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Carbon Copy Control
Understanding who’s privy to the list of recipients to one of your emails can help you avoid a potentially embarassing intraoffice gaffe. Knowing Cc stands for carbon coby and Bcc stands for blind carbon copy is fairly remedial computing knowledge...
Automated Receipt Responses
You can configure Outlook 2003 to automatically respond to the email receipt requests attached to emails you receive from certain senders.
Hyperlinking With Office XP
Microsoft Office XP makes it easy to use hyperlinks within your Office documents. Although Office XP applications can automatically create hyperlinks for URLs you type in an Office document, the Insert Hyperlink dialog box lets you create hyperlin...
Magnifier Tool
Windows XP includes a built-in tool that magnifies the active portion of your screen. This tool is helpful if you're nearsighted or are just suffering from eye fatigue.
Work Intelligently With Smart Tags
Smart Tags are an example of how Microsoft Office applications cooperate to save you time. Smart Tags are data Office programs recognize and label as a specific type. For example, a person’s name can be added as a smart tag to give you options to ...
Internet Explorer Address Bar
The pointing device on your notebook PC doesn't always make it easy to click the address bar in Internet Explorer. So next time, just press the F6 key instead. This will place the cursor in the address bar and highlight the text inside, too.
Remove Email Line Breaks
When you’re having an email conversation with someone, it gets really annoying if your or their email client inserts big tracts of blank space into the thread. This most often happens between different brands of email programs, such as Outlook and...
Kill The Screen Saver
Screen savers don’t accomplish much on today’s LCD monitors; they were originally designed for older CRT monitors. In addition, screen savers can be very embarrassing when you use your notebook to give a presentation to a large group of people.
Defrags Save Data
As time passes, the data on your hard drive slowly becomes fragmented, a problem that causes slower overall PC speeds. You should use the Windows XP's Disk Defragmenter tool every month or two to keep your computer working efficiently.
Web Page Previews
Web pages are often notoriously difficult to print in Internet Explorer, because depending on the site's graphics, you might wind up with only half of the page on your printout. IE's Print Preview feature can help prevented a lot of wasted paper.
Monitors Must Breathe
Never cover a monitor’s ventilation holes. Doilies, sticky notes, cats, and miniature horse blankets from your trip to New Mexico may be part of your work area, but don’t let them keep your CRT or LCD display from getting rid of excess heat.
Office Suggestion Box
Microsoft’s Office Online provides comprehensive tutorials for using Office to accomplish a variety of tasks, but Microsoft is also receptive to suggestions for more content.
Sharper PowerPoint Presos
If you’re having trouble dazzling the boss with your PowerPoint presentations, a few subtle changes might be in order.
Email Text
Some email recipients appreciate the fact that the messages you send them are in plain or rich text, not HTML. While HTML allows embedded content such as logos and photos, some people worry about objectionable material or possible malware hiding i...
Word Count In Word
In most recent versions of Microsoft Word, you can get a count of every word in a document by clicking Tools and Word Count.
WinXP Management Panel
Windows XP’s Computer Management panel offers lots of useful tools, such as the Event Viewer for tracking down errors and Disk Management for formatting hard drive partitions. You’ll find it by clicking Start, All Programs, Administrative Tools, a...
Synonyms for 'end process'
Most Windows users know that if a strange, unwelcome or frozen program somehow gets in their way, they can issue the famed three-finger salute and try to get rid of it.
Carbon Copy Control
Understanding who’s privy to the list of recipients to one of your emails can help you avoid a potentially embarassing intraoffice gaffe. Knowing Cc stands for carbon coby and Bcc stands for blind carbon copy is fairly remedial computing knowledge...
Standby Password
If you frequently use the Windows XP Standby or Hibernate modes to save energy, you should consider using a password to protect your data from other people.
Right-Click Copy
When you want to copy a file or folder, you don’t necessarily have to use the left mouse button. You can click and drag the file using the right mouse button, too.
