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Answer Line: Create a Start-Up Floppy for Windows 2000 and XP

Be prepared in case your Windows 2000 or XP machine won't boot.

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With HP wireless printers, you could have printed this from any room in the house. Live wirelessly. Print wirelessly.

Time-Stamping in Excel

It's easy to date or time-stamp a Microsoft Excel worksheet. To insert the date, press Ctrl-;. For the time, press Ctrl-Shift-;. To stamp the time and date, press Ctrl-;, the spacebar, and then Ctrl-Shift-;. To turn these keystrokes into a macro, select Tools, Macro, Record New Macro, give the macro a name, assign it a shortcut key combination, and press OK. Insert the date and time as described above, and then press the recorder bar's stop icon. To add dates and times that update automatically, append the =today() and =now() functions to your macro.

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