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DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO DO WITH YOUR COMPUTER? SEND US A E-MAIL AND WE MAY BE ABLE TO POST IT HERE UNDER THE TIPS SECTION FOR YOU. NO QUESTION TOO DUMB WE ALL STARTED AT THE BEGINNING. COMING SOON 100's OF TIPS ON CD!
I know it's been awhile since any tips have gone up! Since the hurricanes we have not done very much with updating the site. After the initial posting of the damages in the Bay we have not done much. Watch for changes throughout the site and if you are signed up for our mailing we will be sending out a newsletter soon. Thanks to everyone who support us and this site we sure do appreciate it. | Is there a way to print my AOL Address book? | A: They never make things easy but, there is a way! Dial into AOL, Open Internet Explorer then go to http://my.aol.com Log on to your account and go to Mail, Addresses.
Ctrl+P to print. There you go—a printed list of addresses.
| Have you ever added something to "My Favorites" folder in your browser and then can't find it? Well, most times it is added to the BOTTOM of the list and if your list is long it is not only hard to find but time consuming. Here's a short tip to make your favorites list organized. Click on "My Favorites" and when the list opens RIGHT CLICK with your mouse somewhere in the list and select SORT BY NAME and it will sort your list alphabetically. | | Many of you have asked if you can change the displayed name in the emails you send out, so we are going to show you how for OutLook Express and Netscape Mail. Sorry AOL you can NOT change it. | This is for OutLook Express 1. Click the Tools menu, Accounts... 2. Click (select) the account name you want to modify, then click the Properties button. 3. On the General Tab, you'll see a "Name" field. Type in your name changes and hit OK.
That's it for Outlook Express, now for Netscape Mail. Here's how to do it in Netscape Mail (version 6) With Netscape Mail running, do the following: 1. Click the Edit menu, Mail / News Account Settings. 2. The Account Settings screen should pop up. You should see your e-mail address on the left. Click that. 3. You should see an Identity section. The first field in there is called "Your Name". Change that to what you would like your display name to be and hit OK.
That's it...you will find that most e-mail clients work in about the same manner. Thank you to Steve from Worldstart.com for this great tip.
| Keeping Your Contacts Email Address From Being Seen By The World! THIS TIP IF FOR OUTLOOK EXPRESS USERS. Have you ever gotten something forwarded to you with hundreds of e-mail addresses in the header? If so, your e-mail address may be getting unintentionally passed all over the net. When you send an email to everyone in your address book you risk making them vulnerable to "spammers". To avoid exposing the addresses of your friends to all of cyberspace, send your emails as Blind Carbon Copies (BCC). Here's how to do it... When you create or forward an e-mail in Outlook Express you usually click on "To:->" and make selections from your address book. If you look down, you'll see other options: "Cc:->" and "Bcc->". Simply highlight the addresses you want to send to and click "Bcc:->".
When you finish your selections, click OK and you will return to the New Message window. If you want to have this feature available to you in your CREATE MAIL window just click on CREATE MAIL and when your new message window opens go up to VIEW and click on ALL HEADERS. Now, in your new message window you will see BCC instead of clicking on "To" just click on "BCC" and now the spammers can't retrieve the email address. NOTE: This tip can be use in most email program but the procedure may different check your help files.
| Full Screen | If you would like to see more web page and less MS Internet Explorer toolbars, here's a little trick you'll like. Hit the F11 key. It will put you into "full screen" mode. Hit F11 again to go back to normal mode. BTW: F11 also works with Netscape Navigator and Opera to make full screen. | Changing Column Sizes There is more than one way to do this but I find the quickest is to double-click in the little space between columns, you'll find that the column automatically resizes itself so it shows the complete name of every item in the column.
* This works with most programs that use columns of information (Outlook, Excel, etc).
| Many people like to print out web pages and having a problem with the margins being cut off. Control Your Folders (and more) Do you ever find yourself scrolling through a huge folder? Well, if you need to get to the beginning or the end quickly, just press Ctrl+Home. If you want to get to the end, click Ctrl+End.
This little trick works on more than just folders. If you use the Home key in a word processor, it goes to the beginning of the line you're currently working on. If you hit the END key, it should head to the end of the current line. If you hit Ctrl Home & Ctrl End in a word processor, you will take you to the beginning or end of the document. Again, this should work, but it depends on your word processor. Try hitting the Home or End key while using your web browser too :-) Have you had your monitor go black after about 15 minutes of not using the computer? Windows has a Power Management setting that will shut your monitor off after a specified amount of time. If you don't like when it's shutting the monitor off, you can change it by doing the following: Win 95/98/ME/2000 Users: 1. Hit the Start button, Settings, Control Panel. Then open the Power Management icon. XP Users: 1. Hit the Start button, Control Panel, Power Options. Everyone: 2. Look for the "Turn off monitor" drop box (it's towards the bottom). Select the amount of time you want the computer to wait before shutting off the monitor, or tell it not to shut the monitor off at all. Have you ever wished you could alphabetize the program groups under your Start button? Well, save your wishes for something good, because you can! Here's how: (Note - you'll need IE 5.0 or better installed for this one - that should be most of you.) 1. Click the Start button, Programs. Highlight any program group (i.e. menu item) that's listed there. 2. Now, just right-click and select "Sort by name" from the resulting menu. That's it, all of your listed programs will be alphabetized. Remember that you can still drag and drop program groups around if you want to manually specify which ones sit at the top of the list. How many priceless URL'S are in your collection of Internet Favorites? Here's a handy shortcut: When your viewing a Web page and you want to open a hyperlink page in a new window, just press the SHIFT key and click the link. This opens the link in a new page and when you are finished browsing, you can close this second window and return to the original page without having to use the back button or wait for the page to reload. Here's a good tip for you Word users: If you ever want to draw a line across the entire width of your document here's a trick that will make this operation almost instantaneous! Just press a key three times and press ENTER. Example: for a solid line across the page , press the HYPHEN key three times and then press ENTER. For a thicker line use the UNDERLINE key. For a broken line use the ASTERISK key. For a double line across the page use the EQUAL sign. When you use the TILDE this will give you a squiggly line across the page. Enjoy this new trick! Here is an Excel 2000 tip that will make things easier for you. When you're working in an Excel worksheet, you can alternate between viewing the values in the cells and displaying the formulas. To toggle between the different views, press CTRL+` (single left quotation mark). Note: If you're having trouble finding the single left quotation mark, it's on the same key as the "~" symbol. On most keyboards, it's the key directly to the left of the "1" key. Have you ever been reading a document and suddenly come upon a line or paragraph so compelling you want to save it for later? Document scraps are simple. Select the text you'd like to save and drag it to your desktop. The document scrap becomes its own file, complete with a very scrappy-looking icon. If you ever wish to insert this scrap into another document, simply position the insertion point in your document where you'd like the scrap to appear and drag the scrap to the document. Word 2000 automatically inserts the text from the scrap. When you're viewing a Web page and you want to open a hyperlinked page in a new window, it's handy to know this shortcut: If you have a "Windows" keyboard with the special "Windows Key" on it, you can hit the <WinKey>+<Pause/Break> to instantly open the System Properties dialog box. This saves you the extra step of going to the Start Menu and opening the Control Panel, then clicking on the System Icon. Do you want to go to a Web Site without having to open your browser? Right-click your taskbar, choose the "toolbars" option.
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