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Today's Tips 10/16/2006
Searching For Image Files Gets Easier In
Windows XP Using Keywords!
If you're like most computer users these days, you have a digital camera
and save your image files to your hard disk on a regular basis. Most
digital cameras save image files with a short cryptic name and a
sequential number which makes sense from a digital standpoint. However,
if at a later date you want to find the pictures of the kids at the
park, a filename like GSNN0040.jpg really isn't much help.
To make it easier to track down specific pictures you can assign
keywords to your image files via the file's Properties dialog box. Then,
you could easily find the pictures of the kids at the park by searching
on your Windows XP machine for the keywords you assigned to the image
files.
While on the surface, this sounds like a great idea, the prospect of
adding keywords to all your image files one by one is a daunting notion.
Fortunately, you can add common keywords to a group of files in one fell
swoop.
Here's how:
1. Launch Windows Explorer, hold down the [Ctrl] key, and select all the
files to which you want to assign common keywords.
2. Right-click any file in the selection and choose the Properties
command.
3. When you see the Properties dialog box, select the Summary tab. (If
all fields are grayed out, click the Advanced button to display the
file's properties.)
4. In the Property column locate and select the Keywords Property.
5. Click the selected area adjacent to the Keyword Property in the Value
column.
6. You will now see a text box appear with a blinking cursor, and you
can type in the keywords that you want to assign to the group of files.
(If the value column reads multiple values, this indicates that at least
one file in your selection already has keyword assigned to it. You can
still change that Keyword Value, but doing so will overwrite all of the
existing keywords.)
7. To complete the operation, press [Enter] and click OK.
To search for image files by keywords, launch the Search Companion, type
*.jpg in the All Or Part Of The File Name text box, and type your
keywords in the A Word Or Phrase In The File text box.
Note: This tip applies to both Windows XP Home and Windows XP
Professional.
Gary Chambers
Give Paragraphs A Muted Effect Using Shading
And Patterns In Word 97-2000-2001-2002!
There are many ways to make a passage in your document stand out from
the rest of your document text. For instance, you can give it a
different indent or jazz it up with emphatic font formatting. However,
instead of drawing readers' eyes to a particular passage, you'll
sometimes need to give a passage a "played-down" or "muted" effect. For
instance, many types of forms contain a "For Internal Use Only" area in
which clients or customers shouldn't enter data.
One way to play down a paragraph is to apply it a light font color or
small font size. Another common technique is to apply shading. However,
you can achieve other types of muting effects by combining font
formatting, paragraph borders, and shading with an overlapping pattern.
To begin, select the paragraph(s) you want to downplay. Apply the
desired font formatting, then choose Format | Borders And Shading. Click
on the Borders tab and apply a paragraph border if desired. Next, click
on the Shading tab and choose the desired shading color. Now, you can
apply a different colored pattern over the shading color you just
applied. To do so, choose the desired pattern from the Style dropdown
list, then choose a color for the pattern from the corresponding Color
dropdown list. When you've finished, click OK.
Cathy Chambers
View And Export Event Logs With Elogdmp.exe In
Windows 2000!
Event Viewer provides a nice set of features for viewing, filtering, and
searching event logs. But Event Viewer doesn't provide the capability to
export an event log to another application, such as a database. This
capability is particularly useful when you need to explore the logs in
detail for troubleshooting or tracking down a potential security breach,
and it's also useful for generating reports.
To view and export event logs, you can use the Event Log Query tool (Elogdmp.exe)
included in the Windows 2000 Resource Kit. Elogdmp.exe is a
console-based command that dumps a specified log to the screen or to a
file in a comma-delimited format. Elogdmp.exe exports the Date, Time,
Source, Type, Category, Event ID, User, and Computer fields for each
event.
Elogdmp.exe gives you the capability to dump not only the local event
logs, but it also dumps the logs from computers across the network. This
capability makes Elogdmp.exe a useful remote administration tool.
Here's the general syntax for Elogdmp.exe:
Elogdmp.exe <ComputerName> <EventLog>
Replace <ComputerName> with the computer hosting the log, and replace <EventLog>
with the name of the log, such as System, Application, Security, DNS
Server, Directory Service, or File Replication Service. If the name of
the event log contains spaces, enclose the name in quotes.
Use the redirect symbol [>] to redirect the output to a file if you need
to import the data into Access, SQL Server, or another database
application for analysis or reporting.
Gary Chambers
Quickly Switch Between Programs In Windows 98!
Have you ever opened multiple program windows, only to find that
switching among them is extremely difficult because you can hardly
distinguish among them in your taskbar? Luckily, there's an easy way to
quickly access exactly the program you're looking for.
Simply, hold down the [Alt] key and press [Tab] repeatedly until a
little box appearing in the middle of your screen identifies the program
to which you'd like to switch. Then, release the [Alt] key. You will
immediately see your chosen program appear on your screen.
Gary Chambers
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