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In some case, there is a few that use Microsoft Office 2007. Most of them still using Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2007 brings a new format, smaller file size and new extension, like .docx that replace old .doc. But somehow, Microsoft Office 2003 can not open this new format. This is of course in Microsoft Word 2007, you have to save as Word 97-2003 Document. Unfortunately, you forgot to change your word document into .doc format and you couldn’t open it in your office computer because their computer didn’t use Microsoft Office 2007. There’s an important document and project to be shown to your superior, you couldn’t do anything but begging to delay it to the next day, scolded, salary-cut, kicked from the job, go home and tell to your wife that you didn’t bring any money and your wife left you, wait wait, these are not the main problem, but these things can be happened to your life. So for the main problem, how can I always remember to save as .doc format instead of .docx format in Microsoft Word 2007?

Word Options in Microsoft Office 2007

Word 2007 by default will save your document in .docx format. Of course like the illustration above, Word 2003 or below can’t read this format. The easiest way is to set the default save format in your Word 2007. Open your Word 2007 application and click office button that on the top left Word 2007, click Word Options.

Save as 97-2003 document

As you can see now, there are two column is available in this window. Choose Save tab that is placed in the left column. In the right column, see in the Save Document section and in this section you can see an option “Save files in this format:” and the  combo box is set to Word Document (*.docx). Change this option to Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc) and make sure you click OK. Now your Word 2007 will save any document to .doc by default.

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The simplest answer is the most obvious one- there are just more viruses out there for PCs. The question then becomes why are more viruses written for PCs than Macs? Do virus writers prefer to attack PCs? Is it easier to attack the windows operating system? Yes and yes. There are many perspectives from which you could analyze the question but the bottom line says it all. PCs occupy a significantly larger portion of the computer market and therefore provide more opportunity for an attacker to make money.

When deciding on a web hosting service a big consideration is whether they will handle all your security issues. Security leaks in Internet Explorer are a common way for malware (software designed to do bad things) to infect a computer and advertise on it. Ever see one of those ads that says, “Your computer might not be secure! Click here to test your protection?” I’d be loathing to try it, if I were you. With the rise of these types of security flaws, called social engineering exploits, there will always be a chance that any format, pc or Mac has a chance of exposure.

Virus protection software has included some new features over the years inspired by free anti-virus innovations. All lot of web hosting includes these software solutions to protect your valuable information. Some of the new anti-virus protection programs have a star graphic or check mark next to web search links to indicate the site you visit won’t be “phishing” for your information. This will also protect against the scariest threat of all on the internet- Identity theft.

There are so many different types of threats it can be really difficult to keep up. Rest assured if your web hosting keeps your operating system up to date, regularly update their anti-virus software, has a firewall ready, and uses some sort of ad-ware protection you can be confident that your service- pc or Mac is safe enough to do all of your daily business.

In the end, PCs are less expensive than Macs. They do basically the same things and work equally well in most respects. To prefer one over the other based on the fact one is less secure is more a reflection of your web hosting’s inability to protect you than on the inherent architecture differences. It makes more sense to say I like Macs because they look so much cooler than it does to say it’s because they are more secure.

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Okay, we have some folders that have a large amount of file. We usually use a detail-view to make us easier to manage and view these large amount of files. This detail-view can give you detailed info about your files, such as file size, file type and date modified. This picture below is my mp3s folder. In detail-view, Windows give me a detailed information about my mp3 files. The first column is the file name, followed by artist name, album name, track number, genre and rating.

Detail View in Windows Explorer

Windows solved your problem of viewing large amount of files and Windows give you another problem. Windows will give you many useful information about a file, but sometimes they give you a massive information or you can say overloaded information and your window size can limit the information they gave to you. To make them fit to your window, they cut the information and if you want to see it, you have to resize the column by yourself. If you do it many times and always do resize manually when you open a folder, this will waste your time, thus you don’t have time to visit my blog.

Auto-Resized Column

This way can help you to do rezise quickly and easy. After you opened a folder, just press [Ctrl] + [+]. The window will resize the column to fit the information automatically. It will fit depends of the length of the information. As you can see above, the first column will follow the longest file name and the second column will follow the longest artist name respectively.

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