Information management and technology assurance

 I’m glad you find it helpful. Yes, you can default to a tinted screen. It takes a bit of effort, but, since you’re finding it so helpful, I’m sure you’ll gladly invest the effort to go through the steps. Many middle-age or older users or those who suffer from mild

 Your colleague’s right. There’s no need to switch into Outlook to compose and transmit a message. In fact, you even can do it in Excel. Not only can you send e-mails in those applications, but also you can add the document or spreadsheet you’re in as an attachment. You need

   Although there is no official way to do that, I’ll show you an unpublished way to trick XP into displaying that information, and it works in all Office XP applications. If you’re running XP, you can convert this… …into this full path statement of the open file: Office 2007

  The easiest way to do that is to apply a formula using two columns—store the full nine-digit number in one, which then is hidden and protected, and apply a formula that effectively camouflages all but the last four digits in the other, as shown in the screenshot below. The

  You can do it several ways, but I think Excel’s Data Validation tool does it best. You can program it to display a popup memo with your instructions and then disappear after data are entered. The screenshot below illustrates what a Data Validation pop–up memo looks like when cell

   It’s very easy. Go to the File menu, click on Page Setup and make sure the Header/Footer tab is selected. Click on the Custom Header or Custom Footer button, depending on which you want, and then, depending on where you want the graphic to appear on the page, click

    I confess to being a shortcut freak. After all, why search through folders when you can open the file you want with just one mouse click? However, I am finding that the Quick Launch toolbar, as good as it is, is becoming somewhat limiting because I quickly run out

   Many of the formulas in my spreadsheets are long and complicated. When I need to make an adjustment, I could click on the Formula bar and edit the formula in the target cell, but I prefer to keep my fingers on the keyboard—using the F2 key instead to give

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