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Protecting your favourite website from curious eyes 2008-08-30 21:52:26 You are a regular visitor of a particularwebsite
and want to store its URL insuch a way that it remains protectedfrom curious eyes on the one hand, andcan also be called up quickly on theother. The folder for favorites is not thebest option as this is too accessible andshows up very easily. For this we will define a short formof the website address in the registrywhich will call up the real addre Read more:Protecting
Accessing frequently needed functions faster 2008-08-30 21:50:36 As soon as you upgrade to the latestversion of Office, the first thing thathappens is that you feel totally lostregarding where all your most often-used functions are located. For uswriters two of the most used functionsare ‘Word Counts’ and ‘Paste Special’and there are several others. Here ishow we re-enable these in Word 2007. Click the ‘Customize Quick AccessToolbar’ button in the
Disabling auto-formatting of links 2008-08-30 21:46:27 Each time I type an Internet or a networkpath, Word automatically converts itto a hyperlink. How do I disable auto-formatting of links
in Word? If you don't want Word toautomatically format Internet or networkpaths, here's how you can disable thefeature: Go to "Tools | AutoCorrect Options" tobring up the AutoCorrect dialog box. Click on the "AutoFormat as you type"tab. Uncheck the option "Internet
Research tool in Microsoft Office 2008-08-30 21:45:03 What is the function of the Research
toolpresent in Microsoft
Office 2003 and howdo I use it? The Research tool in Microsoft Office
2003 can be used to seek information on aselected word or phrase in a Word, Excel orPowerPoint file. To use the Research tool dothe following: Select a word or a phrase in thedocument. Now, keeping the "ALT" keypressed, left-click on the selection tobring up the "Resea
Retrieving the lost ‘e-mail’ button 2008-08-30 21:41:42 The ‘Mail’ button
in Internet Explorer6 was used to read mails or send a linkthrough an e-mail. This useful button ismissing in version 7. The functions of the ‘Mail’ buttonhave been dispersed in Internet Explorer7. You can now open your mail programwith the ‘Read Mail’ button in the browserbut it is not shown by default. To enablethis icon, click on ‘Tools’ and select‘Toolbars
Quicker access to essential developer tools 2008-08-30 21:37:02 You mostly call up the Visual BasicEditor with the [Alt] + [F11] keys. Youwould prefer to have a button in theribbon when you start the tool. We tellyou how you do that. The ‘Visual Basic’ button is locatedon the ‘Developer tools’ tab, which isinvisible by default.To activate it, click on the Office buttonin Word 2007 and then select ‘WordOptions’. Select ‘Popular’ in the ‘WordOp
Directly saving documents as pDF 2008-08-30 21:36:02 New Office, new file formats—unfortunately, no user has managedto tackle this issue so far. This is thereason you want to save and send yourWord and Excel documents as PDFwhile sending e-mails. This also ensuresthat no one can make any changes inthe document.A free Microsoft add-on integratesa PDF converter to the programs in theOffice package. To install the plug-in,open Word 2007 and click on
You forgot to take the charger of your cell phone with you 2008-08-30 21:32:04 You are at office or traveling. You forgot to take thecharger of your cell phone
with you. Your batteryruns out. What will you do? You need to charge yourcell phone as soon as possible.Many cell phone users prefer to use Nokiaphones. This means that you will be able to find aNokia charger with someone around you.Even if you don’t use a Nokia cell phone, you do notneed to worry any more about for
linking schedules with e-mails 2008-08-30 07:20:25 Along with relevant information, youmight also start seeing unwantedinformation regarding events in yourOutlook calendar; for example, anagenda that came in through e-mail.When this additional information pilesup, you might find it difficult to identifyyour relevant information, leading toconfusion. Outlook can link e-mail messagesto events, enabling you to ind relevantinformation without a probl
Avoiding annoying security warnings due to certificates 2008-08-30 07:17:53 After switching to Office 2007, youmight often encounter problems withdocuments in the old formats. Forexample, when you open an Access file,the All Control elements are disabledand can be activated only through‘Options’. Documents with VBA contentsmust be digitally certified so that they canbe opened directly in the new version ofOffice. Nevertheless, you can create yourown certificate for l Read more:security
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creating your own templates for charts 2008-08-30 07:16:33 The default chart options inspreadsheet applications are oftendifficult to use. It is only aftercustomizing the type, name, axes,and other formatting that you candisplay your data sets properly. That isannoying if you need the function often. You can save any graph thatis exactly the way you need it as acustomized template. In order to do this,create a dummy graph in the desiredformat. Next, righ
updating calculations regularly and automatically 2008-08-30 07:15:09 Some tables work with date andtime functions or refer to externalworkbooks. The values of these canchange. As a result, the values whichwere used to perform these calculationsare no longer up to date. Let Excel re-calculate thisworksheet at regular intervals. This canbe done by using a macro. To set oneup, open the worksheet and go to ‘Tools| Macro | Macros’ (or View | Macros| New Macro in Of Read more:regularly
copying a file path completely via the clipboard 2008-08-30 07:11:14 You want to enter the path to a recentlyreworked Office document in a differentapplication. In these complicated folderstructures, it’s easy to make a mistakewhile typing. Copy the path instead of typing it.The tool for this is a part of most Officeprograms. It is called the Web toolbar. Todisplay this toolbar, select ‘View | Toolbars| Web’. On the toolbar, there is a field toenter the URL. Read more:completely
Embedding sound files in presentation 2008-08-29 21:26:02 Whenever I transfer PowerPointpresentation
s containing sound files
frommy home computer to that in my office, Ifind that the presentation lacks the soundeffects. How can I fix this problem? When sound files in a MicrosoftPowerPoint 2003 presentation don't getcopied when you transfer the presentationfrom one computer to another, it isbecause PowerPoint normally only linkslarge sound files to a pres
Getting rid of text at the end of slide shows 2008-08-29 21:24:17 How can I prevent the"End of slide show- click to exit" text from appearing at theend of my PowerPoint slide shows? Whenever you view a slide showmade in Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 byselecting "Slide Show", "View Show" or bypressing F5, at the end of the show a blackscreen appears with the text, "End of slideshow - click to exit". From here, if you didnot mean to end the slide show, you canpress t
More than default file names 2008-08-29 21:22:52 By default, Word 2003 remembers thefile names of the last four files used.I want to increase this list so that Wordcan remember more files names. Can thisbe done? Yes, this can be done. You can makeWord remember a maximum of ninerecently used files as supposed to thenormal four files that Word remembers bydefault. The steps are as follows: Click on "Tools" and then "Options". Click on the "G
Disable default setting while visiting hyperlinks 2008-08-29 21:21:31 Every time I need to visit hyperlinks presentin a Word document, I cannot directly clickon the link. I need to hold down the CTRLkey while clicking the link. I find this processcumbersome. Is there a way to directly visitthese links without holding the CTRL key? Whenever you want to visit ahyperlink in a Word document, you need tohold down CTRL key while clicking on thelink. If you find this proce Read more:Disable
Listing shortcut keys 2008-08-29 21:20:18 I use the shortcut
keys available in Word2003 quite often. But sometimes I forgetthem and as a result have to use the mousefor performing a certain task. Is there away to make Word list these shortcut keysmaking it easier for me to use them, incase I forget these keys? You can have Word 2003 show youall the shortcut keys for any given toolbarbutton by following these simple steps: Click on "Too
Using "Match" and "Lookup" functions 2008-08-29 21:18:48 I own a hardware store and maintainan exhaustive inventory. The list runsinto over a thousand parts in a singlemonth itself! Microsofts Excel helpsme to catalog the items in my store. ButI need to keep referring to the file forinformation on batch orders. I run a searchfor a particular order with the help of theinvoice number. I search either by scrollingor using the Find function in the Editmenu. Read more:Match
Remap keyboard keys 2008-08-29 21:09:14 I have Track Mania Nations, a free carracing game. The game doesn't have theoption to change controls and uses theconventional up, down, left and rightarrow keys for controlling the car. I usea different set of keys for acceleration,brake, left and right. Of late, I have startedplaying the game on LAN with my friends.My performance is hampered since Icannot use the keys, I am normally used towhen Read more:keyboard
Clear the Prefetch folder 2008-08-29 21:07:12 Tell me a way to clear or clean the Prefetchfolder Windows XPs new feature called"Prefetch" keeps a shortcut to recentlyused programs. But it can get filled up withold and obsolete programs and in turn canactually slow down the proceedings. Hereis a way in which you can clear/clean the"Prefetch" folder so that its updated withonly the latest and most used programs.To clean the "Prefetch" folder, g Read more:Clear
Restore the Show Desktop icon to Quick Launch bar 2008-08-29 21:04:16 Recently, I accidentally deleted the desktopicon just on the right of the "Start" button.Whenever I have many windows open, Iclick on the desktop icon to immediatelyreach the desktop instead of minimizingeach and every window. Now I am no longerable to do that. How do I get back the "showdesktop" icon?To get back the "show desktop" icondo the following: Make sure "QuickLaunch
" is enabled Righ Read more:Desktop
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Summary of a Word document 2008-08-29 21:01:24 Which is a quick way to view the detailsof a Word document
such as number ofpages, word count and line count withouthaving to open it? The most common way ofviewing the details of a Word documentis by opening the document and thengoing to "Tools | Word count", which givesthe detailed statistics like the number ofpages, word count, number of paragraphs,lines and so on. But did you know thatthere's Read more:Summary
Recover deleted files 2008-10-04 11:59:38 When I was reinstalling Windows XP on my old computer, I accidentally deleted the second partition instead of my hard disk's first partition. I proceeded with the installation. Would I still be able to recover the deleted partition using a recovery tool?There are several tools that enable you to recover data from formatted partitions. Before we tell you how to do so, remember that the chances of d Read more:files
Capturing screenshots with the Snip tool 2008-10-01 06:12:30 Windows Vista with it's myriad new features now has a proper screenshot tool called Snip. You can add comments and captions and highlight part of the screenshots.
Just tap the Win key and type 'snip' and press Enter. You can set options like freeform and rectangular screenshots or capture just a specific window. To capture a freeform screenshot you can drag a rectangle or circle to the area you w
Automatically Adjusting Column Widths in detai led file view 2008-09-30 21:40:26 Have you ever found yourself in a folder with column widths of the 'Detail View' not set correctly to display all the file properties Instead of setting each column width by hand, you can make explorer do all the work by using the following trick.Click on an empty space in the file view panel. Now just press the 'CTRL+(Numeric+)' combo and watch the folder come alive and set all the column widths Read more:Adjusting
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