Top 10 Things You Must do if You’re Going to Work at Home: Part Two

This started out as one blog, but got to be way too long. For part one, click here. Back up your computer every week ~ Need I say more? Buy Office from Microsoft or download Open Office ~ Although I love Open Office, I will the first one to admit that it can’t do everything that Word can, and some companies require you to use Word, not OO. If you are short on cash, download OO, and then buy the the Office Suite when you have the money. It may take a while to save up–that baby is expensive!!! Download … Continue reading →

Top 10 Things You Must do if You’re Going to Work at Home: Part One

For anyone aspiring to quit their day job and work at home, this list should hopefully point you in the right general direction–doing any or all of these items could only help you get and keep a job. Employers look for people who know how to run their own computer, and who keep their computer updated in terms of protection against spyware, malware, and other yuckies. Some companies require their employees to keep updated anti-virus protection on their computer. Every item is important, but make especially sure to follow edict #10. Here they are: Download Zone Alarms ~ Window’s firewall … Continue reading →

Active Words: Opening Websites and Documents

If you haven’t heard of Active Words before, I suggest starting at the beginning and reading the first blogs, here. AW has another function that I use constantly: Opening up a website that I go to regularly, without having to open another tab in my browser and then bring up my list of bookmarks with the website listed in it. With AW, all I have to do is type in the word or letter I assigned it in AW (Google, for example, has the letter “g” assigned to it) and then hit the F11 key. No matter where I’m at, … Continue reading →

Active Words: Automatic vs Manual Correcting

In my last blog, I talked about Active Word’s ability to fix all of the typing errors you make, without you having to do anything but enter the information into AW one time (about a 20 second process.) When you enter these corrections into AW, it allows you to choose whether the corrections will be done automatically (“acess” becomes “access” without you doing anything) or letting you hit a “hot key” when you want the correction to be done. Knowing whether you want the correction to be done automatically or manually is about 70% of mastering AW. There are very … Continue reading →

Active Words: A Fantastic Program and a Real Time Saver

I have found a program that will make your life, and your job, twice as easy as it is right now. A bold claim, but I stand behind it. Active Words is a program I have been using for years now (two? three? something like that) and I am at the point now that if I have to get along without it because I’m on someone else’s computer, it just about kills me. Or at least tortures me to the point where I wish I was dead. Close enough. AW is a bit hard to explain, but I’ll try. First, … Continue reading →