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Microsoft Excel includes a powerful feature of saving your document automatically after some specified time intervals. By default, Excel automatically saves your current document after every ten minutes intervals but you can change this time. This Auto save feature save the data in the same file. However, AutoSave protects your data in the event that Excel unexpectedly quits. It is also good idea to create a backup of your files using any removable devices, because in this global network a computer can crash, a virus create problem, or a hard drive failure can wipe out everything.

Follow the given steps to change default save time and enable auto backup feature:


A small dialog box will open, here select the Save tab in the dialog box.

Now click the "Save AutoRecover info every" check box and enter the time in minutes under "Settings" area.

Here you have choice to modify the location of saving your document automatically under "AutoRecover save location" option.Click the Ok button of dialog box to finish the process.

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You can display document in different views in document window. When you switch from one view to another, the document contents are not affected and only the layout of the document is changed. A Microsoft word document can be viewed in four different ways.

You can select a view form the View menu or by clicking their respective icons located at the leftmost section of the horizontal scroll bar. The document views are described below.

Normal View

In normal view, only the text and the text formatting is viewed. The headers &footers, graphics or layout of the page is not shown. This mode is used to type and edit text quickly.

Web Layout View

In Web layout view, the document is viewed on the screen as it would be appeared in the Web Browser. This mode is used if you want to create a Web page or document in MS Word and save it as Web page.

Print Layout View

In Print layout view, the document is viewed on the screen as it would be printed on the printer. The headers &footers, graphics etc. are also viewed in this mode. This view is useful for editing headers& footers, for adjusting margins, and drawing objects etc. This mode is very slow for creating and editing documents.

Outline ViewIn outline view, the structure of the document is displayed. The structure of document may include main headings or you can expand it to see all headings and even body of text. In this view, page boundaries, headers footers, graphics and background are not appeared. This view makes easy to work with master document. A master document is used to organize and maintain a long document, such as a multipart report or a book with chapters.

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Microsoft Office XP has working with built-in speech recognition features. The main purpose of this feature to understand the speech and then coverts to text file. You can run this feature in any Office XP applications, for example Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word.

Follow the give steps to install the speech recognition features in office XP:

First click on Start button, go to Control Panel then click on Add or Remove Programs.

Now find and select the "Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage" option in Add or Remove Programs list, then click on Change button.

Here select the option "Add or Remove Features" Change which features are installed or remove specific features", and click on Next button.

Here expand the "Office Shared Features"> Alternative User Input > Speech. Now click on Speech option and select "Run from My Computer" from menu and click on Update button to start installation process.

Now system will takes some time to install this feature.

After you have installed, open Microsoft Word > Tools > and click on Speech option.

Now click Next on welcome page.

If you are running it first time, then system will ask you for voice training, you can skip it but the voice training increase the chance of accuracy.

If the training is over, now try to speak "File" to open the File menu and check speech recognition feature has been working or not.

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