IT Tips
Tips Category
MS Outlook
1) Automatically add holidays to your calendar.
On the Tools menu, click Options, click Calendar Options, and then click Add Holidays.
To find related messages, right-click the message, and then on the shortcut menu, point to Find All and then click Related Messages. The Advanced Find dialog box appears with a list of related messages.
3) Save searches that you use often.
On the Tools menu, point to Find and then click Advanced Find. In the Advanced Find dialog box, specify your search criteria and click Save Search on the File menu. You can share the search results with others by sending the search results file as an attachment in an e-mail message.
4) Does your mailbox need a quick cleanup?
On the Tools menu, click Mailbox Cleanup. Select options to find items that are old or large and then move or delete them. Click AutoArchive to move old items to Archive Folders, or click Empty to permanently delete items from your Deleted Items folder.
MS Word
1) Zoom in on or out of a document.
You can "zoom in" to get a close-up view of your document or "zoom out" to see more of the page at a reduced size.
- Click the arrow next to the Zoom box on the Standard toolbar.
Note: If the Standard toolbar is on the same row as another toolbar, there might not be enough room to display all the buttons. Click Toolbar Options , and then click the arrow next to the Zoom box. - Click the zoom setting you want.
2) Compare documents side by side.
- Open the documents you want to compare side by side.
- On the Window menu, click Compare Side by Side with.
- On the Compare Side by Side toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, press ALT and then SHIFT+F10.) , do any of the following:
- If you want to scroll through the documents at the same time, click Synchronous Scrolling.
- If you want to reset the document windows to the positions they were in when you first started comparing documents, click Reset Window Position .
- Click Close Side by Side to stop comparing documents.
Note: If you open two documents, the command on the Window menu will include the file name of one of those documents. For example, if you open "document1.doc" and then "document2.doc," the Window menu shows the command as Compare Side by Side with document2.doc.
Windows XP
1) Schedule a weekly defragmentation.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/defrag.mspx
Computer Type
1) What is a Tablet PC?
Computers powered by the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, and equipped with a sensitive screen designed to interact with a complementary pen, are called Tablet PCs. Tablet PCs are fully-functional laptop PCs and more. You can use the pen directly on the screen just as you would a mouse to do things like select, drag, and open files; or in place of a keyboard to handwrite notes and communication.
