[August 2007 ]

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Table of Contents

Using the Slide Navigator in MS PowerPoint -A smooth way to jump to different slides.

Open a Web Page from a Toolbar Button -You can have Carol's Corner Office right at your fingertips!

Creating a Rule in MS Outlook - Take control of your e-mail.

Using the Slide Navigator in MS PowerPoint

During a slide show in MS PowerPoint 2003 if you want to jump to another slide in the show, you can use the Slide Navigator.

  1. In Slide Show mode, right-click the mouse button to display a menu of selections.
  2. Select Go To. This will bring a list of all of the slides in the presentation and allow you to select the one that you want to move to.
  3. Click on the slide you want to go to.

Slide Navigator

This is a particularly useful tip when moving to a slide you have added for a Question and Answer session or when re-starting a slide show during a training session.

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Open a Web Page from a Toolbar Button

You can add, remove and otherwise customize your Office application toolbar. Toolbar buttons usually perform some action (e.g. underline text) or execute a macro. They can do a whole lot more than that too, such as open a Web page!

Follow the steps below to learn how to do this:

  1. On your toolbar, click on Tools | Customize to display the Customize dialog box.
  2. Select the Commands tab.

Customize Dialog Box

  1. Click and drag one of the commands to your toolbar. It doesn't matter which one you drag -- it can be any one of them because it is only going to be a placeholder for now. For our purposes, just drag the first one (File | New). When you drop the command on your toolbar, it will change to a button.
  2. Do not close the Customize dialog box.
  3. Right-click on this new button and select Change Button Image. Select a new image for your button.
  4. Right-click on the new button and select Assign Hyperlink, then choose Open.
  5. In the dialog box that appears, enter the Web site URL, such as

http://www.carolscorneroffice.com/

  1. Click on OK.
Now, when you click the new button, your browser will be opened to the home page of Carol's Corner Office!

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Creating a Rule in MS Outlook

Why would you want to create a rule in Outlook? Well, suppose you are the chairman of a committee and everyone has to send you a report that you in turn share with another committee? Wouldn't it be a lot easier when you receive those reports to have a rule set up so that they will automatically be sent to the other committee? You bet it would!

Follow the steps below to create a rule in MS Outlook:

  1. Display the Tools menu and then click the Rules Wizard command. The Rules Wizard dialog box will display.
  2. Click the New button.
  3. Click the type of rule you want to create.
  4. Click the Next button.
  5. Click all of the conditions which should apply to the rule.
  6. Click the Next button.

If necessary, add any further actions. Based on what you have selected, there may be words with blue underlines in the Rules description section. If so, click these words.

  1. Click the Next button.
  2. Click all the exceptions which should apply to the rule.
  3. Click the Next button.
  4. If you do not like Outlook's name, enter a new name and then click the Finish button.
  5. Click the OK button.

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