Dave Bytes

A Periodic Newsletter for the Members of the Sarasota PC User Group and the World!!

Here's A Printing Tip

Stop Printing that Document

Sometimes you begin to print a document and then change your mind. How do you stop a print job? Because your program simply passes off its printing jobs to Windows, there is no obvious way to cancel printing. It can be done if you're crafty, however. Follow these steps:

Locate the printer icon located on the taskbar at the bottom-right of your screen. (Look near the current-time display.)

This printer icon appears only when Windows is sending something to the printer. Depending on how much you're printing and how fast your printer is, you may not even see it at all. If you don't, you're out of luck and you may as well quit right now and eat some ice cream.

Double-click the little printer icon.
Click the name of your document "job" in the Print Manager's list.
Choose Document-->Cancel Printing.

You may be asked whether you really want to terminate the employee, er, print job. Click OK. If you're using a network printer, you may not be able to cancel the document. Oh well.

Choose Printer-->Close. You are zapped back to your program, ready for more editing action.

Now Entering The Newbie Zone

Fun with Copy & Paste

Before you can cut or copy text, you need to be able to highlight it.
There are several ways to do this.

1. Move your mouse to the beginning of your text, hold down the left mouse button and slowly move the mouse to the end of the text. When the text you want to use is highlighted, release the mouse button.

2. With your mouse, click once at the beginning of your text.
Hold down the "Shift" key on your keyboard, and click once at the end of the text. Everything between the first click and the second will be highlighted.

3. Using the arrow keys move the cursor to the beginning of your text, hold down the shift key while using the arrow keys to move to the end of your text. This method works well for web pages where the text you want to copy is larger than the screen.

4. Now we will copy what we highlighted. When you copy something, you place it in a part of Windows memory called the clipboard.

5. To do this, you first highlight your text, and then click on "Edit" and "Copy". Even though you can't see any changes, you will now have your text on the clipboard.

6. To paste, you simply click where you want the text to go and click "Edit" and "Paste".

Lets say that you want to send just this article in an e-mail to your mother. First, you would highlight the article, then click "Edit" and "Copy". Next, you open a new e-mail and address it to your mom. Now click in the body of the e-mail where you want the article to go, and click "Edit" and "Paste".

Your article is now in the new e-mail

An even easier way to do this, is to first highlight your text, and then using your keyboard, press Ctrl + C.

This is the same as "Edit" and "Copy" and you will now have your text on the clipboard.

To paste, you simply click where you want the text to go and press Ctrl + V.

Not only is it faster and easier to use the keyboard shortcuts, but it works in places where there is no "Edit" menu available.
If you can highlight the text, you can usually copy it.

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Create Folders to Organize Your Mail

A folder for mom, a folder for dad, a folder for the home baking newsletter, a folder for all work-related mail... If you keep your saved AOL emails organized in folders, you'll always find them readily. But first, you need to set up the folders to hold the messages.

To create folders to organize your mail in AOL:

Click Read on the AOL toolbar.

Alternatively, select Mail | Read Mail from the menu.

Go to the Manage Mail tab.

Highlight the folder under which you want to create a new folder.

Make sure the highlighted folder is under Saved on My PC. You cannot create folders on AOL servers.
To create a top-level folder, highlight Saved on My PC.

Click on the Setup Folders button.

Select Create Folder from the menu.

Type the desired name of your new email folder.

Click Save.

Now you can start saving messages to the newly created folder.

AceMoney Lite

AceMoney Lite is a freeware personal finance manager. It has all the features of its big brother except multiple accounts management. As AceMoney, AceMoney Lite helps people organize and manage their personal finances quickly and easily. It supports all the features required for home or even small-business accounting needs:

Track your spending habits and see where the money goes
Generate any report by categories or payors/payees, including pie charts. Now you can see at a glance how much you spent on food last month. Find all your withdrawals and deposits by any parameter.

Create and manage budgets
The program has more than 100 predefined spending categories. Setup budget limits for every category and track the difference between actual and budgeted values.

Track performance of investments
Track 401k, Stock options, Employee Stock Purchase Plans or any other investment activities. You don't need to enter the stock quotes manually: AceMoney will download them from the net!

Do your financial math in multiple currencies
The software supports more than 150 different currencies and automatically downloads their exchange rates from Internet.

Enjoy the convenience of on-line banking
Download and import information from on-line banks in QIF and OFX formats. If you run a small business, export to HTML, Text, or CSV formats to generate statements or perform complex statistical analysis.

Don't miss the next deadline for bills
AceMoney takes control over your bills and shows you when they should be paid.

Double check
Enjoy the security of password protection of every file, scheduled backups and many other features without having any experience in accounting!

Plan debts and mortgage payments
AceMoney provides a loan calculator to plan debt payments and a professional mortgage calculator to estimate future morgage payments if you are planning to purchase real estate.

Do e-business with AceMoney
Are you selling goods on eBay? Are you in a shareware business? Do it with AceMoney! AceMoney automates input of orders coming from PayPal, RegNow, RegSoft, SWReg and Plimus. Read more about this exciting feature here.

On top of that, AceMoney is available in English, Dutch, French, Galego, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Slovak and Turkish! People all over the world use AceMoney for their personal needs.