Announcements

WOW - Massive Response!

We had a huge response to our CheckIt! Suite last week.

If you missed out, you may want to take a look at this and find out for yourself why we had hundreds of these sold before lunchtime Thursday! Oh, and yes, it does work if you have Norton on your computer already (they compliment each other nicely).

Again, it can find hardware problems quickly, speed up your internet connection (102% in our case - your mileage may vary), run benchmarks, test multi-tasking ability, speed up system performance, help protect against crashes, find problems when you can't get Windows to run, automatic synchronization between computers, remove unused leftover files, compress files, and TONS MORE!

The price? The retail on this is $69.95 but your price is only $24.97 with FREE US Shipping! This is the current version of the program and does come in the retail box. Note that this runs on all versions of Windows EXCEPT XP.

Get to the site ASAP for this one. Here's the link:

http://www.worldstart.com/store/checkitsuite.htm

PS - Don't miss out! This one is awesome!

MS Office 101

Ever find yourself squinting at the buttons on the toolbars? Wish they were bigger?

Your wish is my command… Relief is just a few clicks away.

To begin you need to go to the Tools menu, Customize choice.

On the Options tab you should see a check-box labeled as Large Icons. Check this box. Instantly you should see the difference. The buttons should all be enlarged while the document itself was not.

If you like this solution then click on the Close button. The buttons will stay the new size.

If you don't like this solution then uncheck the box. This should return your buttons back to their original size. (Then click the Close button.)

One quick side note: When you change to Large Icons you've changed the buttons in all the MS Office Suite programs. (So don't be surprised if you change them in MS Word and find them large in MS Excel as well.)

Now if only I had a genie for a few other things…

Office Tip of the Day

Have you ever needed a quick way to really make a statement stand out on a flyer, presentation, worksheet or some other document? (You know - a way to really catch their attention.) Are you tired of the plain old text boxes in MS Excel? Want a way to make text more interesting?

Do you want to turn this...

into this?

(Sorry, beginning to sound like an infomercial. We'll move on now…)

Yes? (I'm sure that almost everyone can think of at least one time where you were searching for that perfect way to express yourself.)

This is just one of the many solutions available, but I really like this one because it's so easy to do and is available across the board. All you need are the drawing tools, which can be found in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Well, let's begin. The first thing you need to do is to locate your drawing tools. You can do this in a couple of ways. One way is to click on the Drawing Tools button located on the Standard Toolbar.

Another way to access the drawing tools is to go to the View menu, Toolbars choice and then select Drawing from the list.

Either way you should see a new toolbar on the screen containing a lot of available options. We're looking for the AutoShapes button.

You'll notice that when you click on the AutoShapes button you get a menu that lists the categories of shapes available.

Picking a shape from one of the category palettes is the next step. Find one that will work for your particular situation and click on its button.

Your mouse pointer should have just become cross hairs that allow you to draw the shape.

Now take your pointer into the document. Click, hold and drag to draw the shape. Once the shape is drawn you can move it around and set text outside the shape to wrap just like a picture. (We covered text wrapping in a previous newsletter. You can access the April 23, 2002, issue through our archives at http://www.worldstart.com/archives/index.htm.)

To get your message into the shape, move the mouse pointer over the shape and right click. The menu that pops up will contain many choices. Choose Add Text.

A cursor will appear inside the shape. From there you can type in the text as usual, formatting and all.

When you've completed your text, just click outside the shape and you'll be returned to the main document.

To edit the text, simply double-click on the shape.

That's it! Now you too can create eye-catching documents in a matter of minutes.