Rather than putting everyone’s files in one location, Windows Vista allocates folder structures for each user, keeping your information more private and less cluttered. User Accounts are configured through User Accounts and Family Safety in Control Panel.

Note: You must be an administrator, and your organization might limit the use of administrator rights.

In Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, you can create hyperlinks to other OneNote pages so that you can easily jump between your notes or point other users to a page in a shared notebook.

1. Right-click the page tab of the OneNote page that you want to link to.
2. Click Create Hyperlink to This Page.
3. Paste the address of the page where you want to create the link. This might be on another page in your notebook, or in an e-mail message inviting others to view a shared notebook, for example.

When you try to access Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 after reinstalling the 2007 Microsoft Office system, you will receive an error message recommending that you access your Microsoft Exchange server to reinstate the Open Software Description (OSD) file. This can be fixed.

1. In Control Panel, click User Accounts, double-click Mail, and then click E-mail Accounts.
2. Double-click your account, and then change your user name to an alias.
3. Click Next, and then exit.

1. Click the Office button.
2. Click Print.
3. In the Print what section, select the Ignore print areas check box.

You can move items from one place to another in Microsoft Office Outlook. The keyboard shortcut SHIFT+CTRL+V opens the Move Items window. For example, to convert an e-mail message into a task, press SHIFT+CTRL+V followed by T. This shortcut will save a lot of time scrolling through your folder list. If you have more than one folder that begins with the letter T, just keep pressing T until the Tasks folder is selected, and then press ENTER.

In most cases, double-clicking a file on your Mac automatically opens it in the appropriate application. But sometimes you may want to overrule your Mac and open a file in something other than the default.

For example, say you’ve edited a series of images in Photoshop, and now you want to take a quick look at them. You might prefer to view them in Preview, a Mac OS X program that opens in an instant, rather than the larger, slower-to-load Photoshop application.

To quickly specify your app, Control-click the item you want to open, then choose Open With from the pop-up menu that appears. This takes you to a list of every application your Mac considers capable of reading the file. Choose the name of the application you want, and the file opens in that program.

If you think you’ll be opening the file repeatedly in that program, you may want to specify an ongoing Open With preference. To do so, select the file and press Command-I to see the file’s Info window. Click the Open With tab and choose your program. Now the file will always open with your preferred application. And if you click the Change All… button, every file of the same type will open with this application.

Control-click any file to specify the application in which it opens.

The first time you send an e-mail message to someone who has turned on his or her out-of-office notification, you’ll receive an automated e-mail message to inform you. At times, it’s crucial that you see this notification so you can resend your message to someone else. By creating a rule that triggers a desktop alert, you’ll spot out-of-office notifications as soon as they arrive. By adding extra conditions to your rule, you can also automatically mark an out-of-office message as read, and then move it from your Inbox to a different folder for later reference. This way, the next time you’re unsure when someone will return from a vacation, for example, you can simply refer back to the out-of-office message that Microsoft Office Outlook automatically filed for you.

In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, charts have as much data-crunching power as ever. They’re also part of the new Microsoft Office graphics engine, so you can format charts with the same flexibility as other Microsoft Office drawing objects, such as shapes. To apply a style of formatting to the entire chart, on the Chart Tools Design tab, select an entry from the Chart Styles gallery. Or to apply custom formatting, select a chart element (such as a data series), and then click the Chart Tools Format tab for the option to apply shape styles, fill, outline, or effect formatting. From the Chart Tools Format tab, you can also apply WordArt formatting to the text of selected chart elements, such as the legend, axis labels, and data labels.

Leopard makes it easy to create a Dashboard widget from a segment of a web page. For example, you can capture a “new releases” list from a media website, or the “latest posts” field from an Internet discussion group. These Web Clips appear, automatically updated, whenever you open Dashboard.

Here’s an example, using www.macmusic.org, a cool music software website. We navigated to their home page in Safari and clicked the Web Clip button (next to the address field).

The entire page darkens save for a bright rectangle. Drag the rectangle from its center and edges until it covers the segment you want to capture. Then click Add and Safari sends your Web Clip to Dashboard.

(If Safari doesn’t display the Web Clip button, choose Customize Toolbar in Safari’s View menu and add the button to Safari’s toolbar.)

Now the Web Clip appears as a new widget in Dashboard. You can still edit it: Move your cursor over the widget’s lower-right corner until a small letter i appears. Click it to resize or reposition the content, or customize its border using built-in styles.

To create a table in OneNote, type a word and press the TAB key to create columns. Press the ENTER key to create rows.