Source: TechRebulic
To format a word (bold, italic, etc) in Microsoft Word, you don’t need to select the word before formatting it, simply have the cursor in the word somewhere, then format it. It will by default format the entire word.
Email Photos
When sending photos via email, be kind to those receiving the email. Windows XP makes it easy to send photos that are smaller and easily visible on the screen. Follow these instructions from Microsoft to share your digital photos instantly.
This is basically the same information I posted last year, except this links to Microsoft’s instructions.
Microsoft Office – 10 quick tips
I’ve seen these things several places, and they usually go into extra detail, but I just wanted a quick reminder of these tips. If you want the details, visit the link.
10 Word Tricks
- Alt-Shift up/down arrow – Current paragraph/table row shifted
- Shift-F5 – Return to last edit location after opening a document
- Shift File – Changes the Save to Save All to save all of your open documents
- Alt Drag – Selects text vertically
- Tools Calculate – Add the Tools Calculate command to a toolbar then you can select numbers and calculate them
- Quick Formating Access
- To open the Page Setup dialog box, double-click on the horizontal or vertical ruler.
- To open the Paragraph dialog box, double-click on an indent marker on the horizontal ruler.
- To access bullet or number options, double-click on a bullet character or number in a numbered list.
- To access AutoShape options, double-click on an AutoShape.
- To open the Table Properties dialog box, double-click the Move Table Column marker (those little dotted squares you see on the horizontal ruler when you’re in a table) or the Table Move Handle (the four-headed arrow that appears at the top-left corner of a table in Print Layout view).
- Use Replace All to globally reformat text
- Ctrl-Shift-C & Ctrl-Shift-V – Copies and pastes formatting
- Ctrl Drag – Duplicate selected text or objects using the mouse
- Start Word with /t – Create a shortcut to launch Word using a particular template
Google Calendar: last day of the month
One thing I found frustrating with Google Calendar is when adding a repeating event, there is no “last day of the month” option. For instance, if an event is scheduled to occur on the last Monday of the month, that often is the 4th Monday, but some months have 5 Mondays. So the question is, how do you create an event so it occurs on the last Monday of the month?
In doing a lot of searching, I finally came upon a post by LeotaNews that shows a way to do this. Here are the steps I followed to get the tip to work for me.
1. In Google Calendar, press Q to bring up quick entry.
2. Type in “EventTitle EventTime last dayname of the month”. For example, “MonthlyMeeting 7p-8:30p last Monday of the month”. It appears in order for this to work, the description must be a single word. And it will be placed in your default calendar. Once you hit enter, it should appear on the current day plus on the last day of the month.
3. Click on the event for the current day, and click “Edit event”. You will notice the repeating instruction shows something like “Monthly on the last Monday”.
4. Change the When date and the Starts dates to the date of the last day of the month. Make any other changes necessary, including a more descriptive What and Calendar if desired.
5. Click Save.
6. Verify it worked by checking several months into the future, making sure it has shown up as expected every month.
Speeding up Explorer in Windows Vista
Source: robichaux.net
Speed up Vista Explorer
A great tip from my friend Liam Colvin:
I don’t know if you’re like me but I was experiencing slowness (like a 20-30 second delay) when opening an Explorer window to view files. You might have found this before me, but it took me some time fiddling with settings to figure it out. I was trying all the usual ways to determine what was causing the delay in opening the explorer window: anti-virus, explorer extensions, etc – and nothing worked, very frustrating. I looked extensively internally and searched the Internet, and the best I could find were issues with copying files down from servers causing delays due to SMB issues (there is a hotfix out there for that, by the way – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931770/en-us). I finally found it after carefully reviewing the behavior of Explorer when it opened by monitoring the Explorer process with Filemon. I noticed that when Explorer went to open a folder (from a shortcut, for example), it parsed all the files in the root of the directory. Urk! This clearly took a long time. I looked at the Folder Options under Control Panel and noticed the very first setting under the View tab: Always show Icons, never Thumbnails. It was not checked. I realized that Vista must read each file when opening the folder for a thumbnail and/or creates one. When I checked the Always show Icons, never Thumbnails, it reduced the time required to open each folder to 3 or 4 seconds.
Posted by Paul at May 04, 2007 04:50 PM