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• Breevy Saves Text-Typing Time and Trouble Significantly speed up repetitive typing, program launching, and other tasks with Breevy
• PDFTiger's Best Use Is for Batch Conversions Convert to and from PDF with handy, but uneven, utility PDFTiger.
• Notepad++ Builds on Notepad With Geeky Features Souped-up text editor Notepad++ has a wide array of features for programmers.
• 9 Web-Based Office Productivity Suites As netbooks proliferate, the talk about cloud computing buzzes on. And as Microsoft and Google ready their cloud-based app suites, a bevy of lesser-known 'Webtops' are available now. We take a look at the main ones, and pick the winners.
• NoteTab Pro Text Editor Is Like Notepad With Superpowers This superb text editor offers powerful features for coding.
• Freebies NoteTab Light Improves Upon Notepad Get a free text editor that does many things that Notepad can't, such as editing multiple files.
• NoteTab Standard: A Text Editor That Does More Use a powerful text editor with special features for coders.
• PC World Podcast 36: Office 2010, Smartphone Costs, and a Real-World Phone Battle Join the editors of PC World for a frank discussion of the week's tech news.
• Insert a Copyright From the Keyboard BooBoo asked the Answer Line forum how to easily insert the copyright symbol (©)
• Corel Home Office Suite for Netbooks Takes Office Basics on the Road This svelte, intuitive office suite offers the document, spreadsheet, and presentation basics at a nice price.
• Close a Word 2007 Document without Closing Word I've really grown to like Word 2007, but there's one little change that bugs me--and at least one reader, too. Here's how to fix it.
• Read Illegible Documents With TextMaker Viewer Textmaker Viewer is a lightweight, fast, document viewer. It contains no editing functionality, but does allow you to open, search, and copy text from a variety of common document formats.
• 5 Free Alternatives to Expensive Productivity Software These five free services--including a revamped OpenOffice.org, Gubb, PrimoOnline, and Remember the Milk--can organize your tasks and save you time.
• Seven More Keyboard Shortcuts You Need to Learn Right Now If you spend a lot of time in Word and other text editors, these simple shortcuts will help you type more and mouse less.
• Keyboard Shortcuts From Hassle-Free PC PC World blogger Rick Broida shares editing shortcuts for most word processors, plus Windows Quick Launch tips and more.
• How to Lock Down the Data in Your Apps Microsoft's Remove Hidden Data tool makes sure that no embarrassing comments are left in your older Microsoft Office documents. For Office 2007, use the Document Inspector command to vet your metadata. Also: NASA tells you how to make sure blacked out info in electronic documents remains unavailable.
• Paste Text, Not Formatting Bob Engel asked the Answer Line Forum how he could copy and paste text without pasting the font and other formatting along with the actual words.
• Productivity Tips From Hassle-Free PC PC World blogger Rick Broida helps you use common apps more effectively, including Firefox, Adobe Reader, and Microsoft Word.
• Google Apps Slow to Infiltrate the Enterprise Strides made in past year, but work still remains.
• Quick Fixes and Troubleshooting Tips From Hassle-Free PC PC World blogger Rick Broida tells you how to troubleshoot PC performance, speed up your Internet access, open .docx files, and more.
• Add a Word Count Button to Microsoft Word Are you constantly menu-diving to get your document's word count? Save time with this quick and easy toolbar button.
• Open Docx Files Even if You Don't Have Office 2007 Tired of Word docs you can't open with your older version of Office? Here are three free paths to total compatibility.
• Make Office 2007 More Compatible Change default file formats so that alternate office software and operating systems can still open your work.
• Avoid Typing the Same Text Over and Over Fab freebie PhraseExpress automatically inserts commonly used words and phrases, saving you countless keystrokes.
• Customize Microsoft Word 2007 for Maximum Efficiency Tired of correcting Microsoft Word's erratic behavior? With a few judicious tweaks, you can defeat Word's annoying defaults and get more out of this Office app.