Tips and Techniques

Expecting an important mail message from a particular sender? Identify it as soon as it comes in by displaying it in a distinctive color. You can make use of Conditional Formatting to easily filter & identify email messages.

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Using Wildcards

Searching is easy when you know what you're looking for. But how about when the word you're seeking is right on the tip of your tongue, but won't make itself known? Use wildcards!

Substitute an asterisk (*) for exactly one word in...

Are keyboard shortcuts too much for you to handle? The bundled Apple utility Grab, located in the Applications > Utilities folder, is another method for capturing screen shots in Mac OS X. Grab is useful if you need to include a cursor or a menu...

An email system with a 20MB size limit rejects your email with a 20MB file attached. Email users are often puzzled by this. When your email is rejected due to its size, it is not the attachment size alone that’s causing the issue. Each message...

The fonts you use in a document determine how that document appears when viewed or printed. If you share your documents with others and they don't have the same fonts on their system, Microsoft Word will substitute your font with another. This...

You can quickly make a spelling correction on a word in Microsoft Word without running spell-check on the entire document. A quick way to correct a misspelled word in Microsoft Word is to right-click on the word that has a red wavy underline. The...

Working with tables in Microsoft Word? As you probably know, you can change the size of a table's rows and columns by dragging its row and column borders in either direction. However, adjusting row and column dimensions to exact measurements can...

You are working on an extremely long Word document and you want to see two different sections of your file side-by-side. You can see two parts of a document at the same time by choosing Split from the Window menu in Microsoft Word then clicking a...

ITG provides its clients with a quick and easy way to recover files and/or folders due to data loss or corruption. A snapshot is a copy of a set of files and directories as they were at a particular point in time, provided that these files and...

One way to pack your email messages is by copying or moving them to a PST file. A PST file, which stands for Personal STore file, contains archived or copies of personal information used by Microsoft email programs such as folders, messages, contact...