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Changing the Spreadsheet Tab Color in Excel 2002 - Added 8/14/02 Using Outlook 2002 Sticky Notes - Added 8/14/02 Configuring Automatic Name Suggestion in Outlook 2002 - Added 8/14/02 Outlook Shortcut Keys - Added 8/1/02 Having Word Not Display URL's in Underline - Updated 4/5/02 Adding File Attachment Security for Outlook Express 6 - Added 3/19/02 Changing the Location of Your E-Mail Files for Outlook Express 6 - Added 3/19/02 Configuring Outlook Express 6 for Multiple User Accounts - Added 3/19/02 Compacting Outlook Data Files - Updated 2/4/02 Redirecting Output from Command Line Programs - Submitted 1/5/02 Eliminating MSCONFIG Warning at Next Boot Up - Added 12/22/01 Minimizing Outlook2002 to the System Tray - Added 11/27/01 Changing Colors in Outlook2002 Calendar - Added 11/27/01 Sending Contacts in Outlook - Added 9/29/01 Copying E-Mail to Your Calendar - Added 9/9/01 Editing the Shared Border in FrontPage 2000/2002 - Added 9/9/01 Filling Word with Pretend Text - Added 9/9/01 Adding Horizontal Dividers in Word - Added 9/9/01 Determining Formatting in Word - Added 9/9/01 Quickly Change Font Size in Office - Added 9/9/01 Word Command Line Switches - Added 9/6/01 Excel Command Line Switches - Added 9/6/01 Outlook Command Line Switches - Added 9/6/01 Customizing Outlook2002 Security Settings - Added 8/16/01 Changing Notepad Defaults - Added 7/14/01 Access Gives License or Database Error - Added 6/15/01 Outlook Can't Create Item Error - Added 5/26/01 Opening Multiple Windows in Outlook - Added 5/14/01 Setting Outlook to be the Default E-Mail Program - Added 5/14/01 Changing the Office2000 Registered Owner - Added 4/4/01 Reducing the File Size of Word Documents - Updated 2/20/01 Enabling Outlook 2000 Mail Logging - Added 10/16/00 Removing the Task Scheduler - Submitted 5/6/00 Switches for Starting Outlook 2000 - Added 4/10/00 Opening Files with Other Than the Default Application - Submitted 2/5/00 Changing the Name of the Outlook Icon on the Desktop - Added 2/4/00 Showing a Map of an Outlook 2000 Contact's Address - Added 2/2/00 Re-Applying Formatting in Office 2000 - Added 2/2/00 Selecting Columns in Word - Submitted 2/1/00 Having Excel 2000 Display the Year with Four Digits - Added 1/30/00 Disabling Outlook Express Splash Screen - Added 1/8/00 Hidden FDISK Switches - Updated 1/8/00 Customizing the Office Assistants - Added 12/28/99 Starting Outlook Express Immediately to Mail or News - Added 12/21/99 Playing DVD's with Windows Media Player - Added 12/20/99 Stopping Applications from Starting Automatically - Updated 12/20/99 Changing the Default Page Location for Front Page - Added 12/19/99 Opening a File by Dragging to Task Bar - Added 10/17/99 Eudora Lite and More than One E-Mail Account - Submitted 12/31/98 Hidden Format Switches - Added 8/16/98 Creating Outlook Contacts Shortcut - Added 5/3/98
Changing the Number of Days Displayed in Outlook Calendar - Added 5/3/98 Changing File Associations - Submitted 3/1/98 Extracting files from Win95's CAB files - Submitted 2/28/98 Recovering Damaged Text Files - Submitted 2/18/98 Setting Swap File Size - Added 2/14/98 Defragmenting the Swap File - Added 2/14/98 ScanDisk with OEM SR2 - Added 2/11/98 Substituting Drive Letters - Submitted 1/11/98 Shutting Down or Restarting Windows95 from an Icon - Submitted 12/24/97 Saving Space Using WinZip - Submitted 10/11/97 Office97 and Plus Pack Themes - Submitted 9/13/97 Opening a Files for Editing - Submitted 5/10/97 Opening Associated Files from a DOS Box - Submitted 4/25/97 Using Another E-Mail Package when Exchange is Installed - Added 3/22/97 Power Surfing - Submitted 3/18/97 Lotus 123 Release 5 Lockup - Submitted 12/18/96 Wildcards with DIR and File Find - Added 11/29/96 ScanDisk Command-Line Switches - Added 11/24/96 Defrag Command-Line Switches - Added 11/24/96 Fixing Page Fault in MPREXE.EXE - Added 9/25/96 Changing the Telnet Scroll-Back Buffer Size Added 7/27/96 Auto-Dialing for 32-bit Internet Applications - Submitted 7/11/96 DOSSTART.BAT File - Submitted 6/23//96 Fixing Corrupted Exchange Files - Submitted 5/8/96 Emergency Recovery Utility - Submitted 5/8/96 Turning off the ending = with Exchange - Added 4/9/96 Using your mouse to select an area in a DOS app - Added 3/30/96 Using Exchange with more than one ISP phone number - Added 3/29/96 Backing up the Registry - Submitted 1/28/96 Adding Notepad to SENDTO - 1/11/96 Having Eudora Pro be the default e-mail program, rather than Exchange - 12/27/95 Free drive space errors with Norton Utilities - 11/5/95 Using the new DOS Edit - 9/29/95 Creating Distribution List with Exchange - 9/26/96 Using Memmaker - 9/23/95 Signatures using WordMail - 9/21/95 Creating Document templates - 9/3/95 New XCOPY switches
While in Outlook, you can create sticky notes that look like post-it notes. These stay on your desktop and can help server as reminders for things you need to do. To Create a Note In Outlook: 1. 2. 3. 4. Go to File / New / Note Or press Ctrl+Shift+N From here you can enter any text you like You can change the color of the note by clicking on the icon in the upper left hand corner and selecting Color 5. When created this way, the notes are only available when Outlook is still running To Create a Note Anytime 1. 2. 3. 4. Create a shortcut on the desktop "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\OUTLOOK.EXE" /c ipm.stickynote Give it a name that makes sense for you Now you can create a note without Outlook running
If you want to leave the setting in place and simply delete individual suggestions: 1. Us the arrow keys to highlight a name 2. Press the Delete key to delete just that entry
Reply to all Open the Inbox Open the Outbox Open the Address Book Go to next unread mail message Go to folder Open the selected message Mark a message as read Move between the Folders list and message list Find text Find a message Switch among Edit, Source, and Preview tabs Check names Check spelling Insert signature Send (post) a message
Control + Shift + R Control + I Control + O Control + Shift + B Control + U Control + Y Control + O or Enter Control + Enter or Control + Q Tab F3 Control + Shift + F Control + Tab Control + K or Alt + K F7 Control + Shift + S Control + Enter or Alt + S
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Go to File / Data File Management Select the Personal Folder you want to compress Click on the Settings button Click on the Compact Now button
Outlook98/2000 Even though you delete your e-mail from the Delete Items folder, the file size may still stay the same. If your Outlook PST files are not on your computer, they may require that you manually compact them. If you have the Internet Mail Only option of Outlook installed: 1. You need to have the Folder List showing, If it is not already there, from the View menu, click Folder List 2. From the Folders list, right-click on Personal Folders 3. Select Properties For Personal Folders 4. Click on the Advanced button 5. Click on the Compact Now button If you have the Corporate Workgroup/Other option of Outlook installed: 1. 2. 3. 4. From the Tools menu, select Services Select Personal Folders Click on the Properties button Click on the Compact Now button
If you use this utility a lot and would like to eliminate that from happening 1. Create a registry text file (e.g. file_name.reg) with the contents: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "MSConfig"=1. Create a shortcut on the desktop 2. Enter in: regedit /s file_name.reg 1. Give it a title that make sense to you 2. When you click on the icon, the specific registry value will be deleted and you won't be prompted next time you boot.
For the following steps, make sure you have the Folder List selected in Outlook SENDING CONTACTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Start a new email In the TO section, select the users you want to receive the contacts Select Insert / Item Scroll to Contacts Highlight the contacts you want to send To select multiple items, hold down the control key Click OK when finished Send the mail
RECEIVING CONTACTS 1. Have both your main Folder List and e-mail visible 2. Select all the contacts 3. Drag them to the Contacts folder
Where x and y are replaced by numbers. X would be the number of paragraphs Y would be the number of sentences in a paragraph. The text that gets generated is The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Type /a
To do this Starts Word and prevents add-ins and global templates (including the Normal template) from being loaded automatically. The /a switch also locks the setting files; that is, the setting files cannot be read or modified if you use this switch.
/laddinpath /m /mmacroname
Starts Word and then loads a specific Word add-in. Starts a new instance of Word without running any AutoExec macros. Starts Word and then runs a specific macro. The /m switch also prevents Word from running any AutoExec macros. Starts a new instance of Word with no document open. Documents opened in each instance of Word will not appear as choices in the Window menu of other instances. Starts Word with a new document based on a template other than the Normal template. Starts a new instance of Word with a blank document. Documents opened in each instance of Word will not appear as choices in the Window menu of the other instances. A new Word window is opened with a blank document using the existing instance of the Word application.
/n
/ttemplatename /w
(no switch)
/m
/p <folder>
Forces Excel to use the path you specify as the active path rather than the default path. Example: /p "C:\Windows"
/r <filename>
Forces Excel to open the specified file in read-only mode. Example: /r "C:\My Documents\Test.xls"
/s
Starts Excel in Safe mode. ("Safe Mode" will appear in the Excel title bar.) Safe mode starts Excel as if it is the first time after Setup. Safe mode bypasses the following: - All files in any Excel startup folder. For more information about the location of startup folders, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q240150 XL2000: How to Use Excel Startup Folders - Add-ins: The Addins dialog box still displays the selected addins. However, the addins are not loaded. - Excel toolbars (Excel.xlb or <username>.xlb): The original installation default toolbar settings are used. - Excel specific registry information: The original installation default registry settings are used. Registry information can include the following key and other keys:
ns
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Excel\Optio NOTE: When Excel is in Safe mode, the Options dialog box displays the default settings, not your customized settings. Forces Excel to register itself and then quit. Use this switch when you want Excel to rewrite all of its registry keys and reassociate itself with Excel files, such as workbooks, charts, and so on. Example: /regserver /unregserver Forces Excel to unregister itself and then quit. Example: /unregserver
/regserver
Command-Line Switch ------------------/CleanFreeBusy /Cleanfinders /CleanReminders /CleanViews /CheckClient /ResetFolders /ResetOutlookBar /Safe /Nopreview /CleanSchedPlus
Purpose ------Cleans and regenerates free/busy information. Removes saved searches from the Exchange Server store. Cleans and regenerates reminders. Restores default views. All custom views you created are lost. Prompt for default manager of e-mail, news, and contacts Restores missing folders for the default delivery location. Rebuilds the Outlook Bar. Launches Outlook without extensions, preview pane or toolbar customization. Turns off the Preview Pane and removes the option from the View Menu. Deletes all Schedule+ data (free/busy, permissions, and .CAL file) from the server and enables the free/busy information from the Outlook Calendar to be used and viewed by all Schedule+ 1.0 users.
The following are a list of the file attachments that are restricted by default .ade .adp .asx .bas .bat .chm .cmd Microsoft Access project extension Microsoft Access project Windows Media Audio / Video Microsoft Visual Basic class module Batch file Compiled HTML Help file Microsoft Windows NT Command script
.com .cpl .crt .exe .hlp .hta .inf .ins .isp .js .jse .lnk .mdb .mde .msc .msi .msp .mst .pcd .pif .prf .reg .scf .scr .sct .shb .shs .url .vb .vbe .vbs .wsc .wsf .wsh
Microsoft MS-DOS program Control Panel extension Security certificate Program Help file HTML program Setup Information Internet Naming Service Internet Communication settings JScript file Jscript Encoded Script file Shortcut Microsoft Access program Microsoft Access MDE database Microsoft Common Console document Microsoft Windows Installer package Microsoft Windows Installer patch Microsoft Windows Installer transform; Microsoft Visual Test source file Photo CD image; Microsoft Visual compiled script Shortcut to MS-DOS program Microsoft Outlook profile settings Registration entries Windows Explorer command Screen saver Windows Script Component Shell Scrap object Shell Scrap object Internet shortcut VBScript file VBScript Encoded script file VBScript file Windows Script Component Windows Script file Windows Script Host Settings file
Microsoft Access can't start because there is no license for it on this machine or Can't find the database you specified or you didn't specify a database at all There is a patch from Microsoft to fix this problem. I copied it to my site since they often change the location of their files. Download Patch
Note: The location of Outlook may be different depending on the version of Office you have installed.
An easier way was submitted: 1. Start Word2000 2. Go to Tools / Options / User Information 3. Change the current user's name. Submitted by Terry N. Hart Added 1/2/01 To change the name of the registered owner without reinstalling, two simple registry changes need to be made. These are the names displayed in the opening splash screens of each application as well as the About box. 1. Start Regedit 2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Uninstall \ {00000409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7 3. Change the value of RegOwner and RegCompany to the ones you would like 4. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Office \ 9.0 \ Common \ UserInfo] 5. Rename the UserInfo key 6. Now you should see the new name and company information when you start your Office2000 application.
This makes Word rewrite the entire document file from scratch each time it is saved. The save command takes slightly longer, but your files can be drastically smaller (especially if you've done lots of formatting changes). Submitted by Brandon Lundh Submitted 11/7/99 If you have make documents using MS Word and you make many formatting changes for the paragraph, fonts, page etc., you will see your file size gets bigger. Microsoft Word saves files by blocking, so any change you made for your document it will create a new block with the new formatting and disappear the old block without deleting it from the file. You can solve this problem. 1. If you open your file and select File \ Save As and give your file a new name, it will save only the active blocks with out the old ones.
2. If you compare the two files you will see a difference in size Submitted by Ziad Dabash
Start Regedit Go to Hkey_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Office \ 9.0 \ Outlook \ Options \ Mail Create a new DWORD Give it a name of Logging Give it a value of 1 After this, 3 files will be created in the C:\Windows\Temp\Outlook Logging directory. InetXP.txt logs the Internet session Pop3log.txt logs mail-retrieval activity Smtplog.txt logs mail-sending activity
/folder
Have the specified folder visible Create an e-mail message Create a post Create an appointment Create a task Create a contact Create a journal entry Create a note Prompt for default manager of e-mail, news, and contacts Create an item with the specified file as an attachment.
/a "path/file name"
/Status - Give the status of the partitions. Similar to option #4 /FPRMT - FAT32 in drivers smaller than 512 MB /MBR - Fix master boot record /PRI:xx - Primary partition of size XX in megs /EXT:xx - Extended partitio /LOG:xx - Logical drive in extended partition
Allow Most Tips - AsstAssistWithWizard = 1 Disable Showing Office Assistant with F1 - AsstAssistWithHelp = 0 Assistant Moves When In the Way - AsstMoveWhenInTheWay = 1 Disable Mouse Tips - AsstMouseTips = 0 Disable Context Sensitive Help - AsstGuessHelp = 0 Disable Keyboard Tips - Delete AsstKeyboardShortcutTips Disable Feature Tips - AsstFeatureTips = 0 Disable Tip of the Day - Delete AsstShowTipofDay Disable Office Assistant Help Messages - AsstAssistWithHelp = 0 Show only High Priority Tips - AsstOnlyHighPriorityTips = 1
3. The Registry. Edit the Registry Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run. Remove any programs from there.
Note many setting will remain as they are in the primary account .ini file.
Side Note: To remove Eudora's startup splash screen add the line "NoSplashScreen=1" in the settings section. Submitted by Moke Nelson
FORMAT /AUTOTEST - Formats without any prompting and exits the program when finished FORMAT /BACKUP - Like /AUTOTEST but you will be prompted for a volume label
These can be useful if your are formatting drives from a batch file or shortcut and don't want to be prompted for input.
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Select the program to open the file type. In the dialog box check the Always use this program to open this file. Click OK The association are now made
Submitted by Mike Clohessy Added 6/28/97 When you double click on a data file, the application associated with that file's extension is stated the the file is loaded. To change a the application associated with a particular file extension: 1. Open a Folder 2. Go to View / Options / File Types 3. Scroll down until you see the particular file extension(s) you want to change. This will be in the File type details: section towards the bottom of the dialog box. 4. Click on the Edit button 5. In the Actions box, double click on Open 6. In Application used to perform this action:, enter the name of the application you want to open when you open a file with the extenstion. You can enter it manually or browse to it. 7. Click on the Ok, Ok, and the Close buttons.
Added 11/29/96 With the new OEM version of Windows95, if the system was not shutdown cleanly, the next time it is started, it will stop and prompt you before running ScanDisk. New options are available for the MSDOS.SYS file to configure how ScanDisk will start.
AutoScan=0 will disable this feature AutoScan=1 will stop and prompt you before starting ScanDisk. After 1 minute it will start automatically. This is the default setting AutoScan=2 will start ScanDisk if needed automatically
6. Action is: &Edit, Application used to.... is: c:\windows\notepad.exe %1 7. Click OK, then Close, then Close. Now when you secondary (right) click an HTML Document select Edit from the menu (or press E) and you are now looking at the source in Notepad. You can use a similar process for Graphic files (JPG, GIF, etc) to send them to your favorite Graphics program. Submitted by Eric Sandoz
Eudora Pro has an option to set that automatically. Other programs may have switches you need to include. Pegasus needs a -T %1 for it to automatically insert the e-mail address
Power Surfing
Submitted 3/18/97 This tip works especially well if you have a large monitor and run at a high resolution...
If you want to really power surf the web, open up more than one browser. Arrange them on the screen so that you can see at least part of each one at all times. Once this is done, you can now drag links from one browser to another. This saves you from having to use the back button constantly, especially if you are on a page like a search engine, where there are lots of links and you want to try a bunch of them. Also, if you encounter a web page with frames, and you want to break out of the frames, you can drag a link to a new browser. No more frames. (You can also right-click a link and choose "Open in New Browser".) Here's an example of using two browsers... Let's say you are going to be using a search engine for the next hour or so. Start two browsers and tile them vertically. (Minimize all programs except the two browsers, and right click a blank spot on the taskbar, then choose 'tile vertically'). Now drag the edges of the browsers so that the browser on the left is about 3 inches wide. Drag the edges of the browser on the right so that it takes up the rest of the screen. Now, using the browser on the left, open your favorite search engine and do a search. When the list of hits are displayed, drag a link into the browser on the right. This lets you see all the hits from the search engine while you are surfing those sites... no more hitting the 'back' button all day long. Submitted by John M.
?ABC* - All files and folders with ABC as the second through the fourth letters in a name ?ABC? - All files and folders with at least one letter before and after the ABC
5. Click the check box again and make sure there is a check in the checkbox. 6. Next, click the APPLY button. 7. Finally , click the OK button. Once you do this, close your internet application and disconnect from your internet provider. Re-start your Internet application and the Windows 95 dialer should start up. NOTE: From my experience, all Internet applications will be effected and will automatically start the Windows 95 dialer. Submitted by J. Walker jpw@openix.com
DOSSTART.BAT File
Submitted 6/23/96 There's a file name DOSSTART.BAT in the WINDOWS directory. By editing this file you will be able to configure how to start DOS whenever you exit Windows to DOS mode. This is just like an AUTOEXEC.BAT file that starts up your system. Submitted by Robo tttran@acs.itd.uts.edu.au
ERU is also a good way to keep recent backups of all your important system files! Submitted by Kirk Davis kirk@olinter.com
This eliminates the need to select text by using the pull down menu.
Use CFGBACK.EXEon the Win 95 CD. It is in the /OTHER/MISC/CFGBACK directory. It will save up to 9 copies of the registry in*.rbk file format. You can restore any of these when necessary. Submitted by KJ King
Now when you e-mail from within the Internet Explorer, Eudora will come up as your e-mail program.
Norton Utilities
Submitted 11/5/95 If the readings on the amount of hard drive space is showing more than is possible 1. Go into Norton Recycled bin 2. Hit empty Norton Protected files This will now give you an accurate reading. Submitted by K.J. King kjking@execpc.com
Using EDIT
Added 9/29/95 The DOS based text editor that comes with Windows95 has some advantages over the one that came with prior versions of DOS.
It will let you load multiple files. It will let you call wild cards from the command line (e.g. EDIT *.BAT).
EDIT can also be used on prior versions of DOS. Just copy EDIT.COM to your old DOS directory.
Using Memmaker
Submitted 9/23/95 Heres a blast from the (supposed) past:
Run Memmaker from the MS-DOS prompt. It will reboot in MSDOS mode and then run as before. When you open DOS Prompts and DOS games they will have many of the TSRs in HIMEM I have 637K Conventional memory for all DOS apps!
It will use Word's spell checker, most of the WinWord text formatting capabilities (centering, full justification, bold, italics) a special Mail button bar and quite a few new features. It is certainly worth trying out. This may sound like MS hype but I'm actually quite impressed To include a signature: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Start a new message (Ctrl-N) Type in your signature. Highlight your signature text. From the pulldown menu, select Edit / Autotext. Type in signature for the name. Click on the Add button. Now when you send any message, this text will be added to the beginning.
Advantages are: 1. By adding the text to the beginning of the file, a reply will have your signature at the end of your reply, not at the end of their message. 2. You can format text with Bold, Italics, Underlines etc. Anyone using Exchange can also view them
/C - Continues copying even if errors occur /I - If destination does not exist and copying more than one file, assumes that destination must be a directory /Q - Does not display file names while copying /F - Displays full source and destination file names while copying /L - Displays files that would be copied
/H -Copies hidden and system files also /R - Overwrites read-only files /T - Creates directory structure, but does not copy files. Does not include empty directories or subdirectories. /T /E includes empty directories and subdirectories /U - Updates the files that already exist in destination /K - Copies attributes. Normal Xcopy will reset read-only attributes /Y - Overwrites existing files without prompting /-Y - Prompts you before overwriting existing files /N - Copy using the generated short names