When you write a novel yourself, it takes time to get used to the task of arranging it, shaking a page, and adding doors with free materials. In such a case, it is possible to layout like books crisp ...

Donatella Versace, Vice-President of the Versace Group, once noted that, "Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas." Whether you are designing a building or creating a document, you can do it more ...

Blogger Diana Huggins highlights a handy tip in Microsoft Word for selecting text vertically rather than the traditional horizontal select we're all used to. The key: just hold down the Alt key (or ...

When binding a novel you wrote yourself or editing an anthology with multiple people, it was originally written in horizontal writing, and when binding in vertical writing, the sense of ...

When you picture a timeline of Japanese history, which side is the Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 14500 B.C.-1000 B.C.) on? Is it right or left? Since ancient times, the passage of time has always ...

Sometimes there's just too much text to display when properly titling your Microsoft Excel columns. Although you can try wrapping text, using acronyms or shortening words, the headers widen your ...

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