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HOWTO: Identifying and Changing Default File Type / Program Associations

If you need to identify which program opens a particular file type, you can do that, and a lot more, using the Folder Options functions in Windows Explorer.
To find Folder Options, open Windows Explorer (right-click on Start, select Explore). Then, on its menu bar, select Tools and then Folder Options…

At this point, we need to [...]

HOWTO: Using Excel - How To Use Absolute Addressing

Microsoft Excel, like most spreadsheets, has a really convenient feature. When you copy any given cell into another cell, Excel will automatically adjust the formula references to other cells so refer to cells in the same relative position.
First, a look at Relative Addressing
In the example below, I copied thte formula in cell C2 [...]

Outlook Express Links Don’t Work

I received an interesting question from subscriber Maria. She has been using Firefox, as many people do, including me. In this case, she had just upgraded her Internet Explorer to IE7 and was having problems with Outlook Express.
Maria wrote:
Terry, I currently have Fire Fox and Internet Explorer on my computer. I just added the [...]

Outlook Express Links Don’t Work

I received an interesting question from subscriber Maria. She has been using Firefox, as many people do, including me. In this case, she had just upgraded her Internet Explorer to IE7 and was having problems with Outlook Express.
Maria wrote:

Terry, I currently have Fire Fox and Internet Explorer on my computer. I just added the Internet [...]

Inserting Special Characters into Documents

Recently, subscriber Sandra Day wrote to ask me about a problem she was having. She knew one way to solve it — Word’s Insert Symbol dialog box, but that’s a pretty clumsy way. Here’s what she wanted to do:
Hi Terry! I have tried repeatedly to learn how to use a shortcut to insert a [...]