Computer Act!ve - UK (2022-01-19)

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MicrosoftSculptErgonomicMouse

£46fromwww.snipca.com/39 744

WhenIfirstsawthismouse,

itremindedmeofflying

saucersfromthecomicsIusedto

readasachild.Myphysiosuggested

Itryit,becauseitsergonomicdesign

wouldhelpmyageingthumbsand

fingers. ThatwasinJune.SincethenI

noticedyourecommendeditinIssue

618 (page63).

ThatwasjustthesecondopinionI

needed,soIboughtitandwas

impressedbyhowquicklyIgotusedto

it.Thethumbrest(Microsoftcallsita

‘scoop’)iskeytoitsdesign.InoticedI

hadlesspaininmythumbafterjusta

fewdays.IlovetheWindows-logo

buttonatthetop,whichlaunchesthe

Startmenu.Youcancustomisethis

buttontoperformothertasks.

PMDavies

OFFICE
Type asterisksfor dotted
linesinWord
FollowingonfromyourtipinIssue
62 2(page47)aboutinsertinga
horizontallineinaWorddocumentby
typingthreedashes(---),youcanalso
insertarowofsquaredotsbytyping
threeasterisks(***,^1 in screensh ot
above).Ifindthisamore prominentway
to separate unrelatedtextinadocument.
Typing threehash symbols(###^2 )
createsanevenboldereffect,while
threetilde symbols(~~~^3 )produce a
wavyline. Iprefe rthe dots though.
SheilaWalters

WINDOWS
Press Capskey to select
allempty folders
Afterreadingyouradviceon
removingemptyfoldersin
Windows(Issue 620 ,page51),Ideleted
1,4 97 frommyPC.Insteadofremoving
themallatonceusingtheprogramyou
recommended(RemoveEmpty
Directories,www.snipca.com/3 9995 ),I
clickedthefirstfolderinthelist,then
scrolledtoanotherfolderlowerinthelist
andclickeditwhileholdingdownthe
Capskey.Thisselectsallthefoldersin
between.Youcanthenholddownthe
Ctrlkeyandclicktodeselectindividual
folders. Thisworksformostlistsin
Windows,includingemailsinOutlook.
TimMills

BROWSERS
SetFirefox to reopen previous
windows and tabs
Rather than settingFirefox to warn
youwhenyou’reabout to close

multipletabs(as

JonathanArmstrong

suggestsinIssue 621 ,

page 4 1),youcanset

ittoreopenthetabs

fromyourprevious

sessionwhenyou

nextopenyour

browser.Clickthe

top-rightmenu,

followedbySettings,

thenunderthe

Startupheading

select‘Openprevious

windowsandtabs’

(seescreenshotbelow).Thiswayyoucan

simplypickupwhereyouleftoff.

RobHindle

GOOGLECALENDAR

Import fileswithoutcausing

duplicateevents

Iplayfor a

number of

bowlsteams.At

thebeginning

of aseason,I

convert each fixture

listintoaCSVfile

andimportiti nto

my Google

Calendar.This lets

me seewhenI’m

availa bleand which

matchesclash with

othe revents.

Issue 623 •19January–1February 2022

Startmenu.Youcancustomisethis

LaterIreceiveanupdatedfile

containingtheselectedteamsforeach

matchandanyamendments.Ican

convert this to asimil ar CSVfile and

enteriti ntoGoogleCalendar,but there

doesn’t seem to be away to deleteaseries

of single events allato nce.Importi ng the

updatedfile createsduplicatesand does

nothing to remove cancelled fixtures

(unlessany reader knowsdifferently).

AGooglesearchled me to GCalToolkit

(www.gcaltoolk it.com,see screenshot

above), whichsolvesthisproblem.The

free versio nlimits thenumberofentries

youcan import,but youcan bypass this

restrictionby creating severalsub-set

calendars andusing theprogram to move

entriesbetweenthem.

Avideo on GCalToolkit’shomepage

explains howtouse itstools .Google

should buildsomeofthese into Calendar.

Paul Moles

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