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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]

Save Office Documents to a Cloud Service by default

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]

Print a PDF using VBA

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]

Clear OneDrive or OneDrive for Business Cache

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]

Send to OneNote: The service has not been started

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]

Remove Libraries and HomeGroup from Windows Explorer

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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