February 2018

How To Freeze Panes in Excel

Dear Computer Lady, At the beginning of the year, I created a spreadsheet for weight lifting. I have a column for each exercise, and fill out a row for each day that I work out. The name of each exercise is at the top of each column. As I have added more rows, I have […]

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The Secret To Converting Docx To PDF

Dear Computer Lady, My manuscript has been accepted by a publisher. On my computer on the internet there is a complete copy of my work–in docx. The publisher wishes it to be in PDF. How may I change the docx to PDF? Or, can the publisher change it to be able to edit it? Thank […]

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Video Downloading

Hi computerlady, A piece of freeware that I have used for at least 10 years is “aTube Catcher”, which will not only download to your hard drive but also in many different formats (avi, wmv, mp4 etc). This same software can also burn to DVD so that the disc will play in any DVD player. […]

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Performance Issues Found

Dear Computer Lady, I have a question I’m hoping you can answer. I use AVG. When the scan is done I get a message “performance issues found” and there is a block to click that says “resolve”. At the top of this page it says resolve with AVG PC tuneup. I never click this box […]

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YouTube Video to CD

Dear Computer Lady, I would like to learn how to download a You Tube video to a CD-R. I have a DVD/CD player and I’d like to download an educational video to a CD-R and play it over and over again without using data on my tablet. Thanks, Yvonne in CA

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How To Turn Indexing On – Or Off

Dear Computer Lady, Do you know of an easy way to turn my indexing back on? I have a Windows 10 and somehow it got turned off —so my searches aren’t working properly and when I simply click on turn on indexing is just not working. I’ve googled it but I have a come up […]

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Family Tree Maker

Dear Computer Lady, I have a question regarding Family tree maker. I know that it is no longer supported by I believe Ancestry. I have ALL my family tree information in this program and need to add more but I am afraid I might lose it all. I do use Carbonite as backup. Any suggestion […]

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The Easy Way To Transfer Messages From Yahoo to Gmail

Dear Computer Lady, I have been a long time subscriber to your emails. I never contacted you before. Now I have need to create another email address and transfer 800 + emails from my yahoo address, is there a simple way to do that? Was going to get another gmail account. Thank you for all […]

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Driver Updater Programs

Dear Computer Lady, I have read your wonderful newsletter for many years and because of your previous recommendation, which I know you now have changed, I opted to use AVG for the past 10 years. I am presently using a 6 month old Lenovo ideapad 110 lap top computer, which is my life-line and very […]

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How To Multiply Numbers in Excel

Dear Computer Lady, Excel question – is it possible to multiply a column of numbers by one number and have the results appear in a separate column for each number: Example: 20 324 18 94 all multiplied individually by 17 and have the answer appear next to the number so that 20 would have in […]

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