Using templates can save you agony of recreating a cumbersome document over and over again and it can also save you time!

Speaking of time… TIME is something that many people complain they don’t have enough of, especially to dedicate to their computer.

I can not stress enough to you to schedule time with yourself to at least D-BUST your computer monthly! Make it a new habit and start working on it now. Pick same time daily, weekly, or monthly to D-BUST. Schedule it, put it in your planner, and on your to-do list. You won’t have to do everything that I’ve been writing about, especially if you take care of things, such as deleting or saving, as you go along.

Make your computer work for you, that’s what it’s suppose to do. It was meant to give you more time NOT take up more of your time.

If you are stumbling around a program, take and make time to learn program. If you have to refer to manual or call a friend for help every time you try to use a computer tool, piece of software, or hardware, it’s time to take time to get professional help! Hire a high school kid, take a class, hire a tutor, just get help that you need. Use Help feature on your computer to learn what you can about software or program. If that’s not enough, read a book and do exercises. You are losing valuable time if you don’t! Remember that time is money!

By taking time to D-BUST and learn how to use your computer to its fullest, your computer and you will be humming along in no time!

Smiles, not Piles, Janet L. Hall

The Organizing Wizard, Janet L. Hall, is a Professional Organizer, Speaker, and Author. She is owner of OverHall Consulting, and Organizing By Phone. Subscribe to her FREE organizing newsletter at http://www.overhall.com/newsletter.htm or visit her web site at http://www.overhall.com

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Perform your SAVE with your document opened and then do a SAVE AS. USING SAVE AS to a DIFFERENT MEDIA (floppy, zip or CD Write):

Using opened document or open up a document

~~ Move POINTER to File and CLICK ~~ Move POINTER to SAVE AS and CLICK

Again, you will be presented with SAVE AS Box

~~ Insert into your computer media you are saving to: Floppy, Zip, or CD Write ~~ The Save in: section should have last folder name that you saved a document to. In this case you want to save to your (A:), (B:), (D:), (E:), (F:), (you choose letter on your computer that corresponds to media type; on my computer, a floppy is my (A:) drive.).

To locate and select proper drive for media you want to save to:

~~ CLICK small black down arrow next to folder name in Save in: ~~ CLICK until you find drive you want to save to.

You can also change name and format of document you are saving by repeating steps explained in SAVE AS BOX above.

Press RETURN/ENTER or CLICK SAVE

AutoSave:

This feature in Word is really a recovery feature, it DOES NOT SAVE your documents in true sense. What it does is save changes or entered text to a recovery file automatically for you at time intervals that you must set up. This function is VERY useful if you experience power outages, power failures, or you have to restart your computer before you could save or close your document.

TIP: You must have a document open to set this function and it is protection for your OPEN documents.

Open any document.

~~ Move POINTER to Tools (Located at top of your screen) and CLICK ~~ Move POINTER to Options and CLICK

An Options Box will appear and you will notice several * Tabs * you can click on. There is a lot of * stuff * here that you have probably never seen and a lot of things you can change and customize, but for now let’s continue.

~~ Move POINTER to SAVE Tab and CLICK You will see several little box buttons and you want to make sure button SAVE AUTORECOVER info every: is checked. If it’s not checked:

~~ Move POINTER to that box button and CLICK

Notice that you can change minutes that you want WORD to automatically save your open documents in case of a power surge or failure. I have mine set at 10. To change yours: ~~ Move POINTER and CLICK on little up or down arrow to change minutes. ~~ Move POINTER to OK and CLICK

WARNING, WARNING: After a surge, failure or a restart, WORD will open RECOVERY file and you MUST SAVE it or it will be DELETED!

The Organizing Wizard, Janet L. Hall, is a Professional Organizer, Speaker, and Author. She is owner of OverHall Consulting, and Organizing By Phone. Subscribe to her FREE organizing newsletter at http://www.overhall.com/newsletter.htm or visit her web site at http://www.overhall.com

Copyright 1999, 2000 by OverHall Consulting P.O. Box 263, Port Republic, MD 20676 All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce, copy, or distribute so long as this copyright notice and full information about contacting author is attached.