Believe it or not, I have had users send me an email telling me that they have saved a Word document and have no idea where they have saved it! But, you may wish to store your documents in a different location, such as an external hard drive. If that is the case, you will have to use the File | Save As to ... (view more)

In yet another case where government appears to be above the law, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has issued a report warning that your printer may be spying on you. Some color laser manufacturers are encoding each page with identifying ... information -- secret code that could be used to identify the printer and, potentially, the person who used it. Without your knowledge or consent, an act you assume is private could become public. What's worse is that there are no laws to prevent abuse. There's little to stop the Secret Service from using printer codes to secretly trace the origin of ... (view more)

Microsoft recently announced the release of a new update for Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 and 2008. The 12.1.1 update, the second for the application, promises to fix all those annoying little inconsistencies that occasionally pop up. (Source: ... arstechnica.com ) Most Mac users get their regular update fix straight from Apple's official site, but that doesn't cover programs manufactured by other companies. Those of us using the Microsoft Office application can breathe a sigh of relief that the program is getting an overhaul. The new update aims to increase the stability and overall performance ... (view more)

Adobe is taking on the likes of Microsoft and Google by making it easier to use its software online, meaning colleagues in different locations can create and work on documents together much more easily. The move coincides with the launch of Adobe ... Acrobat 9, the latest edition of their PDF software. That's a format that allows users to share documents (which can include images as well as text) without having to both use the same software. It's often used to reproduce hard-copy documents such as magazine pages. The biggest development with Acrobat 9 is that users can now include animations and ... (view more)

If you are anything like me, the My Documents folder is not always the most appropriate place to save a document. It is, however, the default folder for saving in MS Office. Well take heart, because you can change the default folder in Office and ... you can do it fairly easily. Follow the steps below to find out how: Click on Tools | Options. Click the File Locations tab. Under File Types, Documents should be selected. You will note that the default location is set to My Documents. Click the Modify button and in the Modify Location dialog box, navigate to the desired folder. Click OK. Now, when ... (view more)

If you are anything like me, you have lots and lots of documents open at the same time when you are working in MS Word. Hopefully, I have taught you well and you save your documents at the beginning and end of your work. But wait, don't you hate ... closing each of those documents? It can become tedious, especially when you have to get them all closed to leave at the end of the day or when you have to close many sensitive documents before you go to lunch. That's where the keyboard shortcuts come into play. Follow the steps below to learn how: In MS Word when you are ready to close up shop, ... (view more)

Microsoft is in the process of finalizing a new online buddy for their popular Office programs. The service allows users to store, share and comment on documents. Ironically, the only thing missing is the ability to create new files. While the ... resource is called Microsoft Office Live Workspace, the website is not exactly "live" at all. Users hoping to get an early start on the program will be required to sign up to become part of an early beta test. A select number of those tested will be allowed to start using the service at some point this year. (Source: usatoday.com ) Office Live Workspace ... (view more)

Google has released the newest component of Google Docs: a presentation component that carries a typical simplistic moniker, Google "Presentations". Like Google Documents and Spreadsheets, users can email and upload documents to edit online. Unlike ... Documents, however, Presentations can only handle documents created in PowerPoint. Further, uploads must be smaller than 10MB. Google has certainly overtaken Microsoft on the aspect of search. Does Presentations have the potential to offer Google similar success? In a nutshell, no. Ars Technica's Eric Bangeman, a frequent PowerPoint user, tested ... (view more)

I bet you didn't know that you can link documents together in MS Word. Well guess what? You can! Why bother linking documents together? You can hyperlink documents together so that the folks who read them can click on a hyperlink that will take them ... to a previous document that is referred to in the instant document. Say you've written to a colleague asking them to use information from a sales database to create a mail merge letter announcing a "Spring sale". You can create a hyperlink to a document instructing them how to create a merge letter. Word makes it super easy to link to ... (view more)