February 2005 Tidbits
Shortcuts to the Web
If you have a few web sites that you visit several times a day, consider creating keyboard shortcuts to pop them open whenever you need to take a look. Want to do a Google search? Create a shortcut like CTRL + ALT + G and pull up Google whenever you like. Or maybe you're a blog junkie and you need to login to Bloglines to catch up on your reading every hour. You can make a shortcut to open that page whenever you like!
Here's how:
- In Internet Explorer (it works best in this browser), find the web page to which you want a shortcut.
- Right-click on a blank portion of the page.
- Select CREATE SHORTCUT to save a shortcut to the page on your desktop.
- Go to your desktop and find the shortcut you just created. Right-click on it.
- Select PROPERTIES.
- On the Web Document
tab, drop your cursor in the Shortcut Key box and enter the keystroke combination
you want to use to open the page.
(Tip: do this by actually entering the combination of keystrokes, not by trying to type them in or it will look like it's not working.) - Click the OK button when you're finished.
- Voila! Give your new shortcut a try with the keystrokes you entered. The page will open in your default browser.
I ran across this one in an email tip sheet I get every week and just loved it! I hope you will, too.
Stop telling me to clean up my desktop!
Windows XP users will know exactly what the above title means. Don't those little pop-up notices drive you crazy sometimes? Well, here's one you can get rid of.
To tell Windows not to notify you that you need to clean unused icons off your desktop, follow these steps:
- Right-click on a blank space of your desktop.
- In the Display Properties window, click on the DESKTOP TAB.
- Click on the CUSTOMIZE
DESKTOP button (see below).
- Uncheck the "Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days" box (see above).
- If you want to run the cleanup wizard, you can do it manually from this window in the future.
- Click the OK button on the Desktop Items window.
- Click the OK button on the Display Properties window.
No more irritating notices! YAY!
Print the whole thing (MS Excel)
Here's an easy way to print an entire workbook rather than just the worksheet you are currently viewing.
- Click on the tab of the first sheet in the workbook.
- Hold down the SHIFT key.
- Click on the tab of the last sheet in the workbook.
- Click on the PRINT button on the Standard Toolbar.
It's quick. It's easy.
Adieu
Farewell until next time from the library system where all the computers are fast, all the books are worth reading, and all the librarians are above average!
This issue of Tidbits was written by Beth Carpenter, Web Services Manager for the Outagamie Waupaca Library System. Please send any comments or questions about this issue to Beth.
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