Business Computing Tips

By K&K Fainges kfainges@...

After last time, I thought I should do an article on proofing. With
spell checkers, I for one have become a bit lazy allowing the
computer to proof it for me. But you need to check a few things.

There are words are not ones you wanted, like the dag sat of the
fence. Here both dag and of are wrong. Reading the sentence out load
helps to proof this, but be careful to read what is actually there.

Then checking your links (because it can be embarrassing when they
don't work).

But the old spell checker does help. Found under TOOLS in most
programs, it often works by hitting the F7 key as well. Remember
which language you computer is in though. Australian English and
American are not necessarily compatible. To change the language, most
programs have an OPTIONS tag on the Menu, or it will be under tools.
Have a hunt around. It's worth having a look at the things you can
change on your system. Within programs like Word, there is very
little you can do to hurt anything. Just check the defaults before
you change things so you can set it back if you don't like it.

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Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of
Vocational and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14
years of having to make sales or starve that makes her think she has
really learnt what does and doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she
specialises in helping people get started on the long road to
technology.

"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."