The life of your baby is one of the things you treasure most dearly.

If you could find a way to monitor your baby 24 hours a day, surely you would.

Here is some good news for you.

With today’s technology, it is possible to keep tabs on your baby at all times by using a Baby Monitor.

It is an electrical device that allows you to monitor your baby via audio and video, even when you are in another room.

There are several versions of monitors to pick from, such as a digital monitor, an analog monitor and a wireless monitor.

There are some good points and bad points of each type, however, the digital wireless unit stands out compared to the others.

It is more expensive than the others, but it has all the bells and whistles for the ultimate in monitoring your child.

A wireless digital monitor keeps you aware of your infants actions and it gives you the freedom to move about your home.

In the morning and afternoon, you can complete your household duties, such as cooking and cleaning, with piece of mind.

During the evening, you can stay alert to any problems your infant may have while resting.

Digital units tend to operate virtually free from frequency interference that often occurs in analog units.

As far as price is concerned, a digital wireless unit is the most expensive monitor, usually priced around $250, while the analog units are the cheapest at about $50.

When it comes to the best monitor for the safeguard of your newborn child, I would recommend selecting a digital wireless unit over an analog monitor.

Everybody knows Microsoft Word. It’s on almost every PC in the world and fair few Macs as well. However, a lot of users have picked up bad habits, things that detract from the usefulness of the document being created. This article looks at the most common basic errors among Microsoft users.

* When creating a document to be printed on a particular type of stationery, such as letter-headed paper, many Word users have the habit of using the Return key to create space at the start of the document. What they should be doing is changing the top margin. To change the margins in Word 2007, click on Margins then Custom Margins in the Page Layout tab on the ribbon. In previous versions of Word, choose Page Setup from the File menu.

* The habit of putting two spaces after a period goes back to the days of typewriters and monospace (fixed-width) typefaces like Courier where having two spaces after a period made the end of each sentence easier to detect when reading. Since modern computer-generated typefaces are proportionally spaced, the extra space is superfluous and should not be used.

* The habit of pressing the Return key twice at the end of each paragraph is not a good idea because it creates a sea of extra white space on the printed page. Only one return should used to end the paragraph. Extra space can then be added using the paragraph spacing commands. To find these options, in Word 2003 or earlier, choose Paragraph from the format menu. In Word 2007, click on the Page Layout tab.

* If a casual user of Word has never had any training, you will often see him or her using the space bar to align columns of text. This sometimes looks as though it’s working on screen but when the document is printed, the lack of alignment becomes very apparent. The only sure way of getting columns to align is to press the Tab key.

* Although you can get away with pressing the Tab key to create columns of text without actually setting any tabs, it’s not usually a good idea. This method uses Word’s default tabs and means that the user often inserts a varying number of tabs between columns. It’s much better to set up your own tabs by clicking on the Word ruler. That way, you will only ever need to press the Tab key once between columns.

* Another common mistake among Word users is to manually format text in long documents or perhaps to user the Format Painter. Manually formatting text is fine for single page or short documents but with long documents, it’s best to use Word’s style feature. That way, if you need to modify the appearance of the document, all you need to do is to modify the attributes of the styles.

* Word has a number of AutoCorrect options which can seem intrusive to new users and who complain about them without attempting to switch them off. To modify Word’s AutoCorrect and other settings, choose Options from the Tools menu (Word 2003/2002 etc.) or choose Word Options from the Office button in Word 2007.

Whenever you choose New from the File menu in Adobe InDesign, you may have noticed the option to create a new book without ever knowing exactly what a book is. Well, it turns out that books are a pretty cool feature: they allow you to take a bunch of related InDesign document and treat them as a single entity; a book. All documents in the book can then share the same resources such as paragraph and character styles, colour swatches, master pages, sections and page numbering.

Once you’ve created a book, by choosing File-New-Book, the Book panel is displayed. It contains a panel menu with all the options necessary for managing a book. The first task is to add some documents to the book: from the Book panel menu, choose “Add Document” and select the documents you want to be treated as part of the book. The book panel will now act as a launch pad for each of the documents it contains: simply double-click a document to open it.

The book file can then be saved. The book is a separate file and a separate entity to the documents it contains and the documents in a book do not have to reside in the same location as the book or indeed as each other. To save the book, choose Save Book in the Book panel menu: to save each document in the book, simply used File-Save, as per usual.

Next specify which of the documents in the book will be treated as the style source. The document elected as the style source will be used as the master document in the process known as synchronization whereby InDesign replaces the colour swatches and styles of all documents in the book with those in the style source document.

To set page numbering across the whole book, choose Book Page Numbering Options in the Book panel menu. The default is “Automatically Update Page & Section Numbers”: this will cause InDesign to number pages in the documents within the book according to the order in which they are listed in the Book panel.

Books are a great tool for division of labour since the fact that a document is part of a book does not stop it from being a regular InDesign document. If a book contains five documents, five different people can work on each of those documents and then, at the end, the whole book can be preflighted, printed and output as PDF as a single unit.

Both tables of contents and indexes can also be generated for the entire book as well as for a single document. Simply create the table of contents or index in the usual way but activate the option “Include Book Documents”.