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Toggle b/w Uppercase and Lowercase using MS Word

Let’s say you have a text completely written in lowercase letters (small letters) and you want it to convert to uppercase letters (capital letters), or even the reverse way; what would you do? If you didn’t know how to do it using MS Word itself, you’d probably manually change each word to lowercase. Here’s how you do it in Microsoft ... Read More »

Making Portrait or Landscape as Default in Word

If you are using Microsoft Word 2007 or later, here is the way to make Portrait or Landscape as the default view of a Document. Do note that any documents created earlier will remain in the way as they were created and this change now will be in effect for all new documents created hence. Also remember that while printing ... Read More »

Deleting an Extended partition?

Using Windows Disk Management Utility (path: Right click on Computer->Manage->Disk Management) , if you want to create a New Simple Partition, you’d just right click on an Unallocated space and click on ‘New Simple partition’. Some times, if you already have allowable number of partitions (which is 4), you should get an error saying that ‘ Setup cannot create a ... Read More »

Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption

If you have a high end version of either Windows  Vista or 7,  you might have observed that there is an encryption option called ‘BitLocker Drive Encryption’ by default. As the name suggest, you can protect a drive (either your system hard drive partition or an external hard drive/ USB) by encrypting it and saving it behind a Password you ... Read More »

Password protect Word 2007 Documents

In older versions of MS Word, we saw how to password protect a Word Document. Come Word 2007, since the interface is entirely overhauled, you’ll find it difficult to find that nifty Security tool, which is of course still there. Just click on the Office Button (top left button), go to prepare and then select ‘Encrypt Document’. Enter the password, ... Read More »

Trying Dell factory Image restore after Upgrading OS?

If you have a Dell notebook (or Notebook from any other Manufacturer that provides a recovery partition with Original System Image) and wondering why you are not able to use the System Image restore, the bad news is that you will NOT have the option to use the Image restore once you Upgraded (or just changed) your OS from the ... Read More »

How to extend your C Drive?

If you are anything like me, who’s constantly being bugged by the System telling that the Windows partition (normally drive C://) is running low on Memory, it’s time to add some Gigs to that partition. Be informed that you must resort to this process only after transferring all the possible files in Windows partition to another partition and that didn’t ... Read More »

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