Often, I need to get the first few sentances of a long article or post to display as summary. Things to consider include not cutting off any partial words; add … if there is more; make sure html tags are stripped off otherwise we might bury an openning tag in the summary and that will screw up the […]

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I had been trying to edit the hosts file on vista but always receives a message saying no privilege. I didn’t even recall setting up an admin user during vista installation.
Finally found a solution on the Internet:
http://www.maximumpcguides.com/edit-the-windows-vista-hosts-file/

Open Notepad with Administrative privileges by clicking Start, All Programs, Accessories, and then right-click Notepad and select to open […]

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I prepared a list of customers to send holiday card to then needed to print them out. Spent some time figure out things since this is the first time I used Mail Merge. Here are the steps that worked for me:

Exported customer’s list from Quickbooks into an Excel file
Cleaned up Excel file to removed duplicates, […]

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