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Watermarks have several uses such as marking each page in a document as a draft or as confidential.  You can also insert pictures as watermarks to give your document a unique artistic touch.

In Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Word 2010 the watermark feature is in the same place.  Across the top of the ribbon select Page Layout.  Clicking on Watermark will give you some basic watermarks to choose from.


For advanced watermark features select custom watermark from the watermark drop down.  The advanced features give you the options to set a picture as the watermark or your own text.


In Microsoft Office 2003 the watermark function is slightly hidden.  Select Format from the menu across the top select Background, then Printed Watermark.



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From time to time you may feel the need to clear the browsing history, cache, or cookies on your iPad 2. To do so follow these steps:

Open Settings


Select Safari in the left pane
Select Clear History in the right pane


Select the Clear button to clear the history.


From here you can clear the following information on the iPad:

Cookie data
Cache (temporary internet files)
History

These steps were derived from the iPad 2 and may be slightly different on other iPad versions.

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Someone recently asked what is the conversion between megabytes and gigabytes?  Here is the binary calculation...

1 Byte is a character, number, or symbol (comprised of 8 bits)
1 Kilobyte is 1024 bytes
1 Megabyte is 1024 kilobytes
1 Gigabyte is 1024 megabytes
1 Terabyte is 1024 gigabytes
1 Petabyte is 1024 terabytes
1 Exabyte is 1024 petabytes
...this keeps going

When shopping for a memory upgrade or RAM for your computer you might typically purchase two gigabytes, the minimum I would recommend for Windows 7.  Once installed the computer should show that you have 2.00 GB of RAM.  It may show less if an integrated video card in the computer is using some of that memory for your video output.

Right click on computer in the start menu and click properties to see how much RAM you have.


When shopping for a hard drive you should know that the actual size of the hard drive in Windows is smaller than the name that they give it.  For example, my personal computer has a one terabyte hard drive.  That is actually not quite one terabyte but is just over 931 gigabytes. This is because the conversion that the hard drive manufacturers is different.  The hard drive manufacturers use the following decimal format...

1 Kilobyte is 1000 bytes
1 Megabyte is 1000 kilobytes
1 Gigabyte is 1000 Megabytes
1 Terabyte is 1000 Gigabytes
...and so on

Jordan, I hope this answers your question.  Thank you for your inquiry.

Todd Siefert
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