Tip of the Week

By default, Outlook will notify you whenever you receive an email. This can be very distracting when you’re in the middle of doing something else and a pop-up appears in the middle of your screen. Here’s how to turn off that notification in Outlook 2007: Open Outlook Choose Mail Choose Tools Choose Options Choose Preferences […]

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It’s happened to all of us: You compose an email message in Outlook, hit send, and then realize you forgot to include the attachment; or you hit send and then realize you sent it to the wrong person; or your reply went to everyone except to the person who sent the original message; or you […]

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I’ve been using two monitors for years, and I’d never go back. Click here for detailed instructions on setting this up. If you’re simply attaching an extra monitor to a laptop (as I do), here are simple instructions: Get a separate monitor. It doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive. You might even have one […]

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If you’ve never used two monitors, you’re missing out on a great productivity tool. After using two monitors for so many years, it would be very hard for me to go back to just one monitor. One of the things I miss most when I travel is the ability to use a second monitor. Enter […]

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Printing from a Web page can be frustrating because you never know what’s actually going to print. You might get 10 sheets with each frame on a separate page, have two inches of text cut off on one side, find out that it prints eight pages, when you only wanted the information on page three, […]

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By default, Word tries to save new documents in your “My Documents” folder on your C drive. Using the same logic, when you click on “Open” to open an existing document, it assumes the document is saved in the “My Documents” folder. Many of us (if not the majority) want to save documents somewhere other […]

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To conserve its battery, your iPhone will automatically turn off in a short period of time if you’re not actively using it. This means that if you’re trying to follow directions using Google Maps, your phone will keep turning itself off and you will have to keep turning it back on. Here’s how to change […]

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If your mouse has a wheel on top for scrolling, you can easily change your font size on the fly. Here’s how: Press and Hold the button. While holding down the button, use the mouse wheel to: • Scroll down (or towards you) to make the font larger • Scroll up (or away from you) […]

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Many of us spend all day in Microsoft Outlook. We’ll open a message and then reply to it or forward it to someone else.  When we reply or forward a message and hit send, Outlook sends the message and then puts us back in the inbox, where we do the same thing with another message. […]

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Adobe released Adobe Reader for iDevices and Android phones, a free application available from the App Store and Android Market in a very quick download. The application starts with “Getting Started with Adobe Reader,” a tutorial explaining the Adobe Reader interface. Even if you have a PDF application on your mobile device, add this one […]

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