Small City Law Firm Tech http://vmanning.posterous.com Uncertain about absolutely everything posterous.com Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:12:00 -0800 Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 6 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/Rv9s40g6vcg/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-28384 http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-28384 <p> <p>If you're just arriving to Post #6 in this Word Options series, you may wish to start with the below posts and then return to this one:</p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-69437">&bull;Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 1</a></p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-69437">&bull;Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 2</a></p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-45985">&bull;Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 3</a></p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-21447">&bull;Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 4</a></p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-88315">&bull;Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options <span style="color: #0066cc;">-</span> Part 5</a></p> <h1>Word Options &ndash; Languages:</h1> <p>Well this will be a short post!&nbsp; On setup, Word chooses the working language based on the language of the Operating System (i.e. &ndash; if your Operating System is set to English (U.S.), Word will automatically set its language to the same).&nbsp; But if you need to change Word&rsquo;s Language settings &ndash; here&rsquo;s where you come to add, remove languages, or set another language as the default.&nbsp; Changing the Language settings in Word won&rsquo;t change the input Language used by the OS (that must be done directly in the OS).&nbsp; Changing the language settings in Word will only change the editing, display, Help, and ScreenTip language.</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/bcthRxrTTvBXPYyg5uyHpRiZfbrxuQyIQmzB9tDeJg6LFB6r2ev3dfIpQ0qf/image004.png"><img alt="Image004" height="425" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/miwy2oO2dcSIse8oOF73OIeHZqmnfc133f6U0NrsQX5ziSjyHRh0XmcXpZA0/image004.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p>Note: If you want to spell check in a different language, it must first be added to the Language Options in Word.&nbsp; Once it&rsquo;s available, it can then be chosen for spell-checking purposes.&nbsp; The &lsquo;check marks&rsquo; to the left of the languages in the language box indicate which languages are installed and can be used for spell-checking.&nbsp;</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image003" height="432" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/keu8lOCtxzDBkqVZqz4LJJUVsILGx7WSMBgB7BVM2xMaDy8uysHo6Nr3Bpne/image003.png" width="405" /> </div> </span></p> <p>To install additional languages, use the Language Options.&nbsp; Languages available for installation will depend on your version of Word &ndash; additional languages are available through Microsoft, but honestly, in all my years of working with Word, I&rsquo;ve never used these options!</p> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-28384">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-28384#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Rv9s40g6vcg:k7_uAVAAMLw:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Rv9s40g6vcg:k7_uAVAAMLw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=Rv9s40g6vcg:k7_uAVAAMLw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Rv9s40g6vcg:k7_uAVAAMLw:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Rv9s40g6vcg:k7_uAVAAMLw:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=Rv9s40g6vcg:k7_uAVAAMLw:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Rv9s40g6vcg:k7_uAVAAMLw:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=Rv9s40g6vcg:k7_uAVAAMLw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/Rv9s40g6vcg" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-28384 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:38:37 -0800 Snail Mail a Lot? Add Envelopes and Labels to your Word Document http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/G_B0SKePnJQ/snail-mail-a-lot-add-envelopes-and-labels-to http://vmanning.posterous.com/snail-mail-a-lot-add-envelopes-and-labels-to <p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image001" height="71" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/OXaXR65RatLXONXD1fAMkQQExelcOfVZKJxyzP7zsLFdJszHDk78vSX98vpM/image001.png" width="71" /> </div> </span></p> <p></p> <p>If you work in a law office, no matter how paperless it may be, you still produce paper &#8211; a lot.&nbsp; Clients, other lawyers, suppliers and others often &#8216;want it in writing&#8217; &#8211; and by that they mean printed on paper and snail-mailed to them.&nbsp; Processes are veering toward the paperless direction, but not quickly enough that envelopes and labels are passé &#8211; they won&#8217;t disappear for quite some time.</p> <p></p> <p>Why not make printing Labels and Envelopes a little easier on yourself?&nbsp; This mini-tip can save a wee bit o&#8217; time but won&#8217;t add to your burdens, because you&#8217;re printing those labels and envelopes anyway. How to save that time?&nbsp; Easy - Print more than one.</p> <p></p> <p>Way back in the prior century, when I was still practicing law those many, many decades ago, when my assistant produced her first letter on a file she created the letter&#8217;s envelope using Word&#8217;s &#8216;Add to Document&#8217; feature.&nbsp; And when she did that, she would save and print more than one &#8211; more like half a dozen &#8211; and stick &#8216;em in the front of the file folder for later use.&nbsp; She always had the file when she was producing her letters, so the next letter would go in one of the pre-printed envelopes.&nbsp; Voila &#8211; time saved.&nbsp; She would do the same with labels &#8211; she would never print one label (unless she was 100% certain she would never be mailing that person again), she would print a sheet of labels and stick them in the front of the file, then just peel one off as needed.</p> <p></p> <p>For particularly large clients where we mailed the same person across multiple matters (we represented a large number of municipalities), we would just go to town and print off multiple sheets of labels in advance of files being opened and then, when opening a new file for that client, we&#8217;d grab one or more of the already existing sheets of labels and throw &#8216;em in the front of the file.</p> <p></p> <p>For any particular file, we might also &#8216;save&#8217; a pre-addressed envelope right in the electronic file for later printing, along with labels too.&nbsp; That way, when we ran out of the pre-prints, we wouldn&#8217;t need to do any setup for the next round of production.&nbsp; It wasn&#8217;t much in the way of time-saving, but every little bit counts, and this little bit did help.</p> <p></p> <p>This approach to envelopes and labels is easiest taken using Word&#8217;s &#8216;Add to Document&#8217; feature.&nbsp; Sadly, most people don&#8217;t seem to be aware of it.</p> <h1>Add Envelopes or Labels to a Document</h1> <p></p> <p>When creating labels and envelopes in Word, most people use Word&#8217;s built-in Envelopes and Labels function &#8211; and that&#8217;s great.&nbsp; Just select the name and address on your document, click the Envelopes (or Labels) icon under the Mailings Tab and up pops the dialog box with the name and address in the &#8216;Display Address&#8217; field. Just hit &#8216;Print&#8217; and you have your envelope. Easy. (I&#8217;m assuming here that you have already set up the proper-sized envelope).</p> <p></p> <p>But if you look to the right of the &#8216;Print&#8217; button, you&#8217;ll see the &#8216;Add to Document&#8217; button.&nbsp; If you click on &#8216;Add to Document&#8217; you&#8217;ll now see the properly formatted Envelope, with the name and address on it, at the top of your document.&nbsp; You can hit print from within Word and both will print.&nbsp; Then you can save them together as one document.&nbsp; If you ever have to print and mail that letter again, it&#8217;s already set up for you.</p> <p></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image011" height="369" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/EXyKxkKiEYzxh57gUe3kMDStlxVlIHDkpk3zHEEB6MeKBwDJw6pSV9xMFbHf/image011.png" width="396" /> </div> </span></p> <p></p> <p>(Note: Office life is so much easier if you don&#8217;t have to get up and fiddle with paper trays &#8211; the printing process is so much more efficient if you have sufficient trays for envelopes, first page letterhead, second page letterhead and white copy paper.&nbsp; Lawyers are you listening?&nbsp; It takes time and frustration to fiddle with trays and manual printer settings when an adequate number of trays will resolve for once and for all).</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/zVsU1Fjc1zJHJ6Oggi8KZYlZpIbtoaIChZRK0lHx4ePswakeIMrmYUdjseit/image012.png"><img alt="Image012" height="242" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/QPkus6RO2Wuqmpk014P2fN9SOJxO2Haqbfv94NPJ9Xjg7w9Bk4y9n9PWD3xy/image012.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p></p> <p>Now, from here, you can do two things: save and print the document as it appears, which is an addressed envelope at the top of a regular-sized document; then go back and print just the envelope portion of the document &#8211; as many needed for the future.&nbsp; If you already have that envelope and you know you&#8217;ll need more, just print &#8216;em up front.</p> <p></p> <p>You could also save the envelope on its own as a document in your electronic file (takes another minute of fiddling, but it&#8217;s worth it).</p> <p></p> <h1>Save the Envelope as a Document</h1> <p>To save the envelope only, here&#8217;s the trick:</p> <p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7.0pt Times New Roman;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span>First, ensure your non-printing symbols are turned &#8216;on&#8217; so you can see the Section Break (for a primer on working with non-printing symbols turned on, see: <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/the-horror-of-bad-formatting-in-word-or-why-t"> The Horror of bad formatting in Word (or: Why to keep your Non-Printing Symbols turned ON</a>)</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image006" height="49" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/ns7wcBgPo5xXTy7LI8t7itktWpGZ5DODLsThjsFR1eciffjHhufFjcnx4woV/image006.png" width="50" /> </div> </span></p> <p>Create a new document including only the name and contact info of the addressee, then create the Envelope using the &#8216;Add to Document&#8217; process.</p> <p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7.0pt Times New Roman;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span>Next, select the Section Break at the top of the Envelope *and* the info in the body of the letter and delete them all at once (to select both, hold down the &#8216;Shift&#8217; key while multi-selecting:</p> <p></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image013" height="366" src="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/ApaUii1nxmXyaD00QF7mcym1ynB3iY1VqK7vPle5cG8XRAQSJ1R5qgnLRELJ/image013.png" width="461" /> </div> </span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7.0pt Times New Roman;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span>You&#8217;ll now have only the envelope, properly formatted</p> <p></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image014" height="195" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/y6YCp0xitwHHtiQTlhASqNF4niWtmxyJQVMzpiLmzF8n37iSVgIVRCp84O8f/image014.jpg" width="444" /> </div> </span></p> <p></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style=""> <span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7.0pt Times New Roman;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span>Save as you normally would.</p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style=""> <span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="">·<span style="font: 7.0pt Times New Roman;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span>Open and print as necessary (multiple copies in advance if you know you&#8217;ll need them.</p> <p></p> <p>Labels can be created through the same process.</p> <p></p> <p>And here&#8217;s another possibility:&nbsp; Create a template using your letter and the &#8216;Add to Document&#8217; feature.&nbsp; Set up the letter and the Envelope as desired, then save the entire thing as a template for future use for any letter that requires sending my snail mail.&nbsp; Do the same with a letter and labels &#8211; add the labels to your letter and save the entire document as a template.</p> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/snail-mail-a-lot-add-envelopes-and-labels-to">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/snail-mail-a-lot-add-envelopes-and-labels-to#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=G_B0SKePnJQ:QM7Bgg3yzSc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=G_B0SKePnJQ:QM7Bgg3yzSc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=G_B0SKePnJQ:QM7Bgg3yzSc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=G_B0SKePnJQ:QM7Bgg3yzSc:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=G_B0SKePnJQ:QM7Bgg3yzSc:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=G_B0SKePnJQ:QM7Bgg3yzSc:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=G_B0SKePnJQ:QM7Bgg3yzSc:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=G_B0SKePnJQ:QM7Bgg3yzSc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/G_B0SKePnJQ" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/snail-mail-a-lot-add-envelopes-and-labels-to Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:52:00 -0800 You Can’t Make Lawyers into Techies: 3 Lessons | Pam Woldow's At the Intersection http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/OCVGOPzY-fg/you-cant-make-lawyers-into-techies-3-lessons http://vmanning.posterous.com/you-cant-make-lawyers-into-techies-3-lessons <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"> <p><strong>3 Lessons to Make Technology Work</strong></p> <p>Certainly, lawyers are not Luddites, determined to resist progress and deny any change. It&rsquo;s that they are <em>lawyers, </em>not IT types. So that&rsquo;s Lesson One: <em>You can&rsquo;t make lawyers talk IT; IT has to learn to talk lawyer<br /></em></p> <p>Lesson Two is that lawyers insist on immediate gratification. They will happily sacrifice technological sophistication (with its attendant steep learning curve) for <em>instant</em> utility.</p> <p>Lesson Three is the need for patience when introducing any sweeping change that seriously impacts traditional behaviors.&nbsp; Lawyers don&rsquo;t welcome transformative changes, but they will accept sequential phase shifts</p> </blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.pamwoldow.com/2012/02/14/you-cant-make-lawyers-into-techies-3-lessons-about-lpm-tools-technology/">pamwoldow.com</a></div> <p>A difficult lesson for a law office techie to learn - but a crucially important one nonetheless. Click at the link above to read the entire post - it's well worth your time.</p> </div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/you-cant-make-lawyers-into-techies-3-lessons">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/you-cant-make-lawyers-into-techies-3-lessons#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=OCVGOPzY-fg:Y8YCpghta3E:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=OCVGOPzY-fg:Y8YCpghta3E:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=OCVGOPzY-fg:Y8YCpghta3E:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=OCVGOPzY-fg:Y8YCpghta3E:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=OCVGOPzY-fg:Y8YCpghta3E:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=OCVGOPzY-fg:Y8YCpghta3E:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=OCVGOPzY-fg:Y8YCpghta3E:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=OCVGOPzY-fg:Y8YCpghta3E:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/OCVGOPzY-fg" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/you-cant-make-lawyers-into-techies-3-lessons Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:28:51 -0800 Finally Something for Canadians from Dell Canada & Fongo http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/0iR08t-80SY/finally-something-for-canadians-from-dell-can http://vmanning.posterous.com/finally-something-for-canadians-from-dell-can <p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> <span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image001" height="60" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/Mdh908jf5zOBOLNgB0F2fna2iQyD4x148DqXyy83gXxHpJinrZdDRiyUpMed/image001.png" width="242" /> </div> </span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Canadian mobile phone users have always experienced the short end of the stick when it comes to cell phone plans &#8211; extremely costly monthly plans and roaming charges, and not a lot in the way of choice or alternatives.&nbsp; And up to this point we haven&#8217;t had access to such goodies as Google Voice &#8211; we&#8217;ve had to make do with peer-to-peer services such as Skype (a service I love and use regularly) if we want to try to avoid Canadian cell phone hell.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Well no more now that <a href="http://www.dellvoice.ca/cityListing">Dell Voice </a> has been released.&nbsp; And guess what?&nbsp; This is a Canadian-only (for now) service (sorry my non-Canadian readers &#8211; this is one you&#8217;ll have to wait for, but then again you already have alternatives and better cell phone service).&nbsp; It&#8217;s provided by Dell Canada and Fongo and it provides iOS, Android and Desktop users (with BlackBerry device service coming in March) with the following, for free:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> </p> <ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;"> <li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> A local Canadian phone number!</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Free Local and Long Distance to many (not all) Canadian cities</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Free Unlimited Incoming Calls</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Call any mobile or landline</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Call Display</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Call Waiting</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Call Forwarding</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Voice Mail</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> 911 Service!</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> And more &#8211; you can read about all the available <a href="http://www.dellvoice.ca/features"> features here</a></li></ul> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Yes, I said free, even with all that.&nbsp; I kept looking for the catch, but other than some visual advertising I didn&#8217;t find one.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> So I set about downloading the app to my IPod Touch (3rd Gen).&nbsp; I already had headphones with a built-in mike, so I knew hardware-wise I was good to go.&nbsp; The app was a quick and easy install with just a few easily understandable settings. Contacts in the IPod are accessible to the app, making it extremely convenient to use existing contact info for dialing.&nbsp; It&#8217;s all pretty straightforward, but if you need some help or have some questions, you can head on over the <a href="http://www.dellvoice.ca/faq">FAQ </a>page or even an already-existing <a href="http://forum.fongo.com/"> user forum</a>.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> I set up my new local phone number and tested it out on my IPod and it worked exactly as expected.&nbsp; Then I started playing around.&nbsp; I set up the free forwarding service and forwarded my new number to my BlackBerry.&nbsp; That worked nicely, so then I decided to see what happened when I killed the app on my IPod &#8211; I shut it down and called the new number and my BlackBerry still took the forwarded call.&nbsp; Next I turned off the Wi-Fi on my IPod and called again &#8211; the new number still rang right through to my BB.&nbsp; This means that when I&#8217;m travelling, I can give my new local number to the office and they can call me without incurring long distance charges.&nbsp; I can take the forwarded call on my BB, just like any regular call (not having&nbsp; to fumble around for my IPod and headphones) and not incur roaming charges.&nbsp; What&#8217;s not to love about that?&nbsp; Except of course being called from the office while on holidays&#8230;</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> Almost as good: You don&#8217;t have to take a local number from the service &#8211; you can take a number for any city with coverage.&nbsp; So I set up a number for the new city my son just moved to.&nbsp; Now he can call a local number and it rings through to my BB in another province &#8211; no long distance charges for him, free to me, and now no excuse not to call home to mom!</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> The possibilities for usefulness for both the office and home are endless.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> One item you&#8217;ll want to ensure: that your home city is covered by the service.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re in Ontario, you&#8217;re in luck as the service coverage area is extensive &#8211; it&#8217;s not quite as extensive outside of Ontario, although major cities are included.&nbsp; You can check out your coverage <a href="http://www.dellvoice.ca/cityListing">here</a>.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;"> The service is new &#8211; Feb 8 appears to be the start date, so there are bound to be some hiccups along the way, but from what I&#8217;ve seen so far, I&#8217;m a fan.</p> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/finally-something-for-canadians-from-dell-can">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/finally-something-for-canadians-from-dell-can#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=0iR08t-80SY:ozktDVRgS7I:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=0iR08t-80SY:ozktDVRgS7I:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=0iR08t-80SY:ozktDVRgS7I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=0iR08t-80SY:ozktDVRgS7I:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=0iR08t-80SY:ozktDVRgS7I:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=0iR08t-80SY:ozktDVRgS7I:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=0iR08t-80SY:ozktDVRgS7I:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=0iR08t-80SY:ozktDVRgS7I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/0iR08t-80SY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/finally-something-for-canadians-from-dell-can Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:00:00 -0800 Life in tech support - Imgur http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/5e6kwpTGW84/life-in-tech-support-imgur http://vmanning.posterous.com/life-in-tech-support-imgur <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/eixzqvHhJkyiquCdGhrtBwgFpfwrFqsclGnyvmvwkutHqotoqCrmlFoHjtBn/media_httpiimgurcomzX_krbvd.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"><img alt="Media_httpiimgurcomzx_krbvd" height="346" src="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/eixzqvHhJkyiquCdGhrtBwgFpfwrFqsclGnyvmvwkutHqotoqCrmlFoHjtBn/media_httpiimgurcomzX_krbvd.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://imgur.com/zXrvL">imgur.com</a></div> <p>Hits awfully close to home... :)</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/life-in-tech-support-imgur">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/life-in-tech-support-imgur#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=5e6kwpTGW84:yEFCqYL4A48:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=5e6kwpTGW84:yEFCqYL4A48:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=5e6kwpTGW84:yEFCqYL4A48:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=5e6kwpTGW84:yEFCqYL4A48:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=5e6kwpTGW84:yEFCqYL4A48:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=5e6kwpTGW84:yEFCqYL4A48:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=5e6kwpTGW84:yEFCqYL4A48:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=5e6kwpTGW84:yEFCqYL4A48:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/5e6kwpTGW84" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/life-in-tech-support-imgur Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:04:00 -0800 Are You Going To Hurt Someone With Your Productivity Tools? | Time Management Ninja http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/PXvDGhP9Qgc/are-you-going-to-hurt-someone-with-your-produ http://vmanning.posterous.com/are-you-going-to-hurt-someone-with-your-produ <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>I often advise people to&nbsp;<a href="http://timemanagementninja.com/2011/03/always-choose-tools-youll-use/" title="Always Choose Tools You’ll Use" target="_blank">Choose Tools You’ll Use.</a></p> <p>The follow-up question is, “Can you <em><strong>use the tools</strong></em> you have?”</p> <p>In other words, are you proficient with them?</p> <p>Or are you going to hurt someone with your productivity tools?</p> <h2><strong>Can You Use The Tools?</strong></h2> <p>When people are not proficient with the tools of their job, they end up as the victims of <a href="http://timemanagementninja.com/2010/07/self-inflicted-time-management/" title="Self-Inflicted Time Management" target="_blank">self-inflicted time management.</a></p> <p>They create extra work and problems for themselves and others.</p></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://timemanagementninja.com/2012/02/are-you-going-to-hurt-someone-with-your-productivity-tools/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TimeManagementNinja+%28Time+Management+Ninja%29">timemanagementninja.com</a></div> <p>Excellent post from Time Management Ninja - What's your answer to this question? Click through to the link above to learn TMN's 6 Ways to Learn Your Tools</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/are-you-going-to-hurt-someone-with-your-produ">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/are-you-going-to-hurt-someone-with-your-produ#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=PXvDGhP9Qgc:5r4kaTubZ48:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=PXvDGhP9Qgc:5r4kaTubZ48:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=PXvDGhP9Qgc:5r4kaTubZ48:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=PXvDGhP9Qgc:5r4kaTubZ48:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=PXvDGhP9Qgc:5r4kaTubZ48:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=PXvDGhP9Qgc:5r4kaTubZ48:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=PXvDGhP9Qgc:5r4kaTubZ48:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=PXvDGhP9Qgc:5r4kaTubZ48:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/PXvDGhP9Qgc" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/are-you-going-to-hurt-someone-with-your-produ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:51:00 -0800 Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 5 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/eFpl8GlbMQs/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-88315 http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-88315 <p> <p>If you're just arriving to Post #5 in this series, you may wish to start here:</p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o">&bull;Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 1</a></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-69437">&bull;Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 2</a></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-45985">&bull;Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 3</a></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-21447">&bull;Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 4</a></p> <p style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height: normal;">then head on back here for Part 5, &lsquo;Save&rsquo; Options, in this ongoing Word Options Series.&nbsp; This post addresses Word settings and options and their effects on saving documents.</p> <h1><span style="font-size: x-large;">Save Options</span></h1> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image016" height="213" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/AWrRKUCXFpmmf6VGT8zyHm2rvIajkuZbSlCfYCUIaXHEaUKClvIHcWTEBtts/image016.png" width="337" /> </div> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal;">Posting has been a bit light lately, as I&rsquo;ve spent some time out of province doing the &lsquo;mom&rsquo; thing by helping my son set up his new digs, in his new city, where he&rsquo;s now residing due to his new job.&nbsp; While I was helping my son set up his place I couldn&rsquo;t help but think a bit about this series (because I&rsquo;m hopeless that way&hellip;).&nbsp; As I was helping him to set up everything &lsquo;just so&rsquo;, so that his daily home life would hum along as smoothly as possible, I thought about how important the right settings are, both in life and in Word.&nbsp; It sounds silly to make the comparison, but it&rsquo;s an apt one &ndash; very much like having the right tool for the job makes the job a whole lot easier.&nbsp; If the basic settings are messed up &ndash; if you don&rsquo;t have a broom to sweep the floor, or a towel to dry off, or a pot to boil eggs in &ndash; daily life becomes infinitely more difficult to navigate.&nbsp; If you don&rsquo;t have your Word options and settings set &lsquo;just so&rsquo; (for the way you like to work), your daily Word life will become infinitely more difficult and frustrating.&nbsp; Taking the time to purchase the right equipment and set it up properly is another example of short term pain being worth the long term gain.&nbsp; With that said, let&rsquo;s figure out Word&rsquo;s &lsquo;Save&rsquo; settings.</p> <h2>Save file in this format:</h2> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image017" height="300" src="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/RIKuD6HENNEeLSesDt1fP1GKMWhKqPRbRiEpEryMFo2pViPxBpZJc8LpmXwa/image017.png" width="404" /> </div> </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal;"></p> <p style="line-height: normal;">Word gives you a lot of choice.&nbsp; The vast majority of users leave the default format choice in place, which is sometimes the best choice.&nbsp; In Word 2010, the default save format is .docx.&nbsp; You can see from the above screenshot that I have *not* left the default format in place for saving &ndash; I have reverted to .doc as my default format.&nbsp; The .doc format is compatible with Word 2003 and earlier versions, but can also be read by Word 2007 and 2010.&nbsp; Because some of the people at Barriston and many people outside the office still have Word 2003, I find this default to be the most convenient (that way I don&rsquo;t have to deal with calls about &lsquo;why won&rsquo;t this open&rsquo; and &lsquo;what&rsquo;s the compatibility pack&rsquo;.&nbsp; Whatever default is in place in these settings can still be overwritten at the actual save of any particular document.&nbsp; So when I want a .docx version of a document, I just do a &lsquo;Save As&rsquo; and choose that format.</p> <h2>AutoRecovery</h2> <h3>Save</h3> <p style="line-height: normal;"><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image005" height="59" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/Y3pNZc9XOBpP6ZsKmqeKLSVTKaBpbMryzoPsPuP9Xtec50yAhuOtPDxsTf8R/image005.png" width="366" /> </div> </span></p> <p>Set this to a number as small as your computer can handle.</p> <p>If this settings is checked &lsquo;on&rsquo;, and it should be, every time you save your Word document, Word starts an invisible timer to background save your file every &lsquo;x&rsquo; minutes (x=the number you set in this option).&nbsp; Word autosaves to the location specified in the options.&nbsp; Then, if (when!) Word crashes, and your document along with it, the next time you open Word, you&rsquo;ll see a reference to your document in the Document Recovery pane that Word will present, giving you an option to open and properly save it.&nbsp; The bottom line here: the lower the number, the less work you&rsquo;ll lose on a crash, but the harder it is on older computers.</p> <h3>Keep the Last Recovered File</h3> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image006" height="31" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/uK6MSUuOr2GM0eyWtV2ZWPY2mLGZWWPowE4VLlbvpnSrAaN3rhA1vFChtyCq/image006.png" width="371" /> </div> </span></p> <p>You definitely want to ensure that this option is checked &lsquo;on&rsquo;!&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t know how many panicked calls I&rsquo;ve received over the years after someone has closed without saving their document.&nbsp; In the past, I&rsquo;ve been the bearer of mostly bad news, but with this option, you get to recover unsaved, closed documents to the point of last autorecovery through the &lsquo;Recovery Unsaved Documents&rsquo; command at the bottom right of the Recent files window.</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image018" height="334" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/oV7PlNSSjQLVDxL2iJZm051gsEPDkMCH5NiP5Lbjo6x0XNRfVcQMp7WI3Mdu/image018.png" width="274" /> </div> </span></p> <p>You may also access Autorecovered files and file versions through &lsquo;File&rsquo; &lsquo;Info&rsquo; &lsquo;Manage Version, just keep in mind that each time you hit the &lsquo;Save&rsquo; button, Word wipes out any previous autorecovered versions of the file and starts the timer over again.</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image019" height="170" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/giCwtqSRcauZITLMVhrrJ74exi06l9idppqIoYAEyLZau4yQz8QWRE2Rnpyt/image019.png" width="416" /> </div> </span></p> <h3>AutoRecover file location</h3> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/Z6f68BIBuCFOMOxkj0WGNUT57EzzFlvZJHoocmxZ030MfZdLQS9t0EYYEGep/image011.png"><img alt="Image011" height="24" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/YJ46D61s2rjwU5qklkMVpwxC2sKW05gSPWX1hOqYf2mf2riF6WIgqYtbkyD2/image011.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">Word sets the autorecover file path by default and I don&rsquo;t see any reason to change the location.</span></p> <h2><span style="">Default File Location</span></h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/ZlB4NIGBHFDxeXcEY2m6Dj61QYJV2rcQli4uSX21cEqNztQHAc1rZXumWjEj/image012.png"><img alt="Image012" height="24" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/6mZsZOwdRFBtID71vhS4ltfzHvEPbYJmHbqjdsbRNuWQfygzca01s0NoouZR/image012.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">Word would like to control the location of the default folder where you save your files.&nbsp; If you&rsquo;d like to take control and point the default to another location, go ahead and browse to the location (either locally or on your network), where you&rsquo;d like Word to default for all saves.&nbsp; This is the default location only &ndash; you will always be free to save your files to any local or network location that you have access to.</span></p> <h2><span style="">Offline Editing options</span></h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/OIjJ2mS3SaniXPBQR6TOQ8fL7YNF5O7Sxm9z5qp2xf3DYyCsQmXLFJNiuuIo/image013.png"><img alt="Image013" height="100" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/ojBEoVCoonl2ojo9cLxG6keMcmg6JlyI809VmqpUYkj4HnDvQCwzVsB27QBo/image013.png.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p>You only need to be concerned about these locations if you have a SharePoint server or other DMS software.&nbsp; If you do, well, I&rsquo;m envious and we&rsquo;ll just leave it at that.</p> <h2>Preserve Fidelity</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <a href="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/0pfl24iFVfNrtDmT56oflf4jxyFHvSNy7rB90jrpkoQSz8CKaENWBGCb0DrR/image020.jpg"><img alt="Image020" height="100" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/nyMj7sNVKCtqpPR8JpRNwgsQXtpGD3V946GJXlHzae55lb2UZ1o1BWO8JYEI/image020.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" /></a> </div> </span></p> <p>More settings you may safely ignore.&nbsp; These settings are only crucial when using unusual document fonts and the precise appearance of the document needs to be preserved when transmitted to a third party.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s highly unlikely however that a law office will be dealing with such documents.</p> <p>Coming up next in this series, Part 6, will be Language Options</p> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-88315">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-88315#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eFpl8GlbMQs:nc92S09MyEQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eFpl8GlbMQs:nc92S09MyEQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=eFpl8GlbMQs:nc92S09MyEQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eFpl8GlbMQs:nc92S09MyEQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eFpl8GlbMQs:nc92S09MyEQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=eFpl8GlbMQs:nc92S09MyEQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eFpl8GlbMQs:nc92S09MyEQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=eFpl8GlbMQs:nc92S09MyEQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/eFpl8GlbMQs" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-88315 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:01:53 -0800 Permanently Set a Default Folder View in Windows Explorer http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/lV3QAcRnd-w/permanently-set-a-default-folder-view-in-wind http://vmanning.posterous.com/permanently-set-a-default-folder-view-in-wind <p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image001" height="66" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/EtYsLkse76OPbvQGxQSlrgz0NJeWaDAtWsILuUkPBDys6TUmS6C6WIcpKasc/image001.jpg" width="66" /> </div> </span><span></span></p> <p><span></span></p> <p><span>Reader Sam emailed me with this question after reading <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/setting-up-the-file-view-in-windows-explorer"> Setting up the File View in Windows Explorer to ease File Finding</a>:</span></p> <p><span></span></p> <p style="margin-right: 1.0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in;"> <span>I too use the details option and I too sort chronologically every time I&#8217;m looking for a file.&nbsp; 100% of the time.&nbsp; &#8230;.&nbsp; For years (yes YEARS) I&#8217;ve wondered if there is a way to set a default so that 100% of the time when I&#8217;m looking at a list of files that are always sorted newest to oldest in the &#8220;detail&#8221; view?&nbsp; &#8230;&nbsp; I would like to set it this way one time, then never have to perform these sorts ever again&#8230;</span></p> <p style="margin-right: 1.0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.0in;"> <span></span></p> <p><span>Wow &#8211; that&#8217;s a lot of extra clicking! I can sure see why Sam would like to set a default view to display his folders in a way that works for him.</span></p> <p><span></span></p> <p><span>I have good news for reader Sam &#8211; your clicking days are (mostly) over.&nbsp; You can force Windows Explorer to present the folder view the way *you&#8217;d* like to see it.&nbsp; Here at Barriston Tech, we set the Details view as the default view for our users because we want to reduce the clicking (and annoyance) factor.&nbsp; If your view doesn&#8217;t default to the view *you* prefer to work with, here&#8217;s how to set it:</span></p> <p><span></span></p> <p><span>Your first step is to open up a Windows Explorer window and set up the folder view **exactly** how you prefer to view it.&nbsp; Then, with that Window remaining open:</span></p> <p><span></span></p> <p><span>In Windows XP and Windows 7 (if the Menu is displayed &#8211; if not, see note below)</span></p> <p><span></span></p> <ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;"> <li style=""><span>Click &#8216;<b>Tools</b>&#8217;</span></li><li style=""><span>Click &#8216;<b>View</b>&#8217; in the Folder Options box</span></li><li style=""><span>Click &#8216;<b>Apply to Folders</b>&#8217;</span></li></ul> <p><span></span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image003" height="309" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/9H1DYjmXVJXeQDMHSDk5inOdAPJDFrvwQTfxyXsGJsjA0KpNwP4Sm6DpqxfC/image003.png" width="368" /> </div> </span></p> <p></p> <p>You&#8217;ll see the pop-up asking if you want all folders of this type to match this folder&#8217;s view settings.</p> <p></p> <ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;"> <li style="">Click &#8216;<b>Yes&#8217;</b> and the box will dismiss.</li></ul> <p></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image005" height="107" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/XhL3qDdOtO4SZd3Nr30vnAIvHVcP1L9386NX0INp5zuuOUgwJ0ADNZ3isaAZ/image005.png" width="344" /> </div> </span></p> <ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;"> <li style="">Click &#8216;OK&#8217; back in the Folder Options box.<span></span></li></ul> <p><span></span></p> <p>And that&#8217;s all there is to it.&nbsp; Now the view that you set up in the Explorer window should &#8216;stick&#8217; for all same folder type windows in the future.</p> <p></p> <p><b><span>Note</span></b><span> to Windows 7 users without the Menu turned on:</span></p> <p><span></span></p> <p><span>Remaining in that nicely set up Windows Explorer folder, as above:</span></p> <p><span></span></p> <ul type="disc" style="margin-top: 0in;"> <li style=""><span>Click &#8216;<b>Organize&#8217;</b></span></li><li style=""><span>Click &#8216;<b>Folder and Search Options&#8217;</b> (then follow the remainder of the instructions above).</span></li></ul> <p><span></span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image007" height="233" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/iUSM7SxesNVIaJq265QIxTfRNmupTzD9MNDNjqUIIZBo1alurxBKb3wNxSz5/image007.png" width="149" /> </div> </span></p> <p></p> <p><span>And, if you decide you don&#8217;t like your settings, either run through the same process again, first setting up the Windows Explorer view the way you like it, or, in the &#8216;Folder Options&#8217;</span><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">l</span><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;"> &#8216;</span><span>View&#8217; tab, click &#8216;<b>Reset Folders&#8217;</b> to return to the default Windows view the way Microsoft thinks you should see it, and resume a life of clicking&#8230;</span></p> <p><span></span></p> <p><span>And if you&#8217;re interested in further tweaking those folder settings, here&#8217;s a webpage from Microsoft that will help with the above and more: <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows-vista/Change-folder-views-and-behavior"> Change folder views and behavior</a> </span></p> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/permanently-set-a-default-folder-view-in-wind">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/permanently-set-a-default-folder-view-in-wind#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=lV3QAcRnd-w:CkNcy1OchtE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=lV3QAcRnd-w:CkNcy1OchtE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=lV3QAcRnd-w:CkNcy1OchtE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=lV3QAcRnd-w:CkNcy1OchtE:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=lV3QAcRnd-w:CkNcy1OchtE:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=lV3QAcRnd-w:CkNcy1OchtE:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=lV3QAcRnd-w:CkNcy1OchtE:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=lV3QAcRnd-w:CkNcy1OchtE:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/lV3QAcRnd-w" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/permanently-set-a-default-folder-view-in-wind Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:30:00 -0800 Desktop Search Tools: Like Google for Your Computer - Attorney at Work http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/Zd17S5eShm0/desktop-search-tools-like-google-for-your-com http://vmanning.posterous.com/desktop-search-tools-like-google-for-your-com <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>You know you saved it—that file that you spent hours working on a few weeks ago. That file you’re now desperate to retrieve but can’t locate. But it’s&nbsp;not in your Recent Documents (because you weren’t working on it recently), and it’s not pinned to a Jump List (Windows 7 users, you are <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/jump-list-joy-why-you-want-to-pin-programs-to" target="_blank">pinning</a>, right?).&nbsp;You’ve clicked and clicked through the usual suspect folders, all to no avail—you just can’t find it.&nbsp;Well, this is why <em>you</em> don’t look, you let your computer search for you.&nbsp;Why should you spend precious time on the hunt for saved files when the computer can do it better and faster?</p> <h5>Using Tools to Make Searching Easier</h5> <p>Searching your computer (or network) doesn’t have to be as tedious as searching through your paper files. Here are a handful of ways you can make it easier on yourself.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.attorneyatwork.com/desktop-search-tools-like-google-for-your-computer/">attorneyatwork.com</a></div> <p>My latest is up at Attorney at Work - click the link up for a round-up of available Desktop search tools - stop labourious looking and start snappy searching.</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/desktop-search-tools-like-google-for-your-com">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/desktop-search-tools-like-google-for-your-com#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Zd17S5eShm0:v_yEI96MBYM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Zd17S5eShm0:v_yEI96MBYM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=Zd17S5eShm0:v_yEI96MBYM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Zd17S5eShm0:v_yEI96MBYM:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Zd17S5eShm0:v_yEI96MBYM:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=Zd17S5eShm0:v_yEI96MBYM:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=Zd17S5eShm0:v_yEI96MBYM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=Zd17S5eShm0:v_yEI96MBYM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/Zd17S5eShm0" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/desktop-search-tools-like-google-for-your-com Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:31:00 -0800 Identify Yourself – Outlook Quick Tip http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/XM4HdO6RXwk/identify-yourself-outlook-quick-tip http://vmanning.posterous.com/identify-yourself-outlook-quick-tip <p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image001" height="76" src="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/CyiJ3AQuyeghaUKBAfdDgt92ahump8DKHfyRYgZYfnYw5xDN7ezmYT4ygylT/image001.jpg" width="78" /> </div> </span></p> <p>Mostly you hit the Outlook &lsquo;Reply&rsquo; button and craft your brilliant response right there at the top of the reply email. If you want your reply to stand out, you can change your reply settings so that your font type, font size and font colour differ from the original email.&nbsp; I wrote about how to do that here: <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/make-it-stand-out-a-reply-of-a-different-colo">Make it stand out - A Reply of a Different Colour</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>But what if you want to reply right within the wording of the original email, by making reply comments immediately following the original author's comments and have those a different colour?&nbsp; A reader asked that question and the answer is yes, that's possible, and more!&nbsp; following the instructions at the link above, even if the reply comments are in the body of the original email they will retain the new&nbsp;font settings specified.&nbsp; But there is an additional setting you&rsquo;ll probably want to pay attention to for such situations &ndash; automatic placement of your initials prior to your reply comments.&nbsp; With that setup, your reply email will look like this:</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image006" height="397" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/kgapqrlEkQsEdxdxw91U4H61DKu7DpPT7e8PQ81uQaWSZO2Mcz7dgHoV0kjU/image006.png" width="253" /> </div> </span></p> <p>Both the reply at the top of the email and the comments within the body of the email are coloured in accordance with your settings and your reply comments will be automatically preceded by your initials, making it very clear to the recipient where the original email wording ends and where&nbsp;your comments begin.&nbsp;</p> <p>To set up, follow the instructions at <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/make-it-stand-out-a-reply-of-a-different-colo">Make it stand out - A Reply of a Different Colour</a>, but also check &lsquo;Mark my comments with:&rsquo; and place your initials in the comments field before clicking &lsquo;ok&rsquo;.&nbsp; And you'll be good to reply with a standout colour and your comments preceded by your initials.</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image007" height="298" src="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/UAI1QcNt4l9xAQKSHY4ltZto530EHq3bcpX9PwUUECD4GpXpOgSwdo0EFfCP/image007.png" width="407" /> </div> </span></p> <p>&nbsp;As always, test it out by sending yourself a test email and replying to it to see the results the way other people will see them.</p> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/identify-yourself-outlook-quick-tip">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/identify-yourself-outlook-quick-tip#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=XM4HdO6RXwk:MOAIbPCP1os:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=XM4HdO6RXwk:MOAIbPCP1os:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=XM4HdO6RXwk:MOAIbPCP1os:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=XM4HdO6RXwk:MOAIbPCP1os:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=XM4HdO6RXwk:MOAIbPCP1os:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=XM4HdO6RXwk:MOAIbPCP1os:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=XM4HdO6RXwk:MOAIbPCP1os:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=XM4HdO6RXwk:MOAIbPCP1os:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/XM4HdO6RXwk" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/identify-yourself-outlook-quick-tip Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:17:00 -0800 New Drive-By Spam Infects Those Who Open Email -- No Attachment Needed - Dark Reading http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/cJfAR88W_HY/new-drive-by-spam-infects-those-who-open-emai-71862 http://vmanning.posterous.com/new-drive-by-spam-infects-those-who-open-emai-71862 <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">Attackers have developed a new way to infect your PC through email -- without forcing you to click on an attachment. <p>According to researchers at eleven, a German security firm, the new drive-by spam automatically downloads malware when an email is opened in the email client. The user doesn't have to click on a link or open an attachment -- just opening the email is enough. </p><p>"The new generation of email-borne malware consists of HTML e-mails which contain a JavaScript which automatically downloads malware when the email is opened," eleven says in a news release."This is similar to so-called drive-by downloads, which infect a PC by opening an infected website in the browser." </p><p>The current wave of drive-by spam contains the subject "Banking security update" and has a sender address with the domain fdic.com. If the email client allows HTML emails to be displayed, the HTML code is immediately activated. </p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.darkreading.com/security/attacks-breaches/232500660/new-drive-by-spam-infects-those-who-open-email-no-attachment-needed.html">darkreading.com</a></div> <p>Please review this security warning and remember to stay careful out there - Don't open any email with 'Banking security update" in the subject line. Just delete it and the delete it from your deleted items. More at the link above.</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/new-drive-by-spam-infects-those-who-open-emai-71862">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/new-drive-by-spam-infects-those-who-open-emai-71862#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=cJfAR88W_HY:dG7XgJIJoks:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=cJfAR88W_HY:dG7XgJIJoks:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=cJfAR88W_HY:dG7XgJIJoks:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=cJfAR88W_HY:dG7XgJIJoks:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=cJfAR88W_HY:dG7XgJIJoks:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=cJfAR88W_HY:dG7XgJIJoks:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=cJfAR88W_HY:dG7XgJIJoks:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=cJfAR88W_HY:dG7XgJIJoks:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/cJfAR88W_HY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/new-drive-by-spam-infects-those-who-open-emai-71862 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:28:00 -0800 Always open Google Search Results in a new tab - Tech-Recipes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/W38qPjNWTFA/always-open-google-search-results-in-a-new-ta http://vmanning.posterous.com/always-open-google-search-results-in-a-new-ta <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote">When you open a new Google search result by default, it will open in the same tab. This may be time consuming when you have to go back and forth trying to find what you really want. To be more productive, you may want to always open the result in a new tab, and then close it if that is not what you want. Luckily, you can set this to the default behavior in Google Search.</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/20536/always-open-google-search-results-in-a-new-tab/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tech-RecipesMain+%28Tech-Recipes+Main%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader">tech-recipes.com</a></div> <p>A little tweak that makes a big difference. I implemented this one some time ago, but forgot all about doing it until I ran across these easy-to-follow instructions from Tech-Recipes. If you're tired of all the back and forth clicking when working through your goolge search results, give this little tweak a go - it only takes a few seconds to set up. Instructions at the link above.</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/always-open-google-search-results-in-a-new-ta">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/always-open-google-search-results-in-a-new-ta#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=W38qPjNWTFA:hJ18PurOV-0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=W38qPjNWTFA:hJ18PurOV-0:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=W38qPjNWTFA:hJ18PurOV-0:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=W38qPjNWTFA:hJ18PurOV-0:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=W38qPjNWTFA:hJ18PurOV-0:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=W38qPjNWTFA:hJ18PurOV-0:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=W38qPjNWTFA:hJ18PurOV-0:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=W38qPjNWTFA:hJ18PurOV-0:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/W38qPjNWTFA" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/always-open-google-search-results-in-a-new-ta Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:14:00 -0800 Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 4 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/eSkfcDbtstM/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-21447 http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-21447 <p> <p style="line-height: normal;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Word" height="85" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/temp-2012-01-30/EJgjmzrBDcafvipfalxnBdEmghCoDtCrcqAsjghCBoJAGgAtngcunweFzksl/word.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="79" /> </div> </p> <p style="line-height: normal;">If you just arriving to Post #4 in this series, you may wish to start here:</p> <p style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;&bull;<a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o">Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 1</a></p> <p style="line-height: normal;">&bull;<a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-69437">Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 2</a></p> <p style="line-height: normal;">&bull;<a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-45985">Troubles and Solutions Start Here - Word 2010 Options - Part 3</a></p> <p style="line-height: normal;">and then head on back here for Part 4, continuing with &lsquo;Proofing Options&rsquo;, in this ongoing <strong>Word Options</strong> Series.&nbsp; This post addresses the settings and their effects in:</p> <p style="line-height: normal;">Correcting Spelling in Microsoft Office Programs, and Correcting Spelling and Grammar in Word.</p> <h1>Correcting Spelling in Microsoft Office programs</h1> <p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image029" height="247" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/aT7k828pThPwRZP5ITexiIOyFDEUQZTQLi8IUgf93XGbJg216dJBjF1us8b2/image029.png" width="396" /> </div> </span></p> <p>This part is pretty straight-forward, but you do have to keep in mind that settings in this section of Proofing affect ALL your MSOffice products, not just Word.</p> <h2>Ignore words in UPPERCASE</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image003" height="24" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/ildeisIn4Tx1x3DhaRwzcDG3zx7CN0BU0fSqMbXw3arfrioNsDWwKYS1rMUP/image003.png" width="195" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">This option is checked &lsquo;on&rsquo; by default.&nbsp; The consequences are exactly what you would expect: Word&rsquo;s (and other Office programs) spell checker will ignore any words you type fully in UPPERCASE &ndash; they will never display as requiring correction, even if you spell them incorrectly.&nbsp; With the setting checked &lsquo;off&rsquo;, &lsquo;UPPERCASE&rsquo; spelled incorrectly looks like this:</span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image004" height="43" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/vM2nZEbLcSSQk4zW8Ik9mDmOdH2bbfpIPXnZDgnzzkKNjNYfOejcwwmfCnyT/image004.png" width="89" /> </div> </span></p> <p>with the traditional indication of a misspelling &ndash; the red squiggly underline.&nbsp; This one&rsquo;s up to you &ndash; I&rsquo;ve checked mine &lsquo;off&rsquo;.&nbsp; I make enough typos, and spell so few words in uppercase only that I prefer Word to tell me when I&rsquo;ve typo&rsquo;d.</p> <p></p> <h2>Ignore words that contain numbers</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image005" height="24" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/iVwhT2KnGf0y58dss9CxpYc0Hwn629rMf4n0XpoDvViuyOLpdtPfsVzp6uWC/image005.png" width="221" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">If you&rsquo;re Canadian and you type a lot of postal codes, you&rsquo;ve already ensured that this is checked on!&nbsp; This setting left &lsquo;off&rsquo; drives us crazy, because with ignore turned &lsquo;off&rsquo;, postal codes are all flagged as misspelled:</span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image006" height="49" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/4VGB5JEDY412PbrVkm6QrB2mQTQWSouJNM5NvxdTg5gUS9ZttrwTk6Q9sLXA/image006.png" width="86" /> </div> </span></p> <p>If you don&rsquo;t have postal codes that are a mixture of letters and numbers, your mileage may vary on this one.&nbsp; If you find that you do a lot of typing that includes letters/numbers together, you&rsquo;ll want to ensure those combos are ignored, unless you don&rsquo;t mind doing a lot of spell checking...</p> <h2>Ignore Internet and file addresses</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image007" height="24" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/kRNRDKCl1XYEot1zWjwd9nr2OqIhxOwkbqNE1YPSXhAu1dqokCHC8FKrbivM/image007.png" width="221" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">If you type a lot of URLs and file paths in your documents, here&rsquo;s one setting you don&rsquo;t want to set improperly.&nbsp; Ensure that the setting is checked to &lsquo;ignore&rsquo;, otherwise, your document will flag every URL and file path as a misspelling ending up in spell check. Very annoying.</span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image008" height="52" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/72VoG6SatReMTsfZifJgK9zC2EjHORkDRI5W2x9T2skOmD76dRrW14FgI8HC/image008.png" width="228" /> </div> </span></p> <h2>Flag repeated words</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image009" height="24" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/YwjsVYuaijd5coHwnIWr7HPYD5Td004PgQB9uCm774FGKow2Sy6oTyrVJscE/image009.png" width="221" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">There is absolutely no reason to turn this flag off.&nbsp; It would be a rare situation where you would *want* the same word twice, side by side, in a sentence.&nbsp; But it&rsquo;s not so rare to mistakenly type the same word twice.&nbsp; With this setting checked &lsquo;on&rsquo;, the double word will flag as a typo and a right click on the second word (or a full spell check) will give you a quick ability to delete the repeated word:</span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image010" height="252" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/bieN4VsoEFu1GucL7R2HuljHxV2t8ffoBXhSTACZIHAWw5ly7piDQFjfXFJy/image010.png" width="252" /> </div> </span></p> <p>Enforce accented uppercase in French</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image011" height="24" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/NMwgRGqRTnA1S5eajYifnHjzJ4aV493y5NrYAY389AR7LNZIJyag1MRFb77y/image011.png" width="233" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">I only type in English, so I&rsquo;ve not paid attention to this setting before and had to look it up at Microsoft&rsquo;s site.&nbsp; <a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/choose-how-spelling-and-grammar-checking-work-HP010119467.aspx">According to Microsoft this option</a><a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/choose-how-spelling-and-grammar-checking-work-HP010119467.aspx">, if checked on</a><a href="http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio-help/choose-how-spelling-and-grammar-checking-work-HP010119467.aspx">, will</a>:</span></p> <p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em>Alert you to French words that contain uppercase letters that are missing an accent mark.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em>When you are using the French (Canadian) dialect, by default this option is always turned on, because the dictionary for this language includes the accented uppercase form of words in this language. This means that the option is selected by default whenever you do the following:</em></p> <p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em>Use French (Canadian) as your Primary editing language. For more information, see Set the language options for Office.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: .5in;"><em>Check the spelling of text that is in the French (Canadian) dialect.</em></p> <p><span style="">So, if you&rsquo;re working with French Canadian text, you&rsquo;ll want this option checked &lsquo;on&rsquo;, otherwise it&rsquo;s safe to leave &lsquo;off&rsquo;.</span></p> <h2><span style="">Suggest from main dictionary only</span></h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image012" height="24" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/gODLVNNybipjiNTi3fEzfpt7NvJ3eh6RY2aSpR7wnjvw00UQMlzyVAdA2afb/image012.png" width="233" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">This is definitely an option to leave unchecked.&nbsp; If you check this option, Word will *only* use its main default install dictionary to make spelling correction settings.&nbsp; It will ignore any words you&rsquo;ve added to your custom dictionary.</span></p> <h2><span style="">Custom Dictionaries</span></h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image013" height="30" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/UkA5JY50Zl0XJFcpO48sv923XDyHn4voWtz6DzevEA8Y4v3aiJ0YKLe8RSfR/image013.png" width="153" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">It&rsquo;s good to familiarize yourself with the Custom Dictionary (it&rsquo;s highly unlikely that you have more than one).&nbsp; Go ahead and click on it to open, and there you&rsquo;ll see the &lsquo;Edit Word List&rsquo; button.&nbsp; Here is where you can easily view the words you&rsquo;ve added to your Custom Dictionary through Spell Check &lsquo;Add to Dictionary&rsquo;, and here is where you can remove any words added in error. (<strong>Note</strong>: you can also get there through Spell Check &lsquo;Options&rsquo;.)</span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image030" height="410" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/e4R8zyRKbyoWlMlVi0Hk3is9zfAoI3tCIV6eM5x0OsaCvaFiznwoCi8sdeG4/image030.png" width="470" /> </div> </span></p> <h2><span style="">French and Spanish Modes</span></h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image016" height="56" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/IVGMhIq2tz72CJKeibGRE1LSqFBWrLHKpDJ1lJcw7WnDOHkFSzHQs3mBe6xt/image016.png" width="283" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">I leave these at default because, honestly, ! have no idea what they mean!</span></p> <h1>Correcting Spelling and Grammar in Word</h1> <p>These settings apply only to Word</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image017" height="285" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/7kaPKxuRvknlgVOYQ5puHEcBWg18MF0GhOtGbLzqxn3i6fhaJrMmAfoIzGx2/image017.png" width="369" /> </div> </span></p> <h2>Check Spelling as you type</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image018" height="25" src="http://getfile3.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/OKchL1BaJoNdIs8TJNYMlUMYdGKBpUR1AyU7x02Uwrw4Rxpvh7Nhze7xydGe/image018.png" width="181" /> </div> </span></p> <p>This is the setting that gives you the red squiggly under typos and words not added to a custom dictionary.&nbsp; .</p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image019" height="44" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/ktMfd17rix77qgJAhJRRqEX0FomZ3zYRl1XdLnFXo2TkYuHW8vqg6CXQivJ2/image019.png" width="77" /> </div> </span></p> <p>The setting is &lsquo;on&rsquo; by default and I can only imagine one reason to turn it off.&nbsp; The reason:&nbsp; That red squiggly line is too distracting if you&rsquo;re trying to teach yourself to type through your typos to speed up your typing.&nbsp; And the reason why you&rsquo;d want to do that?&nbsp; <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/dont-touch-that-typo-attorney-at-work-4985">See my post &lsquo;Don&rsquo;t Touch that Typo!</a></p> <h2>Use Contextual Spelling</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image020" height="25" src="http://getfile1.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/MOx4VVQPKE1TwRdSC4Ovy4Ikbx8rK9t8966CIS4fxj9r38AgFtTAQrU3o59s/image020.png" width="181" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">I like this setting because I tend to be a careless typist, often typing contractions without the apostrophe and typing &lsquo;your&rsquo; when I mean to type &lsquo;you&rsquo;re&rsquo;.&nbsp; This setting left &lsquo;on&rsquo; shows me the error of my ways with a blue squiggly line under the contextually incorrect word, and lets me correct it through Spell Check.</span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image021" height="48" src="http://getfile5.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/jXzSV2gnquCkxdGmpPXPKXxAqjkS3HsqTc4GOIvrAskGQECkaQ5ZMiDyvbrh/image021.png" width="176" /> </div> </span></p> <h2>Mark and check grammar errors</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image022" height="40" src="http://getfile9.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/ahugrIgj4kRmthHzyvNs4xogpzwzcCyERfzZcBxJu6VMmSZSSM0wJGMIcFj7/image022.png" width="203" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">Well, what Word thinks are grammar errors, anyway.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t always agree, so I work with this option checked &lsquo;off&rsquo;.&nbsp; When checked &lsquo;on&rsquo;, Word will flag sentence fragments (like the fragment above, that I wrote deliberately) and other grammar errors with a green squiggly underline.</span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image023" height="42" src="http://getfile4.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/LTCGvPlggKMLCQSQm3xJW6Xc7XCJDaHteD87pX4aBE1rSpDRnBjVPQoKcwaw/image023.png" width="112" /> </div> </span></p> <p>If you want to check grammar, but don&rsquo;t want a document full of green squigglies, you can leave the &lsquo;as you type&rsquo; option unchecked, and check the &lsquo;check grammar with spelling&rsquo; and grammar errors will be pulled into your document Spell Check.</p> <h2>Show readability statistics</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image024" height="30" src="http://getfile8.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/rJQZ9OpKVfz9CJRCRvCvDJoWWIi64GYwWTj9oh2yEft3Gqok6oWfswuxBqql/image024.png" width="203" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">This option is also turned off by default.&nbsp; If you check it &lsquo;on&rsquo;, you see Readability Statistics box after you complete a full speck check on your document.</span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image025" height="323" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/eSQtB4lwJMxYqltuHL0N5FUyxRNU4OJ0nd7yUcts0dFEIvvyw52afYZWvgEn/image025.png" width="336" /> </div> </span></p> <h2>Writing Style</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image026" height="30" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/mrjc9cc4sBbv7z1kisxHi7zZ4HVJYQ6I1XxOmeGwC9gfLgy6EhZlg0VSaJdj/image026.png" width="288" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">If you do decide to have Word check your grammar, you might want to have a look at the Grammar and Style Settings.&nbsp; Clicking on the Settings button opens the Grammar Settings box, where you can customize those items you wish Word to check and those you wish it to ignore.&nbsp; Like that setence fragment&hellip;</span></p> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image027" height="387" src="http://getfile2.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/cFjAkl7yKo4pgesmWTXskkKzcEbnVwgruE1wAqRP2ucfzysCEubPDDa4OaH0/image027.png" width="411" /> </div> </span></p> <h2>Exceptions</h2> <p><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image028" height="78" src="http://getfile7.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/elDFka6blIMqERK2Azx2oKXqC5ISNBYFvA4pb4ElAbQ1lQG2irWuiW6tZWrl/image028.png" width="349" /> </div> </span></p> <p><span style="">Finally, you can set grammar and spelling exceptions for the document you are working on, or drop down the selection and except all documents yet to be created.&nbsp; This can be a very dangerous setting to play with as you may forget that you&rsquo;ve turned off spelling and/or grammar checking for the document and thereby miss errors.&nbsp; Or worse, you may inadvertantly hide spelling and grammar errors in all your future documents.&nbsp; Change with care.&nbsp; If you notice that your documents are showing errors, this is the first place the check. </span></p> <p><strong><span style="">Note</span></strong><span style="">: if you have grammar checked turned off, &lsquo;Hide grammar errors&rsquo; will be unavailable for selection.</span></p> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-21447">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-21447#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eSkfcDbtstM:ct-Oj6Q6E84:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eSkfcDbtstM:ct-Oj6Q6E84:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=eSkfcDbtstM:ct-Oj6Q6E84:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eSkfcDbtstM:ct-Oj6Q6E84:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eSkfcDbtstM:ct-Oj6Q6E84:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=eSkfcDbtstM:ct-Oj6Q6E84:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=eSkfcDbtstM:ct-Oj6Q6E84:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=eSkfcDbtstM:ct-Oj6Q6E84:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/eSkfcDbtstM" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/troubles-and-solutions-start-here-word-2010-o-21447 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:04:00 -0800 How to Use Multiple Headers and Footers in a Single Document - How-To Geek http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/i_KjY1ylt_8/how-to-use-multiple-headers-and-footers-in-a http://vmanning.posterous.com/how-to-use-multiple-headers-and-footers-in-a <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote">There is no option in Word 2010 that allows you to use a different header and footer for different sections in a document. The trick is to use section breaks and unlink the header and footer respectively–this allows you to set them as you are creating the document.</blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/103481/how-to-use-multiple-headers-and-footers-in-a-single-document/">howtogeek.com</a></div> <p>Nicely done post rom How-to Geek illustrating the use of Word's Section Breaks to set up different headers and footers in a Word doc. Generous screenshots and easy to follow instructions at the link above</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/how-to-use-multiple-headers-and-footers-in-a">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/how-to-use-multiple-headers-and-footers-in-a#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=i_KjY1ylt_8:YjcUUKST7Ys:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=i_KjY1ylt_8:YjcUUKST7Ys:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=i_KjY1ylt_8:YjcUUKST7Ys:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=i_KjY1ylt_8:YjcUUKST7Ys:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=i_KjY1ylt_8:YjcUUKST7Ys:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=i_KjY1ylt_8:YjcUUKST7Ys:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=i_KjY1ylt_8:YjcUUKST7Ys:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=i_KjY1ylt_8:YjcUUKST7Ys:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/i_KjY1ylt_8" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/how-to-use-multiple-headers-and-footers-in-a Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:41:00 -0800 From the Archives: Zoom Zoom. How'd you do that? Windows Quick Tip http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/e6NvQH47r6Q/from-the-archives-zoom-zoom-howd-you-do-that http://vmanning.posterous.com/from-the-archives-zoom-zoom-howd-you-do-that <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><div class="posterousGalleryMainDiv p_embed p_image_embed"><img src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/4S4DDZIe0ussU54bYBQIcnE1tEVaAo7J036RfYjLG9rHTYRnmboTtejaZ7BN/image003.jpg" height="88" alt="Image003" width="88" /></div> <p></p> <p>This morning I was showing one of our users how to carry out a function in Word.&nbsp; While I was showing her I was finding the document we were working on difficult to read (the text was too small for my eyes…), so I quickly zoomed the view the way I usually do – by holding down the ‘Ctrl’ key and rotating the mouse scroll wheel away from me.&nbsp; Immediate and easy ‘Zoom’ of the window view – making reading the document easy on the eyes.&nbsp; My user had no idea how I did this – she had never used or seen this combo used to easily zoom the view.&nbsp; So I showed her how easy it was – and especially how much less fiddly to get exactly the zoom level that’s best for you in the shortest amount of time.</p> <p>This combo works with a lot of software, including an open email (but not directly in Outlook), your web browser and Windows Explorer (Win 7)&nbsp; In Windows Explorer, zooming using this combo will not only zoom the view, it will also cycle you through the various Explorer views – Details, Icons etc.&nbsp; Give it a try – hold down your ‘Ctrl’ key while scrolling your mouse wheel forwards and backwards in an active window – you’ll quickly zoom in and out.</p> <p>I predict it will become your Zoom of choice!</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/zoom-zoom-howd-you-do-that-quick-tip">vmanning.posterous.com</a></div> <p>This post goes back to December 2010, but it's timely once again, so I'm elevating it from the archives as a reminder that if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel (and almost everyone does) a quick 'Ctrl' and a mouse-wheel scroll is a quick and easy way to zoom in and out.</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/from-the-archives-zoom-zoom-howd-you-do-that">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/from-the-archives-zoom-zoom-howd-you-do-that#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=e6NvQH47r6Q:5DV4w77cDs4:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=e6NvQH47r6Q:5DV4w77cDs4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=e6NvQH47r6Q:5DV4w77cDs4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=e6NvQH47r6Q:5DV4w77cDs4:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=e6NvQH47r6Q:5DV4w77cDs4:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=e6NvQH47r6Q:5DV4w77cDs4:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=e6NvQH47r6Q:5DV4w77cDs4:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=e6NvQH47r6Q:5DV4w77cDs4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/e6NvQH47r6Q" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/from-the-archives-zoom-zoom-howd-you-do-that Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:02:00 -0800 Office solution: How to continue numbering from one Word table column to another | Susan Harkins | TechRepublic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/9Ywg1mrPsNA/office-solution-how-to-continue-numbering-fro http://vmanning.posterous.com/office-solution-how-to-continue-numbering-fro <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p class="c-4 space-1 takeaway"><span class="c-6 heavy">Takeaway: </span>This week, learn the solution to the challenge: Can you continue numbering by column? Hint: It’s not intuitive.</p> <p><a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/msoffice/office-challenge-can-you-continue-numbering-by-column/7141?tag=mantle_skin;content" target="_blank">Last week</a>, I asked you for a solution that forces columnar numbering in a Word table. Word numbers by row first, as shown below; it numbers the first two cells in the first row before dropping down to the next row to continue numbering.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/msoffice/office-solution-how-to-continue-numbering-from-one-table-column-to-another/7260?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techrepublic%2Fmsoffice+%28TechRepublic+Microsoft+Office%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader">techrepublic.com</a></div> <p>Well she's right, it sure isn't intuitive. But it is a solution, until someone comes up with something better!</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/office-solution-how-to-continue-numbering-fro">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/office-solution-how-to-continue-numbering-fro#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=9Ywg1mrPsNA:zn_8zEOA6nA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=9Ywg1mrPsNA:zn_8zEOA6nA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=9Ywg1mrPsNA:zn_8zEOA6nA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=9Ywg1mrPsNA:zn_8zEOA6nA:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=9Ywg1mrPsNA:zn_8zEOA6nA:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=9Ywg1mrPsNA:zn_8zEOA6nA:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=9Ywg1mrPsNA:zn_8zEOA6nA:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=9Ywg1mrPsNA:zn_8zEOA6nA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/9Ywg1mrPsNA" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/office-solution-how-to-continue-numbering-fro Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:52:00 -0800 Not a Sexy Topic - Computer File Organization http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/DdSNbr6cdDE/not-a-sexy-topic-computer-file-organization http://vmanning.posterous.com/not-a-sexy-topic-computer-file-organization <p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image001" height="140" src="http://getfile6.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/EKReOXGo3niVDgVloanhrCFqfCxRV25WjCHHLTuSamgoiSRIo7Nq22F3j4rt/image001.png" width="149" /> </div> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">But I&rsquo;m going to talk about it anyway.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">I have a pretty firm opinion on network folder and file organization, and my opinion is this: network files should be organized the same way as paper files (assuming you still have paper files&hellip;).&nbsp; The reason? To reduce unnecessary thinking, which should be a constant goal.&nbsp; There&rsquo;s just not a lot of space left in the ol&rsquo; noggin for unnecessary thoughts such as &ldquo;Where is that file saved?&rdquo;. Your brain has already wrapped itself around your paper file organization, why not take advantage of that with your electronic files?</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626; font-size: medium;">The basic approach is this:</span></p> <h1 style="text-align: justify;"><span>Save ALL Documents for ONE Matter in ONE folder</span></h1> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626; font-size: medium;">When working with paper file everything is saved in one file, no matter who created it or how.&nbsp; You don&rsquo;t go to different places in your office to gather material for your file - why go to different places on your network to pull the whole file together?&nbsp; That means everyone working on the file saves *all* documents, including email, to a single folder.&nbsp; Without exception.&nbsp; This may require an end-run around certain software that wants to force you to save documents in a different location &ndash; that&rsquo;s what &lsquo;Save As&rsquo; is for (assuming you can&rsquo;t configure the software to force it to do what *you* want it to do).&nbsp; This also means you don&rsquo;t store your emails in Outlook, where no-one else can easily get at them. &nbsp;If you print and file emails in your paper file, then also save them to the computer file.&nbsp; It doesn&rsquo;t matter if you also leave the emails in Outlook for your own use, as long as you also save them to the network file.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;"></span></p> <h1><span>Paper File Brads = Computer File Subfolders</span></h1> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">You organize your paper file in a particular manner &ndash; your electronic file should be organized the same way.&nbsp; If you have brads for correspondence, court documents, drafts <em>etc</em>., replicate that structure in your computer file.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626; font-size: medium;">For every new computer file, create a folder and sub-folder structure.&nbsp; Avoid the tedium of multiple folder creation by creating a &lsquo;template&rsquo; folder for each file type you work with.&nbsp; This template folder (you can name it, say, &lsquo;New Real Estate Matter&rsquo; or whatever) is set up once precisely the way you like, with the subfolder structure you want.&nbsp; Then, when a new matter walks in the door, you *copy* this folder (and its subfolders) all at once and drop them into your network storage location and rename it appropriately.&nbsp; A few clicks and a copy, paste and rename later and presto &ndash; you have your nicely organized new folder.</span></p> <h1><span>Files should be organized on the computer the same way as they are in your filing cabinets</span></h1> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">If active files are segregated in filing cabinets per lawyer and each lawyer further segregates files in filing cabinet drawers by area of law, that organization should be replicated on the network. What I mean is this:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">Say lawyers A, B and C each have a Wills &amp; Estates and a Real Estate Practice.&nbsp; Lawyers A, B &amp; C each keep their active files in their own filing cabinets.&nbsp; Each of those filing cabinets are 2 drawer cabinets, one reserved for Real Estate files and the other reserved for Wills &amp; Estates files.&nbsp; On the network, this same organization should be replicated, and look like this:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;"><div class='p_embed p_image_embed'> <img alt="Image002" height="238" src="http://getfile0.posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/vmanning/awNAMQmjo3fqqyALqIVQA2jlKxjbHSTRRO2kHYDlSMkK6d8gkDHtZO6iFleO/image002.png" width="224" /> </div> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">I&rsquo;m not suggesting this is the only, or even the best approach - you need to find what works for you given your paper file organization &ndash; and everyone needs to stick with it. Getting buy-in here is important to ensure that happens.</span></span></p> <h1><span>Segregate your Active Files from your Closed Files</span></h1> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626; font-size: medium;">In the paper world when you close a file you generally remove it from your filing cabinet (eventually&hellip;).&nbsp; You should do the same with your network files.&nbsp; When a matter is closed, move the newly closed file to a closed files storage location on your network (using a similar organizational structure).&nbsp; When you browse your Active Files, you&rsquo;ll only see stuff that you&rsquo;re currently working on, not files that have been closed for the last decade.</span></p> <h1><span>Correspondence does not need to be broken down into type</span></h1> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626; font-size: medium;">In the paper world, it&rsquo;s unlikely that you segregate your snail mail letters from your fax letters &ndash; they&rsquo;re all (including email) correspondence and all go on the correspondence brad.&nbsp; Your electronic file should be organized the same way.&nbsp; If you *want* to distinguish *how* the correspondence was received, you can do that through a file naming convention.&nbsp; Why inconvenience yourself by forcing a click-through to an additional set of subfolders, when a simple correspondence folder will do the trick nicely? Simplify where possible.</span></p> <h1><span>Name all Documents according to an agreed-upon File Naming Convention</span></h1> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626; font-size: medium;">This is the one area with no paper file equivalent - computer files need names, paper files don&rsquo;t.&nbsp; It makes a lot of sense to name files according to some agreed upon formula.&nbsp; The exact formula isn&rsquo;t as important as is everyone agreeing to, understanding and abiding by a File Naming Convention.&nbsp; Anyone on the team (which may be as small as two people and as big as an entire department) should be able to dig into the electronic file and easily find sort and retrieve anything in it.&nbsp; They can't do that if everyone is doing their own thing when naming files.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; color: #262626;">Whoa.&nbsp; That may not have been sexy to you, but that did get me all riled up!</span></span></p> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/not-a-sexy-topic-computer-file-organization">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/not-a-sexy-topic-computer-file-organization#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=DdSNbr6cdDE:cWjdWDG1cEQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=DdSNbr6cdDE:cWjdWDG1cEQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=DdSNbr6cdDE:cWjdWDG1cEQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=DdSNbr6cdDE:cWjdWDG1cEQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=DdSNbr6cdDE:cWjdWDG1cEQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=DdSNbr6cdDE:cWjdWDG1cEQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=DdSNbr6cdDE:cWjdWDG1cEQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=DdSNbr6cdDE:cWjdWDG1cEQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/DdSNbr6cdDE" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/not-a-sexy-topic-computer-file-organization Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:46:00 -0800 How To Change Inches To Centimeters In Word 2010 - How-To Geek http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/HLClBXAvAFo/how-to-change-inches-to-centimeters-in-word-2 http://vmanning.posterous.com/how-to-change-inches-to-centimeters-in-word-2 <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p><img title="sshot-18" src="http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sshot-18.png" border="0" height="257" alt="sshot-18" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;" width="650" /></p> <p>By default in Microsoft Word 2010, width, height, and even paper size is shown in inches. For some people this is an obscure measurement that is hardly ever used. If you’d rather display in centimeters instead, let’s take a look at how we can change the default measurement unit from inches to centimeters.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/103340/how-to-change-inches-to-centimeters-in-word-2010/">howtogeek.com</a></div> <p>I'm old enough to be an inches girl, myself, so I left good enough alone. But for you younger pups out there who like to see it in centimeters, here are are simple to follow instructions from How-To Geek to make the switcheroo. At the llink above.</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/how-to-change-inches-to-centimeters-in-word-2">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/how-to-change-inches-to-centimeters-in-word-2#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=HLClBXAvAFo:Zd9B8qzVrPQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=HLClBXAvAFo:Zd9B8qzVrPQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=HLClBXAvAFo:Zd9B8qzVrPQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=HLClBXAvAFo:Zd9B8qzVrPQ:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=HLClBXAvAFo:Zd9B8qzVrPQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=HLClBXAvAFo:Zd9B8qzVrPQ:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=HLClBXAvAFo:Zd9B8qzVrPQ:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=HLClBXAvAFo:Zd9B8qzVrPQ:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/HLClBXAvAFo" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/how-to-change-inches-to-centimeters-in-word-2 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:23:00 -0800 IE9: Disable “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” notification - Tech-Recipes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/dDj59IAxLVc/ie9-disable-speed-up-browsing-by-disabling-ad http://vmanning.posterous.com/ie9-disable-speed-up-browsing-by-disabling-ad <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><h4>If you use many add-ons in IE9, you will properly be welcomed by the “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” notification every time you launch the browser. If you sure that all your add-ons are essential, this notification is annoying. This tutorial will show you how to disable this warning.</h4> <p><span></span></p> <p>The <strong>Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons</strong> nag is painful. The <strong>Don’t disable</strong> option which appears when you hit the small arrow next to the <strong>Ask me later</strong> button will only disable this notification temporary.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/20413/ie9-disable-speed-up-browsing-by-disabling-add-ons-notification/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tech-RecipesMain+%28Tech-Recipes+Main%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader">tech-recipes.com</a></div> <p>I use IE9 with a lot of add-ons and this notification bar drives me crazy. Every add-on I use is one I need and don't want to disable, so I'm implementing this Registry fix. If you're in the same boat and you're comfortable editing the Windows Registry, click at the link above for the full implementation instructions and bar that bar from your IE9.</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/ie9-disable-speed-up-browsing-by-disabling-ad">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/ie9-disable-speed-up-browsing-by-disabling-ad#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=dDj59IAxLVc:KxHadzHEeQU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=dDj59IAxLVc:KxHadzHEeQU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=dDj59IAxLVc:KxHadzHEeQU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=dDj59IAxLVc:KxHadzHEeQU:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=dDj59IAxLVc:KxHadzHEeQU:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=dDj59IAxLVc:KxHadzHEeQU:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=dDj59IAxLVc:KxHadzHEeQU:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=dDj59IAxLVc:KxHadzHEeQU:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/dDj59IAxLVc" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/ie9-disable-speed-up-browsing-by-disabling-ad Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:14:00 -0800 Better Emails: Proof-listen (instead of proof-read) in Outlook :: MS Outlook for Business :: Standss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~3/mgAOOo_LDIY/better-emails-proof-listen-instead-of-proof-r http://vmanning.posterous.com/better-emails-proof-listen-instead-of-proof-r <p> <div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"><p>How many times have you used Outlook to send out emails with correctly spelt but the wrong words in them?</p> <p>The mistake I have personally made more than once is <em>“I look forward to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">jeering</span> from you”</em> instead of <em>“I look forward to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">hearing</span> from you”</em>… h and j are next to each other on the keyboard!</p> <p>These mistakes are easy to pick up if you use Outlook’s built-in (but well hidden) feature that will read the email aloud to you.</p></blockquote> <div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.standss.com/blog/index.php/better-emails-proof-listen-instead-of-proof-read-in-outlook/">standss.com</a></div> <p>I had no idea this could be done in Outlook (even though I knew about the ability in Windows 7). So I followed the instructions at the link above to add the 'speak' command to my Outlook Quick Access Toolbar and gave it a shot. Any didn't my email speak back to me, in a metallic, but understandable, voice. If you think proof-listening to your email might be helpful for you, click at the link above and give it a try.</p></div> </p> <p><a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/better-emails-proof-listen-instead-of-proof-r">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://vmanning.posterous.com/better-emails-proof-listen-instead-of-proof-r#comment">Leave a comment&nbsp;&nbsp;&raquo;</a> </p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=mgAOOo_LDIY:PXzPSwoiw-Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=mgAOOo_LDIY:PXzPSwoiw-Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=mgAOOo_LDIY:PXzPSwoiw-Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=mgAOOo_LDIY:PXzPSwoiw-Y:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=mgAOOo_LDIY:PXzPSwoiw-Y:gIN9vFwOqvQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=mgAOOo_LDIY:PXzPSwoiw-Y:gIN9vFwOqvQ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?a=mgAOOo_LDIY:PXzPSwoiw-Y:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/SmallCityLawFirmTech?i=mgAOOo_LDIY:PXzPSwoiw-Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmallCityLawFirmTech/~4/mgAOOo_LDIY" height="1" width="1"/> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/882156/pic_for_sm.jpg http://posterous.com/users/1bh30tWR7aN Vivian Manning Vivian Vivian Manning http://vmanning.posterous.com/better-emails-proof-listen-instead-of-proof-r