MS Word 2010 Exam: Practical Sheet

MS Word is a popular word processing program all over the world. The latest version of Microsoft Office is 2010. In this post I'm giving you a practical test sheet for MS Word 2003.

Your job is to make a sheet like the pdf file in the download link. 

If you are capable of making a sheet like this, then your MS Word practical knowledge will be considered as very high. So, let's try it.

Download the file from here. 

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Use of Ctrl+A to Ctrl+Z for MS Word!!

While working with MS Word we often use Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D etc. But do you know that MS Word has shortcuts keys available from Ctrl+A to Ctrl+Z? 

In this post I am gonna show you the shortcuts from A to Z with Ctrl Key. 

Ctrl+A: Select All

Ctrl+B: Bold

Ctrl+C: Copy

Ctrl+D: Font

Ctrl+E: Center Alignment

Ctrl+F: Find

Ctrl+G: Go to

Ctrl+H: Replace

Ctrl+I: Italic

Ctrl+J: Justify 

Ctrl+K: Hyperlink

Ctrl+L: Left Alignment

Ctrl+M: Intend Increase (Works same when Tab is pressed before a line)

Ctrl+N: New Document

Ctrl+O: Open Document

Ctrl+P: Print Document

Ctrl+Q: Remove Paragraph Format

Ctrl+R: Right Alignment

Ctrl+S: Save (Use F12 for Save As)

Ctrl+T: Hanging Indent Increase

Ctrl+U: Underline

Ctrl+V: Paste

Ctrl+W: Close (or use Ctrl+F4/ Alt+F4)

Ctrl+X: Cut

Ctrl+Y: Repeat/ Redo

Ctrl+Z: Undo

Note: Many of the above shortcuts also work fine with many other programs. 

Find your Files Less than a Second !!

Very often you may need to search for a file or folder in your hard disk. If you know the exact location of that file then there is no problem. But if you work with numerous number of files and folders then it will be difficult for you to find out the necessary file.

In Windows 7 there is an indexing service for faster searching. Whenever you type something Windows 7 shows the file immediately. But Windows XP is not as fast as Windows 7. 

Though Windows 7 has a great search engine, sometimes it may not show some files. But you can install a small program to search your computer faster than windows search engine. 

By Everything you can search any files stored in your hard disk. You will make no mistake. And it is capable of showing any file within milliseconds!

Features: 

• Small installation file
• Clean and simple user interface
• Quick file indexing
• Quick searching
• Quick start up
• Minimal resource usage
• Small database on disk
• real-time updating

Download Link

Foxit Reader: Fast, light and reliable PDF Reader

Almost every person working with computer and internet needs to use PDF file. What is PDF file and how to create PDF file are posted earlier in this blog. So in this post I am gonna discuss about PDF viewer/ reader.

The standard PDF reader is Adobe Reader. But day by day the size of this standard PDF viewer is increasing rapidly. Its download size has already exceeded 50 MB. And install size is more than 300 MB! 

Consequently many users are fed up with this. They try to avoid it but can't as there is not pure alternative to this software. 

But Foxit Reader can be an ideal alternative to Adobe Reader. Foxit Reader will provide you the following facilities: 

• Small in size
• Fast and reliable
• Read out loud
• and more

Download Foxit Reader from link 1 or link 2. 

Download Adobe Reader

Turn off Your Monitor by Double Click!

Often we need to download a large file from internet and remain our system on without using it. In that case a person don't need to use the monitor at all. 

Sometimes we need to turn on or off the monitor again and again. And certainly this detrimental both for the power button of the monitor and for monitor itself. As a result some people don't turn off the monitor. 

But all of us know that CRT monitor consumes a huge amount of power. 

If you need to turn on and off your monitor again and again then don't do it with power button. There is a better option available for you. You can turn off your monitor just by a small .exe file (22 KB)

Download this zipped file from here. 

After downloading the file you need to extract it. Now keep the file in place you think handy. You can place it in the desktop. Or if you use Windows or 8 then right click on this file and select pin to task bar. 

If the file placed in desktop then you can turn off monitor by Double Click. But if it is placed in task bar then you can do it only by a single click!! 

Audio, Video & Text Chat by Google Talk

People of current world heavily depend on internet chatting both for communication and entertainment purpose. There are millions of people always chatting around the world. And thousands of chatting software are also serving them. 

Probably most of the users use Facebook chat to talk with friends. And there are lots of other services available. Such as Yahoo Messenger, Skype, MSN, ooVoo, Pidgin, Nimbuzz and so many. 

But today I am gonna talk about Google Talk (Gtalk) - this is my personal choice. 

This is a very light and fast instant messaging software. Its size is only 1.5 MB. You can both perform audio and text chat. And if you wanna make a video call from it then you have install an additional plugin for it.  

Within a small size program you will find all the necessary options you may need. You can set you status, status message, change font and font size, colors, set image, block irritating persons etc. 

You can also send files by Google Talk to your friends. To whom you wanna send any file must be online. Offline friends can't be sent files. The procedure to send file is shown below with image:

Click here to download Google Talk. 

Click here to install Video and voice plug-in. 

Note: You can also use Gtalk without installing it! Just use your Gmail Account with standard look. Then you will find it in the left panel. 

Get your PC Information by Speccy

Often we need to view the information of PC. A very simple technique for this purpose is- simply make a right click on My Computer and hit on properties. Then we can see some basic information about PC.

More advanced option is- Windows Key + Run, type dxdiag and hit ok. It will show information about Mother board, Graphics, Audio Driver etc.

But Speccy will give you something more that you can't see by Windows. With speccy you can see information regarding almost everything of your PC. It will show you the following information:

• Processor brand and model
• Hard drive size and speed  
• Amount of memory (RAM)   
• Graphics card  
• Operating system

Most surprisingly, you will be able to see your computer's heat! You can see the temperature of your Hard Disk, Main Board and Processor. 

To download speccy, click here. 

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010

All of us know that Office 2010 is the latest office package released by Microsoft. It looks similar to Office 2007. It seems that there is no such changes for what a person needs to upgrade from 2007 to 2010.

For those people, I wanna say that you are wrong. Office 2010 is a very attractive version of office ever released. It includes many new features and effects that can't be made by Office 2007. 

To learn about features and benefits, click here. 

To know about system requirements of Office, click here. 

To compare among different version of Office, click here. 

To download office 2010, click here. 

Free Studio: Cut, Convert and Download from YouTube

Often we need to cut or convert audio and video files. In that case we use audio cutter or video cutter. There are lots of free software available for these tasks. But we don't get them altogether. Suppose a software can handle everything related to audio but can't handle anything related with video.

So we need to use separate software for separate tasks. And installing so many programs may slow down your system. But you can easily get all of the tools in Free Studio. 

With this software you can cut and convert audio/ video files, download videos from YouTube, download and convert audio/ video from YouTube and so many. 

Download Link: http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

Disadvantage: Some DVD format may not work.

Reduce MP3 file size with MP3 quality modifier!

Some songs with mp3 format may be more than 6/7 MB in size. But a song doesn't need to be so large at all. A 5-minute long song may be only 2/3 MB with optimum quality. So why do you waste your hard drive with excess file size? 

With MP3 quality modifier you can control the size of your audio file. Suppose an audio file is 5 MB in size. With this software you can reduce the file size to 300/ 500 KB. But this will hurt the quality. But if you decrease it to 1/ 1.5 MB the quality will not be lost so much. You will find options to increase or decrease the bit. Don't select the bit less than 16 MB. And don't select the bit rate more than 128. 

Features: 

• Small in size (Less that 1 MB)
• Support all versions of windows (XP, Vista, 7)
• Fast
• No installation is required
• Freeware
• Easy to use

Disadvantage: This software only works with MP3 Format!

Download Link

Type Bengali with Avro Keyboard

In Bangladesh the most used software for Bangla typing is Bijoy. But this is not a free software. So most of the users use the pirated version of Bijoy and certainly this is against law. And Bijoy 2003 doesn't work with the Windows Vista, 7 or 8. 

But there is a alternative software. And day by day it is being popular for Bangla typing. Ya, I am talking about Avro Keyboard. 

Avro users might get the following facilities:

• Freeware (Open Source)
• Small in size (10/11 MB)
• Only F12 can be used to switc between Bangla & English
• Unicode Fonts
• Different keyboard layouts 
• Useful to write in the web
• Phonetic keyboard (English to Bangla)
• Bangla Spell Checker
• Fast and reliable
• Portable Version is also available

Download Link: http://www.omicronlab.com/

Filehippo: The Best Site for Software Download

Computer users often download software from Internet. There are at least thousands of sites for downloading software. But most of the sites are not good at all. Often we have to suffer when we go to download software there. 

But in case of Filehippo the situation is different. This site includes freeware, open source, shareware and trial software. Even you can see the details of a software in this site. Some advantages of this site are as follows:

1. Details of every software- File size, Supported OS, Author, License Type etc

2. Software are categorized- Audio, Video, Office, Messaging and Chat, Anti Malware etc. 

3. List of latest Software.

4. List of Popular Software. 

5. Version History

6. Older version of the software are also available.

So, use www.filehippo.com to download your necessary software.