You can keep your color-coding very simple (for example, choosing one color for work-oriented items and another for personal items), or, with up to ten different colors to choose from, you can get pretty fancy. For example, you can choose to assign one color for personal appointments and another for work appointments, then another color for personal meetings and another for work-related meetings, and so on. Get as creative as you like! To assign a color to an appointment or meeting, do the following:

1. In Outlook, select your Calendar.

2. Right-click on the appointment or meeting you want to color-code. The shortcut menu opens.

3. Choose Label from the shortcut menu, and then choose the desired color.

By default, Outlook offers ten different colors labeled with ten different text titles (such as None, Important, Business, Personal, Vacation, etc.). The colors cannot be changed, but the text labels can be modified to make them more useful to you. To edit a label, do the following:

1. Choose Label from the Edit menu.

2. Choose Edit Labels from the Label submenu.

3. Click in the label field next to the label color you wish to modify and edit as desired.

4. Click OK.

That's all there is to it - you are on your way to becoming more organized!

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Adding an Object to the Office XP Clipboard

The Clipboard Pane appears automatically after you have cut or copied more than one item without a corresponding paste in between. You can also open the Clipboard Pane manually by choosing Office Clipboard from the Edit menu. Each item on the Clipboard is represented by an icon depicting the application it was taken from, as well as a thumbnail view of the object.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Each time you add something to the Clipboard, the new item will appear at the top of the Clipboard list. Once you have 24 objects in the Clipboard, the oldest item in the Clipboard will be deleted to make room for the new object.

Pasting an Object from the Office XP Clipboard

1. Place your cursor where you want the object pasted.

2. If necessary, open the Clipboard Pane by choosing Office Clipboard from the Edit menu.

3. In the Clipboard Pane, click the object you wish to paste.

Deleting One Object from the Office XP Clipboard

1. If necessary, open the Clipboard Pane by choosing Office Clipboard from the Edit menu.

2. Click the arrow to the right of the item and choose Delete.

Clearing All Objects from the Office XP Clipboard

1. If necessary, open the Clipboard Pane by choosing Office Clipboard from the Edit menu.

2. Click the Clear All button (near the top of the pane).

Customizing the Office XP Clipboard

The Options button (near the bottom of the pane) lets you customize the Clipboard in a number of ways.

Show Office Clipboard Automatically, which is active by default, can be unchecked if you would prefer that the Clipboard Pane only be opened manually.

Collect without Showing Office Clipboard, which is not active by default, can be checked if you would prefer that the Clipboard Pane not automatically open when you are in the middle of collecting objects.

By default, when the Office Clipboard is open, a corresponding icon will appear in the system tray (lower right corner of your screen taskbar), and a brief message appears each time you copy an item. You can choose to hide either of these indicators by unchecking the corresponding commands in the Options menu (Show Office Clipboard Icon on Taskbar and Show Status Near Taskbar When Copying).

To stop the Office Clipboard from allowing any more objects to be placed on it, right-click on the Clipboard system tray icon and choose Stop Collecting from the shortcut menu. This will cause the Clipboard Pane to close and the system tray icon to disappear. When you are ready, view the Clipboard Pane (and system tray icon) manually by choosing Office Clipboard from the Edit menu. Now YOU are in full control of the newly enhanced Office XP Clipboard!

I just bought an EMachine that has a CDRW, but it didn't come with software like Roxio. I know that XP has built in software, but it isn't user friendly. When I tried to load my Roxio platinum I encounterd the problem you addressed on your site where the recorder disappears.

Is there a solution to the problem? A different piece of software that would work with xp? I'm at a loss.

Thanks,
Michelle

Hi Michelle!

You will need to get the latest updates from Roxio at www.roxio.com and install them to ensure that the version of Easy CD Creator you are running has all the fixes necessary to work in Windows XP (Unless you are using version 6…although there are still updates available for it as well).

With regards to the CD-RW drive disappearing, my web-site does have that problem and resolution detailed. I will cut and paste that information here for you:

Problem: CD-ROM drives are missing and the following message appears in the Device Manager "Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)" in the details window for both my cd-rom and cd-recordable drives.

Possible Solution: www.aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip

Hope this helps,

Carey

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