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Free Microsoft Office Applications Viewers
"Viewers" are utilities that let you see a correctly-formatted document or file even if you don't have a copy of the software that created the file."
Free Access Database Snapshot Viewer - With this viewer you can open files saved in the following format: mdb.
Free Excel Spreadsheet Viewer - With this viewer you can open files saved in the following format: xls.
Free PowerPoint Presentation Viewer - With this viewer you can open files saved in the following formats: .ppt, .pot, and .pps.
Free Word Processor Viewer - With this Viewer you can open files saved in the following formats: .rtf, .txt, .htm, .html, .mht, .mhtml, .wpd, .doc, .wpd, .wps. and .xml.
Free Visio Drawings and Diagrams Viewer - With this viewer you can open files saved in the following formats: .VSD, .VSS, .VST, .VDX, .VSX, and.VTX.
Free Microsoft Office Applications Templates and Training Courses
Free Microsoft Office Templates
Free Microsoft Office Program Training Courses
Scot Finney Newsletters and Forums
Scot Finnie Newsletter (SFNL) Forums
"The charter of the forums is to help other people with computer problems and provide meeting places for discussion of topics of interest related to computing.
It covers Windows, Security, Programming, Applications, Browsers, Email, Networking, Hardware, and there's a Q&A section.
Our moderators and Forum MVPs [Most Valuable Professionals] are just the best. Forum registration with email-based confirmation is required only for participation in the forums (posting messages and sending Private Messages).
The forums are open to all who would like only to read. But we restrict posting privileges to prevent "driveby flames." People who jump on, say something incendiary, and leave never to return. It's a common occurrence at some forums that operate differently.
Your email address is completely protected by the forums software, and we have had zero reports of any spam or other issues concerning privacy on the forums.
Scot's Newsletter Forums is a small but very active community. [Over 2,500 users.] It's worth swinging by to take a look at this place."
Note. there is a Forum Test Area that you can use to try posting, formatting, quoting, anything you're not sure about, and the test messages are periodically removed.
Scot Finnie's Newsletters: Back Issues
Microsoft Sites
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
Microsoft Office XP Online Assistance
Links to test your Internet
Downstream, Upstream, Bandwidth, and Modem Speeds
Broadband Tests and Tools Page
Internet Speed Tests for Cable and DSL Broadband Users
Click here for Download and Upload Speed Test
Ten Big Myths about copyright explained - by Brad Templeton
(Here are some excerpts from the linked page. " The "fair use" exemption to (U.S.) copyright law was created to allow things such as commentary, parody, news reporting, research and education about copyrighted works without the permission of the author. ... Fair use is usually a short excerpt and almost always attributed. ... All the E-mail you write is copyrighted. However, E-mail is not, unless previously agreed, secret. So you can certainly report on what E-mail you are sent, and reveal what it says. You can even quote parts of it to demonstrate. "