Contrary to popular belief Microsoft Word doesn’t have an automatic backup facility, features like Save Auto Recovery info (Tools > Options) merely save your document as a temporary file, which may get you out of trouble if Word or…

When working on long or complex documents in Word the jumble of toolbars, menu and status bars can be a real distraction, as well as taking up valuable screen space. Word has a facility to make them all vanish…

The BSOD, in case you didn't know is the Blue Screen of Death, which pops up on Windows PC following a crash or serious problem with the operating system. They used to be a depressingly regular feature on older…

Okay, so it may not be one of Propellerhead's most exciting sounding tips but this little-known facility in Windows Explorer — and most Explorer-type dialogue boxes — is well worth remembering. It comes in handy when you need to check…

Here's a couple of quick and nifty tweaks for Microsoft Word from Propellerhead. The first one is Reverse Printing, which is a way of setting Word to reverse the order in which documents are printed. By default it's set…

This one is specifically for residents of the UK, the United States, Uganda and anyone else living in an alphabetically challenged country. Those drop-down menus on website forms, where you have to enter your country, can really tick you…

If your Windows XP PC is currently behaving itself then it might be a good idea to take a 'snapshot' of your system, which could prove useful to you, or an engineer if your computer suddenly throws a wobbly. There…

What can't Google do? Propellerhead has been playing around with the built-in calculator and conversion features. Try this, open Google and enter '20 + 4 =' in the Search box, press Enter and up pops the answer. Clever huh?…

Judging by the number of emails Propellerhead receives with huge picture attachments we're guessing a lot of PC users are unaware of the neat little feature in Windows XP that automatically resizes images for use in emails. It's incredibly…

The Favorites list in Internet Explorer sometimes seems to have a mind of its own. Much of the time it grows in an apparently random manner, as new entries are added but if you try to take charge, by…