Computer Tips

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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.

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.

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.
 Here's what to do. In your browser (i.e. Internet Explorer the big E) click on FILE and then PAGE SETUP and set your margins to be .25 for both the left and right margins. That should do it for you. If you still have a problem it could be that you have your text size set too high. In your browser window click on VIEW, then TEXT SIZE and select MEDIUM. These instructions are for Microsoft's Internet Explorer your browser may have different settings check your help file.

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.

(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?
If you use Internet Explorer 5 it only takes a few seconds to back them up to a safe place. Open a browser window and choose FILE, IMPORT and EXPORT. Run through the wizard, choosing EXPORT FAVORITES and specify the name and location where you want to store the backup file. Repeat the process using the EXPORT COOKIES menu choice. Save the backed-up files to a floppy disk for added security.

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?
Sure, you could save the whole document, but when all you're interested in is a line or two, why bother? Instead, you can save the selected passage as a document scrap, right on your desktop.

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:
Press the Shift key and click the link. This shortcut opens that link in a new window. After you're through browsing, you can close the second window and return to the original page without having to use the Back button or wait for the page to reload.

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.
Select  "Address" you will get a new item on the taskbar.
Now you can type in any URL (on the Internet, your hard drive, or a network share) and automatically open that page or folder.
This saves the steps of having to open your web browser, then typing in the address.