Microsoft Office
Changing default language in Office 2007
I recently moved back to Australia from the USA and had plenty of fun trying to change all of my defaults from USA to Australia. Here is a list of things to check whenever you are changing countries:
1. Microsoft Vista: Control Panel –> Clock, Language, and Region –> Change the country or region
and [...]
Email merge in Microsoft Word
Many programs, including MS Word, allow you to send personalized e-mails to any number of people. So instead of having to send a general e-mail to (for example) “Dear customer” you can send it to “Dear John Smith” and “Dear Jane Jones”.
The basic steps are:
1. Create a normal Word document that contains your standard e-mail [...]
Changing the Password Complexity in ASP.NET
Here is a great blog post on how to change the password complexity requirements in ASP.NET:
http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2005/05/11/406550.aspx
Using two ASP.NET membership providers
Recently I wanted to give someone access to one of my teaching web sites. They were not a student or faculty member so they didn’t have an account in our active directory. I am not a system administrator so I wasn’t able to add them to the active directory either. The solution was to add [...]