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December 21, 2005
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Exploring Word Toolbars Customize your Word environment with these handy toolbar options.   |
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May 17, 2006 |
Some Items Cannot Be Shown Get rid of the error message indicating that there is not enough room to show all the items added to the Start menu. |
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December 9, 2003 |
Shrink the Programs Menu How to solve the problems of too many programs to display in Windows XP's Start Menu |
PC World
November 2001
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Have You Clicked Your Links Toolbar Today? Get the most out of the Links toolbar, see full title paths in folder title bars, start up the way you want... |
PC Magazine
November 14, 2007
Helen Bradley |
Fast Data Entry in Excel Anytime you can enter data without having to type it yourself, you improve accuracy and save yourself effort. There are plenty of opportunities in Excel to enter data in a faster and smarter way than via the keyboard. |
PC World
February 2002
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Take Charge of Your Runaway Start Menu Slim down your Start menu by removing unused items... customize your Documents menu... set the size of file dialog boxes... |
PC Magazine
August 2, 2006 |
Eliminate "Recent Documents" Evidence Disable Window's XP history of your recent documents. |
PC Magazine
October 1, 2003
Neil J. Rubenking |
Personalize Office's Places Bar When I save a document in Word, a dialog box appears that lets me navigate to the folder where I want to save the file. Is there a way to add a folder to this list? |
PC Magazine
December 28, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Windows Explorer Loses Menu, Toolbar How to restore a missing main menu and toolbar from Window Explorer on Windows 2000 Professional. |
PC Magazine
January 10, 2007
Helen Bradley |
Organize with Links Organize your favorite links by adding them to the Internet Explorer 7 Links bar. |
PC Magazine
January 31, 2007 |
Recheck Spelling in Word A computer won't automatically ignore you when you say "ignore all," but you can create a macro so that it will. |
PC World
April 24, 2001
Scott Dunn |
What's on the Menu? You Decide Customize menus and accelerator keys... force Windows to exit or reboot... |
PC World
December 2005
Scott Dunn |
Find Your Files Faster by Giving Them Keywords Through Windows' File Properties, you can annotate files for easier searches later. |
PC World
September 25, 2007
Scott Dunn |
Restore the Run Command to Vista's Start Menu Here's a quick fix for the omission of this important option from the default Start menu in Vista. |
PC Magazine
December 9, 2003
Brickley & Cutting |
Automate Long Fills In Excel It's easy to create a macro that takes the hassle out of filling large ranges in Excel. |
PC World
December 2004
Scott Dunn |
Remove Unsolicited Junk From Your Context Menus How to remove several items from the menus that pop up when you right-click in Windows Explorer, especially shortcuts to programs that aren't being used. |
PC World
September 2002
Lincoln Spector |
Answer Line: What Apps Should I Use to Open Mystery Files? Programs for opening mystery files... customizing the Places Bar in IE 6's Save As dialog box... etc. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003
Neil J. Rubenking |
Search Internet Explorer Favorites Internet Explorer does not provide a way for users to search the Favorites folder, something that becomes essential when you have a large number of favorite sites. Here's a work-around. |
PC Magazine
February 14, 2007 |
IE Favorites in Alphabetical Order Configure Internet Explorer to automatically arrange the Favorites menu in alphabetical order. |
PC World
July 2001
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Locate Files on a Multigigabyte Drive Find files on a big hard drive, organize your Start menu, open apps fast... |
PC World
December 2003
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Throwback -- Give XP That Old-Time Windows Look Plus: Reopen folders automatically; restore lost desktop icons; and print faster, conserve paper. |
PC Magazine
May 17, 2006 |
Excel Filter Problem Resolved Making the count of matching items in Excel using it's Auto-Filter feature appear in the status bar at bottom left. |
PC World
January 2006
Scott Dunn |
Break Through Windows' Workspace Limitations Tips to gain usable space in Windows and in applications. |
PC Magazine
April 17, 2009
Neil J. Rubenking |
The Word Status Bar In Word 2003 the status bar displays a number of useful status items that have vanished in Word 2007. |
PC Magazine
December 1, 2008
Neil J. Rubenking |
Horribly Slow Browsing, Revisited Turning off Auto-Tuning in Vista. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Excel Times Two I have a two-monitor system. It should be like Internet Explorer or Microsoft Word, where you can have multiple windows open at the same time. Is this option available in Excel? |
PC Magazine
April 4, 2007 |
Can I Unstick Items in the Start Menu? Recreating the programs pinned to the Windows start menu. |
PC Magazine
October 5, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Taskbar Trouble My Windows XP taskbar acts as if it is locked, even though the Lock the Taskbar menu item is not checked. |
PC Magazine
September 10, 2008
Jeremy A. Kaplan |
Quick Launch Eyestrain? Tweak your XP or Vista interface to look more like Windows 7 Windows by taking advantage of a little-known feature. |
PC World
October 2001
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: A Better Start for Your Documents Menu Make the Documents menu display the file and folder shortcuts you want to see, use Windows' built-in glossary, optimize Windows' performance... |
PC Magazine
May 3, 2006 |
Down with Ugly Excel Charts Customize a default chart in Excel. |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Save a Multipage Image in Excel What do you do when you want to grab a screen image, but some of the data you want is off-screen? |
PC World
June 2002
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Six Windows Tweaks I Couldn't Live Without Make personal sticky notes, launch apps fast, create Search shortcuts, put folders on the Start menu... |
PC World
November 2003
Scott Dunn |
Windows Tips: Fast Windows Navigation Is a Command Performance Improve your Windows efficiency by typing commands instead of clicking the mouse. |
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September 29, 2015 |
Kudos Homepage Gets Upgrade Kudos redesigned its homepage, navigation bar, and header. |
PC Magazine
May 31, 2006 |
The Start Menu Got Way Too Wide Managing the programs in your Start Menu. |
PC World
March 21, 2007
Lincoln Spector |
Should I Report Program Problems to Microsoft? Tell Windows ahead of time when to send problem reports... Customize Office menus and Windows Explorer shortcuts. |
PC Magazine
January 31, 2007
Dave Cardinal |
Search to Start If you've become used to surfing your Program Menu to get to applications, you'll be in for a shock when you first use Microsoft Windows Vista. |
PC Magazine
July 2, 2008
Neil J. Rubenking |
Eight Handy Tools in Excel You Probably Don't Know About These simple features in Excel will smarten up your spreadsheets in no time. |
PC Magazine
July 17, 2008
Gary Berline |
Viewing Pictures in XP How to activate Filmstrip mode in when looking at pictures in Windows XP. |
PC World
February 22, 2007
Luhn & Hart-Davis |
Get Ready to Work With Office 2007's New Formats Office 2007's XML file formats can complicate migration and file sharing; be prepared. Also, tweak the suite's ribbon interface. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006 |
Force Unique Numbers in Excel Keep duplicate numbers from being inserted into a column in Microsoft Excel. |
PC Magazine
January 10, 2007
Edward Mendelson |
Introducing Office 2007 Depending on your point of view, Microsoft Office 2007 either changes everything or leaves everything basically the same. |
PC Magazine
September 7, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Totally Remove a URL from History Deleting a single address from IE's history list requires inside information. |
PC Magazine
July 19, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Inserting an Address Bar Code in Word In Microsoft Word 2003, is there a way to get the address bar code on a letter for use with a windowed envelope? |
PC World
November 2000
George Campbell |
Format Documents for Other Word Processors Format documents to look the same in other programs, mark index entries in text... |
PC Magazine
March 7, 2008
Neil J. Rubenking |
Can You Bottom-Line That for Me? Microsoft Word 2003 includes a strange but handy feature called AutoSummarize. |
PC Magazine
September 12, 2007
Anton Galang |
Vista Tip: Using Quick Launch The Quick Launch bar became more convenient in the jump from Windows XP to Vista. |
PC World
April 29, 2002
Yael Li-Ron |
Customize Your Windows Desktop Want Windows your way? Follow our tips and whip your desktop into shape. |
PC Magazine
July 13, 2005
Neil J. Rubenking |
Wrong Dialogs Appear One of our readers discovered a technique for adding Move To Folder or Copy To Folder options to the context menu. It turns out, however, that this technique has an unwanted side effect. |
