This weeks question comes through email from KM of East Campus. KM writes:
Hi Holly,
I have a question. In my address book I have two “contacts” and I am wondering how I can merge them? Any suggestions?
Yes, KM it is actually quite easy to merge two contacts into one.
The attached video shows you how but the steps are very simple.
Select both contacts by checking in the box on the left. Go to the More but and select Merge Contacts.
To change your Inbox preference go to the Options Gear –> Select Mail Settings –> Inbox (3rd from right)
When you pick a style you have options such as the number of email to display in the initial window.
The video below demonstrates the above information and how to set up you can potentially set up your Gmail Inbox.
Google is known for it’s searching capability and GMail is no exception. However, if you are dealing with hundreds of emails you can still get lots of results from a simple word search. Utilizing Advanced Search will give you more control over the results. This video shows you the basics of using Advanced Search.
Enjoy!
Have you ever been typing a Word document and the sentence breaks in the wrong place for example Dr. Jones breaks between Dr. and Jones and that looks bad. To keep Dr. and Jones together highlight the space between Dr. and Jones and press Shift+CTRL+ the space bar.
You could probably guess after today’s class that my favorite of the three is Facebook. I guess because I have been able to reconnect with some old friends, and have made some new ones. I do enjoy blogging, though I have not be very consistent with it. MySpace, it’s ok, but I don’t have enough hours in my day for that one. I actually will from time to time copy a blog from one of the other sites to it.
Today we talked about several websites. I do encourage you, if you only have apu.edu for email invest in another one then let your friends know that anything of a personal, non-work nature should go to that account. If you already have an account start using it!
Some good FREE ones are: Gmail – www.gmail.com Yahoo – www.yahoo.com and Hotmail. I believe Microsoft is not allowing new Hotmail accounts, the are not “live.com” email accounts. Those are just a few of the free ones out there. Google’s Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail seem to be the most used and at least Gmail and Yahoo do a good job of filtering SPAM. I have never used Hotmail so I can’t speak to them.
Next we talked about blogging. One of the things I need to commit to is the training blog. I hope you’ll spend a few minutes looking back at past posts. I was trying to post responses to questions I receive. Then I can go back and copy/paste when someone else ask the same question. Today I highlighted www.blogger.com again there are others out there. Another popular one is www.xanga.com. I like blogger.com simply because its free and it’s tied to my Google account. Basic xanga.com is free but they do have a premium service that has some pretty nice features.
We then visited, www.myspace.com and www.facebook.com
I hope you will bookmark this page and visit it often. I will try to add new things at least on a weekly basis. Likewise, if you create a blog, please send me the link and I’ll check it out.
Don’t be afraid to explore. Ask questions, that is what I’m here for, I only ask that you be gentle when you point out my grammar or other writing errors. 
Blessings to you all, and thanks again for helping me have a Fun Friday!
In the Tuesday’s Vista/Office 2007 class I mentioned Blogs and RSS and how Outlook 2007 allows for RSS feeds. I didn’t spend a lot of time talking about them. However, one the participants, Barbara Hayes, sent me a couple of YouTube links that do a great job explaining what Blogs are and what RSS does.
So a big THANK YOU to Barbara for sharing these.
It is recommended you watch them in order to they make the most sense to you!
Blessings,
Holly
This question comes from JW in behalf of KB. The question is:
Do you know how to email a powerpoint in a format that it cannot be manipulated? I want to do this so that I can send it to X.
You want to save your PowerPoint as a PowerPoint Show. You will first open the PowerPoint then go to File Save As… Depending on the version of PowerPoint you have it will look something like this:
This question comes from D.C.
I want to extend the duration of time that the computer goes into “sleep” mode…..and you have to log in….AGAIN!
How do I do that on the new Windows vista?
Fortunately, it really hasn’t change, just terminology. Right mouse button click on your desktop and choose Personalize.
You will then want to select Screen Saver.
Set the time length to whatever you want it to be. The default setting is 10 minutes.
Press OK
Then Close the dialog box.
One thing you will notice is that My Computer has been replaced with Computer. When you click on Computer you will notice something else. NO drive Letters! Windows Vista does not show drive letter identifiers when you are viewing Computer. You want to look for your APU NetID (username), that is what you use to refer to as your L: drive. Likewise, the M: drive is now referenced as your department or group name. All of your information is still there and available to you it is just referenced a little different.
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