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Tips on Yellow Stickies
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 Yellow Stickies I use.
Speaking of which, I've mentioned this free program before, but perhaps I should expound on some of its amazing features.
Interesting Features of Yellow Stickies...
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.
Click on Set Title and give the Stickie a name that will appear on the white bar.
By clicking on Opacity and choosing a percentage you can make 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.
Click on Save As to save the Stickie as a .TXT, .RTF, or an .STI file.
Right-click a highlighted word or phrase to change fonts and/or font styles.
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.)
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.
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 back on multiple times.
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In Case You Are Unfamiliar
with Yellow Stickies...
The "Yellow Stickie Note" program is the PC version of those stickies we use for scribbling notes, which we then paste on the fridge or or other surface for later referral. The program is easy to use, and can be freely downloaded from
This Page.
Here's how it's done: Let's say you're on the phone and are given an address you want to jot down. Click the "Stickies" icon on your Taskbar and type the info into the blank note that appears. If you find some important text online, highlight it and do Ctrl+C to COPY it. Then use Ctrl+V to PASTE the text onto a Stickie. All this can normally be done in less time than it takes to find a pencil and paper.
The note can be moved to anywhere on the your screen, and will stay there even when you turn off or reboot your computer. In fact, I rarely do "Save As" on Stickies, since they are usually for temporary storage of notes that will soon be deleted or, perhaps, copied into a more permanent file.
Yes, you could launch your word processor and type or paste notes into a blank page — but you can create several Stickies in less time than it takes for MSWord or WordPerfect to open.
When a blank Stickie first appears, it is small, but it expands as data is typed or pasted into it. Furthermore, you can grab an edge and widen a Stickie to suit yourself. As for relocating a Stickie, you can move it beyond any edge of your Desktop so that just part of it shows. Also, multiple Stickies can be overlapped and rearranged as needed.
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