Tips & Tricks for Windows, Office, and Whatever
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]
A user was testing Office 2013 and discovered the font his company requires him to use does not work in Office 2013. Type 1 fonts are replaced by a generic system font, as seen in these screen shots. This image is from Office 2007. While this … [Continue reading]
When I moved slipstick over to WordPress, one of my concerns was how to add articles to the front page and/or to the 'home page' of the different sections of the site. I don't want all new pages or all new pages within a specific category on any of … [Continue reading]
When a computer crashes and you have access to the old hard drive from your new computer, can you open the registry to recover data stored in the registry, such as Outlook settings, CD Keys, etc? Sure. First, find the registry files. If the … [Continue reading]
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