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Monday, November 8, 2004
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TODAY’S TIPS: COMPUTER Department
Batteries, Survivors & Macro Recorder

My husband and I travel for extended periods of time every summer and we
take lots and lots of pictures with our digital camera. In order to
always have our camera available, we do 2 things to ensure this. The
first thing is, we have 2 memory chips. We use one and keep the other
as a backup, just in case we run out of room on the first chip.

The second and most important tip is regarding the batteries. Our
camera uses 4 AA batteries. We bring along 2 sets of rechargeable
batteries and a small battery charger. These have gotten very compact
over the last few years so it can all fit nicely in a small travel case.
When we stop for the night, we always charge the set we used that day
and pop in the new set from the previous night. Voila! A constant set
of fresh batteries always on hand!

Then we download all the pictures from that day into our laptop and
backup to a disk just to be on the safe side.

Submitted by Rain Ross

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What will your family do if they needed to access vital information on
your computer? The obvious answer is to ask for your help, but what if
you were hospitalized or no longer alive?

You need to make a detailed notebook that has the user names and
passwords that may be needed to access your computer. If you have a
local network, be sure to include the user names and passwords for the
network. This may seem like an obvious tip, but I had a friend who knew
that his cancer was terminal and his widow has no idea how to get past
the password prompts to allow her access to her files across their
network.

--submitted by Don

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MAKING MACROS

Tim says: I don’t normally like to publish tips like this one because I
usually end up getting a ka-ZILLION emails asking for help. (Which I
will not answer.) Using Macros - - in my mind - - is somewhat advanced
and unless you follow directions well and/or aren’t afraid of
researching/reading help items, should not be tried. But Macros are
powerful and can have unlimited uses. In the case below, consider a
macro as being a “keystroke recorder” that - - once turned ON - -
records a series of repetitious keystrokes until such a point the
recorder is turned OFF (stored). Once recorded, the series of recorded
keystrokes can be “replayed” by merely pressing a minimal (pre-selected)
set of keys.

With this in mind, here’s how to make one of them. . .

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Recently you’ve been talking about key strokes to do certain things.
Well, you can make your own macro in Word to do just what you want,
whether it is one letter or a sentence. Making a macro takes some work,
but once done, all you have to do is hit two keys. Here’s how:

On the tool bar go to:

Tools
Macro
Record New Macro
Name It (Something short that will remind you what it is for: Example:
Sentence (For Sentence Case)
Click on Keyboard
Press new shortcut key (Suggestion of: ALT key and the letter M)
Then Press: Assign
Then Press: Close

(Now you are actually recording what you want done.)

Then go to the tool bar again and click on:
Format
Change case
Sentence Case
OK

To end the recording click on:
Tools
Macro
Stop recording

And it’s finally done. Now, all you have to do is highlight your
sentence, and hit the ALT key and M and it should change the sentence to
sentence case.

--submitted by Sharon


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TODAY’S JOKE(s):

A rookie pitcher was struggling at the mound, so the catcher walked out
to have a talk with him. "I've figured out your problem," he told the
young southpaw. "You always seem to lose control at the same point in
every game."

"When is that?" asked the kid.

"Right after the National Anthem."


--submitted by Joni

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The duffer muffed his tee shot into the woods, then hit into a few
trees, then proceeded to hit across the fairway into another woods.
Finally, after banging away several more times, he proceeded to hit into
a sand trap. All the while, he'd noticed that the club professional had
been watching. "What club should I use now?" he asked the pro.

"I don't know," the pro replied. "What game are you playing?

--submitted by Luanne

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TODAY’S QUOTE

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."

--Errol Flynn

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