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Word 95/97/2000/2002 Toolbar Print Button

How to turn off Personalized Menus - Windows 2000, Office Suite 2000 Applications

Customizing the Send To menu when right-clicking on a file

Quickly go to your last entry (Word 2000/2002)

Delete Email Fast 

Internet Explorer 5.5/6 Keyboard Shortcuts 

Add the NEOPC web site to your start button (Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000)

More Keyboard Shortcuts (All Windows and Microsoft Applications
WordPerfect 10, reveal codes
Information Overload 
Windows Millennium Knowledge Base Articles

Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles And Other Resources

Startup Disks

Big Screen quick fix

WinXP Did you know?

 
 
 
 
 
Word 95/97/2000/2002 Toolbar Print Button

Would you like the toolbar Print button when clicked to allow you to modify some settings or change the number of copies instead of sending your document directly to the printer.  Or maybe you have more than one printer connected to your PC and would like to be able to select which printer to use, but the toolbar Print button doesn't give you that option.  An easy fix is to change printer buttons on the toolbar.

  1. Click View, Toolbars, and Customize from the menu bar.

  2. With the Customize dialog box open, click, hold, drag and drop the Print button from the toolbar into the dialog box (anywhere in the box is OK... It'll just disappear).

  3. In the dialog box on the Commands Tab select File under Categories on the left side.

  4. On the right side under Commands, click, hold, drag and drop the Print button with the ellipsis (Print...) up to the toolbar (any place will do, it's your choice).

  5. Close the Customize dialog box.

This same procedure will work for most Microsoft toolbars.  You can change the one in Print Preview, and the toolbars in Excel too.

 

 

 

 

How to turn off Personalized Menus - Windows 2000, Office Suite 2000 Applications

Rather not wait for your menus to extend?  Would you like to see all the available options right away? 

  1. Windows 2000 - Click the Start button, then settings, then Taskbar & Start Menu... From there uncheck the box "Use Personalized Menus". Or, right click on an empty portion of the Taskbar and select Properties, then uncheck the box "Use Personalized Menus".

  2. Word 2000 and Excel 2000 - From the menu bar select Tools, Customize, then select the Options tab from the Customize window.  Uncheck the boxes for both items listed under "Personalized Menus and Toolbars"

 

 

 

Customizing the Send To menu when right-clicking on a file

When you right click on a file or shortcut and select Send To would you like to see more options that are personalized to your computer and the way you work. Perhaps you downloaded files but would like to regularly send a certain type of file to a specially named sub-directory of "My Documents". To add directories or locations to the Send To sub-menu:

  1. Click on the Start button and select Find, then Files or Folders.

  2. In the Find: All Files window type Sendto in the Named: field. Make sure that the Look in: field shows the (C:) drive. Click on Find Now.

  3. Double click on the SendTo file that was produced by the search. The SendTo window contains all the item currently listed in the Send To sub-menu.

  4. To add "Your Favorite" directory to this menu right click on a blank portion of the window, select New, then Shortcut. In the Create Shortcut window just follow the instructions.

  5. Close all windows then right click on a shortcut icon or file name to make sure that the Send To sub-menu has been changed to your satisfaction.

If no Sendto file appears in your search change the setting to allow hidden files to be viewed.

(Win98) From File Explorer select View from the menu bar, then Folder Options. From the View tab click the radio button labeled Show all files. Then repeat the above steps.

(Win2000) From File Explorer select Tools from the menu bar, then Folder Options. From the View tab click the radio button labeled Show all files. Then repeat the above steps. NOTE: If more than one SendTo file appears select the file that is associated with your login name.

(WinXP) Same as Win2000.  The search procedure  in XP requires you to select Files and Folders twice, but everything else is basically the same.

 

 

Quickly go to your last entry (Word 2000/2002)

Have you created a log, journal, or maybe a diary?  It's a little frustrating to scroll the entire document when it's re-opened just to get to the point of your last entry.  To quickly go to that last entry use the SHIFT+F5 key combination when the document first opens.

 

 

 

Delete Email Fast

Get tons of junk email?  Want to delete it all fast?  Highlight the first email in your box then hold down the SHIFT key and click on the last email in your box.  All your email should now be highlighted... Just hit delete... All that junk email is gone.  If you see an email in the list you want to keep.  Hold the CTRL key down and click on the email you want to keep... that will un-highlight that one email you want to keep, while allowing you to deleting the rest.  Good email and junk email is mixed?  Hold down the CTRL key and click on each piece of junk mail to highlight, then delete.

 

 

 

Internet Explorer 5.5/6 Keyboard Shortcuts

Give your mouse a rest and try some of these keyboard shortcuts.

ALT+HOME               to view your home page (Explorer must be open)

ALT+RT ARROW      same as Forward button on toolbar

ALT+LT ARROW       same as Back button on toolbar

UP/DOWN ARROW  scroll up or down a page

HOME                         go to top of page

END                            go to bottom of page

CTRL+N                     open a new window

CTRL+W                    close the current window

CTRL+E                     open the Search bar

CTRL+I                       open the Favorites bar

F11                             toggle between full-screen and regular view

 

 

 

Add the NEOPC web site to your start button (Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP*)

Tired of sorting your way through bookmarks after you've opened your browser?  Add the NEOPC URL to your start button (or any other URL or file).  Right-click on a blank area of the Taskbar and click Properties.  Click the Start Menu Programs tab (Advanced tab in Win2000/ME)(WinXP, *Classic Start Menu only, click the Customize button), click Add, and either type the location of the file or URL http://www.neopc.org or browse to locate the item on the hard drive.  Click Next and select Start Menu from the Select Program Folder.  Click Next, type a shortcut name NEOPC and click Finish and OK (WinXP requires one more OK).

 

 

 

 

More Keyboard Shortcuts (All Windows and Microsoft Applications plus many others) 

Key Combinations

  • CTRL+S                   Saves current document

  • CTRL+P                   Prints current document

  • CTRL+A                   Selects all files in the current window

  • CTRL+C                   Copies selected items

  • CTRL+X                   Cuts selected items

  • CTRL+V                   Pastes copied or cut items

  • CTRL+B                   Bolds selected text

  • CTRL+I                     Italicizes selected text

  • CTRL+U                   Underlines selected text

  • CTRL+Z                   Undoes last operation

  • CTRL+Y                   Repeats last command

  • CTRL+ESC            Opens the Start menu

  • TAB                         Moves to the next field, button, or other control in an application or dialog box

  • SHIFT+TAB            Moves to the previous control in an application or dialog box

  • CTRL+ALT+DEL   Opens Task Manager

 

Function Keys

  • F1                              Opens Help menu

  • F2                              Highlights a file name to avoid double-clicking an icon when renaming a file.  Click the  icon, press F2, type the new file name, and press enter

  • F3                              Opens find in Windows Explorer

  • F4                              Opens the drop-down menu

  • F5                              Refreshes the current window

  • F10                            Selects the Menu Bar.  Use the arrow keys to navigate the menus

 

Dialog Boxes

  • CTRL+TAB               Moves left to right through the tabs in a dialog box

  • CTRL+SHIFT+TAB  Moves right to left through the tabs in a dialog box

  • ALT+DOWN ARROW Opens a selected drop-down list

  • SPACEBAR              Clicks the outlined button, toggles the outlined checkbox, or selects the outlined radio button

  • ENTER                       Performs the same command as clicking an outlined button

  • ESC                            Performs the same command as clicking Cancel

 

Program Windows

  • ALT+TAB                  Toggles between the two most recently used items on the Taskbar.  Press ALT+TAB to view form a menu of all Taskbar items

  • CTRL+TAB               Toggles between windows of a multiple-document interface (MDI) program (such as Excel)  Open two Excel spreadsheets and you'll see only on instance of Excel on the Taskbar.  Word is a single-document interface (SDI) program.  If you open a second document, you'll see two instances of Word on the Taskbar

  • CTRL+F4                  Closes the current window in an MDI program.  Leaves an SDI program running but closes the current document

  • ALT+F4                     Closes the current window.  In an MDI program, exits the entire application

  • ALT+SPACEBAR    Opens the current window's System Menu, which includes Restoe, Move, Size, Minimize, Maximize, and Close functions 

  • ALT+HYPHEN          Opens the System Menu for a single window of an MDI program

  • ALT+E                       Performs the same operation as clicking that menu option.  For instance, in Word, press ALT+F to open the File menu and ALT+P to Print the current document

  • ALT+M                      Minimizes all windows

  • ALT+SPACEBAR+N           Minimizes the current window only

  • SHIFT+WINDOW KEY+M   Maximizes all windows

  • ALT+PRINTSCREEN          Copies the current window

 

Windows Explorer

  • WINDOW KEY+E        Opens Windows Explorer

  • ALT+ENTER                 Opens the selected file's Properties

  • SHIFT+DELETE           Bypasses the Recycle Bin and deletes a file

  • SHIFT+F10                    Like right-clicking an item, this opens a context menu

  • RIGHT ARROW             Expands the selected folder in Explorer or moves to the first child of the selected parent folder

  • ASTERISK (number pad)    Expands everything under the current selections in Explorer

  • LEFT ARROW               Collapses the selected folder or goes back to the parent folder

 

 

WordPerfect 10, reveal codes

The Reveal Codes feature for WordPerfect has been around since the days of version 5.1 for DOS.  This feature is unique to WordPerfect and is always available.  Nearly all formatting codes are documented by WordPerfect and inserted in any document created.  These normally invisible codes control document layout and text appearance.  Normally hidden, these imbedded codes may be viewed by right-clicking within a document and selecting Reveal Codes from the QuickMenu, or clicking on View from the menu bar then selecting Reveal Codes, or to keep your hands on the keyboard pressing ALT+F3.  A reverse of these three sequences will again hide the codes.

 

 

 

Information Overload

In case you didn't study Tom Jone's June, 2003 newsletter, Nybbles & Bytes, you have another chance to view a website that is mind boggling.  Jack McCarthy either has an abundance of free time or he's wealthy enough to hire an army of helpers.  Anything you ever wanted to know can probably be found at this site.  http://www.jackmccarthy.com/   Just scroll down his website, but be careful your jaw doesn't drop onto the keyboard.  Kind of reminds me of the commercial with the bug-eyed fellow sitting in front of his PC and a computer voice says "you have reached the end of the Internet".

 

 

Windows Millennium Knowledge Base Articles

This website contains a very nice index that includes descriptions, how-to, trouble-shooting, and problem solving.  The really great thing is that all the links take you to the appropriate information on the Microsoft website.  The information is provided by the same folks that designed the software.  The articles also pertain to other operating systems. http://www.kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/favorites/kbasewinme.htm

 

 

Microsoft Knowledge Base Articles And Other Resources

This is the home page to the above website.  How-to's for most of Microsoft's programs including a lot of information regarding Windows XP.  Also, error messages and how to correct, plus third party (that would be you, Microsoft, and someone else) problem solving.  After stumbling about on Microsoft's website and trying to use their search engine this website is a blessing.  http://www.kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/index.htm

 

 

Startup Disks

If Windows will not start at all and Safe Mode doesn't work due to a corrupt registry or an improperly installed program, dust off the startup diskettes you created a while ago.  WHAT???  You don't have startup diskettes?  Lets correct that right now.

Win95/98:  Double-click on the Add/Remove Programs icon in Control Panel.  Click on the Startup Disk tab.  Place a blank floppy diskette into the drive, then click on Create Disk.

WinME/XP:  These systems do not rely on startup diskettes.  Instead smiling Bill Gates devised a built-in System Restore feature.  This allows you to "go back in time" to when your computer was operating properly.  Most restore points are created automatically, but it's best to create one just before you install that new software in case something goes wrong.  If your computer doesn't boot into Windows, but instead gives a menu option of "Last Known Good Configuration" that's the one to select. 

Win2000:  This system creates an ERD or Emergency Repair Disk.  Go to Accessories, System Tools, then Backup.  From the opening window click on Emergency Repair Disk then follow the directions to place the necessary startup system files on a floppy diskette.

Note:  This information is just to get you started on the road to recovery.  Not knowing what possible problems your PC may have, no further instructions are provided.

 

 

Big Screen Quick Fix

To eliminate most of the screen clutter while working in Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer and go to full screen just press the F11 key.  Press it again to return to the previous view.

 

 

WinXP Did you know?

Contains more than 50,000,000 lines of programming code.

Between 5,000 and 6,000 people worked on and created WinXP.

The compiled program requires approximately 1.5GB of hard drive space.

Supports 12,000 devices such as modems, printers, etc.

Capable of running  thousands of today's applications as well as applications written as far back as 1980 (most WinXP programmers weren't born yet).

Believe it or not, WinXP is recognized as the most solid and stable consumer operating system yet.