Saturday, January 14, 2006

Turn off system beeps

  1. Start Regedit. If you are unfamiliar with regedit please refer to our FAQ on how to get started.
  2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound
  3. Once there, locate Beep on the list on the right.
  4. Right click on it and select Modify
  5. Change the value equal to no
  6. Reboot your computer and the beeps will be gone!

Friday, January 13, 2006

Firefox Extensions

Aardvark
AdBlock
ColorZilla
FlashBlock
GooglePreview
No Script
PDF Download
Web Developer (Toolbar)
Yahoo Mail Preview

Paste Special macro in Word

Control formatting of pasted text

When you paste text that you copied from most other applications into Word, the text retains the font size and formatting it had in the original application. To avoid this in Word 2000 and earlier, you had to paste the text by choosing Edit | Paste Special and then selecting Unformatted Text. Word 2002 has a paste pop-up that makes it even easier to paste unformatted text.

You can create a macro to perform this action for you. Start by creating a macro with a name like PasteUnformatted, which records the steps you just performed. You must then edit the macro by hand, because Word's macro recorder does not correctly record your choice of Unformatted Text. In the macro editor, replace the line Selection .PasteAndFormat (wdPasteDefault) with Selection.PasteSpecial DataType:=wdPasteText, Link:=False.

Enabling an Ethernet Network Connection

To enable an Ethernet/LAN connection:

Start > Control Panel > Network Connections > Right click
on Local Area connection > Disable > Right click on it again > Enable


Use this when switching locations (ie: office to home) and the connection should be online
within seconds of re-enabling it.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Deleting pages from a PDF in Acrobat

To delete a page in a PDF go to:
Document > Pages > Delete

Deleting Noncontiguous Pages

  1. Open the PDF file

  2. In the Navigation pane, select the Pages tab

  3. Select the first page to be deleted

  4. Press and hold [Ctrl]

  5. Select the other page(s) to be deleted

  6. From the Document menu, select Pages » Delete
    The Delete Pages dialog box appears.
    NOTE: The Selected option will be designated.

  7. Click OK
    The Adobe Acrobat confirmation box appears.

  8. To delete the pages, click OK