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Tech Tip #10: Running Word 2003 and 2007 Simultaneously

I recently upgraded a few end-users here at work to Office 2007.  Unfortunately, a few of the documents they were editing in Word were not formatting properly and were causing compatibility issues with some of our document processing.  To combat this, I had to install Word 2003. When you run Word 2003 and Word 2007 [...]

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Tech Tip #9: Change the Color Scheme in Word/Outlook 2007

This is a neat little asthetic change that I had no idea could be done until my friend Jason told me about it one day.  I prefer a darker color scheme on my desktop and one day I noticed that his Outlook had a nice black color scheme going on.  I asked him how he [...]

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Tech Tip #8: VMWare Server and Firefox

“Out of the box” VMWare Server 2 does not quite work when you have Firefox set as your default browser.  When you run the VMWare Server Home Page for the first time, you will most likely get presented with this error: The fix for this is simply to add the certificate authority to the trusted [...]

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Tech Tip #7: Squeezing More Speed From That Old PC

Most of the time I write these tech tips based on something neat I encountered while using technology in some form or another. Being a technology professional, I am the first to admit that tech tips to me are way over the head of most others. With that being said, I would like to entertain [...]

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Tech Tip #6: Compatibility View in IE8

When I was entering my last post in the WordPress admin screen, I was having quite a few issues with form interaction.  Specifically, I could not get the Add New Post form to place the images properly in the document.  On top of that, I was saving my work as I went and would find [...]

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