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• Using AutoCorrect
• How to Create Word Processing Shortcuts • On-the-Fly Spelling Corrections •Foreign Language Words & Phrases •Web Pages Too Wide for Printer "AutoCorrect" Can Be Very Useful Mary Gropp wrote to ask if there is a keyboard shortcut for c/o (i.e.: "in care of"). Well, there are no ready-made shortcuts, but in Microsoft Word one can be easily created by using AutoCorrect. Here's how: Open a Word document and type: c/o. Now mouse-select the phrase and click Tools>AutoCorrect Options. A "Replace-With" dialog box will appear with c/o displayed in the With field. Now type the letter c (or any character you prefer that is not a regular word, such as I or a) into the Replace field. Finally, click ADD. Henceforth, typing the code (c) followed by a blank space, will generate the phrase: c/o. On-the-Fly Spelling Corrections AutoCorrect’s original purpose was to fix common misspellings as you type, such as replacing recieve with receive. You can also create your own list — I’ve always had trouble spelling Wednesday, so now I just type wedn, which automatically becomes the correctly spelled word. The tool is often used to replace a short string of characters (such as usa) with a long phrase (such as United States of America). WordPerfect users have similar options under Tools>QuickCorrect. Using AutoCorrect with Foreign Language Words & Phrases I also use the tool to insert frequently-used Spanish phrases into a document. For instance, when I type manana or El Nino they instantly become mañana and El Niño. Likewise Mexico becomes México and corazon becomes corazón. Web Pages Too Wide for Screen and/or Printer Edwin Ash wrote to ask if there is a "Shrink to Fit" command he can use on Web pages that are too wide for his monitor, as well as for his printer. Edwin said he has to constantly scroll left and right to view a page, and his printer cuts off much of a page’s right side. Well, if nearly everything appears too wide on one’s monitor, the most likely culprit is its screen resolution. Windows XP users can right-click their Desktop and choose Properties>Settings to find an adjustable knob marked Screen Resolution. Sliding the knob to the right increases the resolution, which makes text and images smaller so that more information can fit on the monitor. Sliding it to the left does the opposite. Vista users can find these options by right-clicking their Desktop and choosing Personalize>Display Settings. Lower resolutions (such as 640x480) are often preferred by persons with vision limitations. Well, changing these settings works well on CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors, but LCD (liquid crystal display) flat screens are designed to use a specific resolution; and changing it can reduce the sharpness of text and images. (One way to resolve the issue, of course, is to buy a larger monitor.) As for viewing Web pages, modern browsers offer easy ways to make them fit comfortably on a screen. Internet Explorer 7 and 8 users can click the down arrow next to 100% in the lower-right of their screen and choose percentages from 50% to 400%. Mozilla Firefox users can click on View>Zoom for sizing options and Google Chrome users can click the "page" icon in the upper-right corner of their screen to find "zoom" options. As for printing, there is no standard "width" for Web pages. However, choosing landscape rather than portrait printing usually makes them fit. In Internet Explorer 8 click on File>Print>Preferences, and choose Landscape. Other browsers have similar options. Personally, we've never found a reason print out a whole Web page — we find it more practical to print out just the story we are interested in by copying and pasting it into an email message or onto a word-processing page. As for images, we just copy and paste them into Irfanview and print them from within that program. Printing an entire Web page can use up lots of expensive colored ink. |