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Pat Frawley called to say he received an e-mail with an attachment that was said to be a PowerPoint presentation. However, the file had no 3-letter extension appended to its name, and when Pat double-clicked it an error message read, "This file has no program associated with it."
So I told Pat to right-click the file icon and choose Save As, which copied the file to his My Documents folder. Within this folder I said to right-click the file's name, choose Rename, and add the extension PPS (PowerPoint Show) to it, which then allowed the presentation to be opened and played normally.
Printing Just Part of a Document
Al Roller called to say he had prepared a spreadsheet and wanted to print out just the bottom half, but didn't know how to do it. Well, Al could have copied and pasted the bottom half to a new worksheet and printed it from there. However, I told him to mouse-select the portion he wanted to print and to click on File>Print. This opened a dialog box with an option that read "Print Selection Only."
By the way, this procedure works for printing a selected portion of just about any kind of document. It also presents options such as how many copies are to be printed and in which order they will come out, along with choosing the quality of printing. Clicking the Printer icon in a toolbar displays no such choices.
Outlook Express Data to Outlook
Outlook Express user Micki Cameron wrote that she wanted to switch to Outlook and asked if there is a way to migrate all her Outlook Express data to Outlook. Well, in Outlook Express, clicking on File>Export>Messages>Outlook will copy the messages to Micki's chosen program. Clicking on File>Export>Address Book>Microsoft Exchange Personal Address Book will do likewise with Micki's addresses or will display this message: "Please run Microsoft Office Outlook and set it as the default mail client."
Irfanview Is Also a Media Player
Larry Patten asked if Irfanview (my favorite program for cropping and resizing images) supports picture titles and music. Yes, strangely enough, Irfanview does function as a media player. Click Options>Set File Associations and check off the types of media files you want it to play. Regarding titles, you can add text to an image by clicking Edit>Insert Text into Selection.
Features of Yahoo Web-based Email
John Walters says he has a Yahoo Web email account that is supposed to let one log on for two weeks without having to type in a password. However, he has to type in his password with each sign-in. Well, the 2-week thing works fine as long as one does not delete cookies via the Control Panel.
Yahoo Mail has some interesting new features — unlimited email storage (limited to two accounts) and two new domain names for email addresses: Ymail and Rocketmail. If you like Yahoo Mail and couldn't get the name you wanted with "@yahoo.com" try again with "@ymail.com" or "@rocketmail.com."
In any case, the "two-week no password needed" thing is what keeps me from using Yahoo Mail. None of my other multiple email servers ever make me type in my password.
Not Using Your Password
Having one's email set up so that it can be accessed without a password is not for everyone, of course. Some of us have the advantage of being the only ones with access to our own computers. If the computer I'm using were located in an environment where other people had access to it I would naturally use passwords on everything I considered a security risk.
Have You Seen Microsoft's Mojave "Experiment?"
To me it's an insult to the word "experiment." There is nothing experimental about it. It's a cleverly contrived promotion to convince people who have not tried Vista — but who have heard uncomplimentary things about it — that it's really quite a wonderful and user-friendly program.
I think it's pretty sad that Microsoft has to resort to a devious ploy that doesn't allow the interviewees to touch the computers, but just has them watch while an experienced company spokesperson does all the keyboarding and mousing. I don't remember Microsoft doing anything like this when they replaced Windows 3.11 with Windows 95, or any other subsequent upgrades of Windows.
And am I the only one who finds it strange that Microsoft has to try so hard to convince Vista users that they should like something they don't like? (I've only heard from one Vista user so far who says he likes the program.)
I'm guessing that Vista is going to end up being one of the best things that ever happened to Macintosh.
