Tip for Everyone

Sticky Notes in Windows 7!

Do you have something you need to be reminded of? What about your grocery list? Do you like to keep adding items to it throughout the week?

Sounds like you need sticky notes!

Just type “Sticky Notes” into your Windows 7 Search Box (Located above your Start button) and hit Enter. The Sticky Notes gadget will open up.
Now just type your list, note, message or limerick in and you've got yourself an instant desktop resident reminder! You can even change the color by Right-Clicking! To add another Sticky Note, just click the plus sign!

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Windows 7 Mortgage Calculator?

Yeah, you read that right – turns out Windows 7's calculator has done a lot of growing up and now carries a host of features aside from the usual “add, subtract, multiply, etc.” we're used to.

So type CALC into your Windows 7 Search Bar (located above the Start Menu) and hit Enter to bring it up.

Now click View at the top. Directly underneath, you'll see options to change the calculator layout to standard, scientific, programmer or statistics – handy for anyone using the Windows Calc for anything outside of the monthly bills.

...and speaking of the monthly bills, there are also views for mortgage, car lease and fuel economy variations located under the View>Worksheets fly-out menu.

If you ever want to go back to normal just select View>Basic

So, experiment a bit. You may just end up throwing that old stand-alone calculator away!

A Default Envelope That Isn't Blank!

Do you print custom envelopes from MS Word?

Do you have a custom logo, picture or return address set up that you really wish would just show up every time you print an envelope?

That sure would be nice. I mean, no messing with templates, copy/pastes or other methods you may dream up to get your envelopes to your liking.

Well, I have good news. That "dream come true" is easier to achieve than you may think!

The first step is to insert an envelope into a Word document.

- For older versions of Word, you need the Tools menu, Letters and Mailings, Envelopes and Labels choice

- .In Word 2007, you need the Mailings tab on the ribbon, Envelopes button.

Everyone should now be in the Envelopes and Labels dialog box. Go to the Envelopes tab and click the Add to Document button.
A blank envelope will then appear above your document.

Now, it's time to design! Put in your logo, return address, formatting or whatever you want to be on every envelope you print.

With the design complete, you'll need to select the pictures and/or text you want to appear on your envelopes.

With everything still selected, hit Alt + F3.

In the AutoText or Quick Parts dialog box that opens (depends on your version of Word), name it EnvelopeExtra1 and then click OK.

That's it! The next time you print an envelope from Word, your graphics and text will automatically appear where you originally placed them.

Also, for those of you concerned about the few times you'll want something different, if you have the envelope added to your document, you'll find that it can be edited as usual.

A customized look without a lot of time invested.

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When Clicking Isn’t Switching

If you’re looking for a good reason never to use Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7, try this: Open multiple tabs in IE 8, and open a Microsoft Word document. Then click the IE icon in the taskbar, and...nothing happens. Instead of switching over to Internet Explorer as you'd expect it to, Windows 7 greets you with miniature pop-ups for every tab you’ve opened in IE and asks you to choose the one you’d like to go to.

Windows 7’s Aero Peek offers some helpful features, but also makes switching between programs with multiple windows harder to do quickly.This feature, called Aero Peek, is actually a nice idea, since you get to choose the tab you want to see. But we’ve been trained for years to expect to switch to a new program when we click on its icon in the taskbar, so why change the behavior now? In Windows 7, many Microsoft-made programs (including Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer 8, and Windows Live Messenger) use this feature. But since you can also activate Aero Peek by hovering over a taskbar icon instead of clicking it, a better solution for Windows 7 would be, hover to peek but click to switch.

Just a Little More Help

I'm sure that we've all had the experience of the screen tip popping up when we pause the mouse pointer over a button on the MS Office Ribbon.

When it comes to those tips people tend to fall into 3 different categories… those who don't need them, those who like the small tip that lists the name of the button only and those people who want to see it all (button name, description, etc).
Whichever version of screen tips you prefer doesn't really matter unless you know where to adjust the option to fit your needs.
So, to that end let's take a look at where Office 2007 you'll find the setting to control the screen tips.

We start at the Office Button.
Then in the bottom right corner click the Options button for the program.
Automatically the Options dialog box opens to the Popular category:

Use the drop-down list for the ScreenTip style to make a choice.

No ScreenTips is obvious but what exactly is the difference going to be between the other two?

Well, a picture is worth a thousand words so here's a comparison:

(Note: It is important to say that not all full description ScreenTips have the colorful pictures.)

Regardless of your choice, once it's made click OK.

And the bonus to this decision… once you make a setting change in an Office Program then they all use that same setting.