Archiving Outlook Folders
In some cases, Outlook puts email messages, tasks, and appointments older than six months into the Archive folder — a special folder for items that Outlook thinks are stale or not worth keeping. Outlook [more…]
Making Your First Movie with Adobe Premiere Elements
Sometimes the best way to get to know a program is to just dig in and get your hands dirty with it, actually putting its features to use as the designers intended. If you have a digital camcorder handy [more…]
How to Configure Your Laptop for a Remote Desktop Connection
With Windows Vista, it’s amazingly easy to set up the Remote Desktop feature so that you can work between your laptop and desktop computers. Keep in mind that you should use Remote Desktop only in a secure [more…]
Editing in Word 2007: Track Changes and Review
Writing is a lonely art . . . that is, until editors show up. They'll make revisions by adding to your carefully written work, moving stuff around, and deleting text [more…]
Creating a Rule in Lotus Notes 6
A rule tells Notes what to do with certain incoming messages. For example, you could have a rule that always puts messages with a certain word in the subject field in a certain folder, or a rule that moves [more…]
Recording Your Movie on DVD with Adobe Premiere
You've probably noticed that DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) has become the hot method for distributing movies today. However, until recently the process of mastering a DVD movie was complex, and the hardware [more…]
Set Up Windows Vista to Connect to a Wireless Network
After you’ve set up your wireless network, you must tell Windows Vista to connect to it. You begin to connect to a wireless network from Vista’s Start menu. [more…]
Fixing Exposure with Shadow/Highlight in Photoshop cs
The new Shadow/Highlight adjustment in Photoshop cs is a great new feature that offers a quick and easy method of correcting the lighting in your photos. It allows you to correct over- and underexposed [more…]
InDesign CS2: Controlling Space between Characters and Lines
The legibility of a block of text depends as much on the space around it, called white space, as it does on the readability of the font. InDesign CS2 offers two ways to adjust the space between characters [more…]
Vista’s Hidden Menu Bar
To help you keep track of your computer’s commands, Vista hides its menus inside the menu bar. In fact, Vista even hides every folder’s menu bar. To bring them back, press Alt, and they drop into place [more…]
Inserting and Deleting Pages in PDF Documents with Acrobat
Instead of replacing pages, you may just find that you need to insert a new page or group of pages in the PDF document. When inserting new pages, you can choose between similar methods as when replacing [more…]
Applying Conditional Formatting in Excel 2007
Excel 2007's conditional formatting lets you change the appearance of a cell based on its value or the value of another cell. You specify certain conditions, and when those conditions are met, Excel applies [more…]
Get to Know the Word 2007 Mail Merge Feature
Mail Merge is a feature in Word 2007 that allows you to take a single document, like a letter, stir in a list of names and data, and combine (merge) everything into a final set of documents, each of which [more…]
How to Connect to a Peer-to-Peer Workgroup
Connect your PC to a peer-to-peer workgroup so that you can communicate with other computers. Peer-to-peer workgroups are typically found in small or home offices. [more…]
How to Use Excel 2007’s Scale to Fit Printing Options
Use the Scale to Fit settings in Excel 2007 if you need to make a worksheet fit to get a few last rows or columns on a single page. You can use the Width, Height, and Scale options in the Scale to Fit [more…]
Comparing Two Excel 2007 Worksheets Side by Side
You can use the View Side by Side command button on the View tab in Excel 2007 to quickly and easily do a side-by-side comparison of any two worksheet windows that you have open. When you click this button [more…]
Wrapping Text around a Graphic in Word 2007
When you first insert a picture into a document, Word 2007 places it in line with the text. Sometimes, you want the text to wrap around the picture. When you need to change the text wrapping style, select [more…]
How to Create Labels with Mail Merge in Word 2007
You can use the Mail Merge feature in Word 2007 to create labels. Word prints on labels just as it prints on any sheet of paper, with each cell the same size as the sticky labels. When the sheet is printed [more…]
How to Free Space on Your Hard Drive
You should free space on your hard drive to keep your PC running well. You need to free space on your hard drive more often with Vista than with earlier versions of Windows. [more…]
Before You Buy: How Much Laptop Hardware Do You Need?
The three basic items you want to mull over when you're shopping for a laptop computer and trying to match its hardware to the software you need are [more…]
Setting Task Duration in Microsoft Project 2007
Most tasks in a project have a duration, whether it's ten minutes or a year or something in between. Deciding how finely to break down your tasks can affect how efficiently you use Microsoft Project to [more…]
How to Share Your Laptop’s Internet Access with Another PC
You can share your Internet access by connecting your laptop with a non-wireless computer. First, you need to connect your laptop with the other computer by using a standard Ethernet cable. [more…]
How to Set the Macro Security Level in Excel 2007
Security is an important issue when you're working with Excel 2007 macros. If you open worksheets containing macros from outside sources, these macros could be harmful to your computer. By default, Excel [more…]
How to Create a One-Variable Data Table in Excel 2007
To create a one-variable data table to perform what-if analysis in Excel 2007, you enter a series of input values either across columns of a single row or down the rows of a single column. The formulas [more…]
How to Display All Formulas in an Excel 2007 Worksheet
In Excel 2007, it can be difficult to view your formulas without accidentally editing them. That’s because anytime you are in “edit” mode and the active cell has a formula, the formula might incorporate [more…]
