When you create a Microsoft Access database (.mdb) file in Microsoft Access 2007, you can set up a workgroup information file containing information about the users in a workgroup. A workgroup is an environment within a database where multiple users can share data. You easily can join a workgroup using the Workgroup Administrator tool in Access 2007. You will then be able to work with other users collaboratively to make changes to the database....

Updated August 23, 2017 Call Blocking If someone has blocked you from making calls to his cell phone, you will normally hear one ring before being directed to voicemail. If he doesn’t have voicemail, you may get a message that he is not available for calls. Service Area If a person isn’t answering his phone, he may simply be out of the service area or have the mobile switched off....

Linksys makes it possible to set up your wireless router and to modify its settings whenever you want. Find specific information about your wireless network and settings with the Linksys web-based setup page. This interface will allow you to view your router data, change your router’s security mode and password or apply certain restrictions to your network. You can also use the web-based interface to find out your Linksys Service Set Identifier (SSID)....

With Microsoft Word–one of the most popular word processing programs–you can create, edit and save documents. To protect your privacy and important documents, Microsoft Word enables you to lock your document using simple password protection. It is a feature that comes in handy if you have personal information such as bank information, a password list, or proposal. Lock your document and prevent unauthorized users from making changes to it.

Staying logged into Facebook on a computer that isn’t yours can put your account at risk of being compromised. While it’s usually easy to log out of Facebook, site errors can prevent you from completing the process. To protect your personal information, take steps to clear the browser of all active logins to extinguish your Facebook session from outside of Facebook. When you’ve finished, your Facebook account will no longer be active on the computer....

Updated February 10, 2017 Open AutoCAD LT and draw a rectangle, which you’ll convert to a 3-D box. Click the “Home” tab, then click the “Rectangle” tool in the “Draw” panel. (You can locate this tool by its icon, which displays a rectangle whose top-right and bottom -eft corners have tiny circles.) Click anywhere in the drawing window to plot the rectangle’s first point, then drag to grow the rectangle to any size you want....

Create a header image in an image editing application, such as Windows Paint, Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. You can create a banner from scratch, modify a photo or scale and resize your company’s logo to use as your Tumblr header image. Ensure that your header image complies with Tumblr image standards (see Resources). Save the image as JPG, GIF, BMP or PNG file. Log in to your Tumblr dashboard and open the blog you wish to modify....

Adobe InDesign is a software graphics package that allows publishers to prepare projects for printing. Crosswords are a puzzle that requires you to assemble a collection of words crossing each other with the same letters, deriving your answers from provided clues. Form a grid in Adobe InDesign to make a crossword, and then black out the nonactive parts of the design. Writer Bio

With all of the acronyms that go into creating an Adobe Dreamweaver website, including HTML, CSS and JPG, another addition to the alphabet soup is PDF. The Adobe portable document format file is a way for you to convert Dreamweaver pages, which may only be opened by other Dreamweaver users, into a more universal format. Make a PDF from your Dreamweaver site files and share your website before uploading it to the Internet....

Most scanners will usually scan in color when they acquire an image. While this is useful for photographs, if you have scanned a text document, then you only need the file to be stored in black and white. Color images take up more space than black-and-white images on your computer. So it is useful to reduce them in size so that you can distribute or store them more effectively. You can change a color photo to black and white using the Windows Live Photo Gallery, which is built into Windows....

FM radio reception depends on distance between your receiver and the transmitting tower. A receiver with no antenna attached receives the strongest signals, but these may be prone to interference and drifting signals. A simple antenna not only stabilizes the signal from the strong stations, it allows your receiver to recognize stations with less powerful transmitters and at greater distances. A dipole antenna is simple in configuration and uses inexpensive materials in construction....

Microsoft Excel spreadsheets allow you to store and present information in a variety of ways. If you want to visually display a tally frequency, you can create a chart in an Excel spreadsheet. Excel provides many tools for customizing your charts. You can change the font, border and background formats to create a professional and visually appealing chart. Charts help you communicate information by summarizing data and displaying it in a recognizable way....

A custom website banner that links back to a website is an excellent tool for increasing traffic to your web page, selling more products through your affiliate link, or even making new friends on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. You can use one of many web-based graphic editing tools to create an attractive, professional banner for free, and turning it into a clickable link takes just a single line of HTML code....

When you have somewhere important you to need to be at a certain time, one way to make sure you get there is to set an alarm on your iPhone. When the iPhone’s clock reaches the time you’ve set on your alarm, an audible sound comes out of the iPhone and continues to play until you dismiss it. If you want to make sure that your iPhone alarm goes go off when you need it to, it’s a good idea to double-check its settings....

Photoshop Extended has 3D rendering and editing options that are not available in the standard version of the program. Cylinders are one of the preset 3D shapes available in Photoshop Extended. When you choose to create a new 3D shape, the program can automatically transform image layers into 3D cylinders. The cylinder will initially appear to be a 3D column. To change the angle and view the top or bottom of the cylinder, you need to use the “3D Rotate” tool....

Image Limitations With CSS, you can customize the various elements of your “Ask” box. For example, you can use a patterned image that contrasts nicely with your theme behind the text area and “Submit” button. Because Tumblr provides you with an i-Frame code rather than the actual form code for your page, you cannot individually customize the form fields. For example, you cannot add an image specifically to the text area or replace the background image of the “Ask” box so that it displays something else....

If you run out of battery on your Vizio remote controller or if the controller doesn’t work any more, you can still manually scan for channels on your Vizio TV. However, you must be able to access the “Menu” button on the TV, as well as the arrow and “Enter” buttons. These buttons are typically located on the left side panel of the TV. The buttons you press to scan for channels are identical to those you press when using a remote....

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a widely used format for finalized electronic documents, interactive forms and documents that are going to be commercially printed. The format can be viewed using any basic PDF reader. PDF content cannot be changed easily, but tools exist to provide assistance, The popular PDF creation software Adobe Acrobat not only can create individual PDF documents but also can merge multiple PDFs into one single document....

Microsoft Windows XP mounts external USB drives automatically. When the drive is connected to a USB port and powered on, Windows detects the drive and assigns it the next available drive letter. It is possible to manually mount the drive to a folder on another drive, or assign a different drive letter. The contents of the drive appear when the folder or drive letter mount point is clicked. The contents of the drive can be accessed and modified in multiple locations....

The Vuze client, formerly named Azureus, enables you to download torrent files to your computer. When you download a torrent, you’re actually downloading pieces of a whole file from multiple people, called seeds. Once a download is complete, the torrent remains on your computer so other users can seed from you. Deleting the torrent is one way to stop people from downloading from you. You can also set Vuze to never automatically seed certain torrents using the application’s Ignore Rules option....