Search PDF Files in Windows 7
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 6:45 am
Yesterday, I wrote an article describing how to search inside files in Windows 7. By default, it’s pretty easy to setup for text files, Word files and the like. However, if you want to search PDF files using Windows 7 search, it’s not going to work right out of the box.
In this article, I’m going to walk you through the steps to enable Windows 7 search to index the contents of PDF files so that you can easily search them using the Explorer interface.
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Identify Products and Places with Google Goggles for iPhone and Android
Posted on September 8, 2011 at 5:28 am
Google’s photo recognition has improved vastly over the past year. Text in photos is easily transcribed. Objects are identified. Even celebrities can be identified by Google from a photo.
If you have an iPhone or Android phone, you can search Google based on nothing but a photo from your phone with the Google Goggles app. This can be very useful in a store when looking for reviews of a specific product or when visiting a new city and identifying landmarks.
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Search Within Files in Windows 7
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 6:35 am
Depending on what you have read online, the search feature in Windows 7 is either better than Windows XP or far worse. Some people have written about how it’s impossible to find a simple file using Windows 7, whereas others note how much better it is than previous versions of Windows search.
Basically, Windows 7 search is very good, if it is configured correctly. There are a lot of different options that you can change and if for some reason your files are not being indexed properly, then you won’t find a single thing on your hard drive.
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Use Find/Replace to Format Documents in Word 2010
Posted on September 7, 2011 at 5:00 am
One of the little secrets of Word 2010 is the Format option that comes with the Find/Replace feature; with it, you can format certain parts of your document automatically, quickly and easily.
To see how, bring up a document or create a dummy document that you can use for testing formatting options. Here’s the one we will be using for demonstration purposes:
The first thing of course is to find the format options; to do that, first click on the Replace icon on the main ribbon:
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Create and Use Automatic Macros in Word 2010
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 6:00 am
One thing many people may not know about Word is that it has several standard macros that run automatically depending on the circumstance.
For those that don’t know what macro’s are, they are Word commands that are stored in a file and executed one after the other, like a little program. As an example, if you find yourself creating a lot of tables, you could write yourself a macro to create a table, choose a style, format it and even add some initial data. Then each time you need to do a new table, you could just run the macro.
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Create a Text-Based Mirror of Any Webpage
Posted on September 6, 2011 at 5:40 am
If you work in the corporate world, chances are many of your favorite websites are blocked by your company’s servers. The most popular way to navigate around this problem is with one of the thousands of proxies available on the Web, but most IT departments block these as soon as they are noticed.
Another option is to create a text-based mirror of the webpage you want to visit with a service like TextMirror. While this will not work for sites with dynamic content, like Facebook, it will work for your favorite blogs and other websites with a great amount of text.
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