[Ham-Computers] XP-Pro, How do I ???

[Phil Atchley]

Hi.
I've been running XP Pro for sometime now and like it a great deal.  Just a
couple small things that I haven't been able to figure out, maybe somebody
here can help.  (No I didn't find the answers in the help files though that
doesn't surprise me).

1.  I use I.E 6.0 and Outlook Express 6 on a dialup. The computer is a
standalone machine with no other computers networked to it.  When I select
any of my programs that requires a dialup it dials the ISP and connects ok
(elite.net) and everything works just fine.  HOWEVER, when I'm finished and
close the program the dialup connection remains intact until I left click on
the little icon in the taskbar and tell it to disconnect.  It then
reluctantly disconnects (takes a little while)....  When I ran WIN98 SE
anytime I closed a program requiring Internet access it brought up an "auto
disconnect" window and when I clicked it the disconnect was very quick.  I
can find nothing to allow a "Autodisconnect" in my XP network stuff.

2.  Office XP.  Up to the time I installed XP I'd been using the freeware
602 Office Suite to access Excel and Word documents.  Works ok but not
great.  HOWEVER, it did allow me to open two Excel documents in different
windows and "split" the screen displaying one document below the other (it
had a menu select to allow documents in different windows).  Now in XP Pro
I'm running Office XP and for the life of me I CANNOT figure out how to do
this in Excel.  It insists in opening both documents to one window and
forcing me to view one or the other.

73 de Phil  KO6BB