Using Comments in Word 2007 Documents

The comment tool in Word 2007 is a great way to proof-read a report or thesis paper and make notes to yourself instead of writing them onto a sheet of paper.

Open your Word Document. On the Ribbon click the Review tab, and click on the New Comment Icon.

Highlight the area where you want to create a note and Word adds a balloon linking to that text where you can add your notes.

After organizing my thoughts on this rough draft I choose the “Show all Revisions Inline” option.

This makes it easier to maintain the clean interface on the document. Just hover your mouse over the noted text to see the comment.

Using Word 2007 as a Blogging Tool

Microsoft Word is a wonderful tool for writing documents, but did you know that you can now use it to post to your blog as well? This is tremendously useful if you tend to write very long, wordy posts, or if you just can’t spell worth anything.

To begin blogging, click on the Office button in the upper left hand corner, and then New, and then choose New blog post.

Now the ribbon will change to show the blogging tools. Click on the Manage Accounts button.

You’ll see that I’ve already setup an account for myself in the list, but you should click on New.

Now you’ll be asked what your blogging platform is. In my case, I’m using a custom WordPress installation, so I’ll choose that.

Now enter in the relevant information for your site, and choose whether to remember the password. You should also take a look at the Picture Options button, because Word can automatically upload images to certain blogging platforms, which is much easier than doing the ftp option.

Now you can start writing… you can add categories to your posts, and Word will automatically connect to your blogging platform and download the list of categories. Depending on the blogging platform you can even create new categories directly from within Word.

You can open an old post by using the Open Existing button, or even publish a draft to your site.

Word 2007 has really turned into an amazing blogging editor, well worth a look if you spend a lot of time in Word anyway.

Fix For Outlook 2007 Constantly Asking for Password on Vista

If you are encountering an infuriating problem where Outlook constantly asks you for your password even though you check the “Remember my password” box every single time, then you are in luck because reader Malcolm wrote in with this tip on how to fix the problem.

This fix should theoretically help with Windows Mail as well, but I haven’t been able to verify that yet.

Before you do anything else, close Outlook. You should also note that we’ll be modifying system generated files here, so proceed with caution or not at all.

Open up windows explorer window and then paste the following text into the address bar, which should bring you to a folder with a single folder inside with a really long name.

%userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Protect

What you’ll need to do is just rename that folder to something else (I suggest appending -old onto the end of it so that you could easily rename it back if things go wrong)

Now re-open Outlook, and then type in your password hopefully for the last time, making sure to check the box to remember it. You should now see that the original folder was re-created again.

At this point Outlook should remember your passwords, but you can close Outlook and reopen it to make sure. If you encounter problems with this, you can remove the new folder and then rename the -old folder back to the original name to put everything back the way it was.

Note: I’m hearing from some readers that this doesn’t always solve the problem for them, so your mileage may vary.

"Up" Keyboard Shortcut for Windows 7 or Vista Explorer

The new Explorer window in Windows 7 and Vista doesn’t have an Up button, which drives me completely batty. Thankfully I found a keyboard shortcut replacement.

Note: These screenshots are from Vista, but it works the same in Windows 7.

Let’s say I’m in my x:\wpmu\wp-content directory. Sure, I can usually click the “wpmu” part of the path and simulate the Up button, but it doesn’t always work, especially if I’ve lowered the size of the window or tiled two windows beside each other.

This window is 600px wide, shouldn’t I have an easier way to go Up? Turns out I do… if I just hit the following key combination:

Alt+Up

Ahhh, so much better… now I’m in the parent directory!

Note that this is also the quickest way to get to the Desktop folder… just keep hitting Alt+Up until you get to the right folder.

Other interesting keyboard shortcuts for Explorer:

• Alt+Right - Go forward
• Alt+Left- Go back
• Alt+D – Focus the address bar and select the current path.
• F4 – Pop up the dropdown in the address bar, actually somewhat useful.
• Alt+Enter – Properties of the selected file
• Ctrl+Mousewheel – change the size of the icons
• F11 - Put explorer into Fullscreen mode. Actually kinda weird, and I have no idea why this function is even there.

Enjoy!

Easily Burn And Create ISO Images In Vista

Being able to burn an ISO image should not be as difficult as it sometimes is. Being able to burn them should actually just be a standard feature in Windows. Of course there are hundreds of things a person could list that should be included. We can get this feature by adding a the free 3rd party application ISO Recorder V3. This handy utility is developed by Alex Feinman and he will gladly accept donations on his site.

After you download and install ISO Recorder you just need to locate the ISO image you want to burn. Right click and select Copy image to CD.

This opens up ISO Recorder so you can verify the image path or choose a different ISO file and adjust the recording speed to burn the image.

Also by going into Properties you can fine tune the recording speed and have the disc eject when it is done. For data discs like a Linux OS it is better to record at a slower speed to avoid errors.

When you have all the setting how you like click on Next and the burning process will start. A progress screen will pop up indicating the data is being written and when it is being finalized.

The finish disk pops out and another successful image burn has been completed, click Finish. That is all there is to it! This makes the process extremely quick and easy. ISO Recorder Version 3 does support DVD’s and can be downloaded in x32 and x64 bit.

Now, to create an ISO image from a disc just pop the CD or DVD into your optical drive, right click on the drive and choose Create image from CD.

Again ISO Recorder pops up so you can choose a directory to place your new ISO image then click Next and you have your ISO image!

Unable to enable Windows Defender application in Windows Vista

1. Click Start, type CMD in search.
2. From the results, right-click Command Prompt and Run as Administrator. Type the following command: (If you have logged in as Administrator, you can directly execute CMD)

winmgmt /verifyrepository

3. When the system returns "WMI repository is not consistent" message, run the following command:

winmgmt /salvagerepository

This will perform a consistency check on the WMI repository and resolve the issue. Restart the system, once done and try enabling Windows Defender program.

tutorials for Ubuntu Linux

http://www.vtc.com/products/Ubuntu-Linux-tutorials.htm

Linux commands is from Linux in a Nutshell, 5th Edition.

http://oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

HP Notebook PCs - Using HP Backup and Recovery Manager

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/fastFaqLiteDocument?lc=en&cc=us&product=18703&dlc=en&docname=c00809678

Dell Computers Recoveries & Reinstalls

http://oem.windowsreinstall.com/dell/index.htm