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How to password protect a Open Office document

September 8, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 4 Comments

OpenOffice document can be password protected using the Save As option. Click the File menu –> Select Save As option. This would display the following Save As dialog box.

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Enter the file name for the document and mark the checkbox with label as Save with password and Click the Save button. This would now prompt the user to Enter the Password to protect the OpenOffice document.

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After entering the password, click the Ok button to confirm the changes.

Filed Under: OpenOffice Tagged With: Document, OpenOffice, Password Protect

How to clear an image in Windows Paint

August 13, 2010 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Paint is a drawing tool available as part of the Windows Operating System. If you have drawn a sketch and you want to clear the drawing then you can either use clear image menu option or eraser tool.

Eraser Tool

Eraser tool is available on the Toolbox. This can be used for clearing any part of the drawing.

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And if you want to clear the whole image then using the menu option would be better choice than using Eraser tool.

Click on the Image menu and select Clear Image from available menu list. This would clear the drawings. The Keyboard shortcut for clear image is Ctrl + Shift + N.

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Filed Under: Technical Tagged With: Clean, Clear, Drawing, Erase, Image, Paint, Windows

How to change the number email messages displayed in Yahoo mail

August 10, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 8 Comments

The number of email messages displayed per page in a Yahoo email can be changed using the Mail Options. Click on the Options link available on the top of the right hand side. Select Mail Options from the menu list.

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In the General Page, using the Messages/results per page field you can increase or decrease the number of email messages displayed per page.

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The list of available values are

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After selecting the required value, click on the Save Changes link available on Top of the General section. By this way you can change the display of email messages per page in Yahoo Mail.

Filed Under: Internet Emails, Technical, Yahoo Mail Tagged With: Decrease, display, Email Messages, Increase, Page, Yahoo email

How to recall a message in Gmail

July 21, 2010 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Gmail provides similar feature like Outlook which can be used to recall a message. This feature can be enabled using Gmail Settings.

1. Logon to your Gmail account.

2. Click on the Settings link available at the top right hand corner next to your email id.

3. In Settings screen, navigate to Labs section.

4. Scroll down to Undo Send section and select the Enable radio option and Click Save changes button to apply the changes.

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5. In the General section, navigate to Undo Send section and set the cancellation period. The available values are 10 and 20 seconds. This specifies the time before which you can use the recall or undo send feature. Click on the Save changes button.

Now if you send any email message, Gmail will display a Undo link as shown below.

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If you click on the Undo link, the email message will be recalled. This Undo link will be available only for the time period specified in the Gmail General Settings.

Filed Under: GMail, Internet Emails, Office 2010, Outlook 2010, Technical Tagged With: Enable, Gmail, Message, Recall

Windows shortcut for renaming a folder

July 12, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 4 Comments

Renaming a folder in Windows operating system can be done by right clicking on the folder and selecting Rename from the context menu.

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But if you want to rename number of files then the above process would be time consuming. The quickest way of renaming a folder is to use Windows Keyboard shortcut. Select the folder and press F2 and this would allow us to rename the folder.

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Filed Under: Vista, Windows Tagged With: Folder, Quickly, rename, Windows

How to import a certificate in Google Chrome

July 8, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 3 Comments

A SSL certificate can be imported in Google Chrome using option menu. Click on the wrench icon –> options –> Navigate to Under the Hood tab

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Scroll down to Security section and click on the Manage certificates button

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Click on the import button and use the Certificate import wizard to import a certificate

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Click Next and using Browse button locate the certificate file with a .cer or .cert as file extensions.

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Click Next to continue with Certificate Import Wizard

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Specify the location of the Certificate Store

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And click Finish to complete the process.

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Filed Under: Browsers, Google Chrome Tagged With: Browser, Certificate, Google Chrome, Import

How to turn off pop up blocker in Google Chrome

July 5, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 2 Comments

Google Chrome has an inbuilt pop up blocker feature. The default option is set is Do not allow any site to show pop-ups. You can disable pop up blocker in Google Chrome using Options menu similar to ie8 pop up blocker

Click on the Options menu

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And navigate to Under the Hood tab and Click on the Content settings button

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In the Content settings window, navigate to Pop-ups tab and select Allow all sites to show pop-ups under the Pop-up Settings.

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Filed Under: Browsers, Google Chrome Tagged With: Disable, Google Chrome, ie8 pop up blocker, Pop up blocker

How to clear or disable recently closed tab section in Firefox

June 15, 2010 By Ravi Shankar 3 Comments

Firefox displays the recently closed tabs under History menu –> Recently Closed Tabs.

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If you want to clear or disable the recently closed tabs section then you can do the following

  • In the Firefox address bar type about:config
  • If you get the below warning message then click on the I’ll be careful, I promise button

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  • Type browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo in Filter text box

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  • Set the value for browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo to 0 and click OK to confirm the changes

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Now if you navigate to History menu –> Recently Closed tabs section will be disabled as shown below.

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Filed Under: Firefox, Technical Tagged With: Clear, Closed Tabs, Disable, Firefox, Recently

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