Pictures in your DeskNow Email February 9, 2009
Posted by Katrina Gormley in Uncategorized.add a comment
When you receive pictures in your email do they show up in the body of the message or as attachments? If they show up in the body of your message, you may have noticed that they are usually very large and sometimes it is impossible to see the entire picture. If you would prefer to have pictures come to you as attachments, you need to make the following changes in your preferences:
Click on “Preferences” in the upper left hand frame 
(in the list under your inbox)
In the list that appears in the right hand frame, choose “General”
Uncheck the box next to “Preview Image Attachments”
~Happy Computing,
Katrina
Opening MS Word 2007 documents with older versions of Word February 2, 2009
Posted by Katrina Gormley in How To, Useful Stuff.add a comment
If you have recently purchased a new computer with MS Office, or have been sent a document by someone who has, you may have seen some files that look to be Microsoft Office documents, but their file extensions were different from what you are used to. The new Microsoft Office 2007 saves documents with different file extensions — the Word files are most commonly save with the .docx file extension. Older versions of Word (like what we have here at school) won’t open the newer documents unless you load a converter on your computer. The converter can be downloaded for free from Microsoft by visiting this webpage http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
Also remember, you can always save a file as an older version or even in a version compatible with another program such as WordPerfect or MS Works, by changing the “Save As Type” at the bottom of the Save As dialog box.
~Happy Computing,
Katrina
