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Tuesday, Oct. 11: Help Write How-To Manual

Site Helps Solve Everyday Problems

POSTED: 6:37 pm EDT October 5, 2005
UPDATED: 6:00 pm EDT October 11, 2005

Do people call you a know-it-all? Are they always coming to you for advice? If so -- here's a Web site for you.

WikiHow.com is a collaborative writing project that hopes to build the world's largest how-to manual. The site gives free and useful instructions to help people solve the problems of everyday life.

Anyone can write and anyone can edit how-to articles on the site. You can create a new page to write about how to do something. Once the page is submitted, other visitors can edit, improve or change the page.

The articles are listed in categories such as personal car, finance and computers and electronics. There are tips on everyting from how to avoid getting a computer virus, to how to get melted candle wax out of a carpet.

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