Quick Source Tips

Want to make working in Windows Vista even faster? Instead of having to double-click to open an item, you can change it to a single click. When you make this change, the item will be selected when you place your mouse pointer over it.

1. Click on the Start button.
2. Select Control Panel from the resulting menu.
3. Select Classic View in the left pane.
4. Double-click the Folder Options button.
5. Check the Single-click to open an item (point to select) box.
6. Click the OK button.

I have been using Office 2007 for over two years now, but this one still baffles me. It is not very intuitive and in Word 2007 I always expect that it should be under the References tab, but it is not. To access Spelling & Grammar Check, as well as Research, Thesaurus, Translation, and Word Count, click on the Review tab and click a button in the Proofing group.

To make it even easier to find, right-click the Spelling & Grammar button and select Add to Quick Access toolbar from the resulting menu.

Out newest Quick Source guide, Dreamweaver CS3, came out this week and I wanted to highlight my favorite NEW feature in this application.

If you have ever created Web pages, you know what a pain it can be to make sure that what you have created works in all different browsers. This new feature in Dreamweaver CS3 makes double-checking a breeze! Select Check Page from the File menu and select Browser Compatibility from the resulting menu. The results will appear in the Results panel (located just below the Property Inspector).

Here are some shortcuts to make working in the Calendar in your BlackBerry Curve 8300 quicker and easier. For these shortcuts to work in Day view the Enable Quick Entry field option must be set to No.

• Schedule an appointment, press C.
• To change to Agenda view, press A.
• To change  to Day view, press D.
• To change  to Week view, press W.
• To change  to Month view, press M.
• To move to the next day, week or month, press Space key.
• To move to the previous day, week or month, press Shift key + Space key.
• To move to the current date, press T.
• To move to a specific date, press G.

Has this ever happened to you? You are entering an e-mail address in Outlook and the AutoComplete suggestion comes up. You click on it and send the message, only to find out that that e-mail address is no longer valid and that person has a new address. How do you keep the old address from coming up every time you try to e-mail that person? The next time you e-mail that person begin the enter the address in the To box, when the old address shows up in the drop-down menu, highlight it and press the Delete key. Viola! It will not show up again as an AutoComplete option.

Stephanie sent us this question about splitting columns in Excel 2007. She had a column that contained names (i.e. Jane Doe) and wanted to split it into 2 columns. Here is how its done:

1. Select the column you want to split.
2. Click on the Data tab.
3. Click the Text to Columns button.
4. Select Delimited.
5. Click the Next button.
6. Check the Space box. (This is assuming that the first and last names are separated by a space, if not check the box next to the delimiter that it is separated by or enter one in the Other box.)
7. Click the Finish button.

Thanks so much to our readers for sending in questions!

How many times have you hit the Send button and then a second later realized that you forgot to spell check the e-mail. Here is an easy way to make sure that those pesky spelling errors don’t make it to your recipient.

1. Select Options from the Tools menu.
2. Click on the Spelling tab.
3. Check the Always check spelling before sending box.
4. Click the OK button.

Internet security is on everyone’s mind these days. As a parent or an employer, you will sometimes want to block specific sites or types of content. Internet Explorer 7 gives you some tools to do this without spending money on costly security software.

1. Click the Tools button on the Command Bar.
2. Select Internet Options from the resulting menu.
3. Click on the Content tab.
4. Click the Enable button.
5. Do any of the following:
   • To block specific types of content, select the content category and drag the slider to specify what users can access.
   • To block or allow specific sites, click on the Approved Sites tab. Enter the Web site address in the Allow this website box and click the Always or Never button.
6. Enter a password in the Password box.
7. Reenter the password in the Confirm password box.
8. Click the OK button to close all remaining open dialog boxes.

If you are one of the only people that you know that has upgraded to Office 2007 then I am sure that you are getting frustrated saving files down to older Office files so that you can share them with other people. By default, Office 2007 saves files using a new file extension (for example, .docx for Word) making them incompatible with older version of Office programs. You can change this setting so that when you save Office 2007 files, they will be compatible with all versions of Office.

1. Click the Microsoft Office button.
2. Select “Program Name” Options from the resulting menu.
3. Click on the Save tab in the left pane.
4. Click the arrow on the Save files in this format box.
5. Select “Program Name” 97-2003 from the resulting menu.
6. Click the OK button.

There are a ton of fun themes that come installed with Office 2007, but I am already bored with them even after playing with custom themes. So, I have been downloading themes from Office Online. Here is the direct link:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT101043291033.aspx

These are mostly for PowerPoint 2007, Word 2007, and Excel 2007. Have fun creating dynamic new documents!