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Microsoft Word bullets help organize information into an easy-to-read format, but if the bullets aren't spaced correctly it can throw off the look of your document. Microsoft Word 2010 has two different ways to alter the spacing of bullet points. The first way changes the indent between the edge of the paper and the bullet point, along with the bullet point and the text, while the second way changes the distance between separate bullet points.


Instructions

  1. Click in front of the first word that makes up your bullet point to place the cursor there. Hold "Shift," then click behind the last word to select the entire passage that makes up the list of bullet points.
  2. Select the "Home" tab at the top of the Word window. Locate the "Paragraph" area and select the "Line and Paragraph Spacing" button, which has four small horizontal lines next to an up and down arrow. Choose "Line Spacing Options" from the drop-down menu.
  3. Manipulate the up and down arrows to alter the "Left" field under the "Indentation" heading. This will change the amount of space between the edge of the sheet and your bullet points.
  4. Locate the "Special" field, which will be set to "Hanging." Use the up and down arrows in the box next to this field to increase or decrease the indent between the bullets and the text.
  5. Select the drop-down box under "Line Spacing" that is located under the "Spacing" header. Choose "Multiple" from the box. Adjust the number in the small box next to the word "Multiple" to change the amount of space between different lines in the list of bullet points. You can use the up and down arrows to change the spacing by half a space, or you can type an exact number, such as "1.7" into the box. Click "OK" when you are ready to implement your changes.
Published in Microsoft Office

Does any one know what the differences are between PCL5, PCL5E and PCL6? Are there any differences in the commands supported?


  • PCL6 is NOT a superset of PCL5, and is NOT similar in any way. While PCL5 is interpreted as the data arrives at the printer, PCL6 is first "compiled" by the printer driver before being sent to the printer.
  • PCL5/PCL5e (the latter being an extended version) is an escape-based language, using an ASCII representation, but is relatively unstructured (although quite powerful); so you can edit a PCL5 print stream relatively easily.
  • PCL6 (aka PCL XL) is a completely different language, uses a binary representation, and is much more structured; for these reasons, it is much more difficult to edit a PCL6 print stream. PCL XL has a closer relationshipt to the GDI used within Windows than does PCL5; most PCL6 drivers now offer more features than their PCL5 equivalents.
  • HP (for reasons known only to themselves) do not publish a PCL6 equivalent to the PCL5 Technical Reference manual; there is little PCL6 documentation available publically.
  • The following link gives an official HP view of the reasons for, and differences between, PCL5e, PCL6 and PostScript drivers: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpl06947


PCL (Printer Control Language) is a printing language developed by HP and PCL drivers is a language (a set of command codes) that enable application programs to control Hewlett-Packard DeskJet (some models), LaserJet (all models), and other HP printers. Many personal computer users find themselves in need of PCL drivers after purchasing a new HP or HP-compatible printer and attaching it to their existing PC and operating system. PCL5 allows you to download macros, fonts and forms to the printer memory (RAM or HD), so you can store unvariable data in the printer and minimize the size of the file you'll print. The fonts, macros and forms are "called" and merged into the printout via PCL commands embedded in the file body.

PostScript is a programming language developed by Adobe and transformed into a printing language. It describes the appearance of a printed page, mantaining its formatting, color and print quality settings. Because of that, print files generated with PS drivers can be portable among different printers without the file that will be printed lose quality, color definitions or formatting. The printer must have a PS module that translates the PostScript commands. Macintosh computers and applications working inside an Windows network environment uses PS drivers (PostScript has born in Mac world - Windows world used PS later).

Both driver types groups the print commands and settings into the whole page, so if there's an error when processing the file, the whole page will be lost and you have to reprint the page you lost, or all the file, depending on the error. They're different of the PCL3 (print language for most DeskJet printers), which separates the file in swaths - this is the reason why DeskJet printer don't need much memory; it has only the necessary to store the swath it's printing now. Resulting: PCL3 always prints. The tradeoff is that PCL3 generates much more data than PCL5,6 or PS files (the PC process all the job and the print file size is large, so PCL3 is most used in parallel connections.

Unlike PCL3 (DeskJet) printers, Laser printers that make use of PCL5, PCL6 or PS must have powerful processors and much more built memory because they have to process the whole page (or the whole print job). By this reason, PCL and PostScript drivers tranfers all the processing charge to the printer and the PC doesn't suffer with performance issues - the "Return to application" time is smaller. The PC "closes" the file and send to the printer, so the print file size is much smaller. By this reason, PCL5,6 and PS are most used in network environments.

Choosing PCL or PS drivers depends on the applications you're using. For example, if you're using graphic applications like PhotoShop, Corel or similars, the best choice is the PS driver. By other hand, if you're using desktop applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and so on), the best choice is the PCl drivers. If you want to make use of downloading forms and fonts to the printer, you must use PCL drivers because PS drivers doesn't do that.

Published in Printers

This tip could be applied to any kind of Windows Update on windows XP be it manual update or automatic update.

A failure in updating could happen when you suddenly get disconnected or downloaded corrupted data which happens a lot. And it seems that there is no local check to ensure that the file is actually complete. It just attempts to install the downloaded material even if its not complete. The stupid thing is that even though you try to update again, it just checks the cache, see that its there and won't bother redownloading the files.

Therefore when you face such a scenario, you could take these steps to solve your problems:

  1. Open Command Prompt by Start -> Run and type "cmd"
  2. On the Command Prompt, type "net stop wuauserv". This is done so that you will terminate the windows automatic update service to allow us to delete the cache files
  3. Still on the Command Prompt, type "cd /d %windir%" or "cd\windows"
  4. Type "rd /s SoftwareDistribution"
  5. Thats it, the cache has been purged. Now we need to restart the windows automatic update service again. To do that, type "net start wuauserv"

Thats all. Its simple right? Good luck.

Published in Windows Family
Tuesday, 22 November 2011 14:52

How to uninstall Windows PowerShell

Solution 1:

Try to remove it from Installed Updates:

1. Click on “Control Panel” in “Start menu”
2. Go to “Uninstall a program” in “Control Panel”
3. Click on “View installed updates” in “Programs and Features”
4. Right click on Update which reads Powershell and uninstall it.

Solution 2:

PowerShell is not present in the add/remove programs. I thought I had PowerShell deleted in Add/Remove Programs - but apparently it is still there and I cannot complete the In-Place upgrade on my Windows Vista.

i had the same problem. BUT i thought if i could found the KB number of the update that powershell, i could removed it through control panel.
  • So i went in control panel> windows update> view update history> i looked for any update with the powershell word and thats it!
  • Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for Windows Vista (KB968930) dont search it through the bar.. does not work!
  • the rest was easy! go to the Control Panel\Programs and Features > Installed Updates and just search through bar this time! and uninstall!

Solution 3:

I had the same problem. It was not showing up as an installed program or update, it was still there though! I even tried to install it and then uninstall it, nothing seemed to work.

After playing around I decided to manually remove the files but even after trying to change the permissions, it would not let me delete them. What a pain.

Here is my quick fix:

  1. Open "Computer" and navigate into your Local Disk C: (or wherever your windows install is located).
  2. Navigate into the Windows folder and then the System32 folder.

    (C:\Windows\System32\)

    Note: If you are running a 64-bit version of windows, it is also listed in the SysWow64 folder.
    (C:\Windows\SysWow64\)
  3. Find the "WindowsPowerShell" folder. Right-click on it and click Rename.
  4. Rename the folder to WindowsPowerShell2.
  5. Close the window and attempt to perform the upgrade again.
  6. You will still have the shortcuts for Powershell in your start menu and anywhere else they appear, you can right-click them and delete them.

OR

If your feeling spunky, you can rename the folder back to WindowsPowerShell, after the upgrade, despite it being incompatible...but I wouldn't recommend it.

Published in Windows Family

I've got a Android Phone and I've noticed that when I check the status of my phone it shows my number as Unknown. I ask a friend to check on his HTC Desire that came from o2 and he has the same problem. Turns out this is due to the MSISDN setting not been set on the SIM by o2.

The networks will not set this for you as they will not understand.


Use +44.... format for your telephone number

Solution 1:

I had the same problem as described above with an Orange-branded Hero that I have unlocked and use on 3 but did find a solution. There is a SIM information application buried in the settings of Windows Mobile devices running 6.1 and above so I put my 3 SIM in an unlocked Kaiser and used this to alter the number recorded on the SIM. Once I put the SIM back in my Hero, the correct number was displayed in the phone status page under MSISDN.
 
The way to get at the SIM Manager application in Windows Mobile is as follows:

  1. Open Contacts
  2. Select Menu then SIM Manager
  3. Select Menu in SIM Manager and then Tools/List of Own Numbers
  4. The first page that pops up has an entry for My Number with the first number the SIM had when it shipped and with this selected, select Edit
  5. Alter the number to the one you want it to read under MSISDN in the Hero then Save and close out of everything Once you put the SIM you have altered back in your Hero, it should now show the number you chose in the phone status screen. Obviously the down-side of this is that you have to have access to a Windows Mobile device but there may be an Android application for altering SIM information that would do the same trick.

Solution 2:

  1. borrow a friend's iPhone
  2. place SIM into the iPhone
  3. and then set the MSISDN  through settings -> phone -> Own Number.
Published in Android

This does some thing if the condition is met. Also false and true outcome.

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Published in Microsoft Office

I'm not even sure if this is possible to get around but every time but when i try and extract a 4gb file using winrar to my D:drive, it creates a temporary file in c:\documents and settings. If i don't have a spare 4gb in my c: the operation aborts and fails. I can see the usage of this on a removable drive but not when i have all files on the same partition.Without manualy changing the "temp file folder" to the same drive as the destination, is there a way to get winrar to automatically use the same drive as the destination for creating its temp file?


As per me, WinRar and WinZip will create a temporary folder on C by default. But you can even change the location of temporary files in Options/Settings/Paths provide what you need. If that doesn't works, Right click on the first rar of the archive and click extract here. Winrar will extract to the exact location of the rars and will not create a temp file.On the other hand it may be a files format problem, if your hard drive is in the FAT32 format 4gig is the maximum folder size.. NTFS format however allows folders as big as the unused part of your hard drive, more info needed makavelli please.

Published in Applications
Monday, 08 August 2011 13:32

Joomla jtablesession Store Failed error

This error appears when trying to load a website that uses joomla

{code class='brush: text;'}jtablesession::Store Failed DB function failed with error number 145 Table './shoulder_joomla/tkjx45_session' is marked as crashed and should be repaired SQL=INSERT INTO `tkjx45_session` ( `session_id`,`time`,`username`,`gid`,`guest`,`client_id` ) VALUES ( 'f2b7a352f0df8d424f1066a8648e41ea','1309181474','','0','1','0' ) Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 76 bytes) in /home/shoulder/public_html/libraries/joomla/error/exception.php on line 117{/code}


Goto into phpmyadmin andrepair the table

Published in Joomla
Monday, 08 August 2011 13:19

Double slashes in Google Analytics URLs

There are numerous occurrences when pages with double slashes are being tracked as well as pages with single slashes despite them both delivering identical content. Obviously I would like page counts for "/index.php" to be included with "//index.php" and preferably have counts for "/" included too.


For the main Google Analytics page:

Check your profile settings, specifically, the "Default Page" Do you have "/index.php" in there? It should be "index.php"

Published in SEO

After uninstalling the office 2010 beta you install full office 2010 (VL) and the activators will not work. They say it cannot be activated. 800...07d. You might also get error 25004, Error 25004. The product key you entered cannot be used on this machine

I tried uninstalling the software/micorsoft/office  registry key in HKLM and HKLU , alsolso protected storage ones. this did not seem to make any diffference.


The way to activated is to uninstall the beta and install a VL version, then change the key to:

VYBBJ-TRJPB-QFQRF-QFT4D-H3GVB

Make sure you are offline then run the activator, once completed you can then go online. You should also make sure that antivirus has an exclusion set up to make sure the office activator is not removed because it can get flagged as a virus. The activator runs as a service, this is normal because it constanly emulates a licenses server to allow use of the VL 2010.

Published in Microsoft Office
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