In this issue:
- Automatic dates in MS-Word
- Setting dates to 4 digits in Windows
- Don't touch that mouse, command prompt tips
- More fonts to download
- Airport security does damage film
- Seen on the Internet
ENTERING DATES AUTOMATICALLY IN MS-WORD
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Ok, nearly every document you type has probably got a date
in it, so why not get Word to do it for you? Here's how.
Step 1: Select Insert->Field->Date and Time. There are
four date types available: DATE, CREATEDATE and PRINTDATE.
DATE - means the current date - whenever the field is
updated.
CREATEDATE - often the more useful, the date the document
was created. Never changes once set.
SAVEDATE - the date the document was last saved.
PRINTDATE - the date the document was last printed (it is
updated as it prints)
Typically, you don't want DATE, since that means whenever
you edit the document the DATE will change. However there
are some instances where that is exactly what you want.
Usually though you would go for CREATEDATE, that is the date
the document was created, and from then it never changes.
You can then click on the options button to set the date
format you want. These range from 21/03/99 to Saturday, 21
March 1999. Choose whatever is suitable for your company
standards.
The one format you can't set, which I would dearly love, is
the old fashioned English style of the 21st, 22nd etc.
Bizarre considering that Word automatically formats the
suffix. Unless someone knows better in which case I want to
know!
One final thought on dates, in this increasingly
international world I would like to advise using short forms
for dates, to an englishman 01/03/99 is 1st March, to an
American it is the 3rd of January. Darn confusing, so, to
quote from Alice "Say what you mean and mean what you say".
CHANGING WINDOWS DATE FORMATS TO 4 DIGITS
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Of course with the Year 2000 many of you now
want to switch to four digit dates for some clarity.
Here's how:
1) Select the Control Panel
2) Select the Regional icon
3) Select the Date tab
4) Select "M/d/yyyy" and click on Apply, then OK
That sets the short date format to four digits.
DON'T TOUCH THAT MOUSE
An occasional series of keyboard shortcuts.
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Here are some useful commands for editing lines while in
"Command Prompt" for NT.
Firstly, you can press the up and down arrow keys to scroll
through your commands. But also:
F2 x Searches for a character in the previous command
and enters the line to that character
F3 Recalls the last command
F7 Displays your command history, you can then select
the command to enter
F8 Moves backwards through the command list
F9 Lets you enter a command by its history number as
given by F7
Incidentally, these are the same commands as the old DOSKEY
software.
I know some folks just can't get enough, for something a
little bit different you might want to try:
http://www.fontsnthings.com/
Absolutely no relationship to computers at all, but did you know your
camera film could be damaged by airport security systems?
Amongst professional photographers this has been an issue brewing for
some time. New x-ray baggage screening equipment is much more powerful
than older systems, and of course x-rays can "fog" films. The fogging
is just what it sounds like, a grey haze over the image.
A new examination of this issue with the British Photographer's
Association and British Airports Authority has conclusively shown that
all film types can be "severely degraded" by hold baggage inspection
systems.
Equally, it has shown that films can go through hand baggage systems
without effect. So, whether it is important professional photographs or
just your holiday snaps, if you want to keep them clear, take them in
your hand luggage (and don't forget the film in the camera too).
> Subject: Re: my artwork
> From: Dxxx Gxxx
> Newsgroups: comp.graphics.apps.paint-shop-pro
>
> Frank,
> Your page is lovely, I especially like the background.
> I'd like to go to alta-vista and have the text translated,
> but what language do ppl speak in Denmark?...it looks like
> Norwegian, but I'm sure it isn't...
> Oh to be bilingual
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