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Newsletter Archives
PC Tips & Tricks
September, 2007
In this edition:
Automatic Time Changing
Full Screen Surfing
Disable Word AutoComplete
Deleting Word Tables
Automatic Time Changing
For most of the world, it’s almost time to lose an hour of sleep for a day. It doesn’t mean you can’t save yourself some time when the clocks go back, though. Put this tip into action so you don’t end up waking up to early – or worse, going to work an hour early.
If you’re currently clicking on the clock in Windows twice a year to adjust it for Daylight Savings Time, select the Time Zone tab after clicking the Windows clock and then check the box next to “Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes”. As it says, it will then automatically set the Windows clock ahead or behind at the right time from now on. (Make sure you have also set the time zone near the top of the tab. Some countries change clocks on different days.)
If you find your Windows clock is drifting fast or slow, you can select the “Automatically synchronize with an Internet time server” check box in the Internet Time tab. The time.windows.com server should be fine, but you can also find plenty of other servers to synchronise with. Just search for “internet time server list” in your favourite search engine.
Full Screen Surfing
If you’re using Internet Explorer 7, you may not know that you can view the web page in full screen mode, getting rid of all the toolbars, tabs, buttons, etc.
The first thing you need to do is go to a web site that you want to see in full screen mode – i.e. www.digitalfilerecovery.com. Then, disable the status bar (View > Status Bar) if it is visible. If you don’t see the File menu, press the ALT key.
Then, enable full screen mode by one of the options below:
- Select View > Full Screen in the File menu.
- Press the ALT and Enter keys together.
- Press F11.
You can now see the web page without any other clutter. But don’t worry about how to surf to another site. Just move your mouse to the top of the screen to see the standard controls like the field used to enter a new URL. Or, if you want to go back to the usual way of surfing, press either F11 or ALT and Enter again.
Surf’s up!
Disable Word Autocomplete
In Word 2003, you may have the autocomplete function enabled. Some people will find this feature very useful as it will allow Word to try to guess what you're typing when you start to type such as when you start typing "To Whom It May Concern", "Best regards,", etc. When Word is ready to guess what you are typing, it will display the text it thinks you are typing in a pop-up. Instead of typing the remainder of the words, you can just press Enter to have Word automatically complete them for you.
Some people may find the text annoying, expecially if it's often not finding the words they're typing. To disable this feature in Word 2003, Go to Tools > AutoCorrect Options, select the AutoText tab and then de-select the "Show AutoComplete suggestions" checkbox.
Of course, if you want to add other phases you use frequently rather than disable the feature, you can do so by adding them just below this checkbox.
Deleting Word Tables
Ever noticed how when you want to delete an cells, a row, column or an entire table in Word, you highlight them and then click Delete (seems obvious...) only to find that the data in the table and not the table itself is deleted?
You'll be happy to know that there is a better way to get this done rather highlighting the area to be deleted, clicking Table > Delete and then the appropriate option.
You can highlight the area as before and hit the Backspace key and it will delete the area (data and table rows and columns) you selected.
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