Adding a shortcut to file explorer when opening or browsing to select files in Windows 7
Posted by: David
What are you trying to do?
You are trying to get a network location on your file explorer as a button that you only have to click on once to find the location. This area is known as my places in Windows XP ( also Favorites in Windows 7) and is very good for creating shortcuts to network drive locations where you might need to browse through several folders every time other wise.
Just look, this is how you do it
- Find the location of the folder you want to link.
- Drag and drop the folder into the left bar into the favorites area.
Now your folder is linked in the favorites or my places area on your file browser whenever you want to select a file with any program!
Video: Show the developer tab in Office 07 (Word and Excel)
Posted by: David
How to show the developer tab in Office 07.
- Click on the Office button
- Click on Word/Excel Options
- Check the Show Developer tab in ribbon option
- Hit OK to apply
What is the developer tab
The developer tab is seldom used by casual users of Office products which is why it was removed from the toolbar by default. However those familiar with macros and security options with Office files are very familiar with the options provided by the developer tab.
Updated with Video: Finding .nk2 file with Windows 7
Posted by: David
For those not wanting to watch the video and know what your doing and just want the locations here you go.
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook\
How to back up your old CD’s while you can still use them!
Posted by: David
Sim Golf
Problem:
You have this sweet old game that you loved to play but have a hard time finding another copy of it on the market without having to pay more for it now then you did when it was new. Or, you just have some data on some old CD's that you are afraid might get damaged or destroyed and you would like to have a digital back up as well.
Solution:
- Go to http://www.magiciso.com/
- Click 'Download' on the Navigation Bar
- Then hit download from either Site 1 or Site 2
- Once finished downloading, Install the program
- Start the program, it will ask you if you want to register but that won't be necessary. Just hit Try it!
- Once the program has started you should see,
- Then click on Tools, Make ISO from CD/DVD-ROM,
- Then select which CD/DVD drive to save from, where to save the file to, the file type (.iso) and then select start,
- Here you will start to see a status bar which will disappear when your image is done being created. Unless you get any error messages it should have completed the image successfully. You now have a digital backup of you old CD or DVD you were afraid would get damaged.
Word and Outlook are messed up whenever I open a new document/email
Posted by: David
What's wrong?
You opened up Word or Outlook and were going to type a new document or email but the format is all messed up.
How did this happen?
You accidently, or maybe not so accidently changed your template for regular blank documents.
What does a regular blank template mean?
Every time you open up Word or Outlook (which uses Word) you open up a blank document template. Normally this would just include a basic file with normal margins and nothing in it.
Some people change their normal template because they do certain jobs over and over so it was a good idea for Microsoft to allow you to edit that, but if you didn't know that you changed it or how it was possible to change it then you have a problem, and that's why you are here.
OK, so you understand what is going on but you just want to fix it.
Windows 7 Office 07
- First make sure you have your folder options set to view hidden files. You can search how to do that if you don't know how, it is very simple.
- Then, browse to your C: drive, then go to Users > Username > App Data > Roaming > Microsoft > Templates and you should see the normal.dotm file.
normal.dotm
- From here you should close Outlook and Word and make sure that they are closed in the task manager.
- Simply delete the normal.dotm template file. It will be recreated from scratch when you start Word again.
Windows XP Office 07/03
- Follow the same isntructions for Windows 7 and Office 07 but go to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.
- From here you can delete normal.dotm for Office 07 or normal.dot for Office 03.
Tip for success
Try to remember this can affect Outlook as well. Outlook uses Word to edit e-mails so it is important that you recognize this as a possible problem for similar issues with Outlook as well. Most people who use a computer wont understand this, so it is important to keep it in mind.