Tips & Tricks for Windows, Office, and Whatever
I receive many requests for help in adding numbers and codes to Outlook subject lines. Some users want to sequential numbers, such as you'd use with invoices, others want to use random numbers or random characters for tracking purposes. These … [Continue reading]
A forum user had this complaint about Office 2013: To open an existing document from a program like Excel, I have to follow these steps: 1. Click 'Open' from the Quick Access toolbar or by clicking on 'File' 2. Click on 'Computer' 3. Click on … [Continue reading]
I decided to start using my netbook again, for the times when I need a bigger keyboard - I have a Sony Duo and use it mostly as a touch pad, as the keyboard is way too small and I make too many typos. I have a 15" laptop with 8 GB of memory, but my … [Continue reading]
One problem popular all popular websites face is speed - it takes a lot of bandwidth to serve visitors. While it's fairly easy to offload videos to YouTube, it's not as easy to offload screenshots (and I use a lot of screenshots). Fortunately … [Continue reading]
If you connected your Facebook, LinkedIn, or other social networking site to your Microsoft Account and now want to edit the settings or disconnect the account, go to profile.live.com Click Manage, then Edit Finally, click the Remove … [Continue reading]
In both Windows 7 and Windows 8, the Favorites folder list in Windows Explorer reduces the need to use a Places bar, however, the Places bar can be useful in Windows 7/8, allowing you to display up to 10 additional shortcuts in the File Open explorer … [Continue reading]
I use the email marketer software from Interspire for my mailing lists and one week, yahoo.com bounced several hundred addresses. I knew most of the addresses were valid because one of the bounced addresses was my own, plus the bounce rate was 20x … [Continue reading]
I use Word's Building Blocks (Quick Parts) to hold blocks of text I insert into invoices but using the Building Blocks Organizer to insert blocks is slow and the names I gave my blocks are too similar, so I can't quickly type in part of the name and … [Continue reading]
This is not new to Office 2013, but apparently many users skipped Office 2010 and are only now discovering that some older files won't open in the Office applications. This is because of a security feature called File Block. The File Block … [Continue reading]
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