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• Playing the Songs on Don's Music Pages • Establishing a Default Email Program • Embed Fonts in a Document • Copy a Font to Another PC • Create a Default MSWorks Word Processor Page Playing the Songs on this site's Music Pages: We recently added a new page to this site featuring songs by the Beach Boys and the Everly Brothers. Some of the songs are in the WMA (Windows Media Audio) format and some of them have the extension MID. The MID songs are actually MP3s, and you can manually change the extension after downloading a song. However, if you are using Windows Media Player to play the songs there is no reason to change anything. Windows Media Player comes with all versions of Windows and is the program we always use to play all our music and video files. The latest version (WMP 11) can be freely downloaded from Microsoft.com. If you don't see your favorite Beach Boys or Everly Brothers song on the page, send us an email – we may be able to add it to the page. Establishing a Default Email Program Nash Williams asked us to explain how to establish one's default email program. OK, Vista users can click on Start>Default Programs to find options for setting their default email program, browser, media player, and IM (instant messaging) program. Windows XP users can find these options under Start>Set Program Access & Defaults. Embed Fonts in a Document A reader wrote that he's creating a Microsoft Publisher file on computers in three different locations, but that they don't all have the fonts he wants to use. Yes, when a PC doesn't have an alphabet designated in a file it substitutes a "default" font, usually Times New Roman. You can copy the needed fonts from one PC to another, but the problem will still exist if he sends the file to someone whose computer doesn't have them. Well, Publisher, along with many other programs, allows fonts to be embedded directly into a file. Click the Help button in a program's tool bar and type "embed fonts" into the Search box for instructions. Unless you have a compelling need to use a special font in a document it's usually best to stick to a few that are found on literally all computers, such as: Arial, Verdana, Georgia, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, & Times New Roman. Copying a Font to Another PC If you want to email a particular font to another computer you can drag it from the C:\Windows\Fonts folder onto your Desktop, right-click it, and choose Send To>Mail Recipient, whereupon it can be sent as an attachment that can be downloaded and dragged into the Fonts folder on the recipient PC.
Alternatively, you can drag the font onto a USB flash drive that can then be plugged into the other computer. Default MSWorks Word Processing Page Robert Willard wrote that he can't find a way to establish any default settings in the Microsoft Works word processing program that came with his new computer, as he was previously able to do with Microsoft Word on an older machine. Right, Word users can choose, say, a default font by clicking on Format>Font, making their choice, and finish by clicking the "Default" button. Works users have no such options. However, there is a work-around: Bring up a blank Works word processing page and type a simple phrase into it, such as, say, "Works Template 1." Then highlight the phrase and choose the font, size, and type you want as a default. Finally, make any other desired changes, such as the margin settings. Now use File>Save As to save the document with a file name of your choosing. "Works Template 1." could also be used here. This file will normally go to your "Documents" or "My Documents" folder. Now go to that folder, right-click the document's name, and click on Send To>Desktop (create shortcut). Henceforth, when you want to create a new Works document, double-click this Desktop Shortcut. As soon as the "template" appears delete its phrase and do File>Save As to give the new document a new name. This will leave the "template" intact for creating future documents. |