Do you have icons scattered all over your desktop and want them lined up? Or maybe you have them lined up in neat little rows, but would prefer them grouped in different areas of your desktop. We will try to satisfy both with today’s tip!
To organize scattered icons in Windows XP: Right-click the Desktop and select “Arrange Icons”. You’ll be presented with a sub-menu that’s chock full of icon… Continue reading
Q:
Have you seen that awful font that many websites are using lately? It’s almost totally unreadable!
A:
Sure there are over a million amateur web page makers for every pro designer, but I think the reason so many web sites seem to be using an ugly font has more to do with your browser than the design skills of the person who made the site.
If your… Continue reading
Word: Double Spacing
By default, MS Word documents are single-spaced, which is great for most of what we do. But, what about that small percentage of documents where you need things double-spaced?
Now, as I’ve said before, I’m a teacher. I have a lot of opportunities to see how people (both students and staff) are using their technology. I’m always amazed when I find someone using the enter key to… Continue reading
Word Pages With Pizzazz—The Basics
So, you’re working in MS Word and you’re trying to create a unique, eye-catching document.
You’ve been looking for just the right touch to make it grab their attention. Something that’s not too over the top but definitely says “Read me!”.
You’ve eliminated the idea of AutoShapes and pictures. No, you’re looking for something to tie it all together.
Hmmm…
Wait, I know, what about… Continue reading
XP Disaster Recovery
Microsoft says “XP” stands for eXPerience. I recently discovered it stands for eXPlode.
Here’s what happened: I installed some new software on my XP machine. It told me to re-boot the computer, so, like I good little geek I yelled “Affirmative!” and promptly re-booted.
At which point, XP would try to boot, get to some kind of blue screen chock full of error messages, and re-boot again… Continue reading
Quick Excel Copying With Keys
If you’re looking to do some copy / paste work in Excel with adjacent cells, then here’s a quick trick for you.
If you want to copy the information in the cell immediately above use Ctrl + D.
Try it…
Whatever is in the cell above is immediately copied into the selected cell.
Need the information transferred into more that one cell?
Highlight all the… Continue reading
Q:
The other day, I was typing and went back and change a thing or two. I needed to put a space between a couple words and instead of moving the text to the right to accommodate the space, the text was overwritten! It did this no matter what letter I typed. I ended up having to re-type an entire paragraph because of it. After I rebooted, the problem
Page Border Printing Problems
By now I’m sure more than one of you have run into a problem with your page borders (from last Thursday’s tip) that is when you print the page it’s not a complete border.
No matter how thin you make the bottom line, it seems determined to be uncooperative!
In fact, I bet you’ve seen this lovely little message a few times
Custom Page Borders Demystified
So, if you worked through the tip from last Thursday (7-22-04) on Word’s Page Borders then you probably noticed the Custom Setting at the bottom of the list.
Some of you may be wondering “What’s that all about?” and I’d say that’s a very good question.
To put it simply, this is a setting that allows you to pick and choose between… Continue reading
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Ever have a beautiful MS Excel worksheet, I mean absolutely perfect, except that one column. You know, the one column with the necessary data for your calculations but not really a part of the presentation. We’re talking about the essential column that you must keep, but don’t want displayed for a presentation or on the hard copy.
Often, Excel users have a lot… Continue reading
