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Tips on Yellow Stickies
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Microsoft Office 2007
Sue Coffin asked if I'd advise buying Microsoft Office 2007. She tried the 60-day trial version (from Microsoft.com) to open a particular email attachment, but was uncertain about buying the program. Well, unless someone has a very compelling reason to use Office 2007, I would advise getting Office 2003, which Amazon.com currently lists as available. I've had Office 2007 for several months and use it only to help answer readers' questions about it. I use my old Office 2000 for routine work.
By the way, Sue didn't need Office 2007 to open the attachment. Several alternative methods are explained on my site.
Scott Adams called to ask why the Yellow Stickies program I recommend wouldn't install on his new 64-bit Vista PC. Well, that's one of the downsides of buying a 64-bit machine – there is currently very little software that runs on them.
However, Vista comes with a Stickies program of its own – but it's a whole different animal. It's designed to accept "handwritten" notes, drawn with a mouse or a stylus on a tablet-like screen. It also accepts voice-generated notes, which it converts to visible text. You cannot type messages, however, as you can on the Stickies I use.
Speaking of which, I've mentioned this free program before, but perhaps I should expound on some of its amazing features.
Although they're generically called Yellow Stickies, the background can be changed by right-clicking the top white bar, choosing Set Color, and clicking on your choice of numerous shades.
Clicking on Opacity and choosing a percentage makes overlapping notes show through, according to the degree of transparency chosen.
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More Yellow Stickie Features...
- Click on Alarm to set a time for your computer to make an audible sound.
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Click on Set Title and give the Stickie a name that will appear on the white bar.
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Click on Save As to save the Stickie as a .TXT, .RTF, or an .STI file.
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Right-click a highlighted word or phrase to change fonts and/or font styles.
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Right-click a highlighted phrase to change it to all upper-case, lower-case, title-case, or sentence-case. (MSWord offers similar options by pressing Shift+F3 with a phrase selected.)
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Right-click inside any paragraph and click Paragraph to choose left, right, or center alignment. Right-click into selected multiple paragraphs to add bullets or numbering.
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If you would like to do an Internet search of a highlighted word or phrase, right-click it and choose from among the search engines that will be listed. (I like Google.)
Probably the best feature of Stickies is that they can be instantly created with the click of an icon, typed into, and moved to any location on your Desktop. Their size is just large enough to hold the text typed into them, although they can be easily enlarged and/or reshaped.
Probably their most unusual feature is that Stickies do NOT have to be saved. Once created, they remain intact until deleted with a click of the upper-right X, even if your PC is turned off and on multiple times.
© - Donald Ray Edrington - All Rights Reserved
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