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- Did you know that you can sort your
messages in your INBOX - or any other folder?
- Here's how:
- Looking for a message in Outlook Express and you have
tooooo many to sort through? Just click on the Heading of the column
(FROM, SUBJECT, or RECEIVED column) that you want to sort. Click it a
second time to switch between ascending and descending sort order. (This
works in Outlook also.)
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Did you know that you can sort your messages
in your INBOX - into other folders?
You could save all of these WEB WANDERINGS - or any other special
email message - in a separate folder.
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Here's how:
1) Find the list of your Folders: Inbox, Outbox,
Sent Items, Drafts, etc..
2) RIGHT CLICK on the OUTLOOK EXPRESS folder on the top of the list.
3) Drag down and click on NEW FOLDER
4) Now type in a name for your Folder: Web Wanderings, Family,
whatever.
5) Click on the OK button
6) Your new folder should now be in your list -- in ABC order
** To move an email message, simply DRAG it from the Inbox to the
folder
that you want to save it in.
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Did you know that you change an already read
email message -- to look like it's UNREAD?
Have you ever read your messages in a hurry,
and not had time to deal with all of them, and wanted it to appear
UNREAD the next time you open look at your Inbox?
Here's how:
1) Click on that message once - to
highlight it
2) Right-click your mouse on this highlighted message
3) Select MARK AS UNREAD from the menu
4) It should now be bold again, and look like you've never opened it.
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- Did you know, when someone sends you an email, you can quickly add
their address to your address book?
Here's how
1) Open the message
2) Right-click on their name... in the FROM line of their message
3) Click on ADD TO ADDRESS BOOK
4) Complete the info on this entry
5) Then be sure to click OK... and not on the X to close! and you now have this new address in your address book!
It's that easy! Enjoy.
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- Computer Tidbits
- for Internet Explorer
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Did you know that you can Print out only PART
of webpage -- and not the entire page?
Here's how:
1) When you find the information that
you're searching for on your webpage, HIGHLIGHT only the information
that you'd like to print. You don't need the entire page -- that's
wasting paper and ink/toner.
2) DO NOT CLICK ON THE PRINTER BUTTON IN THE MENU BAR --
Select FILE Menu --> drag down to PRINT.
3) Under PRINT RANGE in the middle of the dialog window, click
"SELECTION" -- so that the Radio button is filled in.
4) Then press OK
5) This should save paper, and only print out the picture or information
that you're looking for on that entire webpage.
** This will also work in your email -- try it on this message for these
directions! (If "SELECTION" is grayed
out, that means you do not have your info highlighted anymore. Go
back and highlight it, and start again.)
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- Did you know, you can easily
send a great website to someone through email?
- Here's how
When you find a great website, that you want to share...
1) Open to that webpage ....
2) Under the FILE menu, select SEND
3) Select LINK BY EMAIL ** (see note below)
4) That should open a blank email page, with the URL already on the
page. All you need to do is add some info to the message so your
recipient knows why you want
them to see that website.
** (you may not want to select the first option, Send Page by
email, unless you know your recipient can receive HTML email messages.
You're safer sending just the link.)
It's that easy!
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- Computer Tidbits
- for Microsoft WORD
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When you open a brand-new WORD document and
start typing, does the text appear in your favorite font?
Did you know that you could set the font you use most often as your
default font?
Here's How:
1. Choose Format, Font.
2. Choose the font in the dialog box.
3. Click the Default button.
4. Click Yes when it asks you if this font really should be the
default font.
**The next time you open a new document in Word, you should be ready
to type in this new font.
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Do you know what those squiggly/wavy
red and green lines that you see when you're typing in Word, really are
important?
Here's what they mean:
If you make any typos or spelling mistakes in Word, you
see them underlined with a wavy red line. That's Word's spell checker in
action. To "fix" the spelling error, right-click the
offending word. A pop-up list of corrections or suggestions appears,
from which you can choose the proper word.
The green squiggly line is alerting you to the fact
that Word thinks you didn't pay enough attention to your English
teacher.... That means a grammar mistake -- or something as simple as
too many spaces.
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Did you know that you could COUNT ALL OF
YOUR WORDS in a Word document?
Word eliminates the horrible chore of counting every word
in your document by hand. Word not only keeps track of word count for you,
it goes so far as to count pages, words, paragraphs, lines, and individual
characters. This includes things you may usually ignore, such as spaces
and punctuation. Counting characters in a long document would be virtually
impossible to do by hand.
Here's how
1) Open the document you want to get a word count for.
2) Select Tools, Word Count from the menu bar.
3) Review the statistics of your document and click
Close.
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Did you know that you you can easily add BORDERS to create attractive Word Documents? You can design
fancy letters, flyers, invitations, greeting cards, and announcements.
Here's how
1) Choose Format Menu --> Borders and Shading
2) Click on the PAGE BORDER tab in this dialog box
3) Choose the type of border you'd like from the ART dropdown list, at the bottom of the center column.
4) You can change the size of the art objects by adjusting the Width
settings.
5) When you like what you see in the PREVIEW, click OK.
The Border you selected is applied around the edges of your page.
Have fun!
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Some of you have asked for some help in
finding a readability level of a passage or paragraph. Did you know that
you could get this information from WORD? gives a Flesch-Kincaid Grade
Level, and takes seconds to prepare.
Here's how
When Microsoft Word finishes checking spelling and grammar, it can
display information about the reading level of the document, including
readability scores. Each readability score bases its rating on the average
number of syllables per word and words per sentence.
To Display readability statistics
1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Spelling
& Grammar tab.
2. Select the Check grammar with spelling check box.
3. Select the Show readability statistics check box, and then
click OK.
4. Type the paragraph or passage from your book.
5. Then select Tools Menu--> Spelling and Grammar.
6. Word finishes checking spelling and grammar, then it displays
information about the Counts, Averages & Readability of the document.
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- Did you know that you can easily find a
synonym and sometimes even an antonym, when you're working in WORD?
- Here's how
A handy way to get some quirky and commonly used synonyms for any word
in your document is to Highlight & Right-click on the
word. Then choose Synonyms from the bottom of the pop-up
menu. If you're not sure about the synonyms selected, you can click on
THESAURUS, and it will take you to even more selections.
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