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Computer and Internet Tips
The following are tips and
suggesting that I use or have found helpful, so I thought I would share them
with others. Maybe nothing will help or maybe something will help! But I have
had a lot of people ask some different thing, so I thought I would share some of
the "little" bit that I do know! Trust me it is a little bit!
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Print so page is a poster size |
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/ file you want to print to a poster size, in the PDF window click the
"print" button, in the next
window click "Properties",
then click the tab that says "Page
Setup" then in that window, look for where it says
"Printing type" use the drop down
window and change it to "Poster Printing", then click
"ok" ---
"ok" again make sure you have
the paper you want already loaded (colored paper, card stock etc) That
should do it!
ONE THING, this does not work on all
printers, you have to have a printer that will printer posters, banners etc. |
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My thoughts on printer
ink and printing is color: |
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wanted to give you a little food for thought, as you will be able to see,
I love COLOR, when I make flyers or newsletters, or invitations I print
everything in color, I would rather have things done, then have to run
down to the copy center or wait until Sunday morning and make copies, but
I know a lot of people say, color cartridges are to expensive, well I say
"It does not have to be"
You
can buy ink cartridges for so much cheaper online then if you buy them
at Costco or anywhere else, for example, I was buying mine at Sam's Club,
I paid about $40.00 for one Black, Cyan, Magenta Yellow cartridge, so that
was basically 10.00 a cartridge, well now I pay anywhere form $3.10-4.25 a
cartridge depending on how many I buy, I lot of times shipping is free or
it is still small enough, you are still paying less.
I buy my ink from:
MARLBOROUGH
SUPPLIES FOR PRINTERS, COPIERS AND FAX MACHINES
Another thing, the next time you are
buying a printer, buy one that has 4 separate tanks, meaning don't buy one
that has just black and color cartridges. If you print something in color
and it has mainly yellow in it, you will run out of the yellow ink a lot
faster, your color cartridge will need to be replaced, because you will be
out of yellow, but you might still have a ton of the other colors. If you
buy a printer with separate tanks then you only replace the color you
need.
Also, just because your printer says
your "out of ink", it may really not be, I can get an easy 100
more pages off of a cartridge that says it is out of ink, just click the
refresh button on your printer, and keep on printing! |
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Excel Viewer
A lot of people do not have
Excel, but they get things sent to them, but can not open them, or they
try to open some things on the Internet that are in Excel, but can't. BUT,
you can download a Excel Viewer, which will allow you to open any excel
file, you can view it and print from it, but can not edit it! To get this
download Click
Here
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Larger
fonts on web pages
If you have a scroll wheel on your
mouse, then hold on the "CTRL" button down and use your scroll
button to make the font on web page bigger or smaller. |
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Have you ever found yourself
on the internet when suddenly a full screen advertisement pops up and you
can't find the X to close it?
I hate it when a web site tries to trap me with a full screen page with no
visible way to close the page.
With this tip, you won't be stuck again. Simply click once on the
offending page, then hold down the "Alt" key on your keyboard
and press the "F4" key. This will close the window that you just
clicked on.
To help you remember, just write Alt+F4 on a sticky note and stick it on
your monitor.
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When you see a graphic on the Web site that you must send to a friend
right away press CTRL+ M, than drag and drop the graphic. This immediately
opens a New Message Composition window. Now grab the image and drop it
into the message body. That’s it - address and send the message as you
would normally.
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to Desktop
Want to quickly get back to the desktop when
you have multiple windows open?
Just press the Windows key on your keyboard
and the letter D.
The windows key is on the bottom row of your
keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys. It has the windows symbol on it.
To bring the windows back up to the way they
were before, just press the same key combination again.
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Favorites
in alphabetical order for XP
You can put your Internet Explorer favorites
in alphabetical order in Windows XP the same way you can in Windows 98 and
ME.
Open Internet Explorer.
Click on "Favorites" in the menu
bar. (This will not work if you use Favorites in the toolbar.)
When your list of favorites drops down from
the menu bar, right click on any one of the shortcuts and then click
"Sort by Name". |
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A fast way to add a web page
to your favorites, or bookmarks (depending on what browser you use) is to
hold down the CTRL key and press the D key once. Go ahead and give it a
try. This page should now be in your Favorites!
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WordWeb 2.1 for Windows
95/98/2000/NT/Me/XP
One of the freeware programs that I use quite
often is WordWeb. A nice little dictionary program. I used it to figure
out the correct spelling of several words in this week's issue. WordWeb
has definitions, synonyms, related words and if you want it will install
an icon of itself in MS Word.
I just keep an shortcut for WordWeb in my
Quick Launch toolbar where it is always handy when I need it.
http://www.wordweb.co.uk/free/ |
Watching a movie clip on a Mac
If you own a Apple then you
know at times you have had a hard time viewing some movie clips, you can now
download Windows Media Play for your Mac. Just follow this link
About Windows Media
Player for Mac OS X
This new version of our player opens the world
of Windows Media 9 content to Macintosh users,
enabling them to access the best audio and video
on the Web. New plug-in support added for
Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Safari enables
playback of Windows Media files right from the
browser.
System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.1.5
or later
- Mac OS X 10.2
or later recommended
- 450MHz PowerPC
G3 processor or higher recommended
- Microsoft
Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac, America
Online for Mac OS X, Netscape 7.1, MSN
for Mac OS X version 2.0, or Apple
Safari 1.0
To download this player
click here
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