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You just installs your new printer on your desktop and likes to see everything works perfectly. Make sure your printer power cables on connected to the power and switched on. Check the cable between your computer and printer is properly connected. Also, make sure you have installed the required printer software correctly. Ok, now we will take a Printer Test Page to make sure your printer is perfectly installed and works with no problem.

To do that, double click My Computer and point to Printers (windows 98, ME & 2000) and Faxes (windows XP). In there you can see your new printer installed. Right on the New Printer icon and select Properties. In the properties dialog box under the General tab, you can see a Print Test Page button.

Just click on the button and your printer will automatically prints a page. If the printout is not coming properly, check the troubleshooting in the printers help page and make the necessary changes.

We can’t explain a specific printer, because of lots of printers available in the market like Laserjet, Inkjet, Deskjet etc. from companies like HP, Canon etc. But, with every printer you’ll get the installation CD and with that you can find the installation manual to install and troubleshooter help file, if you found any difficulties on working with your printer. If its all done, then you have perfectly installed your new printer and ready to take printouts.

Many people struggles to align the content of page to the center and takes printouts. Here is a quick guide to easily rectify the issue.

After finishes the work in excel, click File–> Page setup. In the Page setup menu click Margins and you can see the option in the below Center on page.

Tick mark Horizantally check box to make the page Horizantally center and tick mark the Vertically check box to make the page vertically center of the page and click ok and you’re done.

Everybody likes to do things fast and particularly on computers. Are you using the shortcut keys to make your work quickly? Most people uses the Mouse instead of the keyboard shortcuts. Definitely keyboard shortcuts will help you to do the work fast. If you’re using Windows and MS office you can find some interesting shortcut keys to do the job quick.

visit 5starsupport.com to see a listing of keyboard shortcuts for Windows Operating System, Word Shortcut Keys, Excel Shortcut Keys, Moust Shortcuts, Internet Explorer Shortcut Keys, FrontPage Shortcut Keys, Visual Basic Shortcut Keys, Outlook Shortcut Keys etc.

How about using the shortcut keys in MS-Word to work more efficiently? Most of the shortcut keys uses the Ctrl key and a letter, also some shortcut keys uses the shift key as well. Here some shortcut keys (also called hot keys), where we use regularly on MS-Word

Just hold down the Ctrl key and press appropriate letter to activate,

To Open a Document Ctrl+O
To Save a Document Ctrl+S
To Print a Document Ctrl+P
To Create a New Document Ctrl+N
To Select all Text Ctrl+A
To Find a Text Ctrl+F
To Find and Replace Text Ctrl+H
To Bold a letter or Word Ctrl+B
To Italic a letter or word Ctrl+I
To Underline a letter or work Ctrl+U
To Copy a Text Ctrl+C (it will copied to the clipboard)
To Paste a Text Ctrl+V (it pastes from the clipboard)
To Cut a Text Ctrl+X (removes the text and copied to clipboard)
for Help press F1

How to display shortcut keys
If you cant remember these shortcut keys, you can easily customize to display the shortcut keys when you mouseover on the buttons. To dispaly the shortcut keys, click Tools->Customize->Options. In the options tickmark the Show ScreenTips on toolbars and Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips to activate and click close. Now just hold your mouse on the toolbar buttons it will display the shortcut key for that specific button. This option will change all your office suits like MS-Excel, MS-Powerpoint etc.

Have you stored lots of photos in a folder with file names like picture_1.jpg, picture_2.jpg etc. If its only few photos and you have time, then easily it can renamed manually for every photos. But, the number of photos is large and eventually you will get frustrated to rename each photos. If your OS (operating system) is Windows XP, there is an easy option to do this automatically.

Open the folder that has the photos and select View -> Thumbnails. Click the last picture in the folder and hold down the Shift key and click the first picture, this will select all photos. Right click the first photo and click rename from the menu and Windows XP will highlight the file name for that first photo and you can give a suitable name. After you types the name just click in the white space outside of the photo and simply watch as Windows XP does the trick and renames the entire photos with sequential number to each and every photo in the folder. In this way you can rename other folders that has the photos.