Windows – MS Outlook Add On: Xobni
Xobni (www.xobni.com) – ‘inbox’ spelled backwards is a new favorite “must have” tool for productivity.
XOBNI is an MS Outlook plug-in that indexes all your email (including those you’ve sent) and creates a sidebar profile for each of your contacts. When you click on an email, you can [...]

Windows Tip of the Month: Hard Drive Maintenance
So…it’s the end of the year – time to clean up your hard drive. Cleaning up your hard drive will keep your Windows system working well. You should occasionally run the disk cleanup and disk defragmenter utilities. This also helps if you are short on hard drive space.

Disk [...]

Windows Tip of the Month: Keyboard Shortcuts for Changing Font Size

To change the font size of selected text, try these keyboard shortcuts:
To increase or decrease font size incrementally according to the sizes listed in the font size drop-down list:
Increase: [Ctrl] + [Shift] + >
Decrease: [Ctrl] + [Shift] + <
To increase or decrease font size one [...]

Did you know that you can browse the internet from Outlook? If you are using versions 2002, 2003 and 2007 – you can. Perhaps you are reading an email and a Website is mentioned that you want to check out. Instead of closing Outlook and opening your Web browser, you can view the site directly [...]

Number of Worksheets:  Excel’s default is three worksheets and 99% of the time you probably only need one worksheet. If you send the file to someone, they are most likely to click on the other two worksheets to see if there is content on them. To change the default to one worksheet:

Choose Tools, Options. Select [...]

Many of us spend a great deal of time in MS Outlook and are always looking for ways to be more efficient.

Reminders, which are extremely easy to set up, are one of the most underutilized functions. To set up a reminder having to do with any message, which will be visible in your Inbox [...]

Excel spreadsheets can get fairly large and unwieldy on your computer monitor, making printing on standard 8.5 x 11 paper a long and frustrating experience. You can, however, select that your spreadsheet print to the width of your paper.

Click on the worksheet
On the File menu, click Page Setup, and then click the Page tab
Click [...]

Did you know that your calendar only has holidays listed until 12/31/07? Microsoft has a patch that will add holidays through 2012 and is located at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924423. The link provides full installation instructions, so please review these carefully before installing the update.

Here are a few shortcuts and tricks that may help you when using Excel:

Did you know that if you hold down the Control key and then use your scroll button on the mouse it will either zoom or condense your worksheet view?
Need to list the months of the year or perhaps a [...]

It’s easy to create signatures in Outlook. You can also create signatures in Word and import them into Outlook. In Preferences, check the box that says “Add Signatures to all outgoing messages.” The advantage of using Word is that it allows you to include images and hyperlinks. Electronic [...]

You just received an email with multiple attachments and know there just has to be an easier way to save them simultaneously rather than saving each one individually. Well there is. . .Microsoft Outlook does allow you to do this in just four easy steps.

Open the email containing the attachments
From the pull-down menu in Outlook, [...]

VistaPrint.com – VistaPrint offers high-quality printing in small or large quantities at very affordable prices (and they usually have some sort of special going on). I have been using Vista Print for a number of years and have never been disappointed by their quality and timeliness in receiving the [...]