Enter the Tab character in Gmail

If you use Gmail you might have come across a situation where you wanted to enter a Tab in an email. This could be for formatting items in a list, to line up columns. (You could put the data into Excel and attach the spreadsheet but the user at the other end may not have Excel)

This is how the list looks before adding Tabs, for example I'll use a list of items purchased.

There's a little known Windows feature of adding characters by using their ASCII code.  The way to do it is by holding ALT, and then entering the code of the character you want.  You need to use the numeric keypad to enter these characters.  The ASCII code for Tab is 009, so by holding down ALT and then entering 009 we get a Tab character. See http://www.wikihow.com/Type-Symbols-Using-the-ALT-Key

After entering the Tabs in the original email this is now how it looks:

Office 2007 Document Upgrade - No Thanks

If Microsoft had it's way we'd all upgrade our PCs every time a new version of Windows/Office/DirectX came out.

Every time you save an encrypted document in Office 2007 it prompts you to upgrade your document format to the Office Open XML format. No thanks, I'd rather not, I'm quite happy with the standard 97/2003 format.



To disable this 'feature' you had to add a new registry key, it would have been too simple to put it in as an option, everyone might change it:

1. Using Regedit.exe go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common
2. Create a new key (folder) called Security
3. In the new folder create a new DWORD Value called NoPromptForRC4Encryption and set it to 1