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    Search & Replace - highlighting text - possible?

    Yes, excellent. Got Steve: to become highlighted. Will try advanced method also. Dave
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    Recovering Data from old hdd as a slave

    Here is a powerful tip. Instead of just doing backups as a preventative measure, get another HD immediately & clone the drive. Then put into a bank vault. If your primary drive ever fails, you can put this one back in & be up & running in minutes. You can keep a spare drive around the house...
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    Laptop hard drive recommendation

    I have had excellent performance with a Toshiba HD in a Portege 3505 Tablet PC. Very rugged, good reliability, fast access. This vendor is excellent: Home at Technology Partners, Inc. Welcome to TPI-US.COM, home of Arizona's premier PC systems and components ... TPI-US.COM offers much more...
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    How to extend boot drive in Win XP?

    Contact Gene at this site, explain problem. He gives excellent presentations to our user group & will help you out. Probably an Acronis product. Also see Partition Magic as an alternate. User Group Relations is proud to represent various PC vendors to the user group community. These vendors...
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    Quietest External Hard drive?

    Some units have backup software & a backup button. This means pushing the backup button on the external drive will backup the PC. This is painless and easy. Just install the backup software first, then push button. Dave
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    Fastest Performance for Video Editing & Rendering

    Thanks everyone. Very interesting feedback. Dave
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    Search & Replace - highlighting text - possible?

    Is there a way to highlight the names using Search & Replace? Brad: Let me make a new motion. I make a motion that the number of board members be limited to 12. Ric: I will second that. Steve: All in favor of the motion to limit the number of directors [board members] to 12. Brad...
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    Fastest Performance for Video Editing & Rendering

    Hi rvnguy: Some background. When one video user put 2nd HD on his PC, then did rendering, the rendering time was cut in half approx. I'll find out specifics. Thank you, Dave.
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    Fastest Performance for Video Editing & Rendering

    Would I be best off with the fastest SATA multiple drives or fastest SCSI? Or a combo of these drives. Costs would helpful to know. Thanks, Dave
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    Methods for Directories, Sub-Directories in Start Menu

    Methods for Directories, Sub-Directories in Start Menu Advanced users have discussed categories Applications Data Utilities etc What are other methods you advanced users have done on Start Menu (Start, All Programs, etc) Thanks, Dave
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    How to Index this text?

    Hi, Lilliabeth: "I think one of the neatest things about a concordance file is that you can re-use the same one on multiple documents. If, for example, your speciality is flowers, you could have a single concordance file for all your floral documents, perhaps making just some adjustments. "...
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    Voice-recognition and macros - Dragon NaturallySpeaking

    Voice-recognition and macros - Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Is there a way to run a macro? Of course I can type the keyboard combination macro code such as Shift+CTR+[Letter] manually but how to do this by voice? Thanks, Dave
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    Saving Voice Recognition Profiles

    Why not create a utility to save the voice recognition files to a USB drive? For example, use SyncBack or similar utility to manually or automatically time a backup from all users to this USB drive. Check archived file dates to be sure current time & date stamp is on each file. Then...
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    How to Index this text?

    Help - what is that, how do you use it? Since I have never used this, what do you mean? Why not use an index? Going back to my original question - how do you make an index. I may not have chosen the best type of document to try this with? Dave
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    Closed Caption on TV - how to capture to text?

    Wow, that is great! I will check into this. Thank you very much. Dave

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