Featuring more than 200 tips that save time for ordinary computer users, this guide is packed with little-known tricks and shortcuts. Lessons include instructions for setting up a blog, speeding up Google searches, buying big on eBay, blocking spam, warding off viruses, creating visual charts in Excel, mastering mail merge, and much more. A great refresher course on the basic Microsoft applications, the book covers Excel, Internet Explorer, Powerpoint, Windows, and Word; more general topics include managing e-mail, handling digital images, sampling computer crafts, and troubleshooting.