June 13, 2008

Featured downloads

 

Opera 9.50

Opera lets you surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way. One of the most full-featured Internet power tools on the market, it includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like Opera's groundbreaking E-mail program, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat.

Macro Express 3.7d hair loss propecia treatment

Macro Express lets you create macros for specific applications and global macros that will work with any Windows program. Dozens of wizards are available to help you create macros.

VSO Image Resizer 2.0.1.5

VSO Image resizer is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, import or organize photos.

nLite 1.4.6

nLite lets you choose which components to remove from Windows 2000, XP or 2003 before installation. By removing unneeded components you gain on your system speed and security. It supports removal of almost any component and few services.

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June 12, 2008

What Grammar Rules Are You Using?

Have you ever found yourself wondering about the rules MS Word is using to make its grammar recommendations when you check your documents?

Ever wish you had a little peek into the madness behind it all?

Wish you could tell Word to stop checking a few things that just drive you crazy?

If any of this sounds familiar, read on to take a look into the grammar rules used to check your documents.

In older versions of Word, you need to start with the Tools menu, Spelling and Grammar choice.

At the bottom of the Spelling and Grammar window, click the Options button.

This will take you to the Spelling and Grammar tab.

In Word 2007, you can get there directly through the Office Button, Word Options button, Proofing choice.

Once there, you can select and deselect a variety of options. One to pay attention to is the Writing Style choice.

Using the drop down list, you can choose to have Word check either the "Grammar Only" or "Grammar & Style."

Interested in what the specific differences are between the two choices?

No problem!

Click the Settings button.

The Grammar Settings window will open, displaying the choices for Grammar checks.

When you select "Grammar Only," you only get the grammar portion of the list. In contrast, the "Grammar & Style" choice will have items from both parts of the list selected. (Notice that you can toggle between the two Writing Style choices at the top of the window, allowing you to easily compare the two).

Scroll through the list.

You're free to check or uncheck items as you see fit.

When you're done, click OK and then OK get propecia again. (If you're in an older version of Word, you'll also have to close the Spelling and Grammar window).

That's it! You now know where to find Word's control over the Grammar check. It looks like it's time to customize and make it your own!

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June 11, 2008

Store sent mail efficiently in Outlook

Date: June 10th, 2008

Author: Susan Harkins

When you reply to an e-mail, Outlook stores a copy of that message in the Sent folder. If you’re like me, your Sent folder has thousands of messages. If you need to find a specific message later, you must sort through all those messages, and that takes time.

Instead, you might your replies with the original message. For instance, suppose you automatically route all your messages from your boss into a folder named, appropriately enough, MyBoss. If you want Outlook to store your replies in MyBoss with the original messages, do the following:

  1. From the Tools menu, choose Options.
  2. On the Preferences tab (which should be selected by default), click E-mail Options in the E-mail section (Figure A).

Figure A

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  1. Click Advanced E-mail Options at the bottom of the Message Handling section (Figure B).

Figure B

  1. In the Save Messages section, select the In Folders Other Than The Inbox, Save Replies With Original Message check box (Figure C) and then click OK three times to return to Outlook.

Figure C

Outlook will apply this setting to all of your personal folders. Just remember that Outlook saves replies with the original message and not in the Sent folder only when the original message is in a folder other than the Inbox. Outlook continues to save all replies sent from messages in the Inbox in the Sent folder

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Force a page break before a specific paragraph

Date: May 30th, 2008

Author: Susan Harkins

Everyone knows that Word automatically inserts new pages as you insert text and graphics. You don’t need to do a thing but add the content. However, you can manipulate where a page breaks yourself, if you want to. Simply choose Break from the Insert menu and click OK. Page Break is the default setting.

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For the most part, you should avoid inserting page breaks and let Word take care of them for you. Manual page breaks quickly become a nuisance. As you update your document by inserting or deleting content you usually have to fix the manual page breaks.

However, there are times when you might want to force a page break before a specific paragraph. By associating the break with the paragraph, you can insert and delete all you like. To force a page break before a specific paragraph do the following:

  1. Click inside the paragraph in question.
  2. Choose Paragraph from the Format menu.
  3. Click the Line and Page Breaks tab.
  4. Select the Page Break Before option, and click OK.

In Word 2007, open the Paragraph dialog box by clicking the dropdown generic propecia arrow at the bottom-right corner of the Paragraph group on the Home ribbon.

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Now you can add and delete content before the paragraph or even move the paragraph and Word will still force a page break before that paragraph.

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Gather feedback by routing your Word documents

Date: June 3rd, 2008

Author: Mary Ann Richardson

You’ve just completed the documentation for your upcoming training course. Before presenting it, however, you would like to send it out to your colleagues for review. You can use Word 2002/2003’s Routing Slip feature to send the document as an e-mail attachment to each reviewer in the order designated by you. Word will then return the document to you with everyone’s proposed changes. Follow these steps:

  1. Go to File | Send To | Routing Recipient.
  2. Click Allow.
  3. Select the default text in the Subject box and enter Routing: Training document approval. (You can also enter your own Message text; if not, Word will add text for you.)
  4. Click the Address button.

  1. Click Allow.
  2. Click the name of the first reviewer in your list of addresses.
  3. Click the To button.
  4. Click the name of next reviewer in your list of addresses.
  5. Click the To button.
  6. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for each person on your list.
  7. Click the Add Slip button.

Word saves the routing slip with your document. After adding the routing generic propecia without prescription slip, you can work with the document as you would any other document. When you are ready to send it to everyone on the routing slip, go to File | Send To | Next Routing Recipient. In this example, the recipient will receive the message below, with the default message text.

Note that you will need a MAPI-compliant e-mail program, such as Outlook or Outlook Express, or a VIM-compatible program, such as Lotus cc:Mail, to add a routing slip to your Word 2002/2003 documents.

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