From time to time a user may have disabled Word’s built in proofing (spelling and grammar checking). To re-enable it, highlight all the words in the document, goto the REVIEW tab and select Set Language. You will likely see a checked checkbox labeled Do not check spelling or grammar. Removing this check will re-enable the proofing on this document only. To re-enable for all new documents by default, click on the button labeled Default.. Click YES and you’re… Read more »
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Office 2003 Tip: Clear Recently Used Docs List
Microsoft Access, Excel, Photo Draw, Power Point, and Word: 1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab. 2. Clear the Recently used files check box, and then click OK. 3. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the General tab. 4. Select the Recently used files check box, and then click OK. (Toggling the setting off then back on again removes the MRU… Read more »
Vista Tip: Enable Ping Replies
In Windows Vista, how do I configure the firewall to allow pings? Windows Vista includes Windows Firewall and enables that firewall by default. The graphical interface to the firewall settings does not include an option to respond to pings. To allow Vista to respond to pings without disabling the entire firewall, follow these steps: Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, from the Start menu, right-click Command Prompt, and select Run as administrator. Enter: netsh firewall… Read more »
Office Tip: Clear recently used docs in Office Apps
Clearing the lists of recently used documents in Windows and in Microsoft Office Applications Windows will show recently saved documents on the Start menu under either My Recent Documents (in Windows XP with the default XP Start menu), or Documents (in all other versions of Windows). Office will also show those documents near the bottom of the File menu of each program, above the Exit command. Follow the appropriate steps to remove these lists… Read more »
Vista Tip: Disabling UAC
This is the cure for toshiba laptops going black after bootup. (Originally posted at http://www.petri.co.il/disable_uac_in_windows_vista.htm ) Option #4 is probably the easiest to try to explain over the phone. This is the cause of black screens after login on Toshiba laptops running Windows Vista!! Although UAC clearly improves the security on Windows Vista, under some scenarios you might want to disable it, for example when giving demos in front of an audience… Read more »
Vista Tip: Change Lid and Shutdown default actions
Change the Windows Vista Power Buttons to Shut Down The default action for the Power button on the start menu in Windows Vista is Sleep, which isn’t necessarily useful for everybody. You can configure this setting easily by using the advanced power settings panel, which is a little tricky to get to normally, but we’ll take the shortcut. Open a command prompt (type cmd into the start menu search bar), and then type in the following… Read more »
Linux Tips: Setting aliases for frequent strings and commands
This was a great link that sums up creating aliases in your ~/.bashrc file for commonly used commands, with a few good ideas to boot: TechRepublic.com: 10 handy bash aliases
Firefox 3 Tip: Set Gmail as default email
Using this information from the Gmail Blog, you can set all mailto: links to open in gmail! http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/power-tip-set-gmail-as-your-default.html
FireFox 3 Tip: Turn off address bar history
Here is how to turn off this annoying feature: Type “about:config” (without the quotation marks) into the location bar Click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button Filter “browser.urlbar.maxRichResults” Double click the row and reset the value to “0″ Close Firefox and re-open it. Until you do, 1 URL will keep showing.
Office 2007 Tip: Pin Files to the Recent Docs Menu
Office 2007 makes the Recent Documents list more efficient by allowing you to pin your regularly used documents to the list so that they aren’t removed from the list. This saves you from needlessly hunting for your important Excel, Word, and/or PowerPoint documents. Click the Office Button in the upper-left corner of your Office program… Read more »
FireFox Tip: Smaller Toolbar Icons
In both Firefox 3 and Firefox 2, you can shrink your toolbar icons quickly. Right click toolbar Goto customize Check “Use Small Icons” Voila!
FireFox Tip: Fix Corrupt Extension Files
Files that store information about the extensions you have installed can sometimes be corrupted. Deleting them can fix a number of extension issues; they will be regenerated the next time you start Firefox. Exit Firefox completely open your Firefox profile folder (read the linked article for its location) and delete* these three files: extensions.ini extensions.cache… Read more »
Windows Tip: Sync your clock to NTP servers via cmd
To quickly sync your clock, open a command prompt as an administrator and type the following command: w32tm /resync Quick and simple, works in Vista and XP, and definitley helpful when a dying battery clock starts leaving you a few minutes behind every day, especially if added to your startup folder.
XP Tip: Save Mapped Drive Password
How to save a mapped drive password in XP The manage network passwords utility in XP doesn’t have an add password function so you have to goto the command prompt and use the following: NET USE U: \\NETHOME\USERID /PERSISTENT:YES /SAVECRED This will prompt you for the Username and Password and store them.