May 21, 2008

Let OE Do It!

Are you unhappy with the way you have to check for new e-mail messages each day? I mean, wouldn't it be nice if you didn't ever really have to worry about it? All you would have to do is set your e-mail client to "automatic" and just let it roll. Well, if that sounds like an excellent idea to you, you're in luck, because that's exactly what I'm going to show you how to do today! Note: This tip is only for Outlook Express users.

There are a couple things you can do to get OE to do your work for you (if that's how you want to look at it!) Open Outlook Express and go to Tools, Options and then click on the General tab. Under the Send/Receive Messages section, you'll see three different options. For this tip, go ahead and checkmark the ones that say "Send and receive messages at startup" and viagra pills "Check for new messages every (blank) minute(s)."

The first one will actually check for your new e-mail messages every time you start up your computer. So, if you shut your PC down every night, as soon as you boot it back up in the morning, OE will automatically check for any new e-mails you may have gotten throughout the night. The second feature gives you the option of choosing how often you'd like your e-mail to be checked. If you usually get new e-mails all day long, you may want to check it every 15 minutes or so. Or, maybe you want to check it more often or less. If so, just choose your preferred amount of time and OE will take care of the rest. Click OK when you're done. With those two options selected, you'll never have to worry about manually checking your e-mail again. It's all automatic!

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Letter Case Mania

Ever find yourself constantly trying to change the capitalization of words or sentences? What do you do?

Maybe you highlight the word or phrase and retype it.

Or, perhaps you're the type who only replaces the individual viagra pictures letters that need to be changed. What a headache!

Well, do you know about the Change Case feature under the Format menu?

Or, for those of you with Word 2007, the button on the Home ribbon.

You know, where you get the options of sentence case, all lower case letters, all upper case letters, all title case letters or to toggle all the letters between upper and lower case.

What I have for you today are a few shortcuts that can replace the Change Case feature and believe it or not, but they're faster than anything you've ever tried!

Let's start with the most versatile choice.

Once you highlight the text to change, use Shift + F3. With that, you can scroll between sentence case letters, all lower case letters and all upper case letters.

That looks great, but what if you want to use all caps and you don't feel like toggling through your choices?

Is there a quicker way?

Of course there is!

If you know you want your text to be in all caps, simply hit Ctrl + Shift + A.

Plus, as if that weren't enough, there's another option you can try. Yep, you can use small caps, which are all the letters in capital letter formation, but slightly smaller than the usual capital letter.

Ctrl + Shift + K will give you small caps, which is a good "attention getter," without completely shouting at the reader.

That's it. Three keys and you're on the way to the formatting you need!

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Just Give It a Nudge

When working in MS PowerPoint, are you frequently frustrated when you try to move objects just a wee little bit?

I mean, you're only trying to nudge the text box or graphic a small amount, but every time you try to drag and drop it with the mouse, it just goes too far.

A solution for that predicament certainly would come in handy, wouldn't it?!

Fortunately, I've got one that's easy to use and remember!

First, select the object to be moved. (If it's a text box, be sure you have just the text box itself selected and make sure the cursor isn't inside the text box for editing).

Ready to move? Good! It goes quick, so pay attention.

Simply tap an arrow key to move the selected object just a nudge in any of the four directions.

Also, as a bonus, I found that holding down the Ctrl key while using an arrow key makes the nudge even smaller.

That's all there is to it!

With the object selected, one press of an arrow key moves it just the tiniest amount. Talk about fine tuning!

Have a large distance to cover?

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Don't worry! You can use this tip for that too.

Instead of a quick tap, hold down the arrow key. You'll find that your object zips around the slide as though it had on running shoes!

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May 8, 2008

Quick Paragraph Relocation in Word

Do you sometimes find yourself highlighting entire paragraphs in an MS Word document for relocation?

(As we discussed yesterday, every time you hit the Enter key, you've finished a paragraph and are creating a new one, so just remember that "paragraphs" in Word could be as small as a single word in a bulleted list).

So, what do you do?

I bet I can guess! You first highlight the entire paragraph, then you use the mouse to grab and hold the paragraph and while still using the mouse, you run the pointer up and down the document to find the "right place" to drop the paragraph.

Then when you need to move something else, you start the process all over again. Am I right?

Whew!

That's a lot of repetition.

Well, here's a mouseless, three key solution to the situation that works so much better!

The next time you need to move an entire paragraph, try this little trick:

  • Put your cursor in the paragraph you want to move.

  • Now, hold down the Alt + Shift keys.

(Here's the move. Don't blink or you'll miss it!)

  • Press the up or down arrow in whichever direction you need to move your paragraph. That's it!

Each time you press an arrow key (while still holding Alt + Shift), your text is moved one paragraph up or down.

To move something a long way, simply hold down the arrow key and let it go!

For those of you who are already asking what makes this so different from the recent F2 trick I showed you, the answer lies within the highlighting and in the amount of text it moves. First, the F2 trick only moved the highlighted text. That tip never even instructed you to highlight! Word automatically grabs the whole paragraph and takes it along for the ride. On the other hand, if you have a couple of consecutive paragraphs to move together, you can highlight part of each one and use this trick, which will move both of them at the same time.

It's viagra online way easier than any other paragraph moving trick I've ever used!

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Changing the Details

Have you ever needed specific information for one of your files or folders? Or, have you ever needed to change the details that are displayed in a folder? If you answered yes to either viagra online no prescription of those questions, this tip is for you! Today, I'm going to show you how to change the list views for your files and folders in Windows XP. Let’s go!

You can display files and folders in a variety of different ways, depending on what you want to see and do. When you view your files and folders in the Details mode, a default list of file and folder information appears, including the Name, Size, Type and Date Modified. But what if that default list doesn’t provide the information you need? Well, you can add (or remove) as much information as you wish. Here's how:

1.) First, go to Start, My Documents.

2.) Once you're there, single click on the file or folder you want to change.

3.) Next, click on the View menu.

4.) Scroll down and then click on Choose Details.

The Choose Details dialogue box will then appear.

5.) You can now select the checkboxes with the details you want to include or you can clear out the ones you don’t want.

6.) Click the Move Up or Move Down buttons to change the order of the selected items.

7.) Click the Show or Hide buttons to either show or hide the selected items.

8.) When you're all set, just click OK.

That's it. You can now view your files and folders with the specific information you need!

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