Functions used in MS Word Tables

Usually Excel is used for tabulating data and calculating using functions. MS Word also enables you to do this in tables. Here let us see how to handle these data and calculate using functions.
As usual you can use the symbols such as +, –, /, * for addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Some functions that you can use are as follows:
AVERAGE() gives the average of selected numbers
MIN() returns the least number in the selected numbers
MAX() returns the biggest number in the selected numbers
PRODUCT() returns the sum of multiplication of all the numbers selected.
SUM() returns the sum of all the numbers in the range.
When using these functions you can specify the selected numbers using the range of cells similar to Excel. The columns are named as A, B, C…. etc. The Rows are named as 1, 2, 3….etc. Therefore the top left cell is A1, the adjacent cell horizontally is B1 and so on. The cell below A1 will be A2 and so on. So when specifying the range you can specify as A1:A5 or B1:X1 etc.

Computer Crash reasons

1. Hardware Problem: Computer consists of different hardware such as Printer, mouse, flash drive etc. Windows assigns an IRQ number for each of these hardware. When due to some reasons more than one hardware use the same IRQ this will result in a crash. In order to find if you have any hardware conflicts you can goto the ‘Device Manager’ in your computer properties. (Start-Settings->Control Panel –> System->Device manager), an yellow exclamation mark will be placed against the hardware that has a conflict. You can resolve this by selecting the device, uninstalling and reinstalling it again.
2. RAM memory: When you upgrade RAM memory, if you have two unmatched RAM cards or a RAM card that is not compatible with your motherboard, then a “Fatal Exception Error” will occur when you start the computer. If you are technically savvy then you may try to fix this by going to BIOS settings and editing the ‘Wait state’ of RAM or you can replace the cards with the same speed and capacity.
3. Hard Disk Drive: After using the computer for a few months or years, the hard disk gets fragmented with temporary files, or fragmented files. This will result in slowness of hard disk and may even result in computer crash eventually. You can maintain your harddisk by defragmenting your hard disk frequently and deleting unwanted files.
4. Video Card: If you see “Fatal OE exceptions and VXD errors” then it is due to the video card. To solve this reduce the video display resolution. You can do so by going to the control panel and display settings. Choose the correct screen resolution to match your monitor and change the color settings to 16 bit or match it with your monitor.
5. Virus: Most of the computer crash is due to Virus infection in your computer. You should install or enable windows firewall and install an Anti virus application to prevent unwanted virus applications infecting your computer.
6. Printer: Sometimes you may notice that the computer crashes whenever you try to print something. This is due to low memory buffer in the printer. Therefore when you send a lot of data to the printer or if you have multiple applications open and you print at the same time, this may happen. Unplug the printer from power outlet for 10 minutes and connect back again. Close other programs and try to print again.
7. Software: If a particular software is not installed properly or is not complete then it may result in a crash when you try to start that software. You have to uninstall such software properly. Otherwise some entries may still be in the registry referring to that software and result in instability of the computer. You can use registry cleaning software to clean your registries frequently.
8. Heat: Computers have inbuilt fans to cool down the processors. You can control the CPU speed from your BIOS settings. If the speed is set to higher than the normal CPU speed, this may result in overheating of the CPU which will result in Kernel Error.
9. Power Supply: Use UPS to regulate the power supply to your computer. This will reduce the chances of your computer crashing.

Word count’ toolbar in MS Word 2003

In a word document a feature that is used frequently is to count the number of words in the document. If you are one of those who use this feature quite often, then you can add this feature in the toolbar so that you can just click a button to automatically display the number of words in the open document. Follow these steps to add this feature to your toolbar.

1. Right click on any toolbar in Word 2003
2. Select ‘Word Count’ option in the shortcut menu that appears.
3. A new toolbar as shown in the red circle above will be opened.
4. You can drag and drop this toolbar wherever you want to place it.
5. You ca click ‘Recount’ button to recount the words.