TECH STUFF Things I say almost every week to someone:

... Computers remember pages to help them load faster on your screen. When I tell you that I just added something to your web page, you might need to hit your “refresh” button to see it. It’s the little icon at the top of your browser screen that looks like a piece of paper with arrows on it.

... If you open a web page that causes your computer to crash, don’t try to go to that page again. It won’t work this time if it didn’t last time. The page is infected with something, and hates you.

... Gif names are exact. If your code is right creating your link, you have a capital letter(s) either on the gif name, or in your code, and not the other. They must match for it to show up on your page. Your page must call the gif by it’s real name, as it is saved on the server.

... The main page on your site isn’t showing up because you didn’t save it as index.html on your server. It doesn’t matter what you called that work on your computer. First remove the old index.html from your server, and any copies of the page you saved under the name you were calling it on your computer. Then upload what you want your main page to be to your server and change it’s name there to index.html and your web page will be back online.

... No computer goes from you directly to a web page online. The command to open the page online goes thru a bunch of servers anywhere in the world looking for a “path” to the page you want. If one of those servers is burping, or outright taking a dirt nap, your computer has to find another pathway to the page you want.
So while your computer is working fine, and the web page is working fine… the path from you to it could be broken. Try the page later. Chances are if all your friends can see a certain page and you can’t… your pathway to it is broken somewhere.
... The Tech answer: A DNS can often behave strange. All over the route between a client and a server,IP-addresses are cached and sometimes DNS servers are flushed with the effect that they all of a sudden have the latest IP address translations. In addition, your own PC also caches IP address translations. Often it helps when you issue the command 'ipconfig /flushdns' in a command (DOS) window. Some Internet service providers may also have blocked access to certain sites. Because some servers are also used for mailing lists, some people/ISP's may have added it to a spam blacklist.

Microsoft Office shortcuts on your keyboard:
Ctrl Z is the magic undo combo. It simply undoes your last action, say, the paragraph you accidentally erased (it works in other applications, too--try it on the Photoshop filter you really wish you hadn't applied, or after renaming a document or a folder in a Windows directory). Programs vary in the number of times you can undo something, but some will let you Ctrl Z all the way back to the beginning. (And, yes, there is a redo command, just hit Ctrl Y.)
· Ctrl B, Ctrl I, or Ctrl U apply bold, italics, or underline to highlighted text, respectively.
· Ctrl P prints whatever is in an active window.
· Ctrl Backspace erases an entire word at a time, instead of a letter. Ctrl up or down arrows let you scroll an entire paragraph at a time, instead of one line, and Ctrl Shift up or down arrow will select an entire paragraph.
· Ctrl Enter inserts a page break in Word.
· Alt Ctrl C inserts the copyright symbol (Alt Ctrl R inserts the registered trademark symbol, and Alt Ctrl T makes the trademark symbol).
· In Outlook, you can jump to the section you want: Ctrl 1 switches to the Mail window, Ctrl 2 switches to the Calender, Ctrl 3 to Contacts, Ctrl 4 to Tasks, and Ctrl 5 to Notes.
· Ctrl Shift M starts a new message in Outlook. (Use Ctrl Shift C for a new contact.)
· In Outlook e-mail, hit Ctrl N to compose a new message, Ctrl R to reply to a message.
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... How do I put a photo in a Club Forum post?
Go to where you saw the original photo on the web.
RIGHT mouse click on it.
Choose PROPERTIES.
Highlight and COPY the URL of the location of the photo saved on their server.
Go to the Forum posting screen you want.
RIGHT mouse click where you want to put in the photo, and PASTE the photo's URL location you just copied.
Now the photo's URL location is in your post.
Highlight the URL.
Click on the IMG command at the top of the editing post box. This will put the code on either side of the URL to make it be a photo in your post.
After you save your post, look at it and you should see the photo there.

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