Q:
What is a Wizard?
A:
When you hear someone refer to a wizard, they aren’t talking about Merlin, Oz, Gandalf, or Dumbledore, although, in a way, there might be a similarity in function.
A Wizard is a tool to guide you through the steps of a process or task by asking a series of questions or presenting options. A Wizard might… Continue reading
Bigger Thumbnails
Since Windows ME we’ve had the option of having folders in thumbnail view. This creates a little picture preview in the folder. Very handy if you have gigs of pictures on your hard drive. Have you ever wished that they were bigger? Well then, you’re in luck today because I’m gonna tell you how.
This will require going into your registry, so proceed with caution.
To start the… Continue reading
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. (Or right click over any toolbar and choose Customize from the toolbar list.)
On the Options tab you should see the Large Icons choice. Check this box. Instantly you should see the… Continue reading
Taking Control of Your Menus
Here’s the scenario:
You’re cruising through the menus in an MS Office program (version 2000 or newer). Maybe you’ve even upgraded recently. Anyway, you’re looking for that really cool thing you did a few months ago. Unfortunately, you can’t seem to find the right menu choice and you can’t remember exactly what you did the last time.
Suddenly you realize that your menus seem to… Continue reading
Pull the Arrows Out of Your Shortcuts
Many of you keep asking me how to remove those little arrows you see on your desktop shortcuts. They sure can take away from the visual aesthetics of the icons.
OK, there are actually two easy ways to get rid of the little arrows that attach themselves to shortcuts. The easiest of the two is to select a size of 30 for your… Continue reading
Just “Cruising” Through The Day
Have you ever heard anyone refer to “cruising” when working in a program?
Were you wondering what in the world they were talking about? (I’m sure you figured it out that it had nothing to do with cars.)
Well, for many people, “cruising” on the computer means to slide through the menus in a program looking at the choices listed.
There are some people who… Continue reading
Q:
What’s the difference between “Favorites” and “Bookmarks”?
A:
They’re the same thing, actually. “Bookmarks” is the Mozilla Firefox (amongst others) term for what are essentially internet shortcuts. Internet Explorer calls these”Favorites”.
They both work the same way. When you’re on a page you want to get back to, you click the Favorites or Bookmarks menu (depending on the browser) and usually… Continue reading
Give Me A Break!
Since we’re all here for the same reason—to find out all about MS Word’s section breaks—I’ll get right to the “how to”.
The most obvious step is to have a Word file open that would benefit from having different sections.
Once your file is open you’ll need to place your cursor at the point where you want to create a section break.
Now use the Insert… Continue reading
Paragraphs, Pages And Now There’s Sections?
OK, so we all have experience with paragraphs and pages in MS Word… but did you know you have further options for sub-dividing your documents?
No?
Well, let me fill you in.
According to Word’s online help, Sections are “a portion of a document in which you set certain page formatting options. You create a new section when you want to change such properties… Continue reading
Breaking the Connection of Word’s Headers and Footers
Here’s the scenario: you’re working in MS Word and it’s time to set up your header or footer information.
Everything is going well except there’s one small catch. (Isn’t there just always “one small catch”?)
Anyway… the document you’re working on requires different header or footer information at different locations. (Maybe you need the first few pages numbered with Roman Numerals and… Continue reading
