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In this edition:
Changing Cases
Erasing Temporary Internet Files
Word Images That Get Noticed

Time for another edition of our tips and trick where we present you with a few tidbits of information which we hope makes your everyday computing tasks just a little bit easier.

Quickly Change Case in MS Word

You can change the case to sentence case, lowercase, uppercase, title case, and toggle case.

An even quicker way if to highlight the text you want changed and then press Shift + F3. Press Shift + F3 again to change the case again. Keep pressing Shift + F3 to rotate through the different options.

Get Rid of Temporary Internet Files
As you surf the web, pages, graphics, cookies and more is stored as temporary internet files.

Internet Explorer does this so that it doesn't have to download the content every time you visit a page. The problem is that sometimes, the content's changed and Internet Explorer doesn't notice the new content. Thus, you don't get to see the latest version of the page.

Also, all of those pages, cookies and images take up disk space on your computer. We explain how to automatically delete these temporary internet files in our free bonus report when you sign up to this PC Tips & Tricks newsletter. (You can re-read it by visiting http://www.digitalfilerecovery.com/letters/SpecialRpts/FastSecurePC.html.)

But maybe you like more control and want to make sure that the files are only removed when you want them removed.

To do this, open Internet Explorer, click Tools > Internet Options and then click on the "Delete..." button in the General tab. In Netscape, go to Edit > Preferences and click the Advanced arrow. After selecting "cache", you'll see buttons to clear the memory cache and disk cache.

Word Images That Get Noticed
You've probably spent hours creating that important document in MS Word but when you look at it, it feels like it's missing something. Only you don't know what.

One way to make a document stand out more is by transforming your images from 2 dimensional to 3D. And you don't need to be a graphics artist to do so.

After you've added your simple shapes with the Drawing Toolbar's AutoShape feature, select it (by clicking on it once) and then click the 3D button in the Drawing Toolbar. (If you don't see the Drawing Toolbar, select View > Toolbars > Drawing and you'll likely see it at the bottom of the screen then.)

You'll notice the 3D button at the far right of the Drawing Toolbar. Hover over it and it'll say "3-D Style". Click it to show a whole variety of 3D effects to liven up the images in your document.

For those of you that want to take it a step further, click the 3D Settings option after clicking the 3D button in the Drawing Toolbar to do things like rotating the object, changing the 3D depth, change the light direction, surface type and adding 3D colours.

That's it for this month. We hope you find these tips useful and if you did, please share them!