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We have heard horror stories that upgrading Vista to 7 went wrong and the user was often left with a faulty system. There is a proven method being circulated on the internet to perform a clean installation with the Windows 7 Upgrade DVD.

First if you are still able to do so, try running Windows 7 upgrade advisor to check if your PC has the hardware to run Windows 7. Next save and backup important data on the HDD as you would normally do when reinstalling Windows. This how-to shows how to save and restore your office settings (if any) using the Save My Settings Wizard.

Then boot from the Windows 7 DVD and do a clean install, i.e. at the hard drive section, you choose to delete and format the hard drive. Remember to choose the correct Windows edition. When you are asked to enter the product key, do not enter, as your product key won't allow a clean install. You will be given a 30-day trial because of that.

After the installation is done. Don't install anything yet. Do an upgrade install (on top of the new windows 7 itself!). This time you enter the product key and you will have a working and registered Windows. Restore your backup after that.

There are tools to use to edit and create technical text, but sometimes extra help is needed and there are some tools out there which are not as known as the most famous ones, but are very useful and can be perfect complement to our text editor or any other authoring software we may use. Some examples are:

Snagit: This is a software for taking screenshots, which is really useful if we are to take them in order to add to our text writings. Taking screenshot is common, besides that, it has very good features and editing functions for the screenshots. Check it out and you will see.

Sobolsoft programs are a long list of programs designed to make our life easier and speed up our work if we know how to use them. There are programs for a lot of tasks, but we will review the most useful when it comes to writing.

The most useful is the Sobolsoft MS Word Import Multiple Text.Files v7.0. With this easy to use program you can merge a whole lot of text files into one of them. It usually happens that you got a lot of files and you have to copy/paste the content of them to one file, with this program you can join 100 files with a few clicks.

Sobolsoft MS Word Export to Multiple Text.Files v7.0 does the opposite thing, if you got a long text file and you want to split it up in several without having to create new documents and having to copy/paste 100 times, you can use this easy program to do it in a few clicks.

Sobolsoft Create Multiple Folders v7.0 is a very useful tool if you need to sort documents into folders. Creating folders with similar names is boring and time consuming, with this tool you can create hundreds of them very easily.

Sobolsoft Excel Import Multiple Text.Files v7.0 is the perfect tool when you got data stored on .txt files and you need to use them in a .xls file. With this easy to use tool you can sort them as you want without having to do hundreds of copy/pastes.

Sobolsoft Email Compare And Remove Duplicate ists.v7.0 is an easy to use utility to compare duplicates in email lists to merge them in one.

There are much more programs like these which will really help us a lot.

Know yourself first. Are you a beginner just starting out to use Microsoft Office? Or an intermediate/experienced user wanting to improve more on your productivity?

If you are a beginner, all those menus, toolbars and buttons could seem mind-boggling and intimidating to you. There is no need for you to learn the meaning of every item and all the advanced features in the beginning. The best thing is to immediately get started and learn the basic operations, the most handy features first, familiarize yourself with the interface and improve yourself gradually by practice and experience.

Want to make your life easier and reduce your frustration when using Microsoft Office? Some users start by learning and using shortcuts immediately, but the improvement is marginal. To increase your productivity, first you must go back to the basics: prepare your work environment so that it is suitable for long hours of work. Here are the seven steps to do so.