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:
Blank rows can be beneficial when it comes to making your spreadsheet easier to read, however if you are going to pull the data into another application (such as Access), the blank rows can cause you some problems. You could go through the painful task of selecting and removing these rows individually, but if you are working with a large spreadsheet, it could take forever to accomplish this. Instead, utilize Go To Special and let Excel do the work for you. Here’s how:
By default, PowerPoint ends your presentation with a black slide. If you would rather it end with your final slide, follow these steps and be rid of the black slide.
Don’t you hate it when you are printing out a large spreadsheet document and ed up having to sort through it to remove the empty pages? You can suppress the output of empty pages and avoid this unnecessary task by following these steps:
Free up room on your Task Bar by minimizing your Outlook to the System Tray.
At some point after installing OpenOffice.org, you may need to change the association of documents created by one (or all) of the Microsoft Office applications. This may be to open them in OpenOffice.org or in Microsoft Office, or some combination of the two.
Vista incorporates a feature called the User Account Control (UAC) to help ensure that users don’t accidentally make unwanted changes to their system by prompting them for admin authorization. UAC is also useful in stopping malware from grabbing admin privileges without the user knowing it. However, if you are an Administrator on the PC, the UAC can become quite annoying during initial set up and configuration of the system. You can disable the User Account Control for Administrators on the computer while keeping the UAC enabled for standard users by following these steps:
There are times that it is useful for replies to a mail message to be directed to another email address or person. This makes it easier to delegate responses to someone else. To direct the replies to your message, follow these steps:
Using the cmd-tab app switcher, you can hide or quit programs. With a busy desktop and a bunch of apps running, these shortcuts will quickly trim down a busy system.
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