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Communicating Using Technology
Vol. 4 Issue 15 July 26, 2005
Published and Copyright by Dave Paradi
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In this issue:
Announcements
1. PPT - Power On Sequence
2. Outlook - Archive vs. Compress
3. Useful Resource - Create Shortcut Keys
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1. PPT - Power On Sequence
With the advances in laptop design, I thought it did not matter
any more what order you turned on your presentation equipment.
But a recent experience proved me wrong. It used to be that you
needed to turn on the projector before your laptop so that when
the laptop started up, it would be able to recognize that the
projector was connected and set the display properly. But many
laptops now have video systems that recognize a projector no
matter what order the equipment is turned on or connected. But
recently I helped a presenter with a new laptop who could not get
the projector display working properly. It turns out that we had
to shut down everything and it only worked when the projector was
on before the laptop. So the lesson here is that most newer
laptops don't care what order you turn on the equipment, but if
you are having a problem getting things to display properly, try
restarting everything by turning the projector on first.
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2. Outlook - Archive vs. Compress
I recently answered an e-mail from a reader on a topic that we
thought others would want to know about. The reader was
concerned about being able to find an e-mail in Outlook after
using the compress feature (I wrote about compressing your
Outlook folders earlier this year). Here's what I wrote:
"Archiving and compressing are two very different things in
Outlook. Compressing (which I addressed in the newsletter) is
just removing unused space from the outlook personal folder file.
Nothing is changed in the file, just space that is currently
unused (usually because of previous e-mails that were deleted
months ago) is freed up. Archiving is indeed moving older items
to an Archived Items folder. This folder is in the folder list
along with the usual Outlook folder. It does not archive any
items in your Inbox, only sent and deleted e-mails. You can
search this folder by clicking on it in the folder list and then
using the normal search tools. Archiving keeps your main outlook
personal folder file down to a reasonable level." I hope this
helps others who are wondering what the difference is between
compressing and archiving in Outlook.
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3. Useful Resource - Create Shortcut Keys
For those of you who want to create shortcut keys that can
automate many of your daily tasks, there is a utility that I just
found out about that looks very promising. It is called
AutoHotKey and it has great reviews from many people. It allows
you to use some simple programming commands to write a shortcut
or you can use a capture mode that allows you to avoid the
programming. You can check it out at: http://www.autohotkey.com.
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