How to Share or Collaborate On a Word Document Looking for a way to collaborate with others on a Word doc? If so, you can do it very easily in Word itself. The feature has been around for a couple of versions of Office and it works even if the receiving party does not have Word installed on their system. Note that in order to get started with document sharing in Word, you have to save your documents to the cloud....

Use Hidden Formatting Marks in Word to Fix Annoying Problems If you have ever created a complex Word document, you’ve probably run into those frustrating issues where you just can’t seem to get a bullet point or paragraph of text aligned correctly or some text keeps breaking off onto another page when you need it to be on the same page. In order to fix these types of problems, you have to sometimes manually edit the formatting of the document....

Prevent a Mouse or USB Device from Waking Windows from Sleep Mode One of the best power management features in Windows is sleep mode, a convenient way to save power and reduce the wear and tear on your PC hardware while it isn’t being used. Normally, your mouse and keyboard are set by default to wake up Windows from sleep mode. This isn’t a problem for most people, but can be troublesome for certain people with a very sensitive mouse....

How to Create and Mount a Virtual Hard Disk in Windows In Windows 7, Microsoft introduced a new way to backup your computer called Backup and Restore. Basically, it let you backup all your data to another location and gave you the option to create a system image also. If you chose to create the system image file, you would end up with a large VHD file. This file could then be used to restore your entire system at a later point....

Convert a Windows PC into a Virtual Machine using Hyper-V A great way to save yourself from viruses, malware and spyware is to use a virtual machine to browse the Internet instead of your regular Windows PC. So what is a virtual machine? It’s basically a full copy of Windows that runs inside another copy of Windows called the host. The virtual version of Windows is just a large file and special software running on your Windows computer (virtualization software) acts as a fake computer so that Windows can run....