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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Change the Tab Color of a Worksheet

17 Mar

Tabs representing different worksheets in an Excel 2010 workbook can be colored for organizational purposes.

If you are editing a Microsoft Excel 2010 workbook containing multiple worksheets, you probably use the tabs at the bottom-left of the window to switch between them.

Instead of displaying all tabs in the same color, you might find it useful, especially if you have many tabs, to give them different colors. You might want to organize all worksheets related to a particular year in one color, or change tab colors representing P&L worksheets of particular quarters if the organization was in the red or black. You could also make every tab a different color for variety so you can tell people accounting is not boring….

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File Renamers – Freeware Panda Batch File Renamer for Windows

14 Mar

Panda Batch File Renamer offers a wide variety of rename options, and can show thumbnails of queued photos to help during the rename process.

Panda Batch File Renamer is a freeware (for non-commercial use) file rename utility for Windows. The software offers features standard in most renaming packages including adding, replacing, and deleting text. Additional functions include removing accents, reversing text, and regular expression support. File, image, music, and photo information can be added, allowing for filenames including image dimensions, parent folder names, and song artists, for example.

Files may be added to the rename queue via the menu bar, “Add files” button, or Explorer drag-and-drop. You can choose to rename all files in the queue or only selected files. If after the renaming you realize you made a mistake, the program supports an undo function. You can also choose to undo all or only a few renames, offering extra flexibility….

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Gain a Few Extra Pixels; Disable the Vertical Scroll Bar

01 Mar

Turning off Word 2010’s vertical scroll bar may make it easier to view/edit documents without having to scroll horizontally.

If you have a smaller monitor or zoom past 100% to view and edit your Microsoft Word 2010 documents, you may be forced to scroll horizontally as the entire page width cannot be viewed onscreen.

If you need just a few more pixels to keep from having to scroll through your documents horizontally, how about removing the vertical scroll bar? If you don’t need it to navigate through your documents via the mouse (remember Page Up and Page Down work as well as your cursor keys), hide it by doing the following:…

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iGoogle – Query Multiple Research Sources via iGoogle

11 Feb

The Dictionary gadget for iGoogle lets you query search engines, dictionaries, Wikipedia, and more.

Need to fully research a word or term and tired of having to manually visit multiple dictionaries, search engines, and/or Wikipedia?

The “Dictionary” gadget for iGoogle lets you enter a query and search the following resources, opening results in a new window / tab:…

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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Hide Recent Documents or Show More

08 Feb

Configure Excel 2010 to hide the list of recent documents for privacy, or show more of them.

As with other Office 2010 applications, Microsoft Excel 2010 keeps a list of recent workbooks, allowing you to directly access frequently-edited documents without having to navigate your computer or network drives. If you have workbooks located in a variety of locations, this Recent list may prove very useful.

While Excel 2010 by default displays the last 25 documents, if you work on many workbooks you may want to increase this number up to 50. On the other hand, if you are worried about privacy you may wish to disable this list altogether….

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iGoogle – Your Own Virtual Pet Bat

08 Feb

Feed insects to a flying virtual pet bat on your iGoogle page.

Think you have added every type of available virtual pet to your iGoogle page? If so, check out “Batty”, a virtual pet bat from Gadzi and Bunnyhero Labs.

Click on the sleeping bat to start its flight, then hover over the “More” tab and click on a fly to send it away. Complete with audio (!) and visual effects, the bat will use its sonar to track and chomp on the doomed insect. This gadget can be maximized if desired….

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Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 – Find a Photo, View in Explorer

08 Feb

Need to find the original location on your hard drive of a photo viewed in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011?

If you have Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 monitoring multiple folders for photos, you might need to find a file’s original location via Windows Explorer. This way you can copy (backup) photos to a different location or removable storage, rename a photo’s filename, or perform other file manipulation tasks.

Luckily, finding this information is easy. From the gallery, just right-click a photo and choose “Open file location” as seen in the below screenshot:…

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Microsoft Visio 2010 – Make It Easier to Select Multiple Shapes

08 Feb

When using a selection rectangle in Visio 2010, select objects even if the rectangle does not completely surround them.

When trying to select multiple shapes in a Microsoft Visio 2010 diagram by creating a selection rectangle, you might find the process tricky as Visio requires you to completely surround each shape for it to be added to the selection. This can especially be true if you are editing a diagram on a laptop and using a touchpad / trackpad or other non-mouse pointing device.

By making a simple tweak, you can add objects to the selection by surrounding only part of them with a selection rectangle. While this may cause inadvertent selections in some cases, you might find the ease in selecting a large group of objects to more than make up for that in the long run….

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Windows 7 – Disable Automatic Error / Problem Reporting

02 Feb

Prevent Windows 7 from automatically contacting Microsoft or prompting you to contact Microsoft whenever a software / hardware / operating system error or problem is detected.

Depending on your Windows 7 configuration, whenever a problem or error is detected in software, hardware, or the operating system, a problem report may be sent to Microsoft. This way, if solutions are later available such as an updated hardware driver, you will be notified and possibly provided a download link.

For various reasons including privacy concerns, you may not wish this automatic or prompted sending of information to occur. To disable automatic checking for solutions:…

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Mozilla Firefox – Plugins and Extensions – Go Crazy Tweaking / Configuring Firefox

01 Feb

The “Configuration Mania” extension opens up the ability to configure many previously-hidden Firefox options via a GUI interface.

Are you the type of person that loves configuring and tweaking software, looking for hidden options that modify colors, adjust search result counts, alter timings, and disable unused features? If so, you probably know that in Mozilla Firefox typing about:config allows you to tweak advanced settings. But what if you prefer a GUI-based tool such as the TweakUI PowerToy that was available for previous versions of Windows?

The “Configuration Mania” extension allows you to configure many Firefox settings in a familiar windows-based setting. Adjust Browser, Security, UI, Add-ons, and Debug properties, tweaking options such as the delay before enabling location/URL Bar autocompletion, adjusting how long download alerts should appear, changing the User Agent string reported to websites, and enabling advanced debugging options….

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Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Microsoft Excel 2010 – Change the Tab Color of a Worksheet

File Renamers – Freeware Panda Batch File Renamer for Windows

Microsoft Word 2010 – Gain a Few Extra Pixels; Disable the Vertical Scroll Bar

iGoogle – Query Multiple Research Sources via iGoogle

Microsoft Excel 2010 – Hide Recent Documents or Show More

iGoogle – Your Own Virtual Pet Bat

Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 – Find a Photo, View in Explorer

Microsoft Visio 2010 – Make It Easier to Select Multiple Shapes

Windows 7 – Disable Automatic Error / Problem Reporting

Mozilla Firefox – Plugins and Extensions – Go Crazy Tweaking / Configuring Firefox

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