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MS Word 2010 – What’s New?

December 18, 2017September 6, 2011

With every new version of Office, Microsoft adds new features and makes changes in hopes of upgrading their programs and adapting them with the future in mind. MS Office 2010 is no exception.

Microsoft’s popular word processing program Word especially, has undergone many changes when comparing the 2007 and 2010 versions.

If you are thinking about making the switch and upgrading from either Word 2003 or 2007 to 2010, here are some of the most impressive changes and additions that have been made to the latest version of the program.

Ten Tutorials to Master MS Excel 2010

July 31, 2019August 22, 2011

For all you spreadsheet users out there who have decided to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Excel 2010, you’ll be happy to know that there are plenty of sites that can help you make the transition to the updated program as painless as possible. Whether you are completely new to Microsoft Office Excel … Read more

5 Business Benefits of PDF

August 16, 2011

Because of the many benefits that the format offers, PDF has become the publishing standard for most companies and businesses worldwide, particularly in the last decade and half.

Turning your documents into PDFs makes them immediately more portable, smaller, and generally easier to use. The versatility of the PDF is another aspect that makes it so perfect for business documents, among many other features that make it the most usable and suitable format for all types of business presentations.

The PDF format allows you a faster delivery of your documents in a versatile and cost-effective manner, and it provides the person who are sending it to with a document that is easy to view, navigate, store, print and share.

Here are some of the most important and obvious advantages of the PDF format in the business world.

Back up your tweets in PDF, MS Excel or Outlook

December 18, 2017August 9, 2011

Not many people on Twitter know that their tweets actually have expiration dates. Sure, they will always appear in your twitter stream, but after a matter of days, they are already unsearchable. Twitter needed to do this because of the website’s popularity and huge number of users. However, this is not good news for users interested in data-mining, because twits will not be able to be found through Twitter’s search engine just days after they are tweeted.

Thankfully, there are plugins, applications and various other methods that you can use in order to back up not only your tweets, but the tweets of other people that you might want to archive. Here are three different methods to backup your tweets and save them either as PDFs, or Microsoft Excel and Outlook formats.

How to Convert Your Blog to PDF

January 25, 2018August 2, 2011

If you are serious about your blogging, then you should be equally serious about cataloging and backing up your work as well. One of the best ways to do this is to convert your blog to PDF and essentially make an e-book out of your blog.

BlogBooker is an excellent site that allows you to do just that. In several easy steps, you will be able to turn your blog into an e-book for your safe-keeping or to share with your friends who always forget to check out your blog when you tell them to.

The site works with three of the biggest and most popular blogging websites – WordPress, Blogger and LiveJournal.

Here’s how it works.

Best Free Online Billing and Invoicing Tools

April 24, 2018July 18, 2011

If you are a self-employed entrepreneur or a freelancer that doesn’t have a staff looking out for your billing and invoicing needs, fear not, there are plenty of free online tools out there that will help you manage all of your billing and invoicing on your own, and make sure that you are getting paid … Read more

PDF Search Engines – The Ultimate List

April 24, 2018July 11, 2011

When searching for specific types of documents on the Internet, sometimes you need a search engine that is specifically tailored to find exactly what you are looking for on the Internet. When your search is very specific, you will probably need to turn to niche-specific search engines that will allow you to search for exactly … Read more

How To Translate PDF Files to Different Languages Free

December 6, 2018July 1, 2011

There are times when you need to have a PDF translated – when you buy a gadget produced in Japan or China and you have no idea what the manual says – for example. Or maybe you are selling Italian tiles, and you want to translate the brochure of the company whose products you are … Read more

5 Easy Steps to Shrink PDF Files

May 18, 2018June 17, 2011

If you plan to upload PDF files to your website, it may be wise to shrink the size of your PDFs first. Otherwise, your pages may take forever to load, and Internet users don’t like waiting. Also, it’s not enough to just shrink the PDF files. The point is to decrease the size of the … Read more

5 Tips For Making Your PDFs Search Engine Friendly

December 18, 2017June 8, 2011

Many sites today use PDFs, so it is beneficial to optimize the content of PDF files for search engines as well as regular website content.

Optimizing PDFs for search engines is not much different from optimizing other content on the site.

Here are 5 tips that will help you to optimize your PDF files for the best possible search engine visibility:

1. Include your keywords

It is important to use relevant keywords and phrases in the headlines, sub-headlines and actual content of the PDF just like on any web page you create. If there are pictures in the PDF, then include keywords in the captions that are located underneath the images. One simple, and yet often overlooked trick, is to include keywords in the file name before uploading it.

Of course, it is important not to sacrifice quality and readability for keywords, so do not over do it. Also, most PDF creation software offers document meta data which can be used.