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Excel Calendar Template v1.4

by Lockergnome on May 25, 2007 at 12:48 pm · Comments
Categorized by Download, Freeware / Related Information

This free Excel calendar template allows you to quickly and easily create and print a monthly calendar by simply choosing a year and month. You can also choose a color scheme for your calendar using simple form controls. Includes ready-made 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 calendar workbooks, where each month is on a separate worksheet. Use these yearly calendars for adding events and holidays, planning, printing, and scheduling.

Requires Microsoft Excel 2000/2002(XP)/2003/2007.

Maximize It Already!

When you open your Web browser, does it sometimes open in a smaller window than you'd like? If that happens, are you constantly going up to the Maximize button and making the screen larger? It's happened to me before and let me tell you, it gets old real quick. So, what can you do about it? Well, allow me to give you a couple options. Read on!

In Internet Explorer, open a new window and for now, make sure it's a smaller size than you actually want it to be. Then go to each corner and use your mouse to drag the sides out to a size you prefer. Just drag the window until it fills your screen. (Don't use the Maximize button for this one). When you've found a size that suits you, close the window. Now, whenever you open a new window in IE, it will appear as the full size you've been waiting for. How cool is that?!

Here's another rule you can go by: If you're using several browser windows at once, whenever you close the very last one, make sure it's in its maximized size. Internet Explorer works through the last window you close. So, if you closed a window that was at the right size for you, the next one you open will be that same size too. Either way you choose to go, you're guaranteed to always have a full screen browser. I'm lovin' it, aren't you?!

Two New Vista Tips

I thought I'd give you a double dose of Windows Vista tips today. I hope you don't mind too much. Keep reading for all the Vista action fun!

1.) Using Smaller Start Menu Icons

The new operating system of Windows Vista uses large icons by default in the Start menu. But what if you don't like them that way? Is there a way to change them to a smaller size? Of course there is! And even though Vista does a good job of hiding the setting for this pretty well, we can still locate it!

Right click on the Start button and select Properties.

Then click the Customize button.

Now, scroll down all the way to the bottom. You should see a checkbox for Use Large Icons. Go ahead and uncheck that.

Ah, that's much better, don't you think?!

If you thought that Vista tip was great, make sure you keep reading for the next one. Here we go!

2.) Vista Power Buttons

The default action for the power button on the Start menu in Windows Vista is actually set to Sleep. Now, this isn't necessarily useful for everybody. You can configure this setting easily by using the advanced power settings panel, but it's a little tricky to get to. So, what will we do? Well, we'll take a shortcut, of course!

Open a command prompt (type "cmd" into the search bar under the Start menu) and then type in the following information, exactly as you see it: powercfg.cpl,1

Now, you could also take the long route (Control Panel, Power Options, Change Plan Settings, Change Advanced Power Settings), but that's up to you.

Once you get to this dialogue box, navigate down, as shown to "Power buttons and lid."

From here, you can change the options:

• Power button action - Changes the hardware power button action.
• Start menu power button - Changes the power button on the Start menu.

You can change the power button to either Sleep, Hibernate or Shut Down (or even nothing at all). It's your choice!

Hope you enjoyed these quick little tips that will help optimize your Vista computer to be its best!

~ Ramachandran Kumaraswami

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