When making labels in Microsoft Word, did you know that you can
change the font size, type and appearance by clicking on the right
mouse?
Under Tools, select Envelopes and Labels. Type in the text
for your label. Highlight it. Right click on your mouse. Select
A Font…. Select the Font tab from the next pop-up window
(if not already selected). Choose your font size and characteristics
and watch them change in the Preview window. When you are happy,
select OK and print!
submitted by Patrice O'Donovan
When I meet someone virtually or in the flesh, I like to add a
note about them in my address book to remind me why I think they're
important in my life. If I forget to add a note in the flurry
of introductions (or during the beaming of our business cards
to each other) I can add a note later. Here's how:
Tap on your address book icon. Now tap to the right of the name/phone
number in the blank space there. Voila, an empty note will appear
and you can add the date and whatever information is pertinent.
I occasionally add keywords and I always add Categories to each
record. Very useful for sorting folks even if the categories are
large ones.
Also, when I talk on the phone, I open the Palm desktop, find
that person's record, and update it as we talk. In addition, I
can cut and paste the relevant sections from email messages into
his/her record on the Palm desktop and then hotsync the updated
content onto my handheld. This saves a lot of Graffiti-ing. I
can use Find to track down that person by content or keyword if
I forget who it was that I needed to contact on a various project.
Find (the magnifying glass icon, bottom right of your device)
is a VERY useful tool if you have a nearly full PDA (as I often
do).
Laura Larsson
larsson@u.washington.edu
Do you have a favorite Website that you go into every day,
maybe even more often than that? This might be Healthy People
2010, your county or state health department, your hotmail account
or some other Website.
If you want a REALLY quick way of opening up that site, do the
following. Open up Netscape and find the site. Now click on the
little bookmark icon that sits between the words "Bookmarks"
and "Netsite" on your bookmarks toolbar.
Ordinarily you would click on the bookmark icon and drag the site
URL left into the Bookmark folder but in this case you click,
hold your left mouse button down and drag it to your desktop.
Voila, a hyperlinked shortcut on your desktop to that site that
you can open by double-clicking. Very fast and easy to do.
Don't get carried away or pretty soon you won't have any space
left on your desktop.
This hint is aimed at those of you using Windows 95, 98, 2000
and Netscape 4.7+; my apologies to Mac users. Perhaps you could
try this method out and tell us if the same process works on a
Mac.
Just a reminder. It's important to upgrade your Browser to at
least the next to the most recent so that you can keep up with
browing technologies and plug-ins. Current browsers will often
help make you faster at getting content and will make it easier
to use the new technologies that are coming out all the time.
Laura Larsson
larsson@u.washington.edu
I like to use my device as a learning tool as well as a peripheral
brain but sometimes I get carried away with cutting and pasting
content into my Desktop Memo Pad for hotsyncing (transferring
information from my desktop to my handheld and vice versa) later
on and I begin to run out of room on my handheld.
To delete memos that I no long need, here's what I do:
To retrieve content from the Archive File:
Laura Larsson
larsson@u.washington.edu
Laura Larsson
larsson@u.washington.edu
Tired of seeing those PowerPoint presentations? Here's another
use for PowerPoint. Use PowerPoint to take notes. Each slide is
like a note card, and you can then move them around in the order
you want. After they are in the correct order, you can then go
to File : Send to : Microsoft Word and you have the outline of
your paper all set up.
submitted by Dolores Judkins