Game Hidden In Ms-excel 2000

open Excel 2000
Under file menu, do 'Save as Web Page'
Say 'Publish Sheet' and 'Add Interactivity'
Save to some htm page on your drive.


Load the htm page with IE. You should have Excel in the middle of the page.
Scroll to row 2000, column WC. Select row 2000, and tab so that WC is the active column.
Hold down Shift+Crtl+Alt and click the Office logo in the upper-left.
If you have DirectX, you will be playing what looks like spy hunter. Use the arrow keys to drive, space to fire, O to drop oil slicks, and when it gets dark, use H for your headlights.
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Top SEO Expert Shares Trade Secrets

Effective SEO is important for any website to stay on top of Google and get high search engine rankings. Mani Karthik is a top SEO consultant and professional blogger in India, and shares his SEO secrets which can increase your website traffic easily.

Why did you decide to become a SEO expert?
It wasn’t a thought-out decision really. Fascinated by the web, in my college days, I used to run a couple of websites.


They were amateurish but in the struggle to develop them, I kept experimenting things (which I didn’t know was actually SEO) , but they gave me a lot of insights, which I could use later on. So it was sort of natural learning I’d say.



And I’d never call myself an SEO Expert or Guru for that matter, those are people’s perceptions, and I go with it. I’m a learner and I’ve never really understood why one would call himself an SEO expert, when there’s always, a lot more to go.



How did you learn SEO?
As I said, I learned from my own experiments. In fact, that’s the safest and the most effective way to learn SEO. Over a period of time, you get to know what’s the real stuff and what not.



Are there any formal college courses to learn SEO?
If you’re talking about universities, none in India, but there are online courses that promises to teach you SEO.



What is the best way bloggers can learn SEO?
Trial and error method. If you’re really keen about learning SEO, keep a blog (or more than one) for trials. Experiment with your learnings and theories. You must have a lot of patience and also a habit of recording things, so that you can cross check what triggered what.



What are the dangers / dark side of SEO?
You know, more than the “black hat methods”, the danger is of over optimization or undue importance given to SEO by obsessed webmasters. The search engines out there are really smart in finding out patterns and artificial elements from your site, and when you over do things, its easy to detect patterns.



I’ve seen that neither all the 100% perfectly SE optimized websites are doing well, nor are the poorly optimized. You got to hit a balance, and work more on creating a good website, a healthy one. SEO can give you the best foundation to build your website. SEO shouldn’t over power the rest of the legs on a website, when it does, things inflate to a dangerous level, often proving fatal to the website.



Can you suggest some must-read SEO articles for webmasters?
Read Google webmaster guidelines and Top 25 commonly believed SEO myths. Can’t really point out the rest, may be the archives on DSB itself is a good reference.



What are the 5 best SEO practices for WordPress Blogs?
- Page Titles
- Curbing duplicate content occurrences
- Internal linking patterns
- Theme with the best SEO optimized code
- Effective, non competing use of plugins



Tell us about your favorite SEO tools?
I don’t rely much on tools, they haven’t been consistent, although there are some powerful SEO addons to firefox, which do a neat job.



What the 5 most common SEO mistakes?
- Over optimizing.
- Poor linking structure.
- Negative elements in design.
- Keyword Density formulas
- Poorly developed content



Why should I hire a SEO consultant?
Gone are the days when you could hire someone to get ranked for 5 keywords in 2 months. It doesn’t happen that way now. You should hire a SEO consultant if you have long term goals, and want a healthy, authority website that can survive competition. If you’re looking for quick fixes, then I am afraid SEO isn’t the right thing to go for.



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Shortcut Key Combination

Key Combination Result
[Alt] and [Esc] Switch between running applications
[Alt] and [Tab] Toggle between running applications
[Alt] and letter Select menu item by underlined letter
[Ctrl] and [Esc] Open Program Menu


[Ctrl] and [F4] Close active document or group windows (does not work with some applications)
[Alt] and [F4] Quit active application or close current window
[Alt] and [-] Open Control menu for active document
[Alt] and [Spacebar] Open Control menu for active application
[Ctrl] Lft., Rt. arrow Move cursor forward or back one word
[Ctrl] Up, Down arrow Move cursor forward or back one paragraph
[Ctrl] and X Cut selected text or object(s)
[Ctrl] and C Copy selected text or object(s)
[Ctrl] and V Paste copied text or object(s)
[F1] Open Help for active application
Windows+E Open Windows Explorer
Windows+F Open Find
Windows+M Minimize all open windows
Shift+Windows+M Undo minimize all open windows
Windows+R Open Run window
Windows+F1 Open Windows Help
Windows+Tab Cycle through the Taskbar buttons
Windows+Break Open the System Properties dialog box
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keyboard shortcuts for dialog boxes

keyboard shortcuts for dialog boxes
Move forward through tabs. CTRL+TAB
Move backward through tabs. CTRL+SHIFT+TAB
Move forward through options. TAB
Move backward through options. SHIFT+TAB


Carry out the corresponding command or select the corresponding option. ALT+Underlined letter
Carry out the command for the active option or button. ENTER
Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box. SPACEBAR
Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons. Arrow keys
Display Help. F1
Display the items in the active list. F4
Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box. BACKSPACE
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Remote Shutdown Computers on LAN

Remote Shutdown Computers on LAN

Right click on desktop, create new short-cut.

Type shutdown.exe -i

Click next, type in name for your short-cut e.g. shutdown computers



Click finish.

Run the short-cut you just created. Now you can browse the network for computers to shutdown/reboot etc. or just type in the IP/Name of the computer.

You can even broadcast a message, and schedule the shutdown.

Cool for sysadmins.

NOTE: You will only be able to shut down computers that you have admin access on!
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Lengthen Your List of Recently Used Documents

Word 2002 displays a list of the last four documents you opened in the New Document task pane. It's so easy to open your documents this way, you may find that showing the most recent four is just not enough. What if you want to see a document that's fifth or farther down in the list? You can always click the More documents link to see a longer list of recently used documents. But, if you use this feature a lot, it makes sense to show more documents in the list. You can specify a number as high as nine.


To increase the number of documents displayed on the recently used documents list:

1.On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab.

2.In the Recently used file list box, specify the number of recently used files that you want to appear in the New Document task pane.

Click OK.
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Track Word Count as You Work

Track Word Count as You Work

If you need to know how many words are in your document, there's a very easy way to do it in Word 2002. Instead of clicking Word Count on the Tools menu each time you want a recount, use the new the Word Count toolbar.


On the View menu, point to Toolbars and click Word Count. Then click Recount to update the count any time you want. You can also choose to see the current number of characters, lines, pages, and paragraphs.
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Reveal and Adjust Text Formatting in Word 2002

Reveal and Adjust Text Formatting in Word 2002

The Styles and Formatting task pane can provide you with formatting information about your document. To access this task pane, on the Format menu, click Styles and Formatting.


When Available formatting is selected in the Show box in this task pane, you can see the formatting used in your document, including styles you've created and default heading styles. You can also show all styles in the task pane, or define a custom view.

To make adjustments to the formatting in your Word document:

1. On the Format menu, click Reveal Formatting.

2. Select the text whose formatting you want to review. The formatting information will appear in the Reveal Formatting task pane.

3. Now, you have several formatting options:

§ To change any formatting properties, such as the font, click the hyperlinked text in the task pane, and then change any options you want in the dialog box that appears.

§ To determine the formatting source, such as whether the formatting comes from a style, select the Distinguish style source check box.

§ To show formatting marks, such as paragraph marks and tabs, select the Show all formatting marks check box.

§ To format a text selection so it matches the text that surrounds it, select the text. Point to the Selected text box, click the arrow, and then click Apply Formatting of Surrounding Text.

Editor's Note: It's easy to select all text with the same formatting in your Word 2002 document using the Styles and Formatting task pane. This can be helpful for viewing the text, changing its formatting, or deleting it. To select all text with the same formatting, open the Styles and Formatting task pane, and then, in your document, click a word that's formatted like the text you want to select. (The formatting description will appear under Formatting of selected text in the Styles and Formatting task pane.) In the Styles and Formatting task pane, click Select All.
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Select Nonconsecutive Items in Word 2002

Now Word 2002 users can do something Microsoft Excel users have been doing for a long time—select multiple items that aren't next to each other.



For example, you can select a word in the first paragraph, and a word in the fifth paragraph, but not all the words in between. This is helpful if you want to perform the same task on multiple items, such as delete them or change their formatting.

Here's how you can select items that aren't next to each other:

1.Select the first item you want, such as a table cell or paragraph.

2.Hold down CTRL.

3.Select any additional items you want.
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Faster XP - No GUI Boot

Faster XP - No GUI Boot

If you don't need to see the XP boot logo,

Run MSCONFIG


Click on the BOOT.INI tab
Check the box for /NOGUIBOOT
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Check Spelling in Another Language

Sometimes a single document includes words or phrases in more than one language. Since Word uses only one dictionary at a time, the words in the second language will be marked as misspelled. There's a quick way to check these spellings too.



Right-click the text you want to check, point to Language, and then select the language you want used to check the spelling. Now that Word knows which dictionary to use, you can check the spelling of the text as you normally would.

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Modify Your Custom Dictionary in Word

Modify Your Custom Dictionary in Word

You are probably already aware of the fact that you can add your own commonly used terms to the Word custom dictionary (for example, names and acronyms. But once you add a word to the dictionary, do you know how to remove or edit it?

To add, delete, or edit words in a custom dictionary:

1.On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling & Grammar tab.

2.Click Custom Dictionaries.




3.Select the check box next to the dictionary you want to edit.

4.Click Modify.

5.Then, do one of the following:

§ To add a word, type it in the Word box, and then click Add.

§ To delete a word, select it in the Dictionary box, and then click Delete.

To edit a word, select it in the Dictionary box, modify it, and then click Add. Delete the misspelled version.
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