By default, Vista allows you to encrypt and decrypt files, but you have to do a lot of mouse clicking to get there. You have to right-click the file, select Properties, click the Advanced button and then finally select to encrypt the file. Wouldn’t it be much more convenient to just right-click the file and select Encrypt? Here’s how:
If you would rather not have to see the PowerPoint splash screen each and every time you run the application, follow these steps to get around it:
Footnotes are sometimes necessary for providing additional information in your document. They normally use a superscript number as a marker, making it easy for the reader to simply look down from the text to the notes at the bottom to gather further information. Writer can automatically keep track of the numbering and placement of the footnotes for you, making this a painless task to perform when writing that thesis, book, or scientific paper. To insert footnotes into your Writer document, do the following…
Daylights Savings Time workaround for Cisco IOS devices. Of course, updating the IOS to a DST-corrected version will eliminate the need for this fix, but…
When analyzing your spreadsheet, especially if it contains financial data, it can be quite helpful to have negative numbers standout as a different color from the positive ones. This makes it much easier to find problem areas. To do this:
Periodically, you will run into situations where the data you are working with needs to be rearranged in such a manner that the columns of data need to be the rows and the rows need to be the columns. Calc refers to this as Transposing the data. This is quite useful when the main focus of the data has changed from one aspect (the columns) to another (the rows).
Inputing a list of employees, their email address, phone number, etc. can be a lengthy task to do by hand if you are dealing with a large number of people. If all of them are currently members of your domain and you are using Exchange as your mail server then you can compile this list off of the Global Address List in minutes versus hours. Here’s how:
Page numbers can be an important aspect of a large report, especially if you will be utilizing a Table of Contents or Index for your report. It is also useful to the reader if they need to reference the document or refer someone else to information within the report. To add page numbers to your document, follow these steps:
In large spreadsheets, it is quite useful to include the columns and/or row headings on each page so that the user of the document can easily find the data they are looking for without having to refer to the first page to locate the proper headings.
Whether you refer to them as flash drives, USB drives, or pen drives, these portable storage devices can be both a blessing and a curse. More and more administrators are being tasked with preventing users from being able to copy important documents onto these drives to prevent loss of important data. To prevent a user from writing to USB drives attached to a computer running Vista, follow these steps:
By default, Outlook shows the Inbox when the application is launched. You may want to have it open up to your Calendar or Tasks (or possibly Contacts, Notes, Journal, or other folder). You can change the default opening folder and have the information you need when you open Outlook by following these steps:
If you are running Vista Ultimate on a domain, you will notice that Parental Controls is disabled by default. In order to utilize Parental Controls so you can limit access to the web, set hours that the account can access the computer, what games can be played and what applications can be run, you will need to enable this functionality. Parental Controls can only be applied to standard users, not administrators. To enable this Parental Controls on a domain computer, follow these steps:
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