FAQs - Microsoft (other applications)
I have just had Internet Explorer installed on my PC and would like to change the appearance of the toolbar.
You can move or resize the Address or Links bar by clicking on them and dragging them up, down, left or right. They can even be moved into the menu bar of Internet Explorer 4.0. When just the Links bar is moved down by itself, it expands into buttons that make navigating the web even easier.
In a new Message go to File, Properties, click on the Send Options button and on the Microsoft Exchange Server tab you will find the options to set the message to Send this item in so many minutes, hours, days or weeks. After you make your selection, click on Apply, Ok and then Apply and Ok again.
The Remove All command does not remove actor files. Delete the .act files to completely remove the Office Assistant.
This product is often called a connector, when actually it's a service. To install this service, you need to be in the Exchange Administrator program on the Exchange Server. Under File, then New Other, select Internet Mail Service. This will activate a set-up wizard which will lead you through the installation process.
When typing in a name in the TO, CC, BCC or FROM field of a new message, type all or part of the addressee's name, then press Alt-K. This will bring up the rest of the addressee's name or a short list to choose the addressee's name.
Go to Tools and select Address Book. On the File menu select New Entry and from the Select the Entry Type list, select Personal Distribution List. Below the list is an option to Put this entry in the Personal Address Book, be sure that option is selected and click on OK. The next box appears to type the name for the Personal Distribution list and to double click on the names of the people you want on the list. You choose the Add/Remove Members to choose the members, click on Apply and then OK.
Chalk it up to a limitation in the program. One suggestion to run around this problem is to select Format AutoShape and increase the size of the table. Or you might want to try decreasing the size of the font to allow more content.
Use the built in "Pack and Go" wizard in PowerPoint and 95. This wizard will identify all linked objects to your presentation and save them to your destination disk. A copy of PowerPoint Reader is also packaged on the disk.
Yes. By pressing the B key during a slide show, the screen will blank out to a black background. To blank it out with a white background, press the W key. Press the B or W key again to pick up the presentation where you left off.
1. Select Insert, New Slide. 2. In the New Slide window select Blank. The new slide will be inserted into the presentation, but it will contain the background format from the template. 3. To clear the background format to the slide select Format, then Background. 4. In the Background window click Omit background graphics from master. 5. Click Apply, the background graphic will now be cleared from the slide.
To print the slides along with their associated notes, choose File, Print. When the Print dialog box opens, click the arrow at the right side of the Print What list box and select Notes Pages. Click OK to continue. This will print one slide per page, along with the attached notes.
Use the MPX format.
Not at all. Just change the current publication's "default" text frame to have no margins. Click the Text Frame Tool and without drawing a frame, choose Text Frame Properties from the Format menu. Change all the margins (Left, Right, Top, and Bottom) to 0 and click OK. Changing the "default" text frame margins won't affect the margins of any frames you've already created, but from now on each new frame you add in the publication will have no margins. Use this same technique to add larger margins, specific borders, shadows, or fill colors.
This behavior occurs because a Compact installation does not install the .fmt files that Schedule+ requires in order to print. Perform one of the two methods: 1.Copy the following files from the original disks or CD: Av41206.fmt, Av41256.fmt, Av41307.fmt, Av41367.fmt, Avl7901.fmt, Avl7902.fmt, Dyno106.fmt, Normal.fmt 2. Reinstall Schedule+ from the original media and do a custom install and select all, make sure you include additional layouts and paper formats.
To ensure that two words remain on the same line of text, put a nonbreaking space between them: Instead of pressing the spacebar, press Ctrl-Shift-Space. The words on either side of the space will remain together.
Yes, you will need to have the Powerpoint slide or presentation open. Then go to File, click on Send To and then select the Word command. This will create a new Word document containing the current Powerpoint slide or presentation.
Go to Tools and choose Inbox Assistant, then click on Add Rule. Specifiy the conditions that the item must meet to be deleted. For example, select who the message will be From, and Sent To and the Subject of the message body. If more conditions are needed, click on the Advanced button and specify the conditions and click on OK. Under the Perform these actions in the Edit Rule box, click the Delete option and click on OK and OK to set the rule.
Yes, besides being able to scroll through a web page by rotating the wheel button forward and backward, you can continuously scroll through your current Web page by holding down the wheel button while moving the mouse. You can also "datazoom" with the IntelliMouse; just press and hold down the SHIFT key while you rotate the wheel. Use this to jump to any link by pointing to it and then "datazooming" forward. Datazoom back to return to the previous topic or Web site.
To copy a Microsoft Project picture into another program or a web page: You can copy information as a static picture from the active Microsoft Project view and paste it into any program capable of displaying graphics information as images. You can also save the picture in a web-compatible file format. You can copy a picture of the entire view or select and copy a portion of any view except the Task PERT, Task Form, and Resource Form views. 1. On the View Bar, click More Views. 2. In the Views list, click the view you want, and then click Apply. 3.To copy all visible portions of your plan, click Copy Picture. To copy only a portion of your plan, select the information you want to copy, and then click Copy Picture. 4. Specify how you want the image rendered: a. To copy the information for display on a screen, click For screen. b. To copy the information as it would be printed, click For printer. c. To copy the information as a GIF image file, for use in a web page and in other programs, click To GIF image file, and then specify the path and file name. 5. If you want to copy only the rows you have selected, click Selected rows. The default action is to copy all visible portions of the plan. 6. To copy information for a range of dates other than those currently displayed in the time scale, click Date, and then enter a starting and ending date in the from and To boxes. 7. Click OK. 8. If you clicked For screen or For printer, switch to the program into which you want to paste the Microsoft Project information, and then paste the picture using the program's Paste command. Note: You may need to adjust the size of the picture to display all the data in another program.
1. Click the View menu. 2. Click Columns. 3. Add or remove available columns and adjust pixel or character width to increase or decrease the width allotted for the information. 4. Change column order by moving columns up or down in the list with the Move Up and Move Down buttons. 5. Click OK.
To Copy/Paste a screen shot: 1. Open web page and then Ctrl-Print Screen 2. Open PowerPoint presentation with blank slide and then press Ctrl-V 3. Ctrl-Print Screen and Ctrl-V can be used to Copy/Paste screen shots.
1. Press Ctrl+P while running the slide show accesses the highlighter pen. Right click on the presentation and choose Pen Color. This changes the color of the pen. By default the color of the pen is black.
If you have clip-art in an Encapsulated PostScript format, you cannot print it to a non-postscript printer. Also, the art appears onscreen as either a low-resolution version of the actual picture, or a simple placeholder containing the name of the picture file. This can make it difficult to know exactly what the picture will look like before you print the publication. In other words, if you don’t have a PostScript printer (or access to one), you are better off using clip art in other formats such as Windows Metafile (WMF) or TIFF. If you do have a PostScript printer, the EPS image will look fantastic when printed.
Measured in (bytes), the largest publication size is 2GB (precisely 2,149,580,800 bytes). Measured in objects, the largest size Publisher can handle is 65,536. Each page, story (text frame or series of linked frames), OLE object, and drawing object, counts as an object. Most probably the object limit will be reached before you hit the file size limit.
Press Shift+Enter instead of Enter. Publisher should move the cursor to the next line--indenting it to match the paragraph above. It should not give you a bullet. When you want to use a bullet, press Enter. You can use the same technique for numbered paragraphs.
The answer to this question applies to any Windows 9.x based software products. 1. Using the Mouse, place the Mouse pointer at the beginning of the text. 2. Press and hold the shift key. 3. Using the cursor keys (page up, page down, cursor up/down/left/right), highlight the section to be reformatted. 4. Select the new format (font, pitch, bold, underline, italics, etc)
Is there a way that Microsoft Publisher 98 can automatically change the font size for a title to accommodate the width of the text frame? Yes, Publisher has a “Best Fit” feature. First click the Text tool and draw a frame that's the same width you want your title to be. Next choose Format, Copyfit Text, Best Fit. Now type your text; and as you type, Publisher automatically adjusts the font size to fit the frame.
In order to do this, you will need to place your mouse either at the beginning of the specific toolbar (there is two vertical lines there) or place it at the end of the toolbar. Then click and drag the toolbar to the middle of the document. Once you get it there you can then click on the x in the upper right corner of the box and it will disappear.
Unfortunately, this is a limitation of Publisher 98. It does not let you print a selected area of a publication like Word or Excel.
You need to move the Actors folder to a new location, to prevent Office programs from finding it. 1. Close all Office programs currently running. 2. Open Windows Explorer and locate your Office folder (usually c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office). 3. After the Office folder has been selected locate the Actors folder in the right pane. 4. Select the Actors folder using the right mouse button and drag this folder to another location. When the mouse button is released a menu will open, choose Move.
1. From the menu bar select View, then Header and Footer. 2. To add or change information to your slides, click Slide Tab. To add or change information to notes pages and handouts click the Notes and Handouts tab. 3. Choose the option you want 4. You can add the information to the current slide by clicking Apply or to all the slides in the presentation by selecting Apply to All. It is also possible to insert a slide number, date or time on an individual slide by selecting Date and Time or Slide Number command from the Insert menu.
1. From the menu bar select View, Master, then click on Slide Master. 2. Insert an object into the slide master. To return to your slide, click Close on the Master View toolbar. The object should now appear in all of the slides in the presentation. If the object does not appear in your slides choose Format from the menu bar, then Background and make sure the Omit background graphics from master check box is not selected.
To create a series of slides in Portrait orientation in a PowerPoint presentation set up for landscape orientation, you must first put the slides with the portrait orientation into a new presentation, create a link to the presentation, and then open that presentation during the slide show. To set up a hyperlink in a presentation 1. Save the presentation you want to insert the hyperlink into. 2. Select the text or object you want to represent the hyperlink. 3. On the Slide Show menu, click Action Settings. 4. You will have two options to choose from. To jump by clicking the selected object, click the Mouse Click tab. To jump by moving the mouse over the object, click the Mouse Over tab. 5. Click Hyperlink to, and then click the drop down arrow and choose Other File. 6. The Hyperlink to Other File window will appear. Browse to the file that you want to link to and click ok. 7. Select any other options you want, and then click OK. To preview how a hyperlink will appear in the slide show, click View menu and choose Slide Show
1. On the Tools Menu, choose Options 2. The Options window will appear, click the Print tab 3. Make sure that Print true type fonts as graphics is selected Click OK, the text should now appear when the slide is printed.
There are several methods to accomplish this task, but the easiest is as follows: 1. Open a blank slide in PowerPoint. 2. Choose Insert, Picture and then Clip Art. 3. Select a picture and click Insert. 4. Hold down the Ctrl key and click on the object to be copied. Drag a copy of the object to a new location. 5. This can be repeated as often as needed, as long as you continue to hold down the Ctrl key. Ctrl-C to copy and Ctrl-V to paste may also be used and does not require holding down the Ctrl key.
Once you have created your slide in PowerPoint go to the Slide Show on the menu bar at the top and then click on Custom Animation. Here you can then select any part of the slide or even the whole slide for what you want to animate and add sound to. You can even tell it when to play the music or do the animation.