Author: Dave Paradi

1. Controlling Line Breaks in PowerPoint When you are entering text into a text box in PowerPoint, the text moves to the next line based on the right margin of the text box. Sometimes we want to move to the next line before the text reaches the right margin. Pressing the Enter key does not…

1. One way to use a PDA to ease tax calculations Many of us have just finished filing our income taxes and one area that can be a real hassle is calculating the business use of our vehicle. The tax department wants to see what percentage of the distance we traveled during the year was…

1. Important Adobe Acrobat Update If you are using Adobe Acrobat 5.0 to create Adobe PDF format files, you may run into a serious incompatibility with Microsoft Office 2000 and XP programs. The original macros that Acrobat installs into Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint cause those programs to crash either when starting up or shutting…

1. Presenting Using Technology Tip If you are using a data projector, make sure you know how to properly turn it off and pack it away. Many data projectors require a cool down period where the bulb is not on but the fan continues to run. This is usually done by putting the projector in…

1. Presenting Using Technology Tip There are many shortcut keys that you can use during a slide show in Microsoft’s PowerPoint program. You can access a full list of them by pressing the F1 key while in Slide Show mode, but here are some of the most useful. B – pressing the B key during…