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Design Your Business Cards. Print & Cut Yourself or Send to Printer.

Design Your Business Cards. Print & Cut Yourself or Send to Printer.

Design Your Business Cards. Print & Cut Yourself or Send to Printer.

Make Business Cards.  The Microsoft Word document provided contains a template to make standard 3.5 (W) x 2" (H) business cards and instructions how to print and cut them yourself as needed.

How to Make Facebook Cover Photos Fit the Wide Rectangle.

Design Your Business Cards. Print & Cut Yourself or Send to Printer.

Design Your Business Cards. Print & Cut Yourself or Send to Printer.

Using PowerPoint to create a wide container, add elements to fit in the container, group them together and save as a JPG picture.

Put Paragraph Breaks INSIDE Excel Spreadsheet Cells.

Design Your Business Cards. Print & Cut Yourself or Send to Printer.

Copy a Region of Your Screen & Paste that Picture Anywhere

Start a new line in the same cell.  Learn how to put paragraphs into Excel spreadsheet cells.  Also works for GOOGLE SHEETS.

Copy a Region of Your Screen & Paste that Picture Anywhere

Alex is Parent's Best Buddy - Audio Assistant for Kids' Questions

Copy a Region of Your Screen & Paste that Picture Anywhere

Snipping Tool - copy a region of your screen and paste into any email or document on a Windows computer.

Insert ʻOkina Into Microsoft Office and Google Docs

Alex is Parent's Best Buddy - Audio Assistant for Kids' Questions

Alex is Parent's Best Buddy - Audio Assistant for Kids' Questions

Okina. Learn how to spell Hawaiʻi properly with an ʻokina, not an apostrophe.  It's easy to insert  ʻokina into your files when you know how.

Alex is Parent's Best Buddy - Audio Assistant for Kids' Questions

Alex is Parent's Best Buddy - Audio Assistant for Kids' Questions

Alex is Parent's Best Buddy - Audio Assistant for Kids' Questions

Alexa - Ask Alexa questions; get immediate answers.  Alexa, how do you spell "decline"?  Alexa, what 47 times 53?  Alexa, what does "peckish" mean?

Make Business Cards

Make Business Cards

Make Business Cards

Make Business Cards

Make Business Cards

Make Business Cards

Make Business Cards

Download the Document Below

Download the Microsoft Word document below, BizCard-with-Instructions.docx.  On page 1 is a template to make ten (10) standard 2-inch (H) by 3.5-inch (W) business cards.  On page 2 are formatting and cutting instructions for page 1.

Print & Cut the Cards or Have a Printer Do This

You can print and cut your own business cards as needed.  You'll need good quality card stock paper.


If you want lots of slick cards, I highly recommend using a business card printing service.  It's not expensive to get a bunch of nice cards printed if you supply the design (p. 1).  It's worth it if you don't intend to change your contact information or service any time in the near future.  Support local businesses.  Search a map app or internet browser for:     business card printing near me

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How to Make Facebook Cover Photos Fit the Wide Rectangle

How to Make Facebook Cover Photos Fit the Wide Rectangle

How to Make Facebook Cover Photos Fit the Wide Rectangle

How to Make Facebook Cover Photos Fit the Wide Rectangle

How to Make Facebook Cover Photos Fit the Wide Rectangle

How to Make Facebook Cover Photos Fit the Wide Rectangle

How to Make Facebook Cover Photos Fit the Wide Rectangle

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Excel & Google Sheets: Insert Line Feeds Into One Cell

Excel & Google Sheets: Insert Line Feeds Into One Cell

Excel & Google Sheets: Insert Line Feeds Into One Cell

Excel & Google Sheets: Insert Line Feeds Into One Cell

Excel & Google Sheets: Insert Line Feeds Into One Cell

Excel & Google Sheets: Insert Line Feeds Into One Cell

Excel & Google Sheets: Insert Line Feeds Into One Cell

When you want to enter a list of items or paragraphs into one single spreadsheet cell (or one cell made up of several merged cells), using "Enter" will not work.  That action moves focus to the next cell in the column.  However, you can insert a line feed (equivalent of a typewriter carriage return) by using the following keyboard shortcuts.

Alt + Enter

WINDOWS:  To start a new line in a spreadsheet cell on a Windows computer, use the Alt +  Enter shortcut.  This means, hold down the Alt key while you tap the Enter key.

Control + Option + Enter

MAC:  To start a new line in a spreadsheet cell on a Mac computer, use the Control + Option  +  Enter shortcut.  This means, hold down the Control and Option keys while you tap the Enter key.

Snipping Tool: Capture Pictures From Your Windows Computer

Snipping Tool: Capture Pictures From Your Windows Computer

Snipping Tool: Capture Pictures From Your Windows Computer

Snipping Tool: Capture Pictures From Your Windows Computer

Snipping Tool: Capture Pictures From Your Windows Computer

Snipping Tool: Capture Pictures From Your Windows Computer

Snipping Tool: Capture Pictures From Your Windows Computer

While navigating the web, if you see something on your Windows computer screen that you'd like to capture as an image, and paste it into a PowerPoint presentation, email, Word document, Facebook posting, etc., use the Snipping Tool.

Take a Quick Pic

Press these 3 keys simultaneously:


   <Windows Logo> + Shift + s


The screen will turn dark grey.  Use your cursor to click and drag the section of the screen you want. Click again to end the capture.  The picture is now in your copy buffer.  Go to your document, email, Facebook, etc., and paste.  The shortcut to paste is:


   Ctrl + v

Run the Full Snipping Tool

If you want to access the full features of the Snipping Tool, run the App.


  1. Tap the <Windows Logo> key.
  2. Type:  snipping tool
  3. When the App is selected, hit ENTER key, or take the long way, and click on the Snipping Tool App name.
  4. The Snipping Tool window will open.

Insert ʻOkina Into Microsoft Office and Google Docs

Insert ʻOkina Into Microsoft Office and Google Docs

Insert ʻOkina Into Microsoft Office and Google Docs

Insert ʻOkina Into Microsoft Office and Google Docs

Insert ʻOkina Into Microsoft Office and Google Docs

Insert ʻOkina Into Microsoft Office and Google Docs

Insert ʻOkina Into Microsoft Office and Google Docs (flip through photos for instructions)

    Alexa - Kids' and Parents' Best Buddy

    Alexa - Kids' and Parents' Best Buddy

    Alexa - Kids' and Parents' Best Buddy

    Alexa - Kids' and Parents' Best Buddy

    Alexa - Kids' and Parents' Best Buddy

    Alexa - Kids' and Parents' Best Buddy

    Alexa - Kids' and Parents' Best Buddy

    Amazing Tool for ELL & SpEd Kids

     I just discovered how amazing the Amazon Alexa can be for a SpEd & ELL student (at home).  He can't ask his parents, "How do you spell this?" or "What does <some English word or idiom> mean?"  He was at my house (I am tutoring him during the COVID) and while reading he started asking Alexa the meaning of words he didn't know, just like I used to ask my parents while I was reading as a child with a limited vocabulary.  "Alexa, What's a definition for <word> for kids?" (Make sure you say, "for kids" or you'll get an advanced, adult definition.)  Alexa delivered. He went on reading and didn't get bogged down looking up every word he didn't know, and trying to read a definition.  Later, when writing, he'd say, "Alexa, what's a synonym for <word>?" or "Alexa, how do you spell <word>?" Alexa comes through almost every time. His most recent writing assignment was awesome.  I was stunned and knew I had to share this story with others.


    THEN, we discovered we could practice his math facts by having him race Alexa to the answer. He likes the game aspect of racing someone for the answer, but there's no kids here while we shelter in place, and fortunately, Alexa has no ego to be bruised if the boy beats her. I ask, "Alexa, what's 17 minus 8?" If the kid gets the answer first, he wins. There's definitely enough time to make it fair for a severely Math-challenged kid to answer if you give problems at the kid's level.


    Teachers, recommend it to your SpEd and ELL parents. All one needs is WIFI internet connection and Alexa. No monthly Alexa charge.  An Alexa Dot goes for about $40. An Alexa Echo ($60) is worth the extra money for better sound quality if you like to listen to music (which I do).  Alexa is a godsend for any parent tired of answering questions like: "What does this this word mean?" "Where is Mongolia?" "How do you spell ...?" "What's the population of Hawaii?" "When was Benjamin Franklin born?"  "How much is 52 times 12?" ....etc.  And for one-on-one teachers, it gives them the independence to get other things done while the student is reading or writing.


    I think I'm in love with Alexa. So's my husband (who loves music), so I guess I'm not being unfaithful.  Just a cozy little ménage à trois.


    Vanessa Ott

    18 Apr 2020


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