Using Screenshot in Office 2010

Screenshot -- a new feature in Office 2010 -- allows you to capture images from your screen.

	Click the document that you want to add the screenshot to
	Click the Insert tab on the Ribbon
	In the Illustrations group, click Screenshot

	To add the whole window, click the thumbnail in the Available Windows gallery
	To add part of the window, click Screen Clipping, and when the pointer becomes a cross, press and hold the left mouse button to select the area of your screen that you want to capture
	If you have multiple windows open, click the window you want to clip from before clicking Screen Clipping. When you click Screen Clipping, the program you are working in is minimized and only the window behind it is available for clipping
	After adding a screenshot, you can use the tools on the Picture Tools tab to edit and enhance the screenshot

You can use Screenshot in Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and Excel 2010.

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New Resource Center for Outlook 2010

Are you an IT Professional wondering what key topics you should review for your Outlook 2010 deployment? Check out the new Outlook 2010 Resource Center (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/office/gg513879.aspx).  It includes a collection of the popular Outlook 2010 topics like changes between the versions, system requirements, add-in compatibility considerations, deployment planning and configuration topics, training resources for your end users and more. 

More application specific Resource Centers are coming soon.  You can find all the available application IT Pro Resource Centers by clicking Applications in the top grey bar on the TechNet Microsoft Office 2010 home page (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ee263913).

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Remove the Lock Icon from a Folder in Windows 7

If you’ve been playing around with folder sharing or security options, then you might have ended up with an unsightly lock icon on a folder. We’ll show you how to get rid of that icon without over-sharing it.

The lock icon in Windows 7 indicates that the file or folder can only be accessed by you, and not any other user on your computer. If this is desired, then the lock icon is a good way to ensure that those settings are in place. If this isn’t your intention, then it’s an eyesore.

To remove the lock icon, we have to change the security settings on the folder to allow the Users group to, at the very least, read from the folder.

Right-click on the folder with the lock icon and select Properties. Switch to the Security tab, and then press the Edit… button.

A list of groups and users that have access to the folder appears. Missing from the list will be the “Users” group. Click the Add… button.

The next window is a bit confusing, but all you need to do is enter “Users” into the text field near the bottom of the window. Click the Check Names button.

“Users” will change to the location of the Users group on your particular computer. In our case, this is PHOENIX\Users (PHOENIX is the name of our test machine). Click OK.

The Users group should now appear in the list of Groups and Users with access to the folder. You can modify the specific permissions that the Users group has if you’d like – at the minimum, it must have Read access. Click OK.

Keep clicking OK until you’re back at the Explorer window. You should now see that the lock icon is gone from your folder!

It may be a small aesthetic nuance, but having that one folder stick out in a group of other folders is needlessly distracting. Fortunately, the fix is quick and easy, and does not compromise the security of the folder!

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Turn off all balloon notifications

Balloon notifications can be annoying many a times. Good thing is they can be disabled easily in Windows 7. To disable balloon tips in the notification area, follow these Methods:

1. Using GPEdit (Group Policy Editor)

This setting turns off the Balloon notification in the notification area using Group Policy editor.

Open Run Dialogue Box (Win + R) and type gpedit.msc

Navigate to Local Computer policy > User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu & Taskbar in left hand side pane.

Select Turn off all Balloon notifications setting from right side pane.

Open it and enable it so that no notification balloons will be shown to the user. .

Press OK

2. Using RegEdit (Registry Editor)

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then press ENTER.

Navigate to the following subkey:

 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

Right-click the right side pane, create a new DWORD value, and then name it EnableBalloonTips.

Double-click EnableBalloonTips, and then give it a value of 0.

Close Registry Editor.

Note: To make changes to this setting effective, you must log off and then log back on.

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Toshiba teases Android 3.0 tablet that launches “this spring”

Everyone’s at the tablet business, including Toshiba – which has set up the web site The Toshiba Tablet in order to promote a forthcoming 10.1″ Android tablet it claims is “coming this spring”.

The “Toshiba Tablet” will come in five colours, with Flash support, an HDMI out and the very latest tablet-specific version of Android onboard. Here it is:

Click on that “Specifications” tab to the right of the image and Toshiba lists “Android Honeycomb” as the tablet’s OS, says the screen resolution is a 16:10 aspect ratio 1280×800, plus there are dual 5megapixel rear and 2megapixel front-facing cameras.

And it’s another Tegra 2 powered model. Nvidia is on fire.

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