February 26 - March 4, 2007
Manually remove duplicate Contact entries easily in Outlook (Outlook 2000/2002/2003)
You can quickly find yourself with duplicate Contact entries for a variety of reasons. You may have imported data from another program or a PDA, or maybe you manually entered duplicates yourself. Whatever the reason, to streamline your Contacts, you'll want to keep them in the best working order. This means deleting duplicate entries. If you don't have too many duplicates, manually deleting them works well. To do so, click on the Contacts folder (or subfolder that contains the duplicate entries). Next, choose View | Arrange By | Date from the Outlook menu bar. (In 2000 and 2002, choose View | Current View | Phone List from the Outlook menu bar.) Click on the Full Name header at the top of the Contacts list. This view sorts by Contact name and clearly shows any duplicate entries. Right-click on an entry, and then choose Delete from the resulting shortcut menu to remove the entry.
Add a free translation utility to your site
If you want your site to reach as many people as possible, you may want to give foreign visitors a quick and easy way to translate it into their language. Since writing your own multi-language site can be time-consuming, AltaVista provides the Babel Fish Translation utility, which you can get for free at www.altavista.com/help/free/free_searchbox_transl.
This site features two options. The first is a translation tool you can include on your Web page to allow your users to translate text between various languages. The site provides a script tag with the src attribute pointing to a script that uses document.write() to add the tool's user interface to your site in the form of a table.
The second option provides a script that writes an image map to your Web page, allowing users to click on a national flag to translate your page into their own language. Note that for this second option to work, AltaVista's code must be able to access your site. So, if you're running a local intranet site, you'll need to find another way to ensure that everyone understands each other.
Keeping a form on top of other database objects (Access 97/2000/2002)
Sometimes you may wish for a particular form to continually remain visible over other database objects, even when you're working with the other objects. For example, you may want a form containing detail about a company location to always be visible as you enter related data in another form. Configuring a form to behave this way is easy. Simply open it in Design view and set its Pop Up property to Yes.
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