Tips And Tricks for use with Microsoft Windows 95

1. Clicking on ALT-Enter (or pressing ALT and double clicking) brings up the 
properties information in many parts of the win95 environment. From the start 
menu, for example, ALT-Enter brings up taskbar properties. Pressing ALT-Enter
when you have the My Computer Icon selected gives you the same dialogue box 
that you see if you double click the system icon in the Control Panels Folder. 
If you are curious about the status of your hardware, you can examine the 
available interrupt requests (IRQs) and othre hardware settings here.

2. If, from the File menu in the win95 WordPad application, you select the 
Save As menu option, you will be presented with a list of files and folders.
you can then click the right mouse button within the file list area and use 
the NEW option to create a fresh folder into which the current documentation 
can be saved. 

3. If your prefer using your keyboard instead of your mouse, you may be 
interested to note that you can use the keyboard to gain access to some right
mouse button options, such as those available on the Start button. to do this, 
first highlight the start button by pressing Ctrl-Esc and then pressing Esc 
from anywhere in win95. Then press Shift-F10 and you will be presented with 
the rightmouse button menu for the Start button. You will see three more 
options: Open, Explore and Find. The Open option surprises many people, it 
makes it very easyto edit the contents of your Start menu. For details on how
to do this, look up "Open" in help and then select the section entitled 
"Adding a new submenu to the Programs Menu."

4. the Windows explorer in win95 is roughly analogous to file Manager in Win 
3.x. Using the Options command on the View menu, some users prefer to select 
the Show All Files option and clear the hide MS-DOS Extensions for File Types
That Are Registered option in order to be able to easily identify filenames
that would otherwise be completely or partially hidden, such as CONFIG.SYS 
(completely hidden) and AUTOEXEC.BAT (.BAT is hidden). This is particularly 
handy if you need to sort your files by document type and need to see the
file extensions attached to the registered file types.

5. Find is a command that has a few subtleties that aren't immmediately 
obvious. The most important of these is the fact that the Find command offers 
the option of searching for actual text within a document. To do this, click 
the Advanced tab in the Find box and then type the text that you know is 
contained within the document. You can specify a document type (for example, 
Microsoft Word) and either a minimum or maximum expected file size -- as well 
file creation date--to narrow down the search.

6. Although it provides a good opportunity for sober second thought, you don't
have to use the Recycle Bin when you delete files. If you want to blast your 
files directly out of existance just select the files you want to delete, hold 
down the Shift key, and press the Del key. Unless disables win95 will still 
give you a warning before deleting the file. You can also set this as the 
default using the Recycling Bin Properties.

7. If you did not take the time to make an Emergency Startup Disk when you 
loaded win95, you can do it now. To make a startup disk, just select the Add/
Remove Programs option from the Control Panel and click the Startup Disk tab.

8. Windows 95 has a wonderful new feature called AutoPlay which automatically
plays many CD-ROM titles. But you may not want a CD to run immediately -- 
particularly an audio CD -- and may wish to insert it in the CD-ROM drive and 
choose your own time to run it. To turn off the AutoRun option as the default 
for handling audio CDs, open your My Computer folder and select View, then
Options, and then File Types. Select AudioCD, click Edit, and select Play in 
the Action list box. Finally, select Set Default to toggle Not Play as the
default setting. To double-check: If the word Play is shown in bold, then the 
CD will play on insertion. If not, then it won't play immediately.

9. If you use the Run command, (accessed from the start menu) you'll enjoy the 
command history that remembers the last command you typed and lets you view a
list of recently run programs. You can simply select the listed command line 
and get win95 to execute it without having to remember what you have 
previously typed.

Microsoft Windows 95 Still does MS-DOS:

        One of the est kept secrets of win95 is the extensive set of 
facilities it adds to work carried out from the MS-DOS prompt. From the 
program folder on the Start button, you can access the MS-DOS Prompt directly
to issue traditional MS-DOS commands and run any MS-DOS-based applications
you may have.
        You do not, however, have to use the command prompt to start your
MS-DOS-based applications. Use the Run command form the Win95 Start button to 
either type the name of the application you wish to run or use the Browse
option to select the name of the application form your hard disk's directory.
        Meanwhile, if you are doing some work at the win95 MS-DOS prompt, you
will find there are many new features provided to support you better. For
example, directory management form the command prompt in win95 incorporates
the full benefit of long filenames. The DIR command in MS-DOS now shows both 
the standard short filenames as well as the long filenames of win95. 
Abbreviated short filenames are automatically assigned to each win95-based 
long filename.
        The win95-based user will always see the long filename of the 
document. But when a win95-based long filename document s accessed via win 3.1
or a MS-DOS-based application, only the short filename will be shown. If users 
know that a document is called A_DOCU-1.TXT when access from MS-DOS and goes
by the name "A document with a long filename" when accessed form win95, then 
sharing that document will be alot easier.
        You can further simply access, cut, copy, and paste operations on the
new win95 toolbar. This makes it far easier to integrate text or graphics
from MS-DOS-based applications with your win95-based applications.
        The MS-DOS functions in win95 are so smoothly integrated with the rest
of the operating system, you can actually load a windows-based application by 
typing the new Start command followed by the application's name.
        If you have Microsoft Office for win95, for example, simple type
START WINWORD fom the command prompt to launch Word in its own window.        
        Also useful is the ability to open individual files form the command
prompt. Simply typing START and the name of a file you want to open will 
launch the application associated with it. Type START/? will show all of the 
options available for this command.
        Be sure, however, that either you have a PATH statement in your 
AUTOEXEC.BAT file that lets you acces the directory containing these files or 
that you enter the directory containing the files using the Change Directory
command.

Pricing On the NEW Microsoft Network Available thogh Windows 95:

Charter Member Annual Plan (Offer limited to the first 500,000 members):
-$39.99 per year
-includes 3 hours of usage per month; each additional hour is $2.50
Annual Plan:
-$49.99 per year
-includes 3 hours of usage per month; each additional hour is $2.50
Frequent User Monthly Plan:
-$19.99 per month
-includes 20 hours of usage per month; each additional hour is $2.00
Standard Monthly Plan:
-$4.95 per month
-includes 3 hours of usage per month; each additional hour is $2.50

Personally I think this is a RIP-OFF, and another note: these prices are for
US customers only. I don't know the Canadian pricing.

Create Your Own Toolbars in Microsoft Office:

1. Click the Office Shortcut Bar and, holding the mouse down, drag the Office
Shortcut Bar to the middle of the screen. You can then take a close look at 
the icons that have been preassigned to the Shortcut Bar.

2. Click the right mouse button on the Office Shortcut Bar and choose 
Customize form the shortcut menu.

3. On the Toolbars tab, click Add Toolbar, select the Create a New Blank 
Toolbar, Called option, type a name for your toolbar, and click OK.

4. Click the Buttons tab, and select the name of the toolbar you just created.

5. Use the Add File button to move to your Office95 folder and select 
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Binder, and
Microsoft Schedule. Then click the View tab and make sure the Autofit into 
Title Bar area option is selected. Click the OK button and you'll see your new 
toolbar available on the Shortcut Bar.

6. To add other programs as well as win95 desktop shortcuts to the shortcut 
bar, just drag any win95 shortcut icon to the Shortcut Bar and it will 
immediately be fixed there. You also can grab application icons from within 
file folders and place them on the Shortcat Bar as well.

To Delete a Task:

1. In the To Do List, select the task you want to delete.

2. Do one of the following: click the Delete button on the toolbar or from the
Edit menu, choose Delete Item (Ctrl-D).

To Change a Project:

1. In the to Do List, double click the row selection button for the project 
you want to change, or select the project's row and click the Edit button on 
the toolbar.

2. In the Project dialogue box, change the project name or the priority and 
choose the OK button.

To Delete a Project and its Tasks:

1. In the To Do List, select the project you want to delete.

2. From the Edit menu, choose the Delete Item. Schedule reminds you that all 
tasks in this project will also be deleted.

3. Choose the Yes button.

File Starter:

1. Click Start a New Document on the Office Shortcut Bar.

2. Click the Details button to view more information for each template. Note
that these document templates have long filenames.

3. Click the Large Icons button. Note that ToolTips even work inside dialogue
boxes in Office for win95, providing you with furthre assistance.

4. Click the Presentation Designs tab and the Spreadsheet Solutions tab to view
the more than 50 templates that come with Office. Note that you can "preview" 
their content before opening them.

Microsoft Access or Word Tables:

1. In the Word document, click where you want to insert a Microsoft Access 
table or query.

2. From the Insert menu, choose Database.

3. Under Data Source, click Data.

4. In the Files Of Type box, select MS Access Databases (*.mdb)

5. In the File Name box, type the name of the Microsoft Access Database you
want, and then click OK.

6. Click table AutoFormat or query Options

7. In the list, select the table or query you want, and then click OK.

8. Click Insert Data.

9. Under Insert Records, select the records you want to insert into your Word
document.

How to create an Address Book:

1. To get the address book for your form letter started, begin by selecting 
the TaskWizards tab from the Works Task Launcher and click on the Names and 
Addresses header. To start creating the customer database, then double-click
the Customers and Clients heading. Works will then ask you wether you want to 
create a new address book using a TaskWizard or use an existing one. Click 
the Yes option to get the TaskWizard to help you create a new address book. 
You will then be presented with a screen showing the types of available 
address books -- with Customers and Clients highlighted as the default. Click 
Next or press Enter.

2. You will then be shown a list of general information fields that the 
Address Book TaskWizard has determined you are likely to need for your 
customers and clients database. Click Next or press Enter to work with 
TaskWizard's default information fields.

3. You then have the option of adding additional fields from a predetermined 
list, creating your own new fields and setting up report formats for your 
address book. As this is primarily being designed for use with a form letter,
we recommend accepting the existing defaults. If you wish, new fields can be 
added to the address book later. When you are sure you are happy with default 
fields, click Create It! and the TaskWizard will do a final check of your 
requirements and then ask you to click Create Document if you are ready. When
you have done so, Works will create the address book and make it available for 
data entry.

Creating a Form Letter for People Listed in the Address Book:

1. Use the Works Task Launcher to select the TaskWizard called Form Letter 
under the correspondance heading and click OK. Works will then ask you if you
want to create a new document or use an existing one. Click the Yes option to 
have the TaskWizard create a new document. Select a layout for your letter. 
Once you have determined which layout you want to use, click Next. For this 
example, the Professional layout is used.

2. You'll then see a list of options allowing you to create a letterhead, 
enter an address, change the letter's content, its text style and make changes 
to extra, additional options. As this is your first form letter, a new 
letterhead should be designed so you will need to click Letterhead.

3. You will be asked whether or not you want to create your own letterhead or 
use an existing one. For the purposes of this example, pick the "I want to 
design my own" option. click Next. Then select a letterhead style. These 
styles are previewed for you when you click them. When you find one you like, 
click Next. Then you can enter the details you want to appear on your 
letterhead. TaskWizard starts with your company name, but you can also use 
your own name -- or both. check the Personal Name option and type in your name 
if you want it to appear and uncheck the Company Name option if you don't want 
a company name appearing. Click next when you have entered a Comany Name and/
or a Personal Name.

4. Fill in your address and click Next. Then fill in your phone number and fax 
details (if you have a fax). Additionally, you can add your home phone number 
and e-mail address to the letterhead. check those options and fill in your 
details if you want them to appear on the lettehead. Click Next. You will now 
see your letterhead previewed. If it is satisfactory, click OK. Otherwise, go 
back and make any changes you wish and when you are happy with it, click OK. 
You will now select the address book containing the names and addresses of the
people to whom you wish to send the form letter. Click Address and you will be
asked whether you want an address from the Works address book. Select the 
option to use addresses from a Works address book and then select the example 
address book created earlier., and click Next.

5. Using the Add button, select the fields you want to include in the letter. 
Then enter the fields you want in the greeting line and click Next.

6. Click the Content button and select the Blank letter option. Click Create 
It! and then run through the creation check list and click Create Document!

7. Now enter the text you wish to include in the body of your form letter and 
when you are satisfyed with the results use the Save command to save and 
finish the form letter.

Adding a Screen Saver button to MS Office Professional:

1. From the Office menu or the shortcut menu, choose Customize.

2. Click the Toolbar tab.

3. In the list, select the Screen Saver check box.

4. Choose the OK button. 

Copying Information from MS Excel to MS Word v6.0:

1. In the Microsoft Excel, select the worksheet cells you want to copy into
Word.

2. Click the Copy button, or choose Copy from the Edit menu or the shortcut
menu.

3. Switch to the Word document.

4. Position the insertion point where you want the Word table to appear.

5. Click the Paste button or choose Paste from the Edit menu or shortcut menu.

Previewing Word pictures through ClipArt:

1. Position the insertion point where you want the upper-left corner of the 
picture or graphic to appear

2. From the Insert menu, choose Object.

3. Click the Create New tab.

4. In the Object type box, select Microsoft ClipArt Gallery.

5. Choose the OK button.

6. Select a category and scroll to view the pictures and graphics.

7. To insert a picture or graphic into your Word document, double-click the 
one you want to ClipArt Gallery, or select the picture or graphic and choose
the OK button.

Using the Format Painter button in MS Word v6.0:

1. Select the text that has the formatting you want.

2. Click the Format Painter button on the Standard Toolbar.

3. Then hold down your left mouse button as you highlight the text you want to 
format. When you release the mouse button, the text will appear changed with 
the newly painted formatting.

Saving and Using the AutoText button:

1. Select the table and click the Insert AutoText button on the Standar toolbar.

2. Type a name for the table and choose the Add button.

3. To insert the table, type the table's name and click the AutoText button.

Edit Legend Entries on the MS Excel charts:

1. Activate the worksheet containing the range plotted in the chart.

2. Select the cell containing the series name you want to change, and enter 
the new name.

Directly Changing Legend Entries:

1. Open the workbook containing the chart.

2. Activate the chart.

3. Double-click the data series at the legend entry you want to change.

4. Click the Name and Values tab.

5. In the Names box, enter either the reference for legend text or directly 
type in the entry for the legend text.

6. Choose the OK button.

Adding Buttons from the MS Excel Toolbars:

1. Choose Toolbars form the View menu and choose the Customize button.

2. In the categories box, select a button category. 

3. Drag the button form the toolbar where you want to add the button. 

Deleting Buttons from the MS Excel Toolbars:

1. From the Toolbar shortcut menu, choose Customize.

2. Drag the button off the toolbar and release the mouse button.

Putting other Office Programs into Excel:

1. to embed existing information in Microsoft Excel using the drag-and-drop 
editing, make sure that both program windows are open so that you can see the 
information you want to embed in Microsoft Excel as well as the location where 
you want to place the information.

2. In the other program window, select the information you want to embed in 
your Microsoft Excel worksheet.

3. Point to the selected information, and then hold down the mouse button. To 
move the selected information, drag it to the new location in the Excel 
window. to copy the selected information, hold down the Ctrl key as you drag.

Importing Works files into Access Databases:

1. Open the Database file in Works for Windows.

2. Make sure the field widths in the list view or the form view of the 
database are large enough to display all the information in each field. If you 
are using Works v2.0 and the information in a field contains more than 79 
characters, select Text and Commas for the file type when saving the file. 
Saving a file as text will cause all formatting to be lost.

3.Check the numeric format of each field containing text, and make sure it is 
set to General or text. If the format of any text field is set to a specific 
numeric format, such as Currency or Date, that field will be blank when opened 
in MS Access.
     
4. When saving in dBASE format, field names will be truncated at 10 characters 
of each field name are unique. For example, two fields named "Address 1" and 
"Address 2" would be fine, but "Address Line 1" and "Address Line 2" would not 
be. If the first 10 characters in two or more fields are the same, you will 
recieve a "can't define field more than once" error messages when opening in 
MS Access.

5. From the file menu, choose Save As.

6. Select a directory to save the database into. To make it easy to open in MS 
Access select the Microsoft Access directory.

7. Type a new name, without an extension, in the file name field.

8. From the Save file As Type list, select dBASE III, dBASE IV or Text and
Commas, and choose OK. If the error message "some field text was trunicated"
is displayed, return to step 2 above to increase the field widths.

9. Exit or minimize Works for Windows.

Importing Works files into a MS Access Database:
  
1. Start Microsoft Access

2. If you want to import the Works data into an existing MS Access database, 
choose Open Database from the File Menu. If you want to import the Works data 
into a new database, choose New Database from the File menu. Then type a new 
filename and choose OK. Do not use the same name as the works file or you will 
recieve the error message "This file is already in use."

3. From the file menu, choose Import.

4. In the Data Source dialogue box select dBASE III, dBASE IV, and Text, 
depending on the format chosen when the Database file was saved in Works for 
Windows and choose OK. 

5. In the select file dialogue box, find and select the file you saved form 
Works and choose the Import button.

6. If you selected dBASE III or dBASE IV as the data source. Microsoft Access 
will begin importing your Works data. If you selected Text as the data source, 
MS Access presents the Import Text Options dialogue box. Choose OK to begin 
importing the Works data.

7. When finished importing, MS Access presents a confirmation box, choose OK.

8. In the Select File dialogue box, choose Close.

Pasting PowerPoint slides into Excel Worksheets:

1. In PowePoint, switch to slide sorter view and select the slide or slides 
you want to see in your worksheet. Make sure that the presentation has been 
saved. To select the entire presentation, choose Select All from the Edit 
menu.

2. Click the Copy button, or choose Copy form the Edit menu or the shortcut 
menu.

3. Switch to the Microsoft Excel Worksheet.

4. Select the cell where you want the upper-left corner of the slide to 
appear.

5. From the Edit menu, or the shortcut menu, choose Paste Special.

6. In the As box, select PowerPoint v4.0 Slide Object.

7. Select the Paste Link option button

8. Choose the Ok button. Excel then pastes the information into the worksheet 
and creates an automatic link to PowerPoint. Changes to the PowerPoint source 
information will be reflected in the destination worksheet.

Microsoft Word Documents and Adding them to the Presentations:

1. In PowerPoint, display the slide after which you want your new slides to 
appear.

2. From the Insert menu, choose Slides From Outline. 

3. Select your Word diocument, and choose OK.

Creating PowerPoint slides form Word Docs:

1. In PowerPoint, choose Open form the File menu.

2. In the List Files Of Type box, select Outlines.

3. Type or select the filenameof the Word document, and then choose OK.

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I hope everyone reading this file enjoyed it, and learned alot about Windows95
Alot fo new stuff coming out is still not compatible for some reason, and 
cracks are being made. Why not just make it all DOS/Win95 now? Maybe the 
companies will get smart and do this. All thoughts on this text file can be
mailed to me on any boards you see me call. Thanks...

King Cobra - Storm 1995
