7-10-07 Tips for you

E-mail Maintenance

Want to change some of your e-mail settings in Outlook Express? Maybe things just aren't going the way you want them to within your e-mail and you just need to do some things differently. Well, that's no problem. Let's do it!

Open up Outlook Express and go to Tools, Options. Once there, click on the Maintenance tab. In this box, you can do a lot of cleaning up, so to speak, in your e-mail program.

you can choose to have all of your e-mails deleted every time you exit out of OE, you can choose to purge some of them and there are also some options in there if you use a newsgroup.

If you are part of a newsgroup, you can have OE delete all of the messages you have already read or you can choose when to have them deleted. Just use the number box to pick how many days you want to wait before the messages are completely cleared out. You can go as low as zero or as high as you so choose!

A couple of other things you can do for maintenance is clean up any downloaded messages that might be in your system. If you want to do that, click on the Clean Up Now button. You can also change the location of your store folder, which is where your messages are stored. If you want to change that, click on the Store Folder button.

To make any changes, just use the check boxes and check it if you want it or uncheck it if you don't. It's as simple as that. Now your e-mail will be all cleaned out as you prefer. Isn't that a great feeling?!

That's Not What I Selected!

Here's the scenario: You're working in MS Word, happily highlighting this and that, editing the document that will surely become a perfect specimen of word processing.

But wait! What's that?

You highlighted part of a word and now, you suddenly have the whole word highlighted!

Is there something wrong with this thing?

Don't panic.

Nothing's wrong. There's actually a very good reason for this strange behavior.

MS Word contains an option that automatically extends your partial highlight to select an entire word.

Interested in turning that feature off?

Just imagine it. You could have a program that gives you exactly what you highlight and only what you highlight!

Well, here's the scoop on this "helpful highlighting feature."

You're looking for the Tools menu, Options choice.

When the Options window opens, go to the Edit tab.

You're looking to uncheck the "When selecting, automatically select entire word" option