Announcements

 Follow-up to Last Week's Tips

4/16/03 Column Size Fun: When sorting columns in a table, especially in MS Excel, if you only click on one row, "this will often result in only *one* column being rearranged," wrote David C., "Deadly for network-use databases." Thanks for that important reminder!

4/17/03 Split Email Links: "When I run across these super long URL's I sometimes just change the font to a very small font and then click on the link and there you go... done and no muss or fuss." Tim K.

To do this in Outlook Express, double click to open the email in its own window. Click View in the message window, go to Text Size and change it to "smaller" or "smallest". You could also maximize the window which should make a window big enough for the whole link. If the entire link is not highlighted, though, then you will still need to copy & paste each part into your browser address bar.

Computers 101

Q:
I always have too many programs open at the same time and I can't remember which icon belongs to which program on my toolbar. Is there an easy way to tell which button is which?

A:
An easy way to switch between them is to hit ALT+TAB. A small box will pop up with icons for all the currently open programs (even settings windows that don't display on the tool bar - like display properties for instance).

Hold down ALT, then simply hit TAB until the window you're looking for is highlighted. Notice that as you tab, the title bar information is displayed below the icons.

Oh, also—hold down the ALT & SHIFT key while hitting TAB to go backwards through the list.

Open a couple of programs and try it. Happy hunting :-)

~ Steve

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Tip of the Day

Arrow Tricks

Here's a cool little arrow trick to try with word processing programs. Next time you're using your arrow keys to go from one area of a sentence to another (left and right arrows), hold down your CTRL key. Instead of moving one space at a time, you'll go one word at a time.

If you're using the up and down arrows to go from line to line, holding down the CTRL key will make your cursor jump from paragraph to paragraph (well, from carriage return to carriage return anyway).

One last thing, if you hold down the SHIFT key while you do this (i.e. hold down SHIFT + CTRL at the same time), you select text as you arrow along.

I've tested this in MS Word and Wordpad, but it *should* work no matter what word processing program you use.

~ Steve

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Cool Site of the Day

Holy Fire

For centuries at the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem, a flame comes out of the tomb of Christ on Orthodox Christian Easter (called "Pascha"). The first mention of this miracle was in the fourth century and it continues to happen every year since.

Eastern Christians calculate the date of Easter using an older formula than the western church, so that means that this year Pascha is Sunday, April 27, one week after the Roman Catholic and Protestant celebration.

You can read history and stories about the Ceremony of Holy Light and this annual miracle. There are also pictures, video, and stories from people who have witnessed this miraculous event.

http://www.holyfire.org/eng/

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