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  For the Love of Software Set a Style in Word and have it Stay that Way for Other Documents Select the text you want to make into a specific style Click on the style you want to apply.  For this example, I will use the Heading 1 style. Now, go up to the words Heading 1 in the Style group on the Home Ribbon and RIGHT CLICK on it and select Modify In the Modify window you will: Change the text to look the way you always want it to look when you click on Heading 1 Click on the option at the bottom that says "New documents based on this template" Click on OK Now, every time you click on Heading 1 the text will look the way you modified it.  In this case, it will be Calibri, 16 pt, Bold, Underlined, Black text. (If you want to find more options you can click on the format button and change other options before you click on New documents based on this template to save all changes.) Have Fun and Do Something Good

WORD: The Home Tab/Ribbon

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The Microsoft Word Menu Bar has been "upgraded" to a  Ribbon .   MAC Users: You still have a Menu Bar, if you can’t find what you are looking for on the Ribbon try looking in the Menus. At the top, you have  Menu tabs .  Each tab has a  Ribbon .   You will see that the  commands are grouped  on the Ribbon to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for. Home Tab/Ribbon (Part 1) UNDO GROUP The First group is " Undo ."  In this group, you can undo the last few things you did in the document and redo them if you undo too many. To  undo  something click on the  arrow pointing left .  To  redo  something click on the  arrow pointing right . There is supposed to be a limited number of undo commands, but I have never run into it. CLIPBOARD GROUP The Second group is the  Clipboard .  The  Clipboard  is magic.  Anytime you  copy or cut  something it  goes onto the Clipboard , and you don’t see an

New Task

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I have a new task, creating tips and tricks for my 97-year-old mother so she can use her electronic devices. This one is for using her iPhone.  She has hearing aids that link into the phone, sometimes it doesn't work and she gets confused.  These are instructions to put the phone on speaker so she can hear.  Feel free to use it.

189th Semiannual General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

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What do you do to make General Conference exciting in your home?  Here are a few ideas I and others have used to become and remain engaged in the process. Make the weekend fun, plan a full two days of favorite foods and activities around conference time. Involve every family member in planning the weekend with crafts, food, activities, and journals Have a project you work on only during conference. We worked on a conference quilt embroidering designs on blocks to include in the quilt Have everyone select a word ("the" is not allowed) and every time the person hears her or his word they get a small treat Play conference bingo Keep a conference journal like this one or this one Listen and write down any blessings you hear in conference talks Make a general conference wall here is one way to do it for small children Play Fantasy General Conference Have dinner with an apostle For small children make General Conference Stations in the TV Room Download the Co

On Managing My Time

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It seems a simple thing to write down a schedule and stick to it.  I made a nice little schedule to be sure I got everything done for BYU-Idaho.  See it really is a nice little schedule What this nice little schedule doesn't account for is my 97-year-old mother.  She is self-sufficient, but not completely.  Between 7 and 8 a.m. I helped her three times, each time interrupting my thought process and requiring a reset.  They weren't big things, finding a cap to her pills that she dropped, reminding her how to use her new hair product, and then later taking the spray bottle for the new hair product and pumping all the air out until it actually would spray. Something else this nice little schedule doesn't account for is my sweet Tarzan who called me during my 8:00 hour to discuss finances.  This caused an interruption of thought and required a reset as well. And then there are the dogs.  They had cornered some little creature and were actively trying to "get"

Lucky Me

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Lucky, lucky, lucky me I'm a lucky son of a gun I work eight hours, I sleep eight hours and have eight hours for fun ♪♫♫♪ Do you ever think about how lucky you are?  Getting away from thinking about your problems can make problems more bearable.  Try counting your blessings--you may have some of these and they are not in order, but here are a few things to think about. Food on the table Car to drive House to live in Bed to sleep on Job to pay the bills Family Friends The Godhead Sunrise Sunset Pets Moon Sun Clouds and Rain Animal Life Doctors and Nurses Pedicures Babies Rainbows Books to Read Sunglasses Shoes Fingers All Body Parts Indoor Plumbing Scriptures Pepsi Look for good Find joy Be happy Banish sad

Can't wait to see what's next

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I woke up this morning to a normal day...Got up, went outside to water my flower/herb garden Then, because it is Wednesday, I was going to clean the showers and tubs.  I went to get rags and all the red microfiber rags were in a pile waiting to be washed.  I have to use red in the bathroom because Tarzan now is the quality assurance manager for a corporate cleaning company and he has to keep them within OSHA rules.  One of those rules is only red in the bathroom and only green in the kitchen... Green is for the Kitchen, blue is for dusting, yellow is for general cleaning, red for the bathroom... So, I picked up the dirty cloths to put them in the washing machine and the washing machine had clothes in it that had been there for two days (in the Phoenix heat)...I put them in the dryer with extra Bounce in hopes they would not be sour and loaded the microfiber cloths in the washer.  Since I had nothing to wash the bathrooms with, I began assisting Tarzan has he put together our