Microsoft Office

Ever have your Office settings tweaked perfectly, and then your machine crashed, you caught a virus, or had to reinstall Office for any reason? Well, the HowTo Geeks have a quick and easy way for you to backup and restore your settings.

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I recently switched to using Google Apps for your domain, so that I could host my own email using the Gmail interface. Its a really slick setup, and once you have it working, you can Googalize your email, create more addresses than your old host would allow, and use Google’s search features all in your webmail.

There is one bad side though.

Whenever you send mail from a pop3 client (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) using Google’s SMTP server, it will show up in your Sent Items online. Thats fine and well, but when you start replying to people and having conversations and then re-download your email to your local machine, they dont sync up. So, here’s a quick rule that you can use in any client to put the sent mail where it belongs.

Basically, all you do is just copy my rule below, plug in your email address where I have mine crossed out, and from now on, whenever your mail gets downloaded, it will take your sent ones that you sent through the web interface, and put it in its appropriate place locally. Pretty easy.

Enjoy!

From MSTalkOnline comes an article that should also be listed here.

There are no definitive dates for SP3 for Office 2003, but the focus will be on security and improvements on lines of Office 2007. Microsoft hasn’t yet set a release date for the Office 2003 update, which like other service packs will be available as a free upgrade.

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Here’s a tip from Digital Inspiration on how to comress your PowerPoint presentations.

• Click the Compress Picture button (available in Picture Tools Format ribbon of PowerPoint 2007) and select “Options”. Now choose Email (96 ppi) as the target output and click OK. This should change all the pictures used in your Presentation to an optimal size.
• Incase you are using any BMP wallpapers or scanned TIFF images in the PowerPoint presentation, convert them to JPG and reinsert.

Ever notice how some applications let you use your mouse wheel, while others dont? Wouldn’t it be nice if that was a global setting? Well now it is!

Introducing KatMouse.

Here’s what you do:

• Install it
• Use your mouse wheel in an area on your application
• Enjoy

Now, why hasn’t Microsoft made this a feature? Any Vista users know if it’s there?

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