Two Questions

[Scayde]

I am not sure if this qualifies for a tech problem. but you guys know more about PCs than any one I know, so here goes.

I have two unrelated questions that have been diving me crazy.
The first one has to do with keyboard commands. The second has to do with Outlook.

1.Keyboard Commands: Is there a place where I can find the keyboard commands to take the place of edit options.....such as, ok, I know that ctrl + B and I get bold letters, but how do I get them unbold. I think ctrl + U is underline?, but I don't know how to turn it off. what about italics, or insert. I know how to select all, and copy and paste now, and I know ctrl + p is print, but I would like to learn them all, so I do not have to go back and forth to my toolbar. Is there a resource I can link to?

2. Outlook:.....I have never been able to set up Outlook. This may be more of a rant..but I would love to be able to use it....I have work and home and personal accounts I would like to get outlook to track and organize for me, so I did not have to log onto each one individually .....Or am I misunderstanding what it can do?

If anyone has some tips, I would be most grateful

And if not, *HUG*s anyway for listening to me rant

[Mr Flibble]

I've seen a few sites that list some keyboard commands, but nothing comprehensive yet.

The ones you're probably interested in are:

Cut - CTRL+X
Copy - CTRL+C
Paste - CTRL+V
Print - CTRL+P
Open a file - CTRL+O
Save a file - CTRL+S

In basically all MS programs (Word, Excel etc) these commands have the following effect:

Bold - CTRL+B
Underline - CTRL+U
Italics - CTRL+I

The same command a second time will deactivate the appropriate function. If I run across a full list I'll post it for you.

Outlook is quite capable of checking multiple email accounts, and even storing the messages from each one seperately. When you first start outlook it will ask you to enter in your email details for only one account, but on the tools menu, select 'services' and you can add a second, third, fourth, or ten-thousandth email account.

As for keeping the messages seperate, you will need to create folders in the inbox for each one and create a message rule (also found on the tools menu) to check incoming messages and move them to the appropriate folder depending on which account the were recieved by. Message rules can also be created for individual email addresses recieved, so you can add all your friends to one rule and have messages from them go into one folder, and similar rules for work, bills etc...

Unfortunately I can't give you the exact instructions to do this, as I'm using an MSDN beta copy of Office 2003, and outlook has changed heaps.




edit - try this site for a list of keyboard commands.

[Scayde]

@Flibbs:...Thank you soooooooo much.....*Great Big HUG*

You are my PC Guru.

I will try to work more with the help file for Outlook.....it is all so confusing.......but I think it will be worth it if I can figure it all out

[Mr Flibble]

Originally posted by Scayde
@Flibbs:...Thank you soooooooo much.....*Great Big HUG*

You are my PC Guru.

I will try to work more with the help file for Outlook.....it is all so confusing.......but I think it will be worth it if I can figure it all out

Not that it's a very helpful help system, but it might help

One other hint with outlook 98 or 2000 - it's easiest to set up if you've got it set in 'corporate mode'. The easiest way to check if this is set is you will have a 'services' option on the tools menu. If not, on the tools menu click on 'options' and go to the mail format tab (I think) and click on 'reconfigure email format'. At least I think that's what it was called This will let you change between internet only and corporate modes. The big advantage of corporate mode is you can set up additional services (namely other accounts) much more easily and can specify the location of .pst files.

Hope this helps.

[josh]

For the keyboard shortcuts, if you're using MS Word, try:

Tools -> Customise...

and click on the Keyboard button. It should have a list of all the shortcuts you can do with the keyboard and gives you the ability to come up with your own.

[Scayde]

Originally posted by josh
For the keyboard shortcuts, if you're using MS Word, try:

Tools -> Customise...

and click on the Keyboard button. It should have a list of all the shortcuts you can do with the keyboard and gives you the ability to come up with your own.

Thanks Josh !!!

I had no idea this function was even here

Cool !!!

*HUG*