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creating multiple calendars
creating multiple calendars allows you to create a schedule for each family member, separate work and home appointments and view all or only the calendars you choose at any time.
This makes your calendar appear neater, and you can color code each calendar so that you can see at a glance which family member [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
Many thanks for your help for so many of us. You are a national asset.
I have recently gotten a new computer with Vista. On my older computer, with Windows XP, I used Outlook Express and my contacts were listed alphabetically by last name. With Vista’s Windows mail my contacts are listed alphabetically by [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I got a new computer and I want to know how to take my embroidery off the floppy disk and put them on a cd disk. My computer is window vista.
Wanda

Dear Computer Lady,
I purchased a refurb HP laptop with Word. I cannot find the 25 digit code needed to register Word. There was no included info to register this.
Any ideas? Sue

Dear Computer Lady,
I’ve got Windows XP. I like to transfer parts of documents from WORD (which I’ve highlighted and changed) into powerpoint, but have found that I have to always copy and then in PPT select “Paste Special” in order to keep the same format of my changes. I’d like to just insert [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I thoroughly enjoy your column!! I, too, have a question to ask you.
Should I download the Windows update that pops up every day on my wallpaper, or should I just ignore it, as my new Windows is working so well?
Does the old saying hold, “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”?

Thank you, Jan [...]

Dear Computer Lady,
I just hooked up to cable internet, but find the dial-up connection box still shows up when I click on to Outlook Express. Nothing in it, just annoying.

Thanks for your help in advance, Martha

Dear Computer Lady,
I have Windows XP and Microsoft Word. There are some documents for which I need the lines double spaced. When I click on FORMAT, I cannot find a direction for that order.
Can you tell me what I must do?

Thank you, TwoJunes

Dear Computer Lady,
I’m writing a novel and want to save it chapter by chapter and as a whole piece as I move along.
I don’t want to have to scroll through 14 chapters, for example, to get to chapter 15 on which I am working. But I do want the entire work in one piece when [...]

Once you have created events in your Google calendar, you have different options for receiving event reminders. You can have reminders emailed to you, sent via cell phone text messages, or if you keep your calendar open most of the time, you can have simple pop-up messages in Google Calendar itself.