How do I create a ‘friendly’ file?

Dear Comp Guy,
I have often received MS Word files from people with “Reader friendly” view of the pages.

I’ve always reckoned that these were done by ‘specialised’ people until one of my friends did it and sent it to me. Can you tell me how to create a “reader friendly” page/pages in MS Word. It’s like two facing pages together on the screen. Thanks in advance.
Donald Thompson,
Bahrain
Dear Donald,
Microsoft Office 2003 has this feature incorporated into it. You can switch the view to “Reading Layout” from the View menu in MS Word. Also, when someone sends you a Word document and you open it up in Outlook 2003, it opens the file in Reading Layout by default so it is easier to read.

Dear Comp Guy,
I have an old Acer Pentium III with 512MB cache RAM, 60GB HDD. Suddenly one day it failed to boot and since then I tried re-installing the OS (Win95 ,98 & Win 2000) but as soon as it reaches half-way installing the OS, it crashes and the machine hangs. I even tried reformatting the hard disc but it just doesn’t work. Can you suggest what I should do? Many thanks.
Abdulla Jaffer,
Dubai
Dear Abdulla,
Based on first impression, it sounds like you may have a problem with your hard disc, ie bad sectors. One way to confirm this is by running a system diagnostic using the old Scandisc (after booting with a system disc) or the diagnostic tools provided by some vendors on recovery CDs. If your hard disc has bad sectors you will have to get it changed. If you still want you use the HDD temporarily, one trick is to create partitions and avoid using the partitions that contain the bad sector/s, if not too many.

Dear Comp Guy,
I have seen my friends using the USB disc, quite often. I am just wondering, how safe are these disks. Are these small plugs reliable or is it that these vendors are fooling us again.
Benny Varghese,
Bahrain
Dear Benny,
USB flash disks / USB sticks are now considered the successor to the once-popular floppy disk. Not only do they hold large quantities or data, but are also very fast at data transfer (esp. USB 2.0) and handy to carry around. Of course, the quality of flash discs varies from vendor to vendor – so buy something from a quality manufacturer if you want to ensure long life...and avoid too much rough handling.

the comp guy Jitendra Jain