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    Navigating Microsoft Office 2019 Support and Subscription Concerns

    I currently have Microsoft Office home and student 2019. I have been reading about it and get conflicting opinions. Supposedly mainstream support ends in 2023 October and then there's two years of extended support. This seems to contradict that it's supposed to be a perpetual license. I tried...
  2. Windows 10 Just got the latest update!

    Hi I'm typing this using the windows key, plus H thing, It seems to be working pretty well. I like this I use text to speech on my tablet all the time. This one actually seems to work Pretty well, I'm going to print out the shortcut List and keep it on my desktop so that I can look this stuff...
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    Windows 10 Using Windows 10 without Microsoft Account or Internet

    Hi to everyone, This is my first post and my knowledge of Windows is basic to say the least! Looking to purchase a new desktop PC later today - with windows 10, however this will only be used for photo editing and spreadsheets, word processing and the like - won't require internet access at...
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    Windows 7 Font Help - Centry Gothic Disappeared

    > Running Windows 7 Home Premium with Microsoft Office 2010 (Microsoft Word 2010). I've had the Century Gothic font since I first installed Microsoft Office, and haven't had a problem with the program up until now. I haven't done anything recently other than simply update Windows, but I've...
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    Windows 8 top of page keeps blinking

    The top screen when I'm on the internet or word anything except the desk top, the top border every 8-10 seconds will blink.(go from blue to white then blue) it's really messing me up when I'm trying to type because everytime it blinks it will stop typing and I have to keep going back over and...
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    Windows 7 Moving from XP to Windows 7 Pro

    Help. I'll be upfront and honest and confess that I'm Apple knowledgeable but not PC. That said, I'm looking to buy and upgrade our computer system at a non-profit organization here in our town (food pantry/thrift store). We currently have a Dell computer with Windows XP that must be at least...
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    Windows 7 Slow and Slower

    I have a Windows 7 Home Premium , 64-bit OS, Acer Aspire 5253, 3GB Ram,AMDC-50 Processor, 1 GHz, with Internet cable modem, with 10mb download speed. My GF with a similar Notebook PC uses the building's Wi-fi network, via my router and the speed is 5X faster than mine. Whether I'm using a...
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    Windows 8.1 Which freeware are you using to replace MS Office?

    Are you using Microsfot Office? If not, which freeware are you using to replace MS Office?
  9. Windows 7 Excel 2010

    I have Excel 2010 I have a Diary which has 5,000+ cells(20 years) I want to do a "Find and replace" Find all the words inthe spreadsheet and change them to the font and color I want. However when I dothis and I change the color and Fonts the entire cell. At least half of mydiary is color coded...
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    Windows 7 Strange File Saving

    I'm not sure if this is a W-7 problem, but I do not have this problem on my other XP computers. On my W-7 computer (and my others) I use MS Works 4.5. Anyway, when I load a word processing file (extension .wps) in Works and then save it to a DIFFERENT directory, it always appends a .doc to...
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    Windows 7 accidently checked the always use selected program to open all files, all files are the same

    OK I somehow choice my power2go program as the default program for all my programs. All my icons turned to power2go icon, I have done this before and in the past I would delete the program causing this (power2go) and the problem would be solved. I did this and nothing happened, the program was...
  12. Windows 7 10 great free desktop productivity tools that aren't OpenOffice.org

    Most everyone who's had some experience with free open source software has learned about the OpenOffice.org suite of productivity programs: a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, database, and drawing tool that provide a good deal of the functionality of their commercial counterparts. For...
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    Windows 7 Win7 - how to block certain sites + student ver of office

    Hi: Two questions about Win7, if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. Just bought a laptop for 3 boys to share, as their old one was so out of date & bogged down. One of the boys, I found, goes to sites he shouldn't (need I say which type?) & it totally messes up the OS!! Before he can...
  14. Windows 7 Atom 230 Processor support for Windows 7

    I keep on hearing how some of the Atom processors will support windows 7 but I can't seem to find which one's do so I was wondering if the single-core atom 230 processor will support windows 7 I am trying to build a PC for a friend using a MSI Wind PC barebone system Newegg.com - MSI Wind PC...
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    Windows 7 Display driver has stopped responding

    Hi all, While using my pc in standart operations such as writing a Word document or reading some webpage, the screen flash and the following message come out: Moreover, in heavy graphics games (Crysis for example) everything works fine. OS: windows 7 64bit GPU: HD5970 2GB Driver...
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    Windows 7 Office Xp 2002 onto Windows 7 questions

    Hi, I am about to buy my mum a new computer, however she uses only word 2002 from the xp office on an xp home computer. She does not want to learn anything new, like vista, or word 2007 etc. I was looking at dell giving the option to have xp installed. However, here are my...
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    Windows 7 Custom.dic in Win7?

    I want to move my custom.dic (dictionary) from my XP computer to my new Windows 7 computer. Would someone tell me where the custom.dic should be installed? I did a search for it in my Windows 7 after adding a few words but was unable to find the path. Thanks!
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    Windows 7 Is there any way for me use .doc files without having to pay?

    ...or at least view them?
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    Windows Vista Crossroads: Mac OS X or Vista???

    None of my PCs will run the premium version of Vista as they are configured leaving me at a crossroads:( . As I move to dual processor system, should I stick with Windows and go Vista? Or since I have to buy a new computer anyway, should I go with a Mac? I'm not much of a PC gamer (I prefer my...