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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Can't See the Text?

Would you like Change the Appearance and SIZE of your Computer Text?

Appearance refers to the colors that are used by Windows for the default text color, text background color, window border color, title bar color, and many other elements. To change the appearance of your screen, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the desktop background, and select Personalize for Windos Vista.(In Windows XP, select Properties). If a "Window Color and Appearance" window opens, click o'pen classic appearance' properties for more color options .
2. Select a color scheme you want from the list. Use the preview window to help you make your selection. If the preview is not exactly what you want, select the closest match. You can modify the look of Widows in further detail in the next steps.
3. Click Advanced . The Advanced Appearance window opens. Advanced Appearance window showing icon font size settings
4. In the Item list, click the element to be change, such as Window, Menu, or Scrollbar, and then adjust the appropriate settings, such as color, font, or font size. Changes affect the item chosen. For example, if you change the font while menu is selected, the selected font will change for all Windows menus, but not in other items, such as icon labels or message boxes.
5. Click OK to close the Advanced Appearance window, then click OK to save your changes.

Foreign Word Translation in Microsoft Word

Want to translate a word or phrase into another language?

MS Word can translate a word or short phrase into most any foreign language very easily using this option. Follow the given steps to use built-in MS Word translation feature:
1. First of all open your word document that you want to translate
2. Go to Tools menu (In MSWord 2007 click on the Review tab
3. Click on Translate option.

Now a translate pane will appear on the right side of your document.
4. Here type any new text or choose Current selection or Entire document options to translate your opened word document content into other language.

5. Now under the "Look up in dictionary" area, Choose that language in which you want to translate that word e.g. English into French.
6. Here click on Go and then result of translation will appear in Result box.