E-mail forwarding
Are you one of the many people who forward our Computer Tips newsletter to friends and family? Do you receive email from a particular sender at work that you always forward to your personal account? If you are an Outlook/Outlook Express user you can have this done automatically! Here’s how:
Go to Tools / Message Rules then Mail . Choose New .
Select “Where the From line contains… Continue reading
Purge Your Clipboard of Large Files
When you use the “copy” or “cut” command, it copies information to your Windows clipboard . That information is kept in your RAM memory until it’s replaced by something else.
Unfortunately, if you’re copying large items, this can adversely affect your computer’s performance. How? Well, that large file, picture, object, or whatever it was that you copied is floating around… Continue reading
Q:
What is the Windows Clipboard?
A:
The Windows clipboard is used to temporarily store stuff. This “stuff” can come in the form of just about anything. Images, files, documents, etc.—they can all be placed on the clipboard. Once something has been copied to the clipboard it can be pasted into another location.
The clipboard isn’t a program you can actually access and play with. It’s a built-in… Continue reading
Rename Several Files at Once
Have you ever been working on a project with information on several files? Maybe it was an annual report with files from different departments. Or perhaps you unloaded the pictures from your camera and would like to find the ones of your grandchildren easier. This tip works with every type of file and will help you give them all the same name. I’m sure you… Continue reading
Add an Online Picture to an Email
Have you ever come across a cool graphic at a website and wanted to include it in an email? One way is to save the graphic to your hard drive and send as an attachment or insert it into the body of an HTML email (as demonstrated above). But that takes up space on your hard drive or in the email. So, is… Continue reading
Have Excel Help With The Proofreading
So, you’ve just entered a formula into an MS Excel cell and you get this…
#NAME?
Now what’s that?
Well, it turns out that you’re looking at Excel’s way of letting you know that you’ve used a name Excel doesn’t recognize.
For me it most commonly means that I’ve entered the name of a function with a typo and now Excel is confused.
If… Continue reading
Need More Data?
Are you an MS Outlook user who often finds yourself wishing for more Contact fields? That is, maybe you’re looking to enter data that has no “pre-made” location?
Frustrating isn’t it?
What do you do?
I mean, you want the data recorded for future use, but where?
Let’s fact it, if you “slide” it into another field just to have a record of the information you could… Continue reading
Zoom, Inbox — Zoom, Outbox
Do you work in MS Outlook and find that you seem to flip between the Inbox and the Outbox frequently?
Tired of needing the mouse to jump back and forth between the two?
Yeah, me too.
So here’s just the key combinations you need to zoom from one to the other…
Ctrl + Shift + I will take you immediately to the Inbox.
Ctrl +… Continue reading
Going To The Edge
Are you an Excel user who often works with huge ranges of data?
Sort of annoying when you’re trying to move from one end of the range to the other, isn’t it?
You can scroll for what feels like an eternity (and then probably pass the end of the data up anyway) or hit the Page Up / Down key about “a million” times. But no… Continue reading
Wait — That’s Not What I Want!
Have you ever found yourself frustrated with the AutoCorrect feature found in the MS Office suite programs?
Yeah, I’m sure you have.
Most of the time they’re helpful little changes in spelling or things like capitalization and we’re thankful to have the program looking out for us.
But… what about the times when AutoCorrect is making changes that we really don’t want or… Continue reading
