Creating and Renaming Folders

We've had a look at the program called <em>Explorer</em> before in the article <a href="http://computerbasicsforfree.blogspot.com/2008/11/seeing-whats-on-computer.html">Seeing what's on the computer</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SRwws6KvuWI/AAAAAAAADr8/ZtRHXneLM0A/s1600-h/20081113b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5268139212203342178" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SRwws6KvuWI/AAAAAAAADr8/ZtRHXneLM0A/s320/20081113b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 230px; height: 195px;" /></a>It can be opened from the <em>Desktop</em> by clicking either of these two icons - obviously you won't have one called <em>Burke, John</em> but it may have your own name or your user name or on older computers may be called <em>My Documents</em>.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLuWGxKAqI/AAAAAAAAEDo/U8mE93ORnTU/s1600-h/20090211g.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301561774909817506" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLuWGxKAqI/AAAAAAAAEDo/U8mE93ORnTU/s400/20090211g.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" /></a>You can also open <em>Explorer</em> by holding the <em>Windows</em> key down with your thumb and tapping the <em>E</em> key with your finger. This can be a very useful thing to remember!<br /><br />Let's start by going to the folder where we want to create the new folder. Once you are there, any content already in the folder should appear in the right hand window of <em>Explorer</em>.<br /><br />There's almost always more than one way to do something but let's start with the one most people are familiar with - the <em>File Menu</em>. <br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLvhWyUhYI/AAAAAAAAEDw/mEgz-7XF1RA/s1600-h/20090211a.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301563067699856770" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLvhWyUhYI/AAAAAAAAEDw/mEgz-7XF1RA/s400/20090211a.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 236px;" /></a>In <em>Windows Vista</em> the default is for the menus to be invisible. If this is so you can still bring them up by holding the <em>Alt</em> key down with your thumb and tapping the first letter of the menu name with your finger. So for the <em>File</em> menu hold down <em>Alt</em> and tap <em>F</em>. You will see this written down as <em>ALT-F</em>. For the <em>Edit</em> menu you would <em>ALT-E</em> and so on. Remember that this tip will work in any software, not just <em>Explorer</em>.<br /><br />Under the <em>File</em> menu click on <em>New</em> which will then open up a new window and then click <em>Folder</em> as shown.<br /><br />But that's the hard way! And there are two other ways of doing the same thing!<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLw-mif5SI/AAAAAAAAED4/8z8upQO4nqs/s1600-h/20090211b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301564669656294690" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLw-mif5SI/AAAAAAAAED4/8z8upQO4nqs/s400/20090211b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 270px;" /></a>You can move the mouse pointer to a white area in the folder where you want to create a sub-folder and <a href="http://computerbasicsforfree.blogspot.com/2008/11/just-right-click.html">right-click</a>. Then choose <em>New</em> and then <em>Folder</em> as described above.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLxvtzbf3I/AAAAAAAAEEA/MD_M0jdANX4/s1600-h/20090211c.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301565513419947890" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLxvtzbf3I/AAAAAAAAEEA/MD_M0jdANX4/s400/20090211c.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" /></a>Or you could <a href="http://computerbasicsforfree.blogspot.com/2008/11/just-right-click.html">right-click</a> in the left hand column on the folder name where you want your new folder creating and then choose <em>New</em> and then <em>Folder</em>.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLyIUP50II/AAAAAAAAEEI/X4CnCkjGWuI/s1600-h/20090211d.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301565936056782978" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLyIUP50II/AAAAAAAAEEI/X4CnCkjGWuI/s400/20090211d.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 186px;" /></a>Your new folder will appear like this with the folder name "<em>New Folder</em> highlighted for you to type a name for it. <strong>Note: you don't have to delete this as I've watched countless people do</strong> - just start typing and the existing text will disappear as you type the first letter of the new folder's name.<br /><br />If you click the mouse anywhere else though the folder keeps its name of <em>New Folder</em>. You can still rename it - and any other folder - at any time as follows.<br /><br />Click on the folder name to select the folder. Then you have a choice...<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLzD3rxXVI/AAAAAAAAEEQ/Zk73Iszayuc/s1600-h/20090211e.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301566959181192530" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SZLzD3rxXVI/AAAAAAAAEEQ/Zk73Iszayuc/s400/20090211e.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 321px;" /></a>You can use the <em>File</em> menu again and choose <em>Rename</em>. <br /><br />Or you can click on the folder once more and the name will be highlighted ready for over-typing. (Don't double-click though as this opens the folder - you have to click once to select it, pause and then click again to rename it)<br /><br />Or you can press the <em>F2</em> key which will highlight the folder name. This works on files too. Click once on any file or folder, press <em>F2</em> and the name is highlighted for you to type a new name.<br /><br /><strong>Note: if it's a file and you can see the <em>extension</em> (the dot and three-characters as in filename.doc or filename.exe) then whatever you do, make sure you leave the dot and the same three characters! Otherwise the file may not work.</strong>

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Email Rules in MS Outlook

If you get bothered by spam of one sort or another or even if you just want to automatically sort your incoming emails to make life easier, you can make up some rules that Outlook will then follow to direct emails to certain folders or to automatically delete them.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsNF3_emqI/AAAAAAAAEBU/yiUCNiJ4SVI/s1600-h/20090205a.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299343781112224418" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsNF3_emqI/AAAAAAAAEBU/yiUCNiJ4SVI/s400/20090205a.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 314px;" /></a>You will find the <strong>Rules and Alerts </strong>tool on the <strong>Tools</strong> menu.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsNaV7YacI/AAAAAAAAEBc/1xlTGi8DQ34/s1600-h/20090205b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299344132745488834" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsNaV7YacI/AAAAAAAAEBc/1xlTGi8DQ34/s400/20090205b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 303px;" /></a>We are going to create a new rule here, but there is also the option to edit any rules you have already created.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsNoKydgaI/AAAAAAAAEBk/k_UMFaBKBeA/s1600-h/20090205c.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299344370273452450" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsNoKydgaI/AAAAAAAAEBk/k_UMFaBKBeA/s400/20090205c.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 305px; height: 400px;" /></a>There are many different types of rules - we'll have a look at a longer list later, but for now we are going to create a rule to move all messages that have a specific word (or part of a word) to a certain sub-folder that we have created within our <strong>Inbox</strong> folder.<br /><br />This can be done quite simply as shown below:<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsUxyRH1oI/AAAAAAAAECg/trbzvYqXsiY/s1600-h/20090205f.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299352232071255682" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsUxyRH1oI/AAAAAAAAECg/trbzvYqXsiY/s400/20090205f.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" /></a>Point the mouse to the <strong>Inbox</strong> label (or any other folder to create a sub-folder within it) and <a href="http://computerbasicsforfree.blogspot.com/2008/11/just-right-click.html">right-click</a>. Then choose <strong>New Folder</strong>.<br /><br />Note that in the third screen shot my mouse pointer (the pointing hand) was pointing to the link for <strong>specific words</strong>. This allows me to specify the text that the rule will be based on. In fact I'm going to enter three asterisks *** as a lot of spam messages have that as an attention grabber. I could have entered an actual word or part of a word. Make sure if you enter a part of a word that it won't also match parts of other words and move emails that you may want to receive in your Inbox!<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsRmblRqzI/AAAAAAAAEB0/yPwceSn1AJM/s1600-h/20090205d.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299348738468326194" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsRmblRqzI/AAAAAAAAEB0/yPwceSn1AJM/s400/20090205d.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" /></a>Having now entered the text that I want Outlook to base the rule on, I can now click on the link of <strong>Specified</strong> Folder.<br /><br />You can see that this has opened a further window to allow me to scroll through and choose one of my existing folders.<br /><br />Because it's spam that I'm searching for, I want to choose the <strong>Deleted Items </strong>folder, which is exactly the same as choosing to delete the email without even ever having to see it. Note now though that if one of your contacts or friends sends a message with the subject ***Happy Birthday!*** you won't see it!<br /><br />And to end this blog entry - here's a few of the rule types you can create.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsSvQPQvvI/AAAAAAAAEB8/q-Pe_gZbe1U/s1600-h/20090205e.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299349989553651442" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_i9xWjDR4D-E/SYsSvQPQvvI/AAAAAAAAEB8/q-Pe_gZbe1U/s400/20090205e.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 384px; height: 400px;" /></a>

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