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Useful Tips

Create a Set of Labels with Mail Merge

You can use mail merge when you want to create a set of address labels. The following demos show how to use the Mail Merge feature in Microsoft Office Word 2007 to create labels for use in mass mailings.

Watch the demo to see how it works.

Microsoft Office Tip:

Copy Formatting in a Single Click with Format Painter

There are many ways to customize the format of text and graphics in Microsoft Office. You can change font style and color, add borders and shading, and so on. And once you've created a format that you like, you don't have to repeat all those steps each time you want to use that format.

Instead, Microsoft Office programs offer a quick way to copy formatting from one item - such as text in Word, a cell in Excel, a control in Access, or a shape in Publisher - to another. It's called Format Painter, and it might be the most helpful toolbar button you've never used.

Watch the demo to see how it works.

How Strong Are Your Passwords?

by Mike Gonsalves, StrategicFusion

Most people don't realize that computer security starts with them. An easy way to hold off trouble is to use strong passwords that you change every so often.

What is a strong Password? It is a password that is easily remembered by you, contains uppercase letters, lower case letters, a number or two, a special character and is at least 8 characters in length.

Sounds hard, but it's really easy when you use things you are familiar with.

For example, if I grew up at 245 Lucky Street, I might make my password Lucky245& Notice I've used Uppercase and Lowercase Letters, I have 3 numbers and a special character.

Here are some variations on the above password luCky24%, LuckY245$, luckY245* You can come up with a bunch if you just think about it a little bit.