If there are people to whom you often send email, you can easily create desktop shortcuts that will start Outlook and automatically address messages to your frequent email recipients with one click. Here’s how: Right-click on a blank area of the Windows desktop (the screen you get when you first start your computer) and select […]
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By pressing Ctrl and then clicking on every file you would like to select, most of us use the keyboard and mouse combination to select multiple files to copy, delete, or move in Windows Explorer. Sometimes, you click the wrong file, causing you to stop and figure out which files to select or unselect—sometimes even […]
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You’re on the Internet, but you can’t get a website to pull up. It could be that the website is down, or it could be something on your end. Perhaps your Internet connection is down or is being slow, or maybe there’s a problem with your computer. You could have too many Internet temporary files, […]
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When you’re in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and you’re adding contacts that work at the same company (or you’re adding an additional contact with the same company), you can save yourself the steps of re-entering the company’s name, address, phone number, fax number, and other company details each time you create a new contact. Here’s how: […]
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We often work on a Microsoft Word document over a period of several days or even weeks. There are a number of ways to make it easy to open a document you recently worked on. You could look through your directories to find it, you could create an icon and save it on your desktop, […]
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The New York Times has a great blog on personal technology called Gadgetwise. I highly recommend it. According to their website: “Gadgetwise is a blog about everything related to buying and using tech products. From figuring out which gadget to buy and how to get the best deal on it to configuring it once it’s […]
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You probably already know that you can use the “cut and paste” feature in Microsoft Word to copy one set of text to another place, but if you want to select several different pieces of text to cut and paste, it’s much easier to copy each snippet of text at once and have Word save […]
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Microsoft Word has a very cool feature you may not know about. You can type anywhere in a document by simply moving your cursor to that exact place, double-clicking, and then typing. You don’t need to press <Enter> to skip lines, you don’t need to press <Tab> to move over, nor do you need to […]
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