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Best April Fool’s Day Computer Pranks
April Fool’s Day is tomorrow, April 1st. It’s an annual “holiday” when humor reigns, and pranks and practical jokes are expected and allowed.
Computers are a great medium for April Fool’s jokers because most users have no clue what goes on behind those blinking computer lights. So when a hapless user is hit with a computer prank, they immediately suspect a virus or worse.
Best April Fool’s Day Computer Pranks
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Microsoft Shipping Windows 7 in September?
Microsoft may ship Windows 7 on PCs by September, said Compal president Ray Chen at an investor’s conference. Compal builds personal computers for Acer, HP and other major PC vendors. The news matches rumors that Microsoft hopes to release Windows 7 well ahead of the holidays. This would give Microsoft some time to hopefully iron out some of the initial bugs and avoid the major embarrassment it saw with people downgrading back to XP because Vista simply wouldn’t work.
Windows Key Shortcuts
The Windows key or Windows logo key ("WinKey") is found on most modern keyboards. Microsoft introduced the key with the Windows 95 operating system. There are a number of very handy keyboard shortcuts defined using the WinKey.
Remove Text Formatting in Microsoft Office
Use the Ctrl+Space keyboard shortcut to remove formatting from text in Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel and Outlook. This command strips fonts, styles, indenting, etc. and leaves only the plain text.
To remove text formatting:
- Select text in any Microsoft Office program.
- Press Ctrl+Space. The formatted text is converted to plain text.
Paste Plain Text in Microsoft Office
When you copy text from a web page and paste it in an email message or Word document, you end up pasting the fonts, formatting and styles along with the text. But sometimes all you want is the plain text.
One option is to select "Paste Special" from the "Edit" menu or Office 2007 ribbon bar.
Another option is to use the Ctrl+Space keyboard shortcut available in Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel and Outlook.
Here’s how it works:
- Select and copy text in any program (typically using Ctrl+C).
- Paste the text into any Microsoft Office program (Ctrl+V).
- Select the text you just pasted.
- Press Ctrl+Space. The formatted text is converted to plain text.
Note that the Ctrl+Space keyboard shortcut clears the formatting from any text in a Microsoft Office program, not just pasted text.
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