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Business Computing Tips By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au Help used to be more of a hindrance. It has gotten better, but you still need to know how to use it or it will drive you crazy. First of all, how do you get rid of the paperclip when its being obnoxious? In the Help menu, the second option is Show Office Assistant. Take the tick away by clicking on it and the annoyance should disappear. Sometimes, you need to put it on and take it off a couple of times for it to work. If you want to turn the animation or sound off, but keep the Assistant itself, then go to TOOLS => OPTIONS. On the General tab (Click on the word general at the top) you will see places to take the ticks out there. Help is basically easy to use. Simply type in the thing you are having problems with and hit search. If you can't find it in the standard help, try going online (click Help Online on the help menu), it has a lot more to offer. If all else fails, I go to the index and scroll through looking at all the names, sometimes the answer is right there, but I don't know what to call it. This is the long way! Try all the other ways first, but it does work. Most importantly though, when you find it, WRITE IT DOWN somewhere, so you don't have to hunt for it again. Printing out the help files you use all the time and clipping them together as a little help book never hurts either. The print button is on the help file itself, don't use the normal one. Ever searched help and nothing came up? I don't mean you didn't get an answer, just nothing came up. The help file acts like a separate document, and just like other documents, it can be minimised. Sometimes the Help file goes straight to the task bar and never appears on the screen. To get it where you can see it. Look right down at the bottom of your screen, you might need to run the mouse right down to the bottom and wiggle it about a bit. This should show the task bar (the bit that shows all the things you have open. Click on the one marked help. This will bring it up where you can see it, but it might still not be something you can read. Hit the maximise button (on the help file that cam up, top right hand corner, looks like a small square next to a x) That should make it expand enough to read. And don't forget to scroll, often the good stuff is down the bottom of the screen. Next Week: Something new *********************************************************************** Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I wrote it. Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of Vocational and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14 years of having to make sales or starve that makes her think she has really learnt what does and doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she specialises in helping people get started on the long road to technology. "It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work." |