Archive for May, 2009

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Recycling Electronic Items

May 27, 2009

Looking for a place to recycle broken or unusable electronic items like computers, TVs, or printers that your municipal recycling program currently does not accept? Best Buy has started a national recycling program with most stores participating. They charge $10 for computers and TVs (up to 32”) but give you a $10 gift card in return. All other items (e.g. printers, cartridges) they accept for free. In all cases you are limited to bringing in two items per store visit. Note that for computers they require that the hard drive be removed. More details about the Best Buy program can be found here.

For old electronic items that are still in working order, try selling them on Gazelle.com. Additionally computers can be donated to National Christina Foundation and cell phones to CallToProtect.

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Converting Office 2007 Files to Office 2003

May 26, 2009

Are you continually receiving files in the new Office 2007 format (i.e. docx, xlsx, pptx) which you can’t open and work on because you have not upgraded from Office 2003? Of course one way to deal with this is to ask the sender to do a Save As to the Office 2003 format and then resend the file. A more simple long-term solution is to install the Office Compatiblity Pack now available for free from Microsoft. After installed it will convert the Office 2007 format files to the Office 2003 format so you can not only view them but also edit them as you normally would.

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