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Remove Office Licenses from Windows

The problem: you had an Office 365 trial version or a subscription and switched to a different subscription or a perpetual license but are always being asked to sign in to activate the old license. Or you switched from Office 365 Home or Personal subscription to an Office 365 Business subscription but are missing some business features because the license keeps reverting to the Home license. To fix this, you need to remove the license for … [Continue reading]

Add a Confirm Unsubscribe Link in Sendy

This is as much for me to remember what in the heck I did so i can redo it the next time Sendy gets updated and I couldn't find anything online that told how to do this. I've learned over the years of helping people that others are probably looking for this too, so I'm putting it online instead of in OneNote. The problem: I didn't like that clicking the Unsubscribe link in emails generated by Sendy immediately unsubscribed the address. I … [Continue reading]

Add the Recent Items Folder to Windows 10 Quick Access

A client recently installed Windows 10 and Office 2016 and missed the recent documents. He doesn’t like the recent files in the right pane of Quick Access. I showed him how to customize Word and Excel to show his templates by default and view his recent documents, as well as use the Windows jump list and pin his templates and files to the jump list. But he still wanted the familiar Recent Items folder in Windows Explorer Quick Access list. … [Continue reading]

A New Scam? Cashing in on Kohl's Cash

The postman surprised me with a package from Kohl’s today. I thought he had the wrong address but nope, it was for me. Funny, I didn't remember ordering it. Did my kids send me something? Nah... probably not. I opened it and found 11 men’s dress … [Continue reading]

Windows 10: Pin Option Not Available at Logon

If you are using a pin to log onto Windows and the option to log in with your pin disappears following a Windows update, leaving password as the only way to log in, you’ll need to go into Settings and reset the Pin then re-enable it. Changing the pin … [Continue reading]

Edit Windows Mail Custom Dictionary

choose the default.dic file for your language

I use Windows 10 and the mail app. Spell checking is enabled in the Mail app but I accidentally added a misspelled word as a correctly spelled word. Where is my list of words saved and how do I edit it? When you right click on a misspelled word in … [Continue reading]

Can't Uninstall Skype? Stop it from Running Instead

Office 365 for Business installs Skype for Business (aka Lync) and you cannot uninstall it. However, you can prevent it from running when Windows starts, which is sufficient for many users as it gets it out of their face. This leaves it installed, … [Continue reading]

How to extract the contents of an exe or msi installation file

Getting the files out of an installation file is fairly easy if you have the right tools. A lot of people already have a tool to extract files from an exe: WinZip. If you aren't a fan of WinZip, try 7Zip can do it too, and it's free. You should … [Continue reading]

Replace Office Document Imaging (MODI) with OneNote

Is there a replacement for Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI)? If you need to print documents to an electronic format, use the Send to the OneNote printer. All of the "printed" files are conveniently together in OneNote and you can either … [Continue reading]