A.You can delete all the websites in your History, or you can delete selected ones. To delete all the websites, right-click on the Internet Explorer icon and select Properties. On the General tab, under Browsing History, click on the Delete button. (Notice that there are three dots following the Delete. This means that a menu or choices will appear when that button is clicked.) The Delete Browsing History window opens with options for deleting Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, History, Form data, and Passwords that are automatically filled in when you log onto a website you’ve visited. Clicking on Delete History opens one more dialog box asking the question, “Are you sure you want to delete your history of visited websites? Click on the Yes button or press the Enter key.

To delete selected websites, with Internet Explorer open, click on View—Explorer Bar—History, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+H. Right-clicking on the individual websites gives you a choice to either Expand or Delete the site. Thanks to Rhonda Winterhalter for this info.

If IE 7 is your browser, clicking on the Star for the Favorites Center, then clicking the History button lets you see sites you visited on specific days. Right-clicking gives the Expand or Delete options.

Now, in case IE 6.0 isn't there automatically, go back to the Control Panel, click on Add Remove Programs, click on Add Remove Windows Components on the left sidebar, uncheck Internet Explorer and click on Next. Reboot your computer. Now go add Internet Explorer back on by following the same path and putting the checkmark back in Windows Components—Internet Explorer and click on Next. That should put you back in IE 6.0.

The Format Painter is part of the Standard Toolbar, but if you don’t see it along with the Cut , Copy , and Paste icons, click on Tools—Customize—Format and scroll down until you see Format Painter . Left-click and drag the Format Painter button up into the toolbar.

In Excel, select a cell or range that has the formatting you want to copy.

Do one of the following:

To copy the formatting to a cell or range, click the Format Painter button once.

To copy the formatting in the selected cell or range to several locations, double-click the Format Painter button. When you finish copying the formatting, click the button again.

To copy column widths, select the heading of the column that is the width you want to copy, click the Format Painter button, and then click the heading of the column you want to copy the width to.

In Word, select the text or graphic that has the formatting that you want to copy. The pointer will change to a paintbrush when you click on the Format Painter button. Drag over the text you want to change and when you release the left mouse button, the formatting magically is changed. To apply the formatting to one block of text or one heading, click once. To apply formatting to more than one block of text or graphic, double-click Format Painter.

For graphics, the Format Painter works best with drawing objects, such as AutoShapes. However, you can copy formatting from a picture (such as the picture's border) as long as the wrapping style of the picture is set to something other than In Line With Text (on the Drawing toolbar, click Draw, and then point to Text Wrapping).

The Format Painter can't copy the font and font size on WordArt text—text objects you create with ready-made effects to which you can apply additional formatting options.

Once you've created a format that you like, you don't have to repeat all those steps each time you want to use that format. Instead, Microsoft Office programs offer the Format Painter to copy it. I’m so glad that question was asked, because I’m having so much fun with it. The tutorial in Office Online is helpful to show you how some of these transformations are accomplished. Just type the words Format Painter into the question box in the upper right corner of the screen.