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Microsoft Word - File formats. Word document format is now the de-facto standard of document file format. Though usually just referred to as "Word document format", this term refers primarily to the format used by default in Word version 97-2003. In addition to the default Word binary format, there are actually a number of optional alternate file formats that Microsoft has used over the years. Rich Text interchange Format (RTF) was an early effort to create a format for interchanging formatted text between applic ...

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Microsoft Word, Microsoft Word - The beginning, Microsoft Word - Word 1990 to 1995, Microsoft Word - The present, Microsoft Word - File formats, Microsoft Word - Versions

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1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. 1983 - Events. January 2 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City). January 8 - Riot in the Sing Sing prison January 10 - Mafia hitman Roy DeMeo is found dead in a trunk of his own car January 15 - Mafioso Meyer Lansky dies at Mount Sinai hospital January 19 - Klaus B ...

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• 1983 - Events
• 1983 - February
• 1983 - March
• 1983 - April
• 1983 - May
• 1983 - June
• 1983 - July
• 1983 - August
• 1983 - September
• 1983 - October
• 1983 - November
• 1983 - December
• 1983 - Unknown dates
• 1983 - Births
• 1983 - January-March
• 1983 - April-June
• 1983 - July-September
• 1983 - October-December
• 1983 - Deaths
• 1983 - January-March
• 1983 - April-June
• 1983 - July-September
• 1983 - October-December
• 1983 - Nobel Prizes
• 1983 - Templeton Prize

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( Including:

• Caron - Usage
• Caron - Writing and printing carons
• Caron - List of letters
• Caron - Other uses
• Caron - Software
• Caron - Unicode
• Caron - TeX
• Caron - Macintosh
• Caron - Microsoft Word
• Caron - XFree86

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Pages includes support for multi-column layout, text paragraph styles, footnotes, and other advanced typographical capabilities. It makes strong uses of templates to get users started. AppleWorks and Microsoft Word documents can be imported, and files can also be exported to a variety of formats. Shapes can be drawn directly into documents, and their attributes changed instantly. Graphics can be inserted into documents, can wrap around text, and can also be manipulated with a shadow, d ...

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Pages, Pages - History, Pages - Features, Pages - Version history

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An anonymous remailer is a server computer which receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next, and which forwards them without revealing where they originally came from. There are Cypherpunk anonymous remailers, Mixmaster anonymous remailers, and nym servers, among others which differ in how they work, in the policies they adopt, and in the type of attack on anonymity of email they can (are intended to) resist. Remailing as discussed in this article applies to emails intended for particular receipient ...

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• Anonymous remailer - Types of remailers
• Anonymous remailer - Traceable remailers
• Anonymous remailer - Untraceable remailers
• Anonymous remailer - Web based mailer
• Anonymous remailer - Reasons for using an anonymous remailer
• Anonymous remailer - Using a remailer
• Anonymous remailer - Choosing a remailer
• Anonymous remailer - Remailer statistics
• Anonymous remailer - Remailer Software

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The Macintosh, or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured and marketed by Apple Computer that run the Macintosh operating system ("Mac OS"). Named after the McIntosh apple, the original Macintosh was released on January 24, 1984. It was the first commercially successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface (“GUI”) and mouse instead of the then-standard command line interface. Following the Macintosh's introduction, Apple continued production and development of its Apple I ...

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• Apple Macintosh - Current product line
• Apple Macintosh - History
• Apple Macintosh - 1979–84: Development and introduction
• Apple Macintosh - 1985–89: The desktop publishing era
• Apple Macintosh - 1990–98: Growth and decline
• Apple Macintosh - 1999 to the present: new beginnings
• Apple Macintosh - Timeline of Macintosh models
• Apple Macintosh - Hardware
• Apple Macintosh - Processor Architecture
• Apple Macintosh - Expandability and connectivity
• Apple Macintosh - Software
• Apple Macintosh - Operating system
• Apple Macintosh - Software history
• Apple Macintosh - Advertising
• Apple Macintosh - Effects on the technology industry
• Apple Macintosh - Market share and demographics
• Apple Macintosh - Advantages disadvantages and criticisms
• Apple Macintosh - Notable litigation

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Pages on Mac OS X is the successor of Apple's multipurpose office suite AppleWorks. The first rumors of a new Apple word processor to replace AppleWorks circulated the Internet through Mac rumor websites in 2003, suggesting a new software package to be released by Apple called "iWorks" or "iWork". Many Mac users were expecting the new program (which rumor sites then claimed would be called "Documents") in 2004 after reading the rumors. Steve Jobs, Apple CEO finally announced iWork '05 along with iL ...

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Pages, Pages - History, Pages - Features, Pages - Version history

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• Apostrophe mark - English language usage
• Apostrophe mark - Non-English names
• Apostrophe mark - Geographic names
• Apostrophe mark - Things to note
• Apostrophe mark - Tip
• Apostrophe mark - Greengrocers' apostrophe
• Apostrophe mark - Derivation
• Apostrophe mark - Other languages
• Apostrophe mark - Alternative uses
• Apostrophe mark - Computers and Unicode
• Apostrophe mark - Entering apostrophes
• Apostrophe mark - Eight-bit encodings

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apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 ) colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) ( ... ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interrobang ( Including:

• Quotation mark - Usage
• Quotation mark - Quotations and speech
• Quotation mark - Emphasis and irony
• Quotation mark - Titles of artistic works
• Quotation mark - Nicknames and false titles
• Quotation mark - Typographical considerations
• Quotation mark - Punctuation
• Quotation mark - Spacing
• Quotation mark - Non-language related usage
• Quotation mark - Glyphs
• Quotation mark - Typewriter quotation marks
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in English
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in Finnish and Swedish
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in Germany and Austria
• Quotation mark - Quotation marks in Polish
• Quotation mark - Angled quotation marks in various European languages
• Quotation mark - Quotation dash
• Quotation mark - Corner brackets in East Asian languages
• Quotation mark - Table
• Quotation mark - Names for quotation marks
• Quotation mark - Double quotation mark

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The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a copyleft license for free content, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. It is the open content counterpart to the GNU GPL. The current state of the license is version 1.2, the official text of which can be found here. The license was designed for manuals, textbooks, other reference and instructional materials, and documentation which often accompanies GPL software. However, it can be used for any text-based work, regard ...

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• GNU Free Documentation License - About the GFDL
• GNU Free Documentation License - Secondary Sections
• GNU Free Documentation License - Using the GFDL
• GNU Free Documentation License - Materials for which commercial redistribution is prohibited
• GNU Free Documentation License - Criticisms of the GFDL
• GNU Free Documentation License - Overly broad DRM clause
• GNU Free Documentation License - Invariant sections
• GNU Free Documentation License - GPL incompatible in both directions
• GNU Free Documentation License - Burdens when printing
• GNU Free Documentation License - Length and ideological tone
• GNU Free Documentation License - Transparent formats
• GNU Free Documentation License - History
• GNU Free Documentation License - Other free content licenses

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Apricot Computers was a British manufacturer of business personal computers, originally founded in 1965 as "Applied Computer Techniques". Apricot Computers - History. Apricot Computers - 1980s. In 1982, ACT released their first microcomputer. It was built by another company, but marketed under the ACT brand. In America it was a moderate success. Later in 1982 ACT signed a deal with Victor to distribute the "Victor 9000" as the ACT "Sirius 1" in the UK and Europe. It sold for £2 ...

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• Apricot Computers - History
• Apricot Computers - 1980s
• Apricot Computers - 1990s
• Apricot Computers - External link

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEx: 4338) is the world's largest software company, with 2005 global annual sales of 40 billion US dollars and nearly 60,000 employees in 85 countries and regions. The company's headquarters are in Redmond, Washington, USA. Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Its most popular products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, each of which has achiev ...

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• Microsoft - History
• Microsoft - 1975–84: the founding of Microsoft
• Microsoft - 1985–91: the rise and fall of OS/2
• Microsoft - 1992–95: domination of the corporate market
• Microsoft - 1995–99: foray into the Internet and other venues
• Microsoft - 2000–05: legal issues XP and .NET
• Microsoft - Product divisions
• Microsoft - Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division
• Microsoft - Microsoft Business Division
• Microsoft - Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division
• Microsoft - Business culture
• Microsoft - User culture
• Microsoft - Corporate affairs
• Microsoft - Corporate structure
• Microsoft - Stock
• Microsoft - Diversity
• Microsoft - Logo
• Microsoft - Criticism
• Microsoft - General
• Microsoft - Lists
• Microsoft - Footnotes

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accent acute accent ( ˊ ) double acute accent ( ˝ ) grave accent ( ˋ ) breve ( ˘ ) caron / háček ( ˇ ) cedilla ( ¸ ) circumflex ( ˆ ) diaeresis ( Including:

• Diaeresis - Usage
• Diaeresis - Similar looks different functions
• Diaeresis - Umlaut
• Diaeresis - Other evolved ligatures
• Diaeresis - Diaeresis in Cyrillic
• Diaeresis - How to produce the characters on computers
• Diaeresis - Time derivatives in mathematics

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A mouse is a handheld pointing device for computers, being a small object fitted with one or more buttons and shaped to sit naturally under the hand. The underside of the mouse houses a device that detects the mouse's motion relative to the flat surface on which it moves. The mouse's 2D motion is typically translated into the motion of a pointer on the display. It is called a mouse primarily because the cord on early models resembled the rodent's tail, and also because the motion of the pointer on the screen can be mouse-like.< ...

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• Mouse computing - History of mouse engineering
• Mouse computing - Optical mice
• Mouse computing - Inertial Mice
• Mouse computing - Buttons
• Mouse computing - Wheels
• Mouse computing - Connectivity and communication protocols
• Mouse computing - Common button uses
• Mouse computing - Tactile mice
• Mouse computing - Mouse speed
• Mouse computing - Mice or mouses?
• Mouse computing - Accessories
• Mouse computing - Mousepad
• Mouse computing - Mouse foot covers
• Mouse computing - Cord managers
• Mouse computing - Wrist rests
• Mouse computing - Mice in the marketplace
• Mouse computing - Alternative mice
• Mouse computing - Applications of mice in user interfaces
• Mouse computing - One two or three mouse buttons?
• Mouse computing - Mice in gaming
• Mouse computing - First-person shooters

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WYSIWYG (pronounced "wizzy-wig" or "wuzzy-wig") is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, and is used in computing to describe a system in which content during editing appears very similar to the final product. It is commonly used for word processors, but has other applications, such as Web (HTML) authoring. WYSIWYG - Meaning. The term describes a user interface that allows the user to view something very similar ...

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• WYSIWYG - Meaning
• WYSIWYG - Historical notes
• WYSIWYG - Problems of implementation
• WYSIWYG - Related acronyms

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apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 ) colon ( : ) comma ( , ) dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― ) ellipsis ( … ) ( ... ) exclamation mark ( ! ) full stop/period ( . ) hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ ) interrobang ( < ...

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• Dash - Common dashes
• Dash - Hyphen-minus
• Dash - Figure dash
• Dash - En dash
• Dash - Em dash
• Dash - En dash versus em dash
• Dash - Quotation dash
• Dash - Swung dash
• Dash - Summary
• Dash - Other dash-like characters
• Dash - Rendering dashes on computers

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"Justification" and "Alignment" are not synonyms. The mistaken impression that they are is due to an error made in the menu structure of the popular word processing program Microsoft Word that places Left, Right, Full and Centered as choices beneath the menu item "Justification." Typographers, typesetters and graphic designers know this to be incorrect. "Justification" refers only to a setting of type aligned on both the left and right margins. Therefore the compounds "left/right/center/full-justified" are all incorrect or r ...

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A version is a state of an object or concept that varies from its previous state or condition. The term "version" is usually used in the context of computer software, in which the version of the software product changes with each modification in the software. Revision control is very useful for keeping track of different versions of information. Version - Software engineering. This is used in practical terms by the consumer, or client, by being able to compare their copy of the software product against anot ...

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• Version - Software engineering
• Version - Software versioning schemes
• Version - Numeric
• Version - Date
• Version - Other schemes
• Version - Pre-release versions
• Version - Unusual versioning schemes
• Version - Variations
• Version - Files and documents

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In computer security technology, a virus is a self-replicating program that spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable code or documents. A computer virus behaves in a way similar to a biological virus, which spreads by inserting itself into living cells. Extending the analogy, the insertion of a virus into the program is termed as an infection, and the infected file (or executable code that is not part of a file) is called a host. Viruses are one of the several types of malicious software or malware. In ...

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• Computer virus - Definition
• Computer virus - Use of the word virus
• Computer virus - History
• Computer virus - Why people create computer viruses
• Computer virus - Replication Strategies
• Computer virus - Nonresident viruses
• Computer virus - Resident viruses
• Computer virus - Host types
• Computer virus - Methods to avoid detection
• Computer virus - Avoiding bait files and other undesirable hosts
• Computer virus - Stealth
• Computer virus - Self-modification
• Computer virus - Viruses and legitimate software
• Computer virus - The vulnerability of operating systems to viruses
• Computer virus - The role of software development
• Computer virus - Anti-virus software and other countermeasures

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WorldScript was the multilingual text rendering engine for Apple Macintosh before Mac OS X was introduced. Starting with version 7.1, Apple unified the implementation of non-roman script systems in a programming interface called WorldScript. WorldScript I was used for all one-byte character sets and WorldScript II for two-byte sets. Support for new script systems was added by so-called Language Kits. Some kits were provided with the system software, and others were sold by Apple and third parties. Application support for WorldS ...

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