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Do you know the shorthand lingo.

Today, we are going to go over the most popular shorthand words. If you use any of the things I mentioned you will really benefit from this! Plus, using Internet shorthand can save you time, it's a lot of fun to do and you still get the same point across without using up so much space.

Chat Room and Internet Shorthand

The most common and easy ones to remember are:

* BRB = Be Right Back	* Thx = Thanks	* TLC = Tender Love and Care
* ILU = I Love You	*XOXO = Hugs and Kisses	* NM = Nevermind
* TTYL = Talk To You Later	* LOL = Laugh Out Loud	*ROTFL = Rolling On The Floor Laughing

Here are some more:

1.) 2moro = Tomorrow

2.) 2nite = Tonight

3.) BTW = By the Way

4.) B4N = Bye For Now

5.) BCNU = Be Seeing You

6.) BFF = Best Friends Forever

Now, here is a link you can visit for more chat room, message board and discussion board shorthand: http://www.netlingo.com/top50text.cfm.

Text Messaging Shorthand

These are the most common and easy ones to remember:

*C - P = Sleepy	* BB = Be Back
* AAMOF = As A Matter Of Fact	* ASAP = As Soon As Possible
*Gratz = Congratulations

Here is a link to more text messaging shorthand: http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm. Here, you also can sign up for the latest and up to date shorthand terms as they become available

Printing a Test Page

how to print a test page.

Go to Start, Control Panel, Printers and Other Hardware and choose Printers and Faxes. Once there, you will see a list of all the printers you have installed on your computer. More than likely, you will only have one or two, but click on the one you want to test so that it is highlighted. Then right click and choose Properties. The Properties box for your printer will then come up. Under the General tab, look toward the bottom of the box and you'll see a Print Test Page button. Click on that and your printer will automatically print a page out for you.

Envelopes and Labels with Pizzazz

Have you ever found yourself in MS Word's Envelopes and Labels window, desperately trying to change a font, but with no luck?

You probably noticed that the ways you make those changes in your document are locked to you. As long as that window is open, you're not going to have access to the Format menu or any of the drop down menus you're accustomed to using.

You could choose to create an entire page of the labels and then work with font changes on the entire document. Or, with an envelope, you could have the envelope added to the document and make alterations there.

But, what if you just wanted to quickly print straight from the Envelopes and Labels window, without making major changes to your document?

While you're in the Envelopes and Labels window, all you need to remember is to right click.

Right click?

In any of the address boxes on either the Envelope or Label tab, just simply right click.

The pop up menu should be short and sweet and to the point. You're looking for the Font choice at the bottom.

(On the Envelope tab, you can get to the font window through the Options button, but let's face it, one right click is much quicker!)

If you already have text in the address box, highlight the text that needs to be changed before you right click.

At any rate, once you've chosen Font from the pop up menu, you'll be taken to the Font window where you can make the same changes you can make to the text of a document.

When you've made all the changes you need, just click OK.