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Velocity 103
Reviews The Velocity 103 offers a lot of features, but this Windows Mobile smartphone will have a tough time competing because of its unintuitive interface and performance issues.
Tags: Mobile, Smart Phone, Video, HTC Touch, Touch Screen, Velocity 103, Bluetooth 2.1, speakerphone, toolbar, Velocity
Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet
Reviews The Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet strikes the best compromise between an ultraportable tablet and a full-featured notebook.
Prevent users from changing hyperlinks in your Word documents
Techguide While users may not intentionally change the Web hyperlinks in your Word documents, it's easy for them to accidentally change a link simply by following it. Mary Ann Richardson shows how to make your links a bit harder for your users to change.
Add sounds to your Access form events
Techguide Access lets you play a sound for any form event. Find out how to do it in this step-by-step guide.
Tags: Microsoft Office, keyboard shortcut, shortcut menu, Mouse, Microsoft Excel, toolbar, Microsoft Access, dialog box, window, Microsoft Office
Use custom field headers to create more professional Access reports
Techguide Query-based reports give you the opportunity to turn those unfriendly field names into better-looking headers.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., C, Sales, check box, shortcut menu, mailing list, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office
Use Access Office Links tool to convert a report to an Excel worksheet
Techguide Here's a quick and easy trick for getting your Access report data into Excel--organized just the way you want.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Option, Tool, check box, shortcut menu, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word 2007, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
10+ things that are broken in Access 2007
Techguide If you switch to Access 2007, you'll encounter more than just a radical new interface--some things are just plain broken. See what you can hotfix and what you'll have to live with.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Field, Slide, Microsoft Windows Vista, Tool, shortcut menu, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft PowerPoint, printer, toolbar
Use Word's Tabs dialog box to set multiple tabs
Techguide While you can use the ruler to set tabs for your Word document, it may be easier to use the Tabs dialog box, especially if you need to set leader tabs, which you cannot apply with the ruler.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Customize the Word 2007 Ribbon with these quick tips
Techguide If the Word 2007 Ribbon is taking up too much space on your desktop and you’d rather have one toolbar displaying only the most frequently used commands, you can set up Word 2007 to do just that.
Tags: Microsoft Office
Anatomy of Word: A tutorial on creating and formatting tables
Techguide Take advantage of the Table features of Microsoft Word to create more compelling documents.
Tips for resolving MS-DOS Compatibility Mode problems on PCI IDE controllers
Insight A Windows 98/Me computer running in MS-DOS Compatibility Mode uses the old (and slow) real-mode drivers. But finding out what's preventing the protected-mode drivers from loading is time-consuming. This article cuts to the chase.
Use VBA to find hidden Excel sheets
Techguide If you have hidden sheets in Excel, it might be helpful to programmatically manipulate those sheets.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Document, File, Backup, File System, ASCII, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Access
Three Exchange Server disaster recovery tips
Techguide There is a way to recover an Exchange server quickly with minimal headaches. Check out these useful tips.
Configure Windows Server 2003 to act as a router
Techguide Using the Routing And Remote Access Services (RRAS) component, you can configure your Windows Server 2003 system to act as a router. In this Windows Server 2003 tip, Scott Lowe tells you how.
Tags: Servers, Networking, Routing/switching
Disable round robin DNS resolution in Windows Server 2003
Techguide You may be accustomed to striking a balance in your Windows Server 2003 using round robin, but sometimes you might want to concentrate all that load on one IP address. Here's how to disable round robin and free up the other server addresses at the same time.
