Using Voting Buttons in Outlook 2007
Taking a Screenshot on a Mac
Work with Two Windows Side by Side in Windows 7
Keyboard Shortcuts in Internet Explorer and Firefox
Combine Two Slide Presentations in PowerPoint 2007

Using Voting Buttons in Outlook 2007
With Outlook's voting buttons, users can easily collect information from coworkers and have Outlook automatically tally the votes.
NOTE: In order to utilize the voting buttons, users must be connected to an Exchange server and the recipients of the message must be using Outlook.
To use the voting buttons, follow these steps in Outlook 2007:

1. Create a new message in Outlook, or reply to an existing message. The body of the message should contain the question or statement to be voted on.
2. On the "Options" tab, in the section for Tracking, click "Use Voting Buttons."
3. Choose the voting buttons you want to use from the options provided (Approve/Reject; Yes/No; Yes/No/Maybe). For additional message options, click "Custom."
4. When you are finished, click "Send."
5. The recipients of the message can vote by clicking the "Vote" button in the "Respond" section of the message (in the upper left-hand corner) and selecting a voting option. They can then opt to send the response or edit the response before sending.
6. You will receive the replies to the message with the selected voting option in the subject line. To track voting results:

1. Go to Sent Items.
2. Open the message with the voting buttons.
3. In the "Show" section, select "Tracking."
4. You will see the reply totals followed by a list of the individual votes.
   

Taking a Screenshot on a Mac

You might be familiar with the "Print Screen" or "Prnt Scrn" key on a PC, which can take a picture of your screen (also known as a "screenshot"). This screenshot can then be pasted into MS Word or another application. (Note that holding down the "Alt" key while hitting the "Print Screen" key will take a screenshot of the active window only.) But did you know that you can also take a screenshot on a Mac OS X machine, even though there is no "Print Screen" key? Here's how:

To take a screenshot of the entire screen, press the Apple key + Shift + 3. The screenshot will appear on your desktop as an image file.

You can also take a screenshot of a portion of your screen by following these steps:

1. Press the Apple key + Shift + 4. The mouse cursor will change to a + sign.
2. Drag your mouse to select the portion of the screen you want to capture.
3. When you release the mouse, you will see an image file on your desktop that contains the screenshot.

If you want to take a screenshot of a particular application window, follow these steps:

1. Press the Apple key + Shift + 4. The mouse cursor will change to a + sign.
2. Press the space bar once to change the mouse cursor into a camera.
3. Click once with the camera on the application window you want to capture.
4. When you release the mouse, you will see an image file on your desktop that contains the screenshot.
   

Work with Two Windows Side by Side in Windows 7

If you are comparing two documents or Web sites, Windows 7 makes it easy to view them side by side! Simply follow these steps:

1. Make sure you have two open windows on your Windows 7 desktop.
2. Drag the title bar of one window until your cursor touches the far left edge of the PC screen. You should see an outline of window expand to fill half the screen. Release the mouse button and watch the window snap into place.
3. Repeat step two for the other window on the far right edge of the screen. When you release the mouse button, it will automatically snap to fill the right half of your screen.

You can also fill your screen with one window by dragging it up until your cursor touches the top edge of the screen.
NOTE: If your windows do not snap into place, make sure that the "Prevent windows from being automatically arranged…" option is unchecked under Control Panel > Ease of Access Center > Make the mouse easier to use.

Keyboard Shortcuts in Internet Explorer and Firefox

How do you follow an interesting link on a Web page without losing your place on the current page? In the past, you might have right-clicked on the link and then chosen to open the link in either a new window or a new tab. But did you know that you can "Ctrl + click" (press the left mouse button and the "Ctrl" key) to open the link in a new tab in the background?
This and other helpful shortcuts for printing, zooming, searching, navigating, editing, and more are listed in the article "Internet Explorer Keyboard Shortcuts" at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Internet-Explorer-keyboard-shortcuts. Here are a few shortcuts that might come in handy:

All of these shortcuts work in Mozilla Firefox, too!


Combine Two Slide Presentations in PowerPoint 2007

It's easy to combine two PowerPoint 2007 presentations into one! Just follow these steps:

1. In PowerPoint 2007, open the presentation that should appear first in the combined presentation.
2. Advance to the last slide in the presentation.
3. Under the "Home" tab, click on the down arrow next to the "New Slide" button and select "Reuse Slides" at the very bottom of the menu.
4. The "Reuse Slides" task pane will appear on the right-hand side of the screen. Click on the "Browse" button and select "Browse File."
5. Browse to the second PowerPoint presentation that you would like to insert, click on the file name, and click "Open." A preview of the slides will appear in the task pane.
6. If you want to maintain the source formatting of the second presentation (i.e., slide design, layout, colors, etc.), check the "Keep source formatting" box at the bottom of the task pane. Otherwise, leave the box unchecked.
7. Right-click on any of the slides in the task pane and select "Insert All Slides."

The slides in the second presentation will be inserted after the slides in the first presentation. To save the combined presentations as one file, go to the Office Button > "Save As" > "PowerPoint Presentation" and save the file.