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For Microsoft Office Word 2007

Removing Comments and Changes from a Document Have you ever sent a Microsoft Office Word document that contained comments or tracked changes that you didn’t want visible? Document Inspector eliminates this worry. 1. Click the Office icon, point to Prepare, and then click Inspect Document. 2. By default, all check boxes are selected in Document Inspector. Clear the check box next to any items that you don't want Document Inspector to look for, and then click Inspect. 3. Remove items not for publication. Document Inspector indicates what it finds in your document, so you can choose what you want to remove, and then confidently publish your document.

For the 2007 Microsoft Office system

Use the Quick Access Toolbar You can add your favorite—or most commonly used—commands to the Quick Access Toolbar in the 2007 Microsoft Office system, so that these tools are always easy to find. You’ll find the Quick Access Toolbar next to the Office button above the Ribbon. The default commands on the Quick Access Toolbar are Save, Undo, and Repeat. You can add your most-used favorites by clicking the expandable arrow to the right of the Quick Access Toolbar to open the Customize Quick Access Toolbar menu. Here, you can select the set of commands that you want on the Quick Access Toolbar . To add commands that aren't on the list, click More Commands. If you're adding a lot of new commands to the Quick Access Toolbar, use the Customize menu and click Show Below the Ribbon. This will move your Quick Access Toolbar to below the Ribbon to give it more room to expand.

For Microsoft Office Groove 2007

Exchanging Contact Information—Sending Your Contact to Others You can send your Microsoft Office Groove 2007 contact to others right from the Common Tasks pane on the Contacts tab in the Launchbar. 1. Click Send My Contact via E-mail. 2. Type the e-mail addresses of the people whom you want to receive your contact. 3. Recipients receive an e-mail message with a hyperlink that automatically adds your contact to their list in the Groove Launchbar.

For Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 || RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are an easy way to subscribe to interesting information like world news, sport scores, or blogs. With Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, it’s easy to start adding and reading RSS subscriptions. 1. Click the mail folder called RSS Feeds. 2. Choose a feed that interests you from the RSS Feeds content directory. 3. Outlook prompts you to add this feed to your list. Click OK. 4. Outlook creates a specific RSS subscription folder for this feed below the main RSS Feeds folder. Note: When using Office Outlook 2007 with Windows Internet Explorer 7, you can keep a synchronized list of subscriptions between the two programs.

For Microsoft Office OneNote 2007

Sending Information from Outlook to OneNote Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 has a Send to OneNote button for inserting relevant content from an e-mail thread into your Microsoft Office OneNote notebook. Click the Send to OneNote button in your Inbox, and both the e-mail thread and metadata such as date, time, sender, and subject will be inserted into the Unfiled Notes section of your OneNote notebook.

Restore Previous Version of a Recent File

On occasion you make a mistake, and you want to revert to a previous version of a file you have been working on. After System Protection is configured, you can do so with Windows Vista . Right-click the file, and then select the version you want. Note: System Protection must be configured, and you must have sufficient disk space.

Send a Calendar Snapshot

Send a Calendar Snapshot With a calendar snapshot, you can communicate your calendar information to anyone, anytime. To send a calendar snapshot: 1. Click the calendar. 2. Click the Send a Calendar via E-mail link in the left navigation pane. 3. In the dialog box, choose which calendar you want to send information from, the date range, and the level of details that you want to share. Microsoft Office Outlook creates a visual representation of your calendar information in the body of the e-mail message and also attaches the information as an .ics file.

Creating a PivotTable View

Microsoft PivotTable dynamic views help you change the axis that your data is organized around. To create a PivotTable view: 1. Click anywhere inside the range of data. 2. On the Ribbon, on the Insert tab, click PivotTable. 3. In the PivotTable Field List pane, check the fields that you want to visualize. 4. Rearrange your fields by dragging the row labels, column labels, and values to where you want them. 5. To add a filter, check the desired field, and drag it to the Report Filter box. Microsoft Office Excel will display the sum of the data in the value field, but you can quickly modify the field to track other totals types, such as average, minimum value, or maximum value: 1. In the Values box, click the arrow next to the value that you want to modify. 2. Select Value Field Settings. 3. Change the setting from Sum to the desired type of calculation.

Test your antivirus working or not.

Here are some trick using your notepad to test your antivirus . Firstly, Open notepad and paste this: X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H* Then save it as eicar.com . Your Anti-virus will then either not let you save it of when you have saved it will remove it for you. Dont worry about it. Your pc not crash. European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research (EICAR) have got people to program Anti-Virus to recognise this as a threat (even tough its completely harmless). You can read more about this trick here

How to Disable SuperFetch in Vista

The SuperFetch feature in Vista preloads system’s memory with the applications that you use most often which helps to launch such applications faster. Well, it isn’t clear that enabling or disabling it will increase performance. But if you open and close lot of applications then I guess you should disable it. Here’s a short and easy tutorial for disabling the Superfetch feature in Vista. Type services.msc into the Start menu search or run box. Now, double-click on Superfetch in the list to open up the properties, and then change the drop-down to “Disabled” . You can also click Stop to immediately turn it off.

How to Restrict User Logon Hours in Windows XP

Sometimes if your children use a lot of computer you might want to restrict their windows logon hours so that they have control over their computer usage and concentrate on studies. Well, it’s not just children, you might also like to control any users logon hours on your pc. You can do this either by using a software or by a simple windows command. If you wanna go the software way then you gotta pay. So, let’s go the easy way, i.e. by a simple windows command. Here’s how you do it: Go to start> Run Now type cmd and hit enter. You need to make use of the net user command, check out for some examples below: net user rsh /time:M-F,08:00-17:00 net user rsh /time:M-F,8am-5pm net user rsh /time:M,4am-5pm;T,1pm-3pm;W-F,8:00-17:00 net user rsh /time:all (this allows user to logon at any time, on any day) Type any one of the above and replace rsh with your windows username. Note: You can only restrict the user by one-one hour (for instance 14:00, 17:00, not 14:30 or 17:4...

How to Increase External USB Hard Drive Speed in Vista

Nowadays most of us use external hard drives; it’s mainly because they are portable and light. How to Increase External USB Hard Drive Speed in Vista , It’s concerned with turning write caching on and activating advanced performance. This tip is not encouraged if you have frequent power cuts. It’s because enabling write caching will result in data loss if there’s power failure or maybe if the drive is plugged out too quickly. Ok, so if you don’t have a problem of power cuts and if you handle the drive safely then here’s a tutorial to speed up your external USB hard drive speed . 1. Go to Start and right click on Computer and select Manage. 2. Now click on Device Manager. 3. Expand the Disk drives branch and search for your external drive in the list. 4. Once you find it, right click on it and select Properties. 5. On the Policies tab select Optimize for performance. 6. Check the boxes titled “Enable write caching on the disk” and “Enable advanced performance” as shown below. 7. Clic...

How to Create a List of Files and Folders in a Directory

We have several files and folders in our computers. Sometimes we may require a list of files and folders in a particular directory. Looking for each file and folder and listing them isn’t easy. But there’s an easy way to generate or create a list of files and folders in a location. Here’s how you do it: Go to Start> Accessories> Notepad Now type the following: dir /s > output.txt Save the file as “genfile.bat”, close Notepad. Now to generate a files and folder list of a specific location, simply paste genfile.bat into it and double click on it. It will create a new text file in same place with the name “output” which will contain the list of all the files and folders present in the location. It not only shows the names of files and folders but it also shows the date on which they were created, their file size, etc. Download File

How to Fix Access Denied Error in Vista

Sometimes when you try to open certain folders like Document and Settings, Application Data, etc in Windows Vista you get an error message saying “Access Denied”. This problem generally occurs when particular user’s rights in the NTFS partition are altered by someone or some program. Here’s a workaround for this problem, follow the below instructions carefully: 1. Right click on the Folder and select Properties 2. Now, click on the Security tab and Click on the Advanced button 3. Click on the Owner tab and click on the Edit button 4. In the Change owner to box, highlight your account 5. Check Replace owner on subcontainers and objects 6. Click on Apply and Click on Yes to replace all permissions 7. Continue to click on OK until you finish. That’s it now you’ll have access to the folder.

How To Open Websites without a Browser

Yes now its possible with simple trick. It most of companies and Institution Browser are uninstall from the computers so that their staff cannot browse any website. But now you can surf any website on that PC without any Browser. Just follow these steps- 1. Open a notepad or Calculator or Paint anyone application in you pc. 2. Go to the Help section and Click Help Topics. 3. After the New Window Comes, Left Click on the icon in the top left corner. 4. Click on the Jump Url and write the web add of your fav site ( Full add with http:// ) there. Now click Ok and Your site will open within a seconds.

"Your system is low on virtual memory” error message

SYMPTOMS When you start any of the Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2003 programs, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following error message: Your system is low on virtual memory. To ensure that Windows runs properly, increase the size of your virtual memory paging file. For more information, see Help. If you click OK, you may receive the following error message: Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory paging file. During this process, memory requests for some applications may be denied. For more information, see Help. CAUSE This behavior may occur if you try to start any of the programs included in Office on a computer where the paging file value setting is too low. RESOLUTION To resolve this behavior, increase the size of the paging file. To do so, follow these steps as appropriate for your operating system. Windows 2000 1. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. 2. In the System Proper...

How to Clear Browser Cache on Exit in IE 7

Now Internet Explorer 7 comes with the option which will help you clear all your caches files on exit. This will help you to clear all temp files, cookies which are useless for you. What’s the downside of it? These temporary files form a cache that will speed up your browsing experience. For those on broadband, however, the effect is not very noticeable. Clear your Temp Browser Files Upon Exit : 1. Open IE7 2. Click the Tool menu (Gear icon upper right hand corner) 3. Select Internet Options 4. Click Advanced tab 5. Check Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed 6. Click OK 7. Restart Browser

Temporary Internet Files Use More Disk Space Than Specified

SYMPTOMS You may experience either or both of the following symptoms: • Your Temporary Internet Files folder may use more disk space than you specified in Amount of disk space to use (to locate Amount of disk space to use, click Settings on the General tab of the Internet Options dialog box). • Files that are downloaded from Web sites may remain in your Temporary Internet Files folder (but are not visible in Windows Explorer) after you click Delete Files on the General tab of the Internet Options dialog box, and then click to select the Delete all offline content check box. NOTE: By design, Windows Explorer uses the Desktop.ini and Index.dat files to provide the functionality of the Temporary Internet Files shell extension. Index.dat is the Internet Explorer cache index file. It facilitates the browser cache mechanism that speeds access to frequently accessed web pages across different browser processes in the same user context.Cookies are also displayed when you view the Temporary Int...

Clearing your cache

he information your browser stores is sometimes incomplete or corrupt. Deleting your browser's cache and cookies will often fix Gmail issues. For instructions, please select your browser below: Firefox In Firefox for PCs: 1. Log out of Gmail and close all other open browser windows. 2. Click the Tools menu at the top of your browser and select Clear Private Data... 3. Select the Cookies and Cache checkboxes. 4. Click Clear Private Data Now. In Firefox for Macs: 1. Log out of Gmail and close all other open browser windows. 2. Click the Firefox menu at the top of your browser and select Preferences... 3. Select the Privacy tab. 4. Click Clear Now... at the bottom of the dialogue box. 5. Check the boxes next to Cache and Cookies in the new dialogue box. 6. Click Clear Private Data Now. Internet Explorer In Internet Explorer 6.x: 1. Log out of Gmail. Close all other open...

Gmail says my browser's cache is full

A full web browser cache can interfere with Gmail's features and performance. It might make the service slow or prevent you from downloading and viewing attachments. Please read Clearing your cache for instructions on clearing your cache in any of the popular web browsers. If your browser isn't included, please refer to your browser's help documentation. In some cases, it may be necessary to clear your browser's cache more than once and/or restart your computer to completely fix the problem. If you are an Internet Explorer user and are still having problems after restarting your computer, it may be necessary to restore the 'Temporary Internet files' folder on your computer. Instructions are located under the 'Workaround' section of http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301057/EN-US/