Archive for the ‘Computer Advice’ Category
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
If you design a good PowerPoint slide presentation, using a your agency badge or patch, you can save it as a template for future use. Fonts, graphics, images, and backgrounds can all be saved in one neat package that you can reuse over again when you create new presentations. ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
One of the things that will shorten the life of your computer is excessive heat build up. When the inside components of your computer become coated with dust, it acts as a layer of insulation and increases the inside temperature. The following link provides an excellent explanation of ...
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Saturday, March 12th, 2005
We have all tried to do a Google search and ended up with hits listing millions of pages. Then we try to refine the search and we get nothing. Well here are a couple of hints to help with the search.
Google will ignore common words, single letters and ...
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
Shortcuts are placed on the desktop. That's what the monitor shows when you start the computer. Typically, you double-click the shortcut, and a program or file opens.
So, let's say you want to create a shortcut to Outlook Express. Programs are easy. Click Start>>All Programs. Find Outlook Express in the ...
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
I'm a fan of keyboard shortcuts, trying to move my hands from the keyboard to the mouse as seldom as possible.
There are many buttons on the formatting toolbar that I do choose to use, and I like to select them without using the mouse. Fortunately, the keyboard shortcuts are easy ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2005
Use your scrollwheel mouse to zoom in and out of your slides
when creating your PowerPoint presentation (97/2000/2002/2003)
We all know how useful it can be to get up close and personal
with objects on our slides. Zooming in helps us make precise
placements and allows us to select small objects impossible to
click on ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
Folders are easy to add to the SendTo folder. To do this, click
Start>>Run. In the text box, enter "SendTo" (without the quotes).
Click OK. The SendTo folder will open.
In the SendTo folder, click File>>New>>Shortcut. Click the Browse
button and find the folder in which you are interested. Click it and
click OK. Click ...
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