Tips & Tricks for Windows, Office, and Whatever
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]
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]
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]
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]
I just want to save my Word and Excel files into my Dropbox account. I'm using Windows 8.1 and Office 365. If you use DropBox, Box, Google Drive, Tresors, Copy, or any of the oodles of online file storage services, you can save documents directly … [Continue reading]
I'm often asked how to control print settings when using a macro to print from Outlook. In most cases you can't, because the print dialog is not exposed in the object model. You can use Windows Shell to print any document type, using the native … [Continue reading]
Warning: Do not use this method with OneDrive (consumer) in Windows 10 After moving a client to Office 365, he started moving files into OneDrive. He tried to add some super large files that were too large to sync, which created sync errors that … [Continue reading]
Some days I absolutely hate OneNote. I like to save questions I find on webpages to OneNote to have as ideas for future tips or macros or to report as bugs, to save recipes and other info), but the Send to OneNote command on the right-click menu … [Continue reading]
One of my clients recently purchased a new computer and wanted to know how to remove the extra folders in Windows Explorer. Coming from Windows XP, the user found the folder navigation confusing, with a lot of jumping around. The first thing I … [Continue reading]
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