Archive for the ‘Windows Resources/Tips’ Category


Website of the Month: LetterMeLater.com

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

LetterMeLater.com allows you to send emails to anyone you wish, with the ability to have them sent at any future date and time you choose.
A feature missing from every email service is the ability to schedule when an email gets sent – you must click the “send” button at the exact moment of delivery.
With this [...]

MS PowerPoint Tip: Compressing Images

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Emailing PowerPoint presentations can create problems with file too large error messages from your ISP, especially those that are graphic intensive. There is a way that you can compress the images in your presentation to help on the file size.
Right click on any picture or graphic in the presentation and choose Format Picture from the [...]

MS Excel Tip: Delete Duplicate Rows from a List in Excel

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

A duplicate row (also called a record) in a list is one where all values in the row are an exact maatch of all the values in another row. To delete duplicate rows, you need to filter a list for unique rows, delete the original list, and then replace it with the [...]

Website of the Month: ConnectNow

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Adobe® ConnectNow, one of the Adobe.com services, is a great way to share ideas, discuss details, and complete work with others – all online. Reduce travel costs, save time, and increase productivity with a web conferencing solution that’s easy to access and simple to use. Built on the Adobe Flash® [...]

MS Word Tip: Putting Document Names in Headers or Footers

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

You found a document that you printed some time ago and need to update with some new resources. You have spent half an hour trying to find it on your computer because you can’t remember what you named the file.
Follow these steps to add the document name to either the header or footer of a [...]

Tool of the Month: GMail Notifier

Friday, February 12th, 2010

GMail Notifier is a handy tool that sits in your system tray and alerts you when you have new messages in your GMail account. When you see the icon in your system tray, new messages have arrived. Just right click on the envelope, go to “View Inbox” and you will be taken directly to your [...]

MS Excel Tip: Transpose Rows and Columns

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

You just spent time setting up a new worksheet and realized that you want the columns to be rows and the rows to be columns. Well don’t fret, you do not need to start from scratch.
Just highlight the table, click Copy, then go to another area of the worksheet and select Paste Special. On the [...]

Time to Rethink Your Passwords

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

It’s a good idea from time to time to change some of your website passwords. Instead of picking your pet’s name or street address, perhaps something to inspire you in 2010 such as L00$e15lbs or succe$$2010. What are your goals for 2010? Nothing like reinforcing that goal each time you need to type it.

MSWord Annoyance: How Can I Remove This Line?

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

You just typed three hyphens in a row (—) , hit the enter key and now you have a long horizontal line on the page. This can be a very handy shortcut but have you ever had trouble deleting the line? Sometimes you can back space over it and it will go away, other times, [...]

Twitter Tip: Retweeting an Update (RT)

Friday, July 17th, 2009

I am asked this question quite a bit and I thought I would share in case others also wish to learn how to retweet (RT) a post. To “retweet” is to share someone else’s tweet along with adding RT to acknowledge the original tweeter. You may modify the original tweet to make it more interesting [...]

MS Word Tip: Calculate Your Word Count

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

For those who are writers, did you know that you can add a toolbar to MSWord that shows you in an instant what your word count is?
To display this toolbar, go to View – Toolbars – Word Count. Just click on the recount button each time you want to see your current word count.

Increase Font Size in your Browser

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

Okay, so I have to admit that it’s getting a bit difficult to read the fine print, so for all you fellow 50 somethings – here is a great tip. You just visited a web site that has a lot of very useful information, but the font is just too small to read!
All you have [...]