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Burn Baby, Burn!

This was a HUGE hit in our other newsletters, so I wanted to show it to you! Do you have a CD writer in your computer? Ever wish you had some really great software to burn with? Hmm, how about some software to create CD really cool labels? (I hate those label-less "mystery disks")

Well, that's what we were thinking when we came up with this offer!

We have created what could be the ultimate CD burning bundle for you. We have NERO 5.5.5 and The PrintShop CD Label Creator for only $19.97! (FREE US Shipping) Both are current titles and have a combined retail of nearly $95.00!! How's that for a deal?

NERO:

First off, let's look at my new favorite CD burning software, NERO. This program makes burning CDs incredibly easy - but at the same time it's extremely powerful. It's fast becoming the burning software of choice for thousands across the globe. After using it, I can see why. My only regret is not switching sooner!

To say this is program is full featured is an understatement (take a look at the page on our site). Naturally, it can do all the basics - create CDs (or DVDs if your drive supports it), make copies of CDs, do backups, etc. One of the really great features is the way it allows you to use a CD-RW like a floppy drive. Just drag a file to it and it will write it to CD! Incredibly easy!

It also includes a utility to edit wav files, an MPEG video encoder, test utilities, video menu creators, and more! It even lets you drag and drop JPEGs and create a slide show on video CD! Just pop it into a DVD player and you can show friends and family your trip to the bahamas! Is that cool or what??

I could go on and on, but once you get to the page below, you'll see how powerful this software really is!

The PrintShop CD Label Creator:

The second part of this deal is The PrintShop CD Label Creator. This fantastic program makes creating professional looking CD tables a snap. With 100,000 online images, 10,000 images on the CD, plus over 1000 different layouts, creating that perfect CD label is easy! Oh, and yes - you can use your own photos - it even lets you edit them from within the program!

It uses a handy little Wizard interface, so it's a very fast, step my step procedure. Of course, you can edit whatever the wizard creates or just create a new label from scratch. It even includes tutorials to help answer any questions you may have. Finally, since it's from the makers of The PrintShop, you know it's a quality piece of software.

I wish I could go on, but I don't want to write a book on these two programs! They are both incredibly good, and the bundle price is fantastic. Just think, for $19.97, you can have the ultimate burning kit! Oh, if you only want one of the programs described above, you can buy them individually. Click the link below now!

http://www.worldstart.com/store/nero-printshop.htm

PS - Don't miss out! This is an incredible deal and we may not see this good of a price again! Remember, if you don't think it's as good as I say it is, just return in within 30 days for a refund! Nothing to lose - unless you wait and miss out!

MS Office 101

Center Stage

Ever have something to print from MS Excel that was just too small? Was it all cramped up in the top left-hand corner? Wish you could find a quick and easy way to center the printout on the page (without moving that data all around the worksheet)?

Rub the monitor three times and poof! Your wish is my command.

Centering Excel data is just a few clicks away.

To begin, you need to open the file (of course) and be on the worksheet to be printed.

Next, go to the Page Setup window. (There are several ways to get there. One of them is through the File menu, Page Setup choice. Another way, if you're already in the Print Preview window, is to click on the Setup button.)

Now, select the Margins tab.

At the very bottom of the tab, look for the Center on Page section.

In this section, you're given two choices. You can choose to center horizontally and/or vertically by checking the appropriate box(es).

(Pay attention to the small preview in the upper section - it will change to reflect your choice.)

Click OK when you're done.

Now if only all wishes could be fulfilled so quickly!

Office Tip of the Day

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

Sound familiar?

Does it bring to mind the childhood game of searching for someone hiding? Or perhaps it brings to mind a bigger dilemma...

A file so massive that you pretty much felt like you were playing hide and seek every time you needed to find a particular part of the file.

Unfortunately, "come out, come out, wherever you are" doesn't really do much when you're looking for something in a file. So what is the answer? Is there a computer equivalent?

Happily for all of us, there is. It's known as the "Find" function and it certainly beats searching a file line by line.

To access the Find function you can either go to the Edit menu, Find choice or use Ctrl+F on the keyboard.

The Find window will open. (The look slightly different for each program.)

It can be a pretty easy window to use. Simply type in the word or words for which you are searching and click on the Find Next button.

The program will then begin to search the file for a match of the data you typed in.

When it finds a match, it will be highlighted in the document.

If it is the item you were searching for, click on the Cancel button. The Find window will close and you're finished!

If it wasn't the exact spot you were searching for, click the Find Next button and the program will continue the search.

When the program has searched the entire file, it will let you know with a pop-up information window. Click OK in the pop-up window and it will close. This leaves the Find window open and you can alter and/or start your search over again if necessary.

OK, so that's your basic search of a file using the Find window in its simplest form.

Each program has a Find window that's slightly different.

For example, in MS Word you can click on the More button to see additional options for search location and criteria. In MS Excel, the Find window allows you to choose where exactly to search along with some other search options and PowerPoint has a couple of its own choices.

The choices are pretty easy to understand. Take a few minutes to look them through. They can be a great help.

Well, there's the Find tip. Are you ready for a bonus?

Bonus Tip

The Replacements

Did you notice in MS Word the Replace tab just behind the Find tab? Or in Excel and PowerPoint, did you notice the Replace button?

I bet you're wondering what it's all about?

It's a great function to use in conjunction with the Find.

Let's suppose that you finished a huge paper and just figured out that you spelled a name wrong, through the entire document, ugh...

What do you do?

You could search for the word by hand and then fix them all one at a time. You could use the Find tip above to locate the misspelled words and then fix them one at a time.

Or… you could use the Find and Replace option.

In the Find section of this window, you enter the data that needs to be found. (The misspelled word in this scenario - but it could be an old date that you need to replace, a name, a figure, etc… I'm sure you get the idea.)

Then you enter the new data in the Replace With section. (This would be the word spelled correctly, the new date, etc.)

The next step is to decide when you want the program to replace the information.

If you click on the Find button, the program will locate the first occurrence of the Find data and stop. Then you can click Replace and the program automatically takes out the old data and inserts the new information from the Replace with field.

You can continue to use the Find Next button to authorize the replacements one at a time.

Or, you can choose to have the computer do all replacements automatically. (This one is good for misspelled names as mentioned above.)

If at any time you click on the Replace All button, the program goes through and does the replacements without asking permission for each one. (You want to be careful with this one though. If you really don't want ALL the occurrences of a word changed then DON'T click this; it replaces them ALL.)

Again, as with the Find window, each program will have a slightly different set of choices, but, as I said before, they're pretty self-explanatory.

Well, there you go. Now you can streamline your searches.

Definitely a quicker solution than yelling, "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are!" at your computer.