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Tuesday, 13th May, 2008 MEETING Our Website is: http://brightoncomputerclub.org Our e-mail address for Meeting Questions is contact@brightoncomputerclub.org Preamble before Questions and Answers. Moderated by Frank Myers Frank showed the Club’s website "Links" page. To check it out, click: http://brightoncomputerclub.org/links.htm An example he cited was the "Free Education Net" site. To go directly to that site from the minutes, Click Here As you will discover, there are 125 different courses listed, from "Aerodynamics, Fundamentals of" to "Windows XP, Fundamentals of". They are all available on-line and best of all, FREE! Another favourite Link of Frank's is: "Tech Support's Best 46 Free Utitlies" and it's update: "Additional Best 46 Free Utilities" that can be found under the "Software-Related" heading. These are all available for download. When polled, Frank found that a handful of members had already taken avantage of this treasure-lode. Frank also mentioned the addition to our May 2008 Club CD and the "Software" section of our web site, "AbiWord". This is a Free Word Processor that is totally compatible with "Mcrosoft Word". If you already have "MS Word" then installing "AbiWord" would be redundant. If you don't have "MS Word", try "AbiWord". Questions and Answers. I was trying to get to the Members Only section on the Club’s website and was denied. Answer: With IE7 you must make a change to ensure you can get to the "Members Only” part of our website. Bring up IE7 Click on "Tools" Click on "Internet Options". Click on "Security". Click on "Internet". This must be set to "Medium". Put your pointer over the slide bar, left click and hold down while dragging it down to "Medium". Release left click. Click "Apply" and "OK" In OE I can not have my spelling checked automatically with Word 2003. Answer: In OE, before creating a new message, Click on Tools, Options and Spelling. Under Language make your choice Click Apply then OK. If the Spelling choice is greyed out or not functioning then you do may need to have MS Word 2003 repaired. Get your MS Office 2003 CD and load in the CD Drive Go to Control Panel Add or Remove Programs At MS Office 2003, click "Change". Then click "Reinstall" or "Repair" Follow the instructions. Top of Page I can’t make OE to accept a different default font for my emails. Answer: In "Outlook Express" click on Tools, Options, and Compose. Beside Mail, click on Font Settings. Make your changes. Click "OK" then "Apply" then "OK". I can not set Excel to default to two decimal places. Answer: From MS Excel Help in Excel... Choose: "To Specify a fixed decimal point for numbers..." On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Edit tab, select the Fixed decimal check box. In the Places box, enter a positive number for digits to the right of the decimal point or a negative number for digits to the left of the decimal point. For example, if you enter 3 in the Places box and then type "2834" in a cell, the value will be 2.834. If you enter "-3" in the Places box and then type "283" in a cell, the value will be 283000. Click OK. The FIX indicator appears in the status bar. On the worksheet, click a cell, and then type the number that you want. Note The data that you typed before you selected the Fixed decimal check box is not affected. Top of Page How do I find out if I have IE6 or IE7? Answer: When you have Internet Explorer running, Press the Alt key which shows the old style menu line at the top part of the window. Click on "Help" Click "About Internet Explorer". AVG Logs, what is in it? Answer: The AVG Log contains information on AVG scans, updates, virus and spyware infections. Top of Page Does XP SP3 work on all programs? Answer: There are thousands of programs and hardware configurations. It will take Microsoft and it's user community time to test all of these. That is why we suggest you wait before installing it. We are monitoring the situation and will advise. When ready, Frank Myers will burn new copies of SP3 which will be available (at no charge) to members. How can I have two email addresses exactly the same, in Gmail? Answer: No Internet Service Provider, or Internet Mail Service will allow two email addresses that are exactly the same. Some give the appearance that they do but it is actually handled by having sub names associated with a specific email address and if the sub name is not present then the email defaults to the unique name. If you recall when you signed up for your email, Google would check to ensure that no other living soul had that exact email address. The only way that email addresses work on the internet is because each and every one is totally unique. This construction is "identifier" + "@" + "Service Provider". For example"joeblow@sympatico.ca" is not the same as "joeblow@gmail.com" If you and/or your partner require separate Google GMail addresses, then just sign up for another email address(as long as it is not exactly the same) It is free. Top of Page How do I make a contact group in Gmail? Answer: Click on the following link to go to the GMail Help center for Group Contacts Click Here . When I am stopping all programs with MSConfig how can I note the start up programs without writing them down? Answer: Use Fastone Capture available from our website and the Club CD. When you capture the image of the items listed in MSConfig, just print it. Top of Page How can I capture off the screen with Fastone Capture? Answer: Start Fastone Capture. Click on the leftmost button, "Capture Active Window". On the Fastone Toolbar just made, Click on Rectangle. Position the cross hairs where you wish to start and hold left mouse button down Drag over the area you wish to capture continuing down off the screen and save. To capture the whole scrolling screen, click on the blue arrow pointing down Then click on Capture Scrolling Window Then click anywhere on the screen and save. Top of Page Top of Page With thanks to Marg Whitaker who recorded the questions.