If you use Microsoft Outlook, I’ve got a great tip for you. The next time you get an email from someone that you want to add to your contacts list, try this. Open up their email and then right-click on their email address. You’ll see a little handydandy menu pop up and one of the choices is to “add to contacts”. Click on that and you’ll see that Outlook creates a new contact item and fills in the name and email address. All you gotta do is save it and …

Do you want the best protection against viruses? Sure, you can and should get anti-virus software. But what I think is even more important is to make sure your software is fully up to date. Luckily there is a really easy way for you to check up on this in Windows. Go to start, programs, and then click on Windows Update. You’ll be sent to a Microsoft Web site that will analyze your computer and let you know what free updates have been released. Now if you are not comfortable …

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The next time you need to use a dictionary, don’t reach for the little fat book on the shelf. If you have a high-speed, always on connection, finding the right word is faster, easier, and only a mouseclick away if you use an online dictionary. I personally use the Merriam-Webster online edition. I love it because it’s faster than the book and will even properly pronounce words for me (very cool). Another thing that’s great about the online dictionary is that it can help spell words …

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If you use Outlook I’ve got a great tip for you. There are probably a few people that you send a lot of email to. This could be friends, family, or co-workers. You can save a lot of time by creating a desktop shortcut that allows you to create a new email and also address it with only a single click. Here’s how to do it. Right-click on your desktop, then click new, then shortcut. When Windows asks you for the location, type …

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If you use Microsoft Office I’ve got a great tip for you. There are a few commands that each of us use in Office over and over again and sometimes those commands take several clicks to get to. One example is adding someone to your Junk senders list in Outlook which takes 3 clicks and if you have to do that often, you end up spending a lot of time. Create a custom toolbar button instead. Just right-click on your toolbar and choose …