Category Archives: Software

Beginners Tutorial: Customize Your WordPress Blog

Published on: March 9, 2013 by Lalit Kumar

The WordPress blogging interface allows its users plenty of creative scope to create a personalised blogging website, one which can be used extensively even by people without any coding knowledge. … Read more

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MediaWiki URLs: Short, Clean and Beautiful

Published on: November 23, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

I run several websites which are based on MediaWiki platform. MediaWiki does provide the option of having beautiful, clean and short URLs but a couple of my earliest MediaWiki websites  … Read more

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Find and Replace Formatting in MS-Word

Published on: September 21, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

If you use MS-Word a lot, sometimes you must have wished if you could find a particular type of formatting in a long document and replace it with some other … Read more

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How to Write a Macro in MS Word

Published on: September 18, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

In order to write a Visual Basic program to run in MS-Office packages (like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access etc) you need an editor. Microsoft has provided you with one. To … Read more

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Multiple Find and Replace in MS-Word

Published on: September 18, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Nowadays, I am working with a lot of Unicode text in MS-Word. All the pieces of the text invariably need editing. There are some commonly occurring mistakes which I have … Read more

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MediaWiki: Find Number of Jobs Pending in Job Queue

Published on: July 29, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

MediaWiki is a robust content management system written for community use. It provides you with a great number of features that makes an administrator’s life easier. One such feature is … Read more

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MS Word: Different Page Numbers for TOC or Preface

Published on: June 23, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Microsoft Word has a facility using which you can very easily insert a Table of Content (TOC) in your document. Such a table holds names of chapters/sections/sub-sections/parts etc. present in … Read more

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MS Word: Change Formatting of All Instances of a Word

Published on: June 16, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

While working on an MS Word document, at times, we find ourselves in a need of finding all the instances a word in the entire document AND then change the … Read more

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MS Word: Change Smart Curly Quotes to Simple Ones

Published on: June 15, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Microsoft Word by default converts your simple quotes into nice looking curly quotes (aka smart quotes). But sometimes we want our plain old straight quotes back. Curly quotes look nice … Read more

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How to Replace Line Break in MS Word

Published on: June 11, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Today, while doing a bit of data processing, I required to delete all the line breaks (carriage return) in an MS-Word document and replace them with a comma. I was … Read more

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Windows Calculator Bug and Its Cause

Published on: June 2, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

The calculator tool has been available in all the versions of Microsoft Windows and has been vastly used. However, do you know that there is a bug in Windows calculator? … Read more

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PowerPoint: See Speaker Notes in Presenter View

Published on: May 20, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Making a good presentation is an art. Practice makes a man perfect. These two are important points to remember if you intend to become a successful presenter. Even the best … Read more

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How to Make Table of Content in Microsoft Word

Published on: April 9, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

When you are writing large amount of structured text (e.g. a book or booklet) it becomes imperative to include a table of content at the beginning of your document. Such … Read more

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Windows 8: Login Problem with Windows Live Account

Published on: March 9, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Windows 8 allows you to log into the system by two ways. You can either use your user account setup on the local computer or you can use a Microsoft … Read more

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How to Shutdown Windows 8

Published on: March 9, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

The very new users of Windows 8 are often found groping in the dark for the shutdown button. As if the absence of regular start button was not enough –obscurity … Read more

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Windows 8: The First Experience

Published on: March 9, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

After installing Windows 8, when you use the operating system for the first time, the first thing that strikes you is the absence of “Start button”. ALSO SEE: Install Windows … Read more

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Install Windows 8: Step by Step Guide

Published on: March 9, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

I was not very keen on taking trouble of beta testing Windows 8 Consumer Preview Version. But then I could not suppress my curiosity to see how Win 8 looks; … Read more

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Delete WordPress Tags or Categories Without Plug-in

Published on: March 7, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Most of the time webmasters decide to mass delete tags from their websites –that’s why I have mentioned only “Tags” in the title of the post. But the same trick … Read more

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Create Windows 8 Logo Only with CSS and HTML

Published on: March 5, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

As you might know, Microsoft has confirmed a major update in Windows Logo. The company is doing away with the four-color flag that has been part of Windows Logo since … Read more

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Remove Admin, Control, Dashboard Bar in WordPress

Published on: March 5, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

When you are signed into your WordPress Dashboard and visit your website -a dark colored bar appears on top of the screen. This 28px high bar is called the Admin … Read more

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MS-Word: Portrait and Landscape Pages in the Same Document

Published on: February 24, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

More often than not we find ourselves in a situation when we wish to have a few pages in an MS-Word document in landscape format. Big tables, graphs and images … Read more

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Microsoft Word Shortcut Key Combinations

Published on: February 13, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Be the keyboard warrior while working on MS Word documents! Learn the shortcut keys and see yourself working much faster. Shortcut Keys Description CTRL + 0 (zero) Adds or removes … Read more

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Time Saving Tips for MS Word

Published on: February 12, 2012 by Lalit Kumar

Following are some of the cool tricks that you can use in MS-Word. Using these methods will make your work fast and save you more time for coffee! To select … Read more

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How to Upgrade MediaWiki to Latest Version

Published on: December 10, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

It is important to keep upgrading your MediaWiki installation to the latest stable release. New releases not only offer you the new features but also provide with security patches. The … Read more

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How to Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces in MS-Word

Published on: November 14, 2011 by Lalit Kumar

More often than not I get MS-Word files in which a lot of lines either begin with unnecessary spaces or they have lots of trailing spaces –and if it is … Read more

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