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SPECIAL NOTE: In order to make these articles less bulky, yet more readable for the more technologically challenged, I have added a new member to the Fleet. His name is Cap'n Patt and he will be our official GeekSpeak Translator! Unfortunately, I didn't get this setup in time for this issue. Starting with the next issue, all geekese will be clearly translated for you in the Capn's column. Linda's Soapbox Hey there guys and gals. I am just soooo excited about the great reception this newsletter is receiving. Keep those cards and letters coming. They really do make my day! Of course, if you want to send me letters of complaint, I will read them too, but they don't make me nearly as happy. If you haven't visited the Meet the Fleet page recently, you really should go there and see all the great people who will be contributing to this newsletter. And, please remember they all do this because they are generous people who enjoy helping others. Please support them and this newsletter by checking out any links they include within or below their articles. If they have a website, go spend some time there and leave them a message that tells them you found them through ABC. These are busy people....please let them know you appreciate their efforts. You will notice that some of the articles are longer than others and not every Fleet member appears in every issue ('cept me). This is because I picked the best and the best are busy. These people are attached to many other projects in their lives which all involve making our computer experiences better. So, they will give what they can and I will fill in the gaps as best I can. If anyone out there thinks they can fill a vacancy
they see in the Fleet, send an email to linda Linda Johnson is a college instructor of all of the Microsoft Office Programs, as well as Adobe PhotoShop and Windows. She has worked helpdesk and teaches and lectures at many local businesses in her area. Support this newsletter by checking out Linda's ebooks, MS Word MAGIC! ....Book I: Fonts, Fun & Formats....and Book II: Table Wizardry What’s New at Linda’s Computer Stop Well, most
of this month has been spent getting ready for this newsletter and
setting up its home base. If
you haven’t had a chance to see it, you should check it out.
Some of the new additions include: Chill
Out……..a collection of humorous computer-related websites for
your enjoyment. Enjoy them
and send me more if you have any. Cruise
the Links…….a place where you all can share your favorite
computer-related websites. Check
out what’s there so far and please add your own. Aside from this newsletter, the following new pages
have been added to my site: Outlook.......I've added a link to Slipstick on my Outlook page for anyone who has upgraded Outlook 2000 with the SP2 patch or installed Outlook 2002 (in Office XP) and can no longer receive certain attachments. Slipstick has the registry fix. Phew!!! The
Library……..a selection of my favorite ebooks that you can feel
free to look at and even buy if you are so inclined. Downloads…….along
with the two free ebooks I have here for downloading, I’ve added some
links to lots of download sites where you can find oodles of stuff for
free. And here’s a tip, presented FIRST to you subscribers (thanks to Hal Cardona who shared this with me when I was pouting about not having any desktop themes in Windows 2000....I finally own a machine that has the juice to run those dang animated cursors and wild screensavers and I wanted my themes! Oh yeah, Hal also made me this amazing machine): Do you have Windows 2000 and miss your desktop themes? Well, you can have them back if you want to. Actually, the themes software is still there but there’s just nothing in it. Search your hard drive for themes.exe and doubleclick on it. There it is, alrighty. Now all you need to do is make a new folder and name it Themes and copy all of the themes off your old Windows 98 CD or go to a website and download some even cooler ones. Put them in this folder and you can use themes.exe to set them up on your computer. My favorite site for downloading some of the best themes is ThemeDoctor.
THIS MONTH'S FEATURE Tina's FrontPage News A FrontPage question that is frequently asked is "How do I print a list of the broken hyperlinks that are generated by the FrontPage 2000 reports feature?" Well Mark Rogers of Site crafters has come up with the answer. Herein we go into a bit more detail:
To verify hyperlinks, click on the Verify Hyperlinks Button
Right click on any broken link and choose 'Add Task' from the menu that pops up. Assign your priority rating, and fill in any details in the description box that you would like to add. You have to add one space after the details that are already there and then enter your text. If you don't, it will not show up in tasks view and the todo.htm list. Click Ok. Do this for all the broken hyperlinks you want to print out.
Tina Clarke - Microsoft MVP - FrontPage, is the Webmaster of AccessFP - FrontPage Resource Centre http://accessfp.net/ and http://addonfp.com She is also an editor of AnyFrontPageBytes Ezine. Subscribe to the ezine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AnyFrontPageBytes and get FREE FrontPage E-Books upon joining. And don't forget to subscribe to get Weekly FrontPage Tips. Tina is also an artist and the owner of http://clarke-abstract-art.com The Den of The Demon People who are visually impaired are no longer left in the dark, thanks to speech synthesizer technology. Among the most popular speech programs available, JAWS For Windows is extremely versatile. (JAWS is an acronym for Job Access With Speech). It operates on all versions of Windows and is compatible with the majority of available web browsers. It primarily works with Internet Explorer, and the latest version, 3.7, is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows ME, and should be compatible with the upcoming Windows XP. It has also been made to work with IE5.5 and IE6.0. A demo version of Jaws v3.7 is available at the Henter-Joyce page. JAWS For Windows reads text that is presented on the screen, whether it pops onto the screen in a dialogue box, is typed on the screen by the computer user, or is brought up on the screen in any of the various text file formats. JAWS can be configured with many helpful speech settings, like only reading highlighted text, selected text, or no text. When setting the kinds of things JAWS should speak, the program can be configured to speak every character typed, every word typed, every line, sentence, or paragraph typed, and more. JAWS is already programmed to recognize many of the most widely used graphics, but it also comes with a graphics labeler to add additional labels to unfamiliar graphics. JAWS For Windows comes with several other managers, such as The Dictionary Manager, Configuration Manager, Frame Manager, Keyboard Manager, and Script Manager. JAWS interacts with Outlook Express, Eudora, and many other mail reading clients very nicely. The only thing JAWS has trouble with is pictures, tables, charts, and graphs. Since JAWS reads mostly text-based stuff, it can read the data in a table or chart, but it will read across a line, instead of down a column, as information tends to be in a chart or table. For anyone needing a good speech program, or if the sighted would like to experience "blindness" for a short time, JAWS For Windows is a perfect tool for showing you how the visually impaired operate in today's high-tech world. editor's note: Matt Weaver, known as "The Demon" to all those who see him regularly posting helpful advice in many email groups, is totally blind. But he's here to show you that disabilities do not need to disable. Watch for an upcoming article, where he will describe how an unsighted computer user navigates a web page and our Web Creation expert, Kathleen Anderson, will help you web designers out there to develop web pages that ALL can "see". Jack's Internet Connection Over the 5 years I’ve written Neat Net Tricks, I have become acutely aware of its international scope. At last count, the ezine wings its way twice monthly to some 141 or more countries. Although 90% of my readers reside in the U.S. and Canada, that still means likely 8,000 or more do not call English their first choice of languages. Most Neat Net Tricks readers abroad seem to have a working knowledge of English and I suppose that’s true for the Internet as a whole, and is very fortunate since I’ve been reminded on numerous occasions that we Americans are too lazy for our own good when it comes to learning a second language. Nonetheless, at times I must fall back on a few of the translation
tools on the Internet. These are crude devices and are at the
mercy of idioms and little characteristics found in each language that
just don’t translate well. I could tell you a few interesting
moments when my writings offended someone in another country, another
culture. But I’ll save that for some other time (and besides,
some of the retorts aren’t easily repeated in mixed company.) Going back through 5 years’ worth of “language interpretation
tips” I see that many have fallen prey to link rot, typical of so much
of the Internet. That’s unfortunate, but I believe you will find
that the following are still alive and well, and can be very useful in
communicating with our international friends:
For a rainy day diversion and to demonstrate the fallacy of machine translation, choose any simple paragraph and convert it from your language to one of the other languages supported in these utilities. Then, translate it back to your language. What you’ll see will likely amaze and amuse you. Jack Teems invites you to join the 85,000 + readers of Neat Net Tricks. Subscribe FREE at the Neat Net Tricks Web site. James's Database Building an Access Database Failing
to Plan is Planning to Fail! Since this is the first article, let’s start at the beginning: where to start building your Access database. This is where many beginners and a lot of veterans go wrong. Planning your database saves time and gives you a clear understanding of what you are doing with it and why. It will also ensure that your finished database will be functional and accepted. Let us venture together through the steps of creating a successful database! The
Only Stupid Question is the One not Asked The key to a well-designed Access database is communication. If you have questions, ask them and ask them early. The place to begin is talking to the customer. Under ideal conditions you will have the opportunity to talk with both management and end-users. This is an area that a lot of developers fail to fully take advantage of. Both groups are equally important in developing the final product. The paying client may be management, but the people who will implement the database are the true key to the success of your project. Both must be considered. God
is in the Details Getting the details up front will make the entire development process go more smoothly. While God may or may not be in your details, your success is. Get a feel for what management wants out of the database. In most cases, they are only worried about the final outcome, not the process by which it is achieved. If you can deliver the end result faster or more efficiently than their current (or nonexistent) setup, you are successful. Find out what data will be entered and maintained in the database. Find out what security concerns they have. All of these are important factors in your database design and form the infrastructure of your database. Next, if you can, talk with the end-user. Determine what the end user is currently doing (if the process is being completed in another fashion already). Ask the end-user how they would like to see the process improved. This is a vital step—it lays the groundwork for the end user’s acceptance of your database. Everyone has ideas on how something they work with could be improved. When you ask for their input and include them in the process, you improve your final database in two ways:
This process of discovery should be the same whether you’re doing a database for one user, for a hundred users, or for yourself. Ask yourself the same questions. First take the side of management. Decide what it is you are putting in to the database, what you want out of it, and how will the data get in. Next, take the side of the user. What are your preferences as far as entering data or getting to reports? A Stitch in Time Saves Nine Now that you have your objective, you are ready for the next step. While you may be ready to jump in with both feet, careful planning should still rule the day. It’s time to pick up that pad of paper and your pen. The next step of planning is deciding what tables, queries, forms and reports will be needed. Tackle the tables first! What tables will be required? What data goes in which table? Remember that data that is duplicated should go into its own table and be linked back to the original table. This saves room in your database. The process of moving redundant data to related tables is called normalization. A perfect example of this can be found in the Northwinds database, which ships with all retail versions of Access and may be downloaded from the Microsoft website. In it there is a Products table, a Customers table and an Orders table. Rather than duplicate products and customers, only new data is included in the Orders table and customer and product data is acquired through linked fields. Next, tackle your queries, forms and reports. Reports should be easiest; the basic layout and design should already have been determined by your discussion with management. Forms are a little more complex; they are for inputting data as well as navigation and data viewing. Queries should be designed last as they are determined by what you need for your reports and forms. One
Small Step for Man… To paraphrase Mr. Armstrong, it is now time to take that first small step of opening your new database. By following the steps above in the discovery phase of your design, you will save yourself a lot of headaches as you progress through the actual development of your database. By communicating with both the end user and management you will ensure the smoothest implementation of your final design as well as meeting all of their expectations and more.
Parker's Mailbox Creating
Rules in Outlook 2000
If you are like most computer users today, your
volume of e-mail can quickly grow out of control. My company had a user
with 6,000 e-mails in his inbox! Try finding the one e-mail you want in
that. Outlook, however, can help you control your e-mail with the
Rules Wizard. The Rules Wizard allows you create a rule to automatically move or copy e-mail to an existing folder, to a new sub-folder you create, or to delete certain e-mails without ever seeing them. If you want e-mails to go to a new folder you create, you first need to create the new folder. To do this: 1. Right click on a folder in the Folder List. (I put sub-folders for incoming e-mail under the Inbox, but you can select any folder you wish.) If you have the Outlook Bar open, I recommend that you close it and use the Folder List instead. (To do this, click on your View menu in your inbox and remove the check from "Outlook Bar" and add a check to "Folder List). 2. A dropdown menu will appear. Select “New Folder”, then enter the folder name in the space provided. 3. Click OK and the new folder will appear.
Now that you have created a sub-folder, you need
to set up rules to do what you want. You can have certain messages
automatically forwarded to another user. If you get junk e-mail
repeatedly from the same source, you can have Outlook permanently delete
it before you even see it! Or, if you have a project, you can create a
sub-folder called “Project” and have all your e-mail with
“Project” in the content or subject moved or copied automatically to
that folder. You can select the people associated with the project that
send you e-mail and add a rule that all of the e-mail from those people
should be moved or copied to the Project folder. The general procedure to set up a rule is as follows: 1. Click on Tools> Rules Wizard 2. Select New, and a dialog box will open giving you the choice of many different rules. 3. Select the rule which does what you want to accomplish. If you select the wrong rule, don’t worry. You can modify or delete a rule later. 4. Follow the prompts to
set up rules that customize the way Outlook handles certain messages. Let’s set up a rule now, so you can see the whole process. Assume you get e-mails from a group called CompuTips that uses several different sender’s e-mail addresses based on the subject of the message. (I receive e-mail from a computer tips group that does this.) To set up a rule to move your CompuTips messages to a “Tips” folder: 1. Create a Tips folder following the above procedure. 2. Click on Tools> Rules Wizard> New. 3. Select “Check messages when they arrive” and click Next. 4. In “Which condition(s) do you want to check”, check “With specific words in the sender’s address”. 5. In the Rule Description pane, click on specific words. Another box will open allowing you to enter the specific words you wish to search for. Enter CompuTips, click OK, then Next. 6. In the “What do you want to do with the message” pane, click "Move it to the specified folder". In the Rule Description Pane, click on specified folder. 7. A “Choose a folder” dialog box will open. Browse to the folder you have previously created and click Next. 8. Add any exceptions to the rule you wish to establish and click next. 9. Enter a name for the rule. Outlook will suggest a name based on the entries you have made. 10. Check "Run this rule now on
messages already in Inbox" if there are any appropriate messages.
(This is also a good way to see if the rule will work.) Click Finish. That’s all there is to it. When the rule stops working because something has changed, either modify the old rule or delete it and set up a new one. It only takes a few minutes and can save you a lot of time searching for that elusive e-mail you swear you have somewhere! Parker Renaud is the one-man IT department at Colliers Keenan where he manages 90 PCs on 5 servers. Chad's Macro Mania VBA
Magic VBA. Some would lead you to believe that this acronym belongs to a new foreign language called Geekese, spoken only by those cubicle-dwelling computer nerds down in the basement. Come on, who else could use VBA, SQL, and ADO all in the same sentence and actually know what they were talking about? I hope to distill this myth. VBA, or Visual Basic for Applications, is one of Microsoft’s greatest tools within the Office programs. While it is a programming language, Microsoft has tried to make it user friendly and somewhat understandable. I say somewhat because the code isn’t in a format acceptable by your English professor. However, once you understand the structure and a few of the key words and phrases, you’ll be speaking Geekese and maybe even understand those computer nerds when your are in the break room. My ‘friend’ who ‘taught’ me to snow ski
(I use those words loosely), told me to just point the skis downhill and
not let the tips cross. While
that day still brings back painful thoughts, the concept sticks.
The only advice I can give you to begin learning VBA is point
your skis downhill and don’t let the tips cross!
Seriously, no book or professor can give you the experience you
will receive just by trying VBA yourself.
Books and professors (hopefully even this column) will supplement
your own experiments, but it will come quicker and easier if you try it
out yourself first. My favorite learning tool is the Macro Recorder.
It is accessed in the same manner in nearly every office
application. Select Macros
from the Tools menu. In the
submenu select Record New Macro. Give it a name and description or simply accept the
defaults and press OK. Perform
a few actions such as typing, applying formatting, copying and pasting
etc. When you have finished
select Stop Recording from the same submenu as before.
Now try running your macro, select Tools>Macro>Macros.
Highlight your macro and press Run.
You will notice that the same actions done when recording the
macro are done again. Congratulations,
you’ve just recorded a simple macro. Now comes the fun part.
Learn what makes that macro tick.
Once again select Tools>Macro>Macros and highlight your
macro. This time though,
press Edit. The Visual
Basic Editor or VBE will open and your macro code will be displayed in
Geekese. Resize the VBE so
that you can see both your code and the application behind it.
Press F8 to start stepping through your code.
Each time you press F8 a new line will be evaluated, and you can
watch what each command does. Lines
which are preceded by an apostrophe are comments, so anything to the
right of the apostrophe will not be evaluated.
If you have a question about any word in VBA, highlight it and
then press F1. The online
help is usually very helpful; I’ve used it countless times to learn or
remember the syntax of a function or property.
It is also crammed full of examples which certainly help the
learning process. Now for a little homework. Next time you open an office program, turn on the macro
recorder (save the macro to a new location, not your current document).
After you’ve finished your work, stop the recorder and open the
code. See if you can
remember what each line of code is doing. In the next article we will study a few of the common
commands that you may find in your own code. Until next time, Happy Coding! Do you have a question or tip you’d like to have me address in this column? Email Linda at linda@personal-computer-tutor.com or send a note to
me at chad@welchkins.com with "Idea for ABC" in the subject.
Chad K. Welch works as a technician/enabler in
Utah. He is available for
consulting or application programming with Microsoft Office and VBA.
Do you have a question or
tip you’d like to have Chad address in this column? Send an
email to linda Corey's Network Corner
Home
Networking (Hyperlinked words will take you to pictures) Welcome to the first article on Home Networking.
In this section, I’ll attempt to let you all know how to setup your
own home network. Now before you run off screaming into the night,
it’s not all that difficult. All you need is around an hour free time,
a few odd bods and a little “Dutch Courage” (or coffee, tea, jolt
etc.)
What
you’ll need:
The Hardware: Ok. You’re at your local computer supply shop
and you’re wondering what sort of things you’ll need. If you’re there, you’ve
gone too far, and should turn around and go home. You’ll need to have
a look inside your computer first, to see what sort of slots you have
free. This lets you know what sort of network card you can buy.
But I hear you say, “I’m
pretty sure my computer already has one of those network cards things,
but I’m not sure. How can I check?” It’s rather simple. Right
click on the My Computer icon on your desktop, and choose properties.
Click on the Device Manager tab and that will bring up an entire
compressed list of all your installed devices. What you need to keep an
eye open for, is a section called Network Adapters. Expand that little
section by double clicking it. If it lists something there, NOT
something like Dial-Up adapter, but rather something like D-Link DE220
ISA PnP LAN Adapter, that means you already have a network card
installed, and that’s something you don’t have to buy. It would look something like this:
Many new computers (in the last 2 years or so) come with a network card as standard. But, if you don't have one, you need to know what type of slot you have available to install one in. Get your Phillips head screwdriver and unscrew the case (make sure that you’ve unplugged the leads
from the back of the computer first…this is most important). The speed you want your network to run at
contributes to what sort of network card you want to buy as well. Generally, you have
two choices: 10mbps or 100mbps (Megabits Per Second). NOTE: It’s Megabits,
not Megabytes. Bits are smaller units than Bytes. As a rough
guide, a 10mb network will transfer files at around 600KB per second,
and at a theoretical maximum of 1.2MB per second. A 100mb network will
transfer at around 2 to 6MB per second and a theoretical maximum of
12.5MB per second. Now that you’ve decided what speed you want, and
what slots you have free, it’s time to head down to the computer shop and buy
everything you need. Generally, the 10mbps cards come in either PCI or
ISA, and are much cheaper. The 100mbps cards only come in the PCI
format, and are more expensive. If you only have ISA slots free, and
want to run your network at 100mbps, you can’t, unfortunately. Cabling is next. If you are only connecting two
computers together, you’ll want to take the cheaper option, and buy a special form of
UTP cable, called Cross Over. This is a little more expensive than
regular UTP cable, but cheaper than buying a Hub, which isn’t
necessary for two computers. Make sure when you are buying cable, that you buy
at least 1 and a half times more cable then you think you’ll need. It’s always
better to have excess cable, than not to have enough. Now that you have your cable, and your cards,
you’re ready to start networking!!! In the next issue, I’ll let you know how to install the hardware and the real fun will begin. Happy
Shopping! Corey's
Glossary: ISA: Industry Standard Architecture Corey Seaton is a Systems Support Officer with Queensland Health. He also moderates an email group on Home Networking. Why don't you join and talk to others who are networking their home PCs? Networking Help Kathleen's Spider Web
HTML
Checkup
You’ve
gotten a call from a client – they say the site you designed for them
doesn’t work in their browser.
Only part of the page is visible – or worse, none of the page.
What are you going to do?
What
browser are they using? Dollars to doughnuts, the browser is
Netscape.
The reason? Netscape is very picky when it comes to rendering HTML. One missing or mismatched HTML tag and you are all done.
How
to fix it? Run your page through an HTML validator – there are a few
to pick from. The one I recommend is at the W3C
(World Wide Web Consortium).
Just type in the URL of your page and it will validate your HTML.
It will give you the specific line number where the error is in a
hyperlinked format so you can jump right to that line number in your
source.
You
can also use the WDG HTML Validator at the Web
Design Group web site. This site is especially useful because
they also provide a list of the most common validation problems. Another site that offers a slightly different twist is NetMechanic Toolbox. At this site, you can have up to 20 pages checked at one time, and have the results sent back to you by email. It will also check for broken links, browser compatibility, page load time and spelling errors. The one feature that all of these services have in common is that they are free! Think of it as having your own Quality Assurance staff at no cost to you or your customers. Now, if I could only find a free service to create my graphics…… Kathleen Anderson is a webmaster at the State of Connecticut and chairs their committee on web site accessibility for persons with disabilities. She also has her own web design company, Spider Web Woman Designs. Chas' Word World
Moving
the Furniture Around One of the best things about Word is that if there is something you don't like about it, you can change it, if you are willing to learn a few simple steps. You can change it a lot if you are willing to invest the time to learn VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). VBA is part of Word 97 and beyond, having replaced WordBasic to integrate Word into the Office Suite. I am a beginner in this process. I would like to start us out with a simple tool that has been built into every version of Word since Word 4 - The Work Menu. The Work menu is great but is virtually undocumented and seems to be a hold-over from earlier versions of Word. To a large part it has been supplanted by the recent files under the File menu, templates and the File => New template selection. Nevertheless, it is a great way for us to pigeon hole some of our favorite documents and a good way to get started with learning how to move the furniture around. The Work Menu is like a "favorites" menu and lets you list documents that you want to keep on a menu. It does not allow sub-menus of documents nor can you re-order documents (except by adding them again to the menu, in which case they move to the top of the list). Also, like a favorites menu, items in this menu are merely shortcuts to an actual document. Moving or deleting the document doesn't change the shortcut, just makes it not work. This sample of a Work menu has a few extras added in, primarily the commands at the bottom:
Note that like the "Recent Files" under the File menu, the Work Menu has a limit of nine documents. When you attempt to add a tenth document, it will bump the document currently at the bottom of the Work Menu. A. To add the Work menu to your menus or toolbars (W97 +):
Drag this menu where you want it. The most common choice is to put it next to Help. You can add it to your File (or any other) menu if that suits you better. Click on OK to close the Customize dialog box. ~~ The Work menu has been around since at least Word 4 and the steps to add a Work menu are similar in earlier versions. In at least one version I think it was even part of the default.~~ B. To add a document to the Work menu While that (named) document is open and is the active window, Work=>Add to Work Menu. C. To delete a document from the Work Menu (see warning) Press Ctrl + Alt + - and your mouse pointer will turn into a thick horizontal bar (a big minus sign). Use it to select the document you want to delete and release the mouse. Your document will be gone from the Work menu. (It will still be on your disk, though.) D. You can add this command (Ctrl + Alt + -) to the Work menu
Drag that last mouthful over to your Work menu. Even if you've already put documents on your Work menu, you won't see them listed. Release the mouse when you have the Command where you want it. If you want to shorten the command to something like: "Remove Shortcut from Any Menu", you can right-click on it and rename it. By typing an ampersand (&) before the "R" you will make that a keyboard shortcut. Remember that even if you delete a document from your disk, its name will still appear on your Work Menu. The Work menu is like a collection of shortcuts. However selecting it on the Work menu will just result in a message that the document can't be found. WARNING The Ctrl + Alt + - will remove any command from any menu. It will do this whether you use the key combination or have it on a menu. If you mistakenly remove something from one of your menus you can restore it using the Customize command but it may be more difficult than you would expect. **Be warned!** E. Further customization: You can add the bottom two commands to your Work menu the same way.
Their real names are ToolsCustomizeAddMenuShortcut and ToolsCustomizeKeyboardShortcut (or ToolsCustomizeKeyboard). The menu button icons were added with the Customize dialog box open. You right-click on the menu command that you want to add a symbol to and select either Change Button Image or Edit Button Image. The Change selection gives you 42 icons that have no other purpose assigned to them. Since none seemed especially appropriate, I used Edit and first created the red minus sign. Minus signs and plus signs are easy, real icons are a bit tougher. The keyboard button was formed from one of the Change icons - a calculator - by erasing the top part of the calculator. Give it a try! Next in Chas' Word World... We'll go the next step in moving the furniture around . . . a "Work Menu" for templates. Put your favorite templates on a menu! This will involve recording a few macros and putting them on our own menu. We'll also be looking at how these menus can be shared in an office. Till then, see what else you can learn. (Any new lawyer jokes?) This column was based on the Work menu page from Chas' Microsoft Word New Users' FAQ. Copyright 2001, Charles Kyle Kenyon, All rights reserved. Chas Kenyon is a trial lawyer concentrating in criminal defense with a long interest (obsession?) with making word processing work well in the law office. Visit his home page Outlook Express Tip:
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on the Reporting Toolbar. (If you cannot see this toolbar, go to the View Menu and select Toolbars, then Reporting.) You can either 'Verify all Hyperlinks' or 'Verify Selected
Hyperlink(s)'
