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pc support newsletter Systems
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte September 2006
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If you want to move away from the standard word
bullet, select the bulleted list and then select Format, Bullets and Numbering
from the menu. On the Bulleted tab,
click the Customize button. (If the
customized button is grayed out, select a bullet style in the box, then click
the button). There are three options: Font, Character or Picture.
Font: You can change the color, size etc. of your
bullet here, in much the same way you change the size, color of a font.
Character: Allows you to select a symbol from any of
Office’s font sets as a bullet.
Picture: Click the Picture tab to display a variety of
bullets. Select the bullet you want to
use, then click OK until you have exited all dialog boxes.
The next time you select Bullets and Numbering,
your new bullet selection will display as a dialog box choice (without your
having to go through the customization process again).
If you are working on a project that necessitates your
opening a number of Excel files at the same time, you might consider using
Excel’s Workspace feature, which allows
you to open multiple workbooks at once. Click here for
details.
Excel: Using Drop Down
Lists for Data Validation
Data validation
gives you the ability to set “rules” pertaining to data entered on a
worksheet. For example, you might want
to insure that entries for certain cells are confined to those that are on a
drop down list. Click
here for details.
Outlook: Managing Delivery
and Read Receipts
Delivery and Read Receipts are the notices that Outlook sends you whenever an email you send has been delivered to, and read by, the recipient. The option to receive these receipts can be applied to individual emails, or globally, so that you receive a receipt for every email that you send. While you might think this would clutter your Inbox with receipts, the truth is that you can configure Outlook to efficiently manage the way receipts are handled. Click here for details.
Outlook: Sending a Distribution List to Another User
There might be
times when you want to share a distribution list with another user. You can do this by emailing the distribution
list.
- Open your Contacts and click one time
on the distribution list (or contact) that you want to send. To select multiple distribution
lists/contacts, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking.
- Press Ctrl+F
- The distribution list displays in an
email message.
- Complete and send the email message.
All the recipient
has to do is open the email message, then drag the distribution list icon to
his or her Contacts folder.
Internet Explorer:
Eliminating Run Time Errors
This comes up all the time…..when you access a web site, you
receive a “Run Time” error. To correct
this, open Internet Explorer and from the menu, select Tools, Internet
Options. Click the Advanced tab. In the Browsing section of the dialog
box, make sure that Disable Script Debugging is checked, and that
Display a notification about every script error is unchecked. (Note: You may have to repeat this procedure from
time to time. Apparently updates to IE
sometimes cause that setting to revert back to the default.)
Questions or comments? Contact jtfreed@email.uncc.edu