Each view consists of predefined fields that are displayed when you switch to that view. If you require additional fields or want to change the order of them, you can do so using the procedure listed below. The following steps outline how to customize the Phone List view. Within Outlook, click Contacts. From the View menu, point to Current View and click Phone List. Click the View menu again, point to Current View, and click Customize Current View. From the list of Available fields, select the field you just created and click Add. You can use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to change the order of the fields. Click OK.
HopStop is your city transit guide. They provide door-to-door subway and bus directions for many major cities. With Hop Stop, you can Send directions by e-mail or text message to a cell phone directly from the website Plan a trip with multiple destinations using the itinerary feature Find places to eat drink or sleep using the city guide. To Check out Hop Stop Click Here
Bouncing, popping, singing and dancing advertisements are all over the internet. You can set your Internet Explorer to NOT play animations in websites if you choose. Follow the steps below… Select TOOLS Select INTERNET OPTIONS Select ADVANCED About half way down the page, you will see MULTIMEDIA Uncheck the box that says “Play animations in webpages”
You can make your own desktop icons in XP. Here’s how: Click Start | All Programs | Accessories Select Paint Click the Image menu and select Attributes In the Width and Height fields, enter 32 for each value Under “Units,” select Pixels In Paint, add color, text, drawings or whatever you like. You can shrink a photo to 32×32 pixels to use as an icon, too. When you’re finished, click File | Save As and give it a name with the extension .ico to identify it to Windows as an icon. You can change the icon for a folder or shortcut to use your custom icon.
Here is a great tip for those of you who use Outlook as your email client. You can quickly, and effortlessly, find a full history of mail sent to and received from any outlook contacts. To get a full mail history with an Outlook contact: Open Outlook. Click Contacts. Locate the appropriate contact from your contacts list. Double click the contact. Select the Activities tab The resulting window will display a history of all your communications with that particular contact.
In Microsoft excel you can use Keyboard shortcuts to do common tasks easier. Here’s How: Insert a new worksheet. SHIFT+F11 or ALT+SHIFT+F1 Move to the next sheet in the workbook. CTRL+PAGE DOWN Move to the previous sheet in the workbook. CTRL+PAGE UP Select the current and next sheet. To cancel selection of multiple sheets, press CTRL+PAGE DOWN or, to select a different sheet, press CTRL+PAGE UP. SHIFT+CTRL+PAGE DOWN Select the current and previous sheet. SHIFT+CTRL+PAGE UP Rename the current sheet (Format menu, Sheet submenu, Rename command). ALT+O, H, R Move or copy the current sheet (Edit menu, Move or Copy Sheet command). ALT+E, M Delete the current sheet (Edit menu, Delete Sheet command). ALT+E, L Click here for Full list of Keyboard Shortcuts
SMS TEXTING FROM OUTLOOK You can send quick SMS messages right from OUTLOOK as long as you know the cell phone number and cell service carrier! Type in their cell phone number followed by the “@” and their service provider. Here is a quick list of carriers… Alltel @message.alltel.com AT&T @mms.att.net Nextel @messaging.nextel.com Sprint @messaging.sprintpcs.com SunCom @tms.suncom.com T-mobile @tmomail.net VoiceStream @voicestream.net Verizon @vtext.com (text only) @vzwpix.com (pictures and videos)
Here are 3 steps you can take to speed up your PC… 1) Disk Cleanup The Disk Clean up tool helps you free up space on your hard disk by searching your disk for files that you can safely delete. You can choose to delete some or all of the files. Use Disk Cleanup to perform any of the following tasks to free up space on your hard disk: Remove temporary Internet files Remove downloaded program files Empty the Recycle Bin Remove Windows temporary files Remove optional Windows components that you are not using Remove installed programs that you no longer use Disk Cleanup is a utility that is native in Windows XP. To begin the wizard: Click “Start” Click “All Programs” Click “Accessories” Click “System Tools” Click “Disk Cleanup” Depending on the speed of your system; Disk Cleanup may take several minutes to analyze your PC. 2) Defragmentation To begin the Disk Defragmenter: Click “Start” Click “All Programs” Click “Accessories” Click “System Tools” Click “Disk Defragmenter” Click “Defragment” 3) Remove Startup Items The System Configuration Utility (MSconfig) allows you to selectively enable or disable various settings that affect system startup. The startup tab under System Configuration Utility has programs [...]
SHRINK TO FIT ON ONE PAGE Microsoft WORD has a useful tool that you might not have noticed before called the SHRINK TO FIT. When having a document that has a small amount of text on the last page you can use shrink to fit to print on one page. On the File Menu, click Print Preview Click Shrink NOTE: In order to shrink the document, Microsoft Word decreases the font size of each font used in the document. You can undo a Shrink to Fit operation by clicking Undo Shrink to Fit on the Edit menu. However, after you save the document and close it, there is no quick way to restore the original font size.
