Microcomputers in Agriculture: Tips

Tips (only topics in blue are currently available)

[All tips are HTML files]

Windows

Eudora

Netscape

Hardware

Viruses

MS Office

Word

Excel
WinZip

PowerPoint

Windows 95/98/00

Copying files - "What was that program we use?"
Installing new software and hardware
Making a desktop icon for a program
Changing window size - "I can't see the title bar to even close it!"
Relocating the Menu Bar and Task Bar
Changing the wallpaper (desktop background)
Putting volume control on the Task Bar

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Eudora

Connecting - "Why won't my Eudora run?"
Two versions at once - "How can we each have our own Eudora?"
Register TCPMan - "My TCPMan wants me to register!"
Modem busy - "Why do I always get a busy signal?"
Modem problems - "What's with this #/&@%$ modem?"
Password not accepted - "Give me a break!"
Password expired - "Pshh -very informative!"
Saving password - "I'm getting tired of this password stuff!"
Check mail on two computers - "How can I check my mail and still get it later at home?"
Nicknames - "How can I use real names and lists?"
Sending same email to several at once - "How can send the same message to a list of people?"
Finding PIDs - "How can I look up students and faculty?"
Signature - "I get tired of typing my name."
When the mail hangs - "It gets to message 3 and locks up!"
The SMTP server - "Can I check my mail from Siberia?"

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Netscape

Viewing, Printing, and Downloading files - (HTML, HTM, PDF, DOC, XLS)
Installing a PDF Reader

Hardware Problems

Difficulties with keyboards, mice, printers, disks

Virus Problems

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Microsoft Office

Installing Office shared applications - "Where's my Equation Editor/Clip Art/Word Art?"
Retrieving the Office Toolbar - "Where'd it go?"
Adding buttons and reordering the Toolbar - "Can I put a non-MS program on the Toolbar?"

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Word

Word macro viruses - "My files are coming out as DOT files."
Recovering lost toolbars - "It's always been here before."
Adding buttons to toolbars - "I'd like a superscript button."
Recovering lost menu items - "There's no Grammar under Tools."
Adding a style area - "I know it was there."
Adding or removing the ruler bar - "Same old story; where'd it go?"
Setting margins properly - "I set it for 1 inch, but it's huge."
Working with headers and footers - "They won't behave; there has got to be a way."
Creating and editing tables - "I'm getting a headache."
Creating and editing equations - "It just won't behave."
Getting rid of auto-formatting - "Get rid of these %$#@ paragraph numbers!"
Working with clip art - "How do I get clip art; why won't it move?"
Opening (or saving) files from other word processors - "It comes up gobbledygook."

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Excel

Screen appearance - "Where are my toolbars, how do I get a shading button, etc.?"
Multiple spreadsheets - "Can I work on two files at once?"
Printing - "Why won't it fit on a page? How do I get rid of 'Sheet 1' header?"
Multiple Columns the Same Width - "How do I do it? It didn't work!"
Formatting numbers - "Why are some numbers not quite all the way to the right?"
Cell formatting problems - "Left, right or centered, the numbers won't move!""
Symbols - "How do I get greek letters or other symbols?"
Math and Formulas - "Why isn't the answer to the formula correct?"
#Error Messages in Excel - "What do these mean? #NAME?, #REF!, #####, 309680?"
Centering text across columns - "How do you do that?"
Sum function- "What arguments or ranges go in the parentheses?"
Relative vs Absolute cell references- "Why do my cell references change when I copy?"
Text Functions (Concatenate)- "How can I manipulate words in Excel?"
Conditional Formatting- "Certain cells are supposed to turn red, but they don't! What gives?"
Count Functions- "I try to count cells and it tells me zero!"
Payment function- "Why can't I multiply interest and amount and get the right payment?"
Dates and date functions - "Why do I get ugly numbers and what can I do with dates?"
IF statements (functions) - "How do you put one of those together?"
Troubleshooting IF's - "It won't work; I've tried everything!"
Choose function - "How can I use it to get weekday words?"
VLookup function - "Retrieving on piece of information from a table"
Sorting - "Sorting by one column or several columns"
Pivot Tables - "What is it and how do I make one?"
Charts or Graphs - "How can I change all these different graph components?"
Goal Seek - "How can I change one cell to get an exact number in another cell?"

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Power Point

Student Do's and Don't's - "What's important in presenting this show?"
Changing Template, Colors, and Fonts - "Can I change all slides at once?"
Charts or Graphs - "My graph is squashed to the left."
Tables - "It changed colors on me."

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Department of Dairy Science
Comments to: Dr. Michael McGilliard

Revised: August 25, 1997
URL: http://test.bsi.vt.edu/MCinAG