PDF+Files


 * **Worldstart Computer Tips 9-16-2010**



** Did you know that you can convert .PDF documents to Word documents for free on the web? **

 If you have access to the Internet, I can recommend a website to you. This website is @http://www.pdftoword.com/. It's entirely free and each time that you want to convert a PDF to Word, OpenOffice etc, you simply go on the site, upload the document, select PDF or RTF and put in your email address. You will then be sent the resulting document. They also have a download-able version but if you don't need to use it all the time, just bookmark the site and come back to it as and when you need it.



 If you want to get the text from the PDF in Notepad format then you can simply download the '.doc' file and then copy and paste it into Notepad. The great thing about @http://www.pdftoword.com/ is that it also converts images very accurately. Here is what the company says about this on the homepage "Our PDF-to-Word converter is designed to convert and accurately re-position all of these upon conversion. Even for complex drawings and shapes with textures, patterns, and fills, we replicate the images, while maintaining editing capabilities."

 They also claim to have a more accurate PDF to Word conversion than even high end desktop software products that you have to pay for so is definitely worth checking out.



 Other tools available on the site are @http://www.wordtopdf.com/ (the opposite of what we've just done). This will be useful if you are considering changing the content and then putting it back into PDF format later on. They also have a tool which converts PDF into Microsoft Excel readable format which would be useful for saving time copying from the PDF when it can just be scanned. This can be found at http://www.pdftoexcelonline. com/.



 If you don't have constant Internet access or would prefer a program that you can download to your desktop, HelloPDF might be for you. This will also extract images for you but does not look as advanced as the PDFtoWord site that we spoke about earlier on. The download is small at just over 1MB and is unlikely to cause your computer to go slow, even if you have a really old one. If this is at all confusing, HelloPDF has tutorials on its site here which can guide you step by step to converting your PDF. || 

** Name Completion in the Windows 7 Command Prompt **

Did you know that there’s a key you can press that will auto complete a path or file name in the Windows 7 Command Prompt? Yeah, me either – that is, until I was messing around the other day and stumbled across an article on Microsoft’s site detailing how to do it.

Here's how!

Open a Command Prompt by clicking **Start**, then typing **cmd** in the Search Box. Click the Command Prompt icon in the results that appear or just hit **Enter**.



In the Command Prompt window, type in the change directory command, like this:



Now hit the **Tab** key.



//*Poof*// -the path is completed!

If you keep pressing the Tab key, the Command Prompt will put forth the next applicable file or folder that’s consistent with what you’ve typed so far.

 

** Name Completion in the Windows 7 Command Prompt **

Did you know that there’s a key you can press that will auto complete a path or file name in the Windows 7 Command Prompt? Yeah, me either – that is, until I was messing around the other day and stumbled across an article on Microsoft’s site detailing how to do it.

Here's how!

Open a Command Prompt by clicking **Start**, then typing **cmd** in the Search Box. Click the Command Prompt icon in the results that appear or just hit **Enter**.



In the Command Prompt window, type in the change directory command, like this:



Now hit the **Tab** key.



//*Poof*// -the path is completed!

If you keep pressing the Tab key, the Command Prompt will put forth the next applicable file or folder that’s consistent with what you’ve typed so far.