Computer Tips From A Computer Guy

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 03:34 AM PST

Recently, I was writing a Word document and I came across an interesting problem! I had about 20 pages in the Word doc, but I needed only one of them to be in Landscape orientation!

Even though I've been using Word for 10+ years, I never ran into this situation before. After playing around with page breaks and section breaks for about an hour, I finally figured out how to do it without Googling!

Unfortunately, making one page landscape in a Word document is not a intuitive task at all! And if you're not familiar with section breaks at all, then you would never be able to figure it out.

In this article, I'll go through the steps to make one page out of many landscape as quickly as possible.

Step 1: Open the Word document and go to the end of the page right before the page that you want in landscape orientation. For example, if you want page 22 to be landscape, go to the end of page 21.

Step 2: Now click on Page Layout in the ribbon and click on Breaks.

Step 3: From the Breaks drop-down menu, go ahead and choose Next Page under Section Breaks.

Step 4: If you don't have paragraph marks showing, it'll look like a blank line was entered. To see the section break, click on the Home tab on the ribbon and click on the Show/Hide Paragraph Marks button.

Step 5: Now you will see the section break right after the ending paragraph of that page. In order to make one page landscape, you have to insert a section page break in order to get one full page. Go ahead and follow step 3 again.

At this point, you should have a blank page in the middle of two pages of content.

Step 6: Now all you have to do is go to Page Layout, click on Orientation and choose Landscape.

Now you will notice that only that one page is landscape as shown below.

Step 7: All you have to do now is copy the content from the page you want in landscape orientation and paste it between the two sections breaks that we created previously.

Only the content between the section breaks will be in landscape mode. So basically in Word, if you want to apply a style or setting to a particular page and not other pages (such as numbering, etc), you can use section breaks to "reset" the page defaults.

If you have any problems making one page landscape, post a comment and we'll try to help! Enjoy!

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Setup Surround Sound in Windows 7

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 04:22 AM PST

Buying speakers and a good sound card is the first step to getting surround sound from your Windows 7 PC. However, even after you place your speakers and install the drivers, you still need to setup your surround sound system. Learn how to setup a surround sound system in Windows 7.

Surround Sound and Windows 7

It takes some specific hardware and software to achieve surround sound from a Windows 7 PC. First, you must invest in either 5.1 or 7.1 speakers. With 5.1 surround sound, you get the following speaker configuration:

Left front
Right front
Center front
Left rear
Right rear
Subwoofer

The typical 7.1 surround sound configuration adds two more speakers offering you:

Left front
Right front
Center front
Left rear
Right rear
Side left
Side right
Subwoofer

Second, you have to install the drivers for your sound card and install any drivers and software that shipped with your speakers. Once you have your speakers properly placed, you are now ready to setup surround sound in Windows 7.

Note that even though you have surround speakers, there are times when you may want to revert back to stereo, mono, or some other sound configuration. Many people report hearing better sound using a stereo setup when the original source of the sound was recorded in stereo. The same is true with other configurations. Knowing how to setup surround sound in Windows 7 will allow you to quickly switch arrangements to get the best sound from your PC.

How to Setup Surround Sound in Windows 7

Begin by clicking on Start>Control Panel>Hardware and Sound>Sound.

In the Sound window, locate your sound device, click on it once, and then click on the Configure button. Note that you may have several sound devices selected here. Make sure the sound device you are about to configure is set as the default sound device.

In the Speaker Setup window, note the types of configurations of which your speakers are capable. In our example, the sound device on our test computer is capable of Stereo and 5.1 Surround. Yours may be capable of more or fewer depending on your hardware.

Select the configuration you want in the Audio Channels box. Note that the picture to the right changes depending on your choice. For example, choosing Stereo removes all but two of the speakers pictured. 5.1 adds four additional speakers and 7.1 adds five additional speakers.

Make sure your speakers are turned on and the volume is turned up enough so you can hear them. Click the Test button and listen as Windows 7 tests each of the speakers in your setup. Note any speakers that are not producing sound and adjust the volume accordingly so you can comfortably hear sound coming from each of the speakers.

When finished, click the Next button. Here you can further customize your speakers by telling Windows 7 which speakers are present in your setup. Typically, you do not have to make any changes here unless you have a specific reason for muting or turning on or off certain speakers.

When done, click the Next button. On this window, much of the same logic applies as on the last one. Unless you have a specific reason for turning off these speakers, leave everything checked and click the Next button. The last screen lets you know that configuration is complete. Click the Finish button and you are done setting up surround sound in Windows 7.

Windows 7 allows you to customize your speakers when setting up surround sound. Using the built-in sound utility in Windows 7, you can test, turn on, turn off, and reconfigure your surround sound. If you later decide to make changes to how surround sound operates, run the utility again and make the changes you want to make.

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