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LibreCAD is also available on SourceForge. I gather you have a longterm relationship with OlderGeeks, but I find the SourceForge website much easier to navigate.

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Will Fastie

WSJank, unfortunately online training will always be for the latest version of the software. But now that you have that, the training should be easier to follow. Excel is much more complicated than Word.

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I got a version of Office 2016 Pro Plus, which includes Publisher and Access, for $69.  I know it is legitimate because it successfully registered with Microsoft online. As far as the ribbon problem goes, it can be de-activated using the options setting under the File menu. My wife and I had been using office 2010 in Windows 7 and successfully installed it in Windows 10, but started to get compatibility messages so found this website for an update.

I am an avid PDF user and had been using Acrobat XI for years from a disc until certain functions stopped working.  I was forced to go to the subscription DC version, but it is not so bad, and has the added function of editing images.

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If you have an HP printer and buy their cartridges online, they will come with a recycling mailer.  I know paying list price is passé but our printing load is light/

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Nathan Parker

[sigrossman]

Here’s an answer to the problem that allows you to stay with Chrome’s superior speed, Hitman Pro.  Set it up to run daily.   It is specifically designed to remove tracker cookies and will catch some serious malware but it isn’t full-fledged anti-malware software. .  The paid version is $25 for a  year, cheap in the software universe.  I do the tons of search work a day and had been getting usually, get 200 files removed.

The only downside is it closes Chrome after cleaning but it should not be a problem if you’ve set Chrome to open to “continue where you left off”.

That number has come way down after I installed the Chrome Ad Remover extension.  It’s free.  According to my settings, it has removed over 475,000 ads and 275,000 tracker files over the last 5 months.  The downside is that some sites won’t load if this is running.  You can disable it for a specific site or timeframe.

 

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You are far, far, far East of me.  Grocery stores are probably very different.

Sell in grocery stores..hmmm.  You don’t have to answer, but I can only guess NYC or SF

I just updated to Window 10 Pro and suffered the “network problem” that forced me to call Microsoft.  The rep was very apologetic and said he will fix it in 15 minutes.  It actually only took 12.  But now I find that my update freeze is different than online reports indicate.  What I have is a choice of the number of days to freeze updates.  Right now the feature semiannual update is delayed 90 days, but the quality update can only be delayed 30 days max.  Am I in trouble?

I have AdBlock Pro and Badger extensions but I still get lots of tracking cookies in Chrome. I do a daily scan of Hittman Pro which will delete tracking cookies and some malware. It’s self-named as “the second scan”. Since my work takes me to many many websites I wind up with 50-100 cookies and yes. some of them come back again and again. For me it’s easier to delete them than triy to block them through the browser

There were two typos in this article. “Changes to the ultimate utilites list” and “they no longer rise to the “indispensible” level.”. Tracey, if you read these comments please run spelll check before you plublish.

We all saw how well these systems worked with Volkswagen!!

Whoever ever told you that was just plain wrong.

I can be accused of quibbling but the Apple II came out in 1977 programmed in BASIC thus accessible to the public code writers and was followed by the Commodore PET, Atari 8-bit family and Tandy Corporation’s TRS-80 so I’d say closer to 40 years.

It does a heck of a lot more that creating pdf files. It can save pdf files (not scanned files but files created a pdf print program) to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, accessible text (OCR), RTF,HTML, images to jpeg or TIFF, to Postscript files and other file formats. it can move pages around in a PDF file, export pages from one file and insert them in other files.

One of it’s cool features is making a pdf file from a website with links to other pages on the site. You use a “create file from website “feature entering the first page URL and the first page is downloaded and pops up on your screen. All the links on the page are live. You right click on the link in the pdf and chose “append website”. If you select it, Acrobat will download and attach all the pages from that link to behind your first page. You just go through all the links on the “first level” of the website

I find this very helpful when I’m look for a help section online. Often the first page has a series of links to other sections of the site. If you examine the second level pages and see that they have links you can specify that Acrobat drill down to the third level and go through the process. With this feature you can download the entire help site to a hard copy on your computer. Oh, and the links in your pdf file will be live, allowing you to navigate around the document with your mouse. Acrobat creates bookmarks seen on the left side of the screen for each segment downloaded.

If you, let’s say, have a Word file with hyperlinks that go to websites and you have the full version of Acrobat, your Word, Excel and Powerpoint software will have a button for creating a pdf file from your document. “Create pdf” is different because it puts all the structure of the original document into the pdf, so the pdf will have live hyperlinks just like the original

Oh, one other thing. If you have a real valid pdf you can make changes in it without going back to the original.

I don’t need any other software, free or not. My full version of Acrobat works fine. I invested in it with a disk and key from a person on EBay. It worked fine and since I have valid software I’ve been able to upgrade at a significantly lower price than the newest version. Acrobat does a bunch of things I’ve never seen on a free version.