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When you’re done working on your computer for the day, you probably close each open application one by one. If so, chances are that you’ve wished that you could close all you open applications at the same time.

To do so, hold down the [Ctrl] key and click on each application button on your taskbar. When you do, you’ll notice that each button remains selected.

Once you’ve selected all the application buttons on the taskbar, right-click on any one of them and select the Close Group command from the shortcut menu. When you do, all your applications will close.

If you have any application in which an open file hasn’t yet been saved, that application will prompt you to save the file.

courtesy : H S

Google has just launched a spreadsheet (Excel) software on the net. This allows you not only to edit and save your spreadsheets on the internet (which means they are stored on secure servers and you’ll never lose your data due to a hard disk crash), but also allows you to get multiple people working on the spreadsheet.

Whats more.. its completely free and dosent take a lot of hard disk space like Microsoft softare!! And its never going to crash.

Have a look at spreadsheets.google.com

Courtesy : Nauzad Tantra

Sometimes it can be helpful to add line numbers in the left margin of a Word document. Reviewers can then refer to the exact location of some text instead of giving a general description eg “near the top of the 4^th page.”

When the Line Numbering feature is turned on you can print or email the file so that the reviewers can open the file with the line numbers displayed.

To turn on line numbering

1. Click File, Page Setup
2. Click the Layout tab, then select the Line Numbers button
3. Within the Line Numbers box, click before “Add Line Numbering”
4. Make your selections
   If you want the entire document to have line numbering then you would choose “Continuous”.
   Select “Restart each page” if you want to re-number each page beginning with the same number, such as 1.
   Use the “Count by” box to skip lines. For example, type in the number 10 if you only want a number placed next to every 10th line.
5. Click OK and line numbers are applied to the file.

courtesy : Kersi Mody

Windows XP makes it easy to compress or zip files.
This is especially handy when you want to send a
folder containing several files in an e-mail message.
To compress a file or folder:

1. Right-click the file that you want to compress.
2. Point to Send To and click Compressed (Zipped)
Folder.

Windows XP immediately creates a new compressed folder
in the same location as the source file. You can
identify the new compressed folder by a little zipper
on the folder’s icon. You can then safely delete the
original file.

Courtesy : H S

The Windows logo key, located in the bottom row of
most computer keyboards is a little-used treasure.
Don’t ignore it. It is the shortcut anchor for the
following commands: Windows: Display the Start menu
Windows + D: Minimize or restore all windows Windows +
E: Display Windows Explorer Windows + F: Display
Search for files Windows + Ctrl + F: Display Search
for computer Windows + F1: Display Help and Support
Center Windows + R: Display Run dialog box Windows +
break: Display System Properties dialog box Windows +
shift + M: Undo minimize all windows Windows + L: Lock
the workstation Windows + U: Open Utility Manager

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Moving Right Next Door

As I’m sure we all know, you can rearrange worksheets in an MS Excel file with a simple click-hold-and-drag of the sheet tab.

But, did you know that you can also move worksheets from one workbook to another using the same method?
No?
Well, good news, you can, and it’s really as easy as it sounds.
First, open both workbooks. (The one with the worksheet and the one to which the worksheet needs to be relocated).
Next, arrange your workbooks side by side using the Window menu, Arrange choice and then making a choice from the Arrange window. Click OK.
Next, you need to click and hold the sheet tab to be moved.
Now, still holding down the left mouse button, drag the sheet tab into the other file.
You’ll see the small triangle that appears when a sheet is moved, so you can tell where it will be located.
When it’s where you need it to be, simply release the mouse button.
Voila!
The sheet is moved from one workbook to another. No fuss, no muss!

To Connect or Disconnect When Not in Use?

This choice relates to so many friends’ questions. Should you leave your computer connected to the internet when you aren’t working online? “It takes so long to re-dial,” or “I can’t reach the connection cord, but I’ve heard (fill in your own favorite rumor here).”

Personally, I choose to only stay connected when I’m working at my computer, online or off. When I’m not physically sitting at my computer, I disconnect the cable line manually since it’s easy to reach on my system. I think of it as raising the drawbridge against the bad guys. When your computer is not online, there’s no route for remote unauthorized access. Of course, many PCs have their connection cables in the back where they can be hard to reach.

Other folks in the office like to use an option in their firewall Shut off Net Connection to disconnect from the web without reaching for the cords. This will look different in every firewall program, and it may not be available in all of them.

In XP, you also have the ability to disable net connections through My Network Places, typically found as an icon in the upper left corner. Click on that and the Network Connections window will appear. Right-click on your connection and choose Disable.

To get your connection back, repeat the above instructions, only choose Enable or Connect instead of Disable. There may be a brief delay and icon change while your PC gets a fresh IP address from your service provider.

In fact, it’s a good idea to run your antivirus and antispyware programs while your PC is offline every once in awhile. Some spyware can alert an offsite user (you know, the bad guy) that your scan has started so he can put the malware back onto your machine as soon as the scan has completed. Obviously, you’ll want to update your definition files online before you go offline to scan your system, but scanning while offline prevents outside interference with your security measures.

We all use Google to search for various things online. Did you know that if you open up your fridge and type what you have inside your fridge, into a Google Search Box, you can actually get a recipe to make something out of the ingredients you have ? Try it – you will be surprised !

For the more business minded, if you want a quick conversion of currency, type “USD to GBP” and presto ! You have the conversion rate right on your desktop !

Googling is one of the most used methods of searching the net. However, it often happens that when we search for something, it floods us with a zillion results. So now, our focus has to shift from “where to search” to “how to search”. http://www.googleguide.com offers a complete guide to search for both beginners and advanced users.

Dear Friends,

Many people want a good and quick world time clock (including adjustments for Summer & Winter – which I personally find most confusing) on their Browser.
I like to use the clock available at this location : http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/personal.html

Click on the first link for configuration, add the cities which you need to have, and bookmark the link. Any time you want to look up the time in those cities, you just have to click on the bookmark and the current time in those cities is available right on your browser.

Browse around the site and you will get very interesting information like :

* Search for city – and include it in your Personal World Clock
* The World Clock Meeting Planner
* Time Zone Converter – If it’s 3 pm in New York, what time is it in Sydney?
* Fixed Time Calculator – If it’s 3 pm in New York, what time is it in the rest of the world?

Good, fast and easy !

Hello Friends,
This is a MS Word tip which many will find useful.

In our day to day work, we often use the same documents over and over again. You can keep frequently used documents readily available on Word’s menu bar so you don’t have to use the File menu and search through files and folders to find them. You do this by adding a Work menu to Word’s menu bar. Simply go to View | Toolbars | Customize, choose the Commands tab, and select Built-in Menus from the list of categories. Then choose Work from the list of commands and drag it to where you want it on the top-line menu. From your new menu, choose Add to work menu to attach a filename to the menu. To remove a filename, press Ctrl-Alt-Minus and click on the item you want to remove.

More next time……