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Clear Outlook Searches and MRU (Most Recently Used) Lists

One of the mind boggling things about Microsoft Outlook is that even with zillions of settings in the preferences, you still can’t easily clear private data like MRU lists by using an option in the UI....

Lowell Heddings Sep 17th, 2007

Undocumented Microsoft Word Feature: Insert Lorem Ipsum Text

Our tip last week about inserting random text was extremely popular, but virtually everybody said it would be much better if you could insert lorem ipsum text into the document instead of random content from the help file&#82...

Lowell Heddings Sep 13th, 2007

Save Time With Search Folders in Outlook 2007

This article was written by MysticGeek, a tech blogger at the How-To Geek Blogs.

Brian Burgess Sep 11th, 2007

Use Outlook Rules to Prevent "Oh No!" After Sending Emails

How many times have you sent an email and then realized a few seconds later that your snarky comment was sent to the entire mailing list, or left an embarrassing typo in an email to somebody you were trying to impress?...

Lowell Heddings Sep 11th, 2007

Use Hotmail from Microsoft Outlook

If you are still using Hotmail but would prefer to access your email from a desktop client, then you might be interested to know that Microsoft has released a connector that will allow you to send and receive Hotmail or Offic...

Lowell Heddings Sep 7th, 2007

Save Energy With Power Options In Windows

Green computing is all the rage now, I thought I would share some useful tips on saving electricity with PC’s. I manage around 100 PC’s where I work and I set each new PC I roll out to utilize XP’s power m...

Brian Burgess Sep 6th, 2007

Fun at Work: Microsoft Word "Easter Egg"

This isn’t exactly an easter egg, because it’s actually documented in Microsoft’s knowledge base, but it’s one of those features that you just weren’t expecting so it still qualifies....

Brian Burgess Sep 4th, 2007

Quick Tip: Customize Your Excel 2007 Quick Access Toolbar

The new Ribbon in Office 2007 can take a while to get used to, so the Quick Access Toolbar is a great way to put your most frequently used commands on a single toolbar while you are getting used to the Ribbon....

Brian Burgess Aug 21st, 2007

Change Outlook 2007 to Show Subject Line Above Sender

If you’d rather see the subject line as the top line when using the condensed view in Outlook, you can make a simple tweak to show the subject line on the top, and the from address on the bottom. I’ve found that t...

Lowell Heddings Aug 19th, 2007

Opening Attachments in Outlook 2007 by Keyboard

A reader wrote in a while back asking if there was a hotkey to open attachments in Outlook. Since this thought had occurred to me a number of times before, I looked for a way to do it. Turns out it’s really fairly simpl...

Lowell Heddings Aug 18th, 2007

Sending Polls in Outlook 2007

Collecting responses from a group of people is something very common in an office environment. Whether you are trying to ask what type of pizza to order for a meeting, or taking a vote on who’s going to quit next, what ...

Brian Burgess Aug 10th, 2007

Using Word 2007 as a Blogging Tool

Microsoft Word is a wonderful tool for writing documents, but did you know that you can now use it to post to your blog as well? This is tremendously useful if you tend to write very long, wordy posts, or if you just can&#821...

Lowell Heddings Aug 9th, 2007

Configure AutoArchive In Outlook 2007

In a previous article we showed you how to quickly clean out your inbox. Here we will show you how to have more control over what is kept and what is not. Let’s look at a way to archive the older i...

Brian Burgess Aug 6th, 2007

Spruce Up Your Word 2007 Documents with Paragraph Borders and Shading

Here is a quick tip to add some extra flair to paragraphs in your Word 2007 documents to help them stand out.

Brian Burgess Aug 1st, 2007

Easily Resend an Email Message In Outlook 2007

A lot of times people at the workplace try creative ways to claim ignorance about important matters… Excuses like “I didn’t get your email” is one that seems to come to mind. ...

Brian Burgess Jul 29th, 2007

The First Thing to Disable in Access 2007

I have just started to play around with Access 2007 and so far my thoughts are indifferent. I am not sure how well the “Ribbon” is going to play out. I work in Access Databases a lot with my job and I am pretty ...

Brian Burgess Jul 27th, 2007

Automatically Resize Picture Attachments in Outlook 2007

Those who are familiar with resizing picture attachments in Outlook 2003 might wonder where on earth they hid this feature in Outlook 2007 – at first glance, it seems like they removed it completely, when in r...

Brian Burgess Jul 24th, 2007

Use Outlook 2007 as an RSS Reader

For those of us that have to use Outlook 2007 at work, you should know that it not only handles mail and calendars, but also makes a very nice RSS reader as well. Of course, I don’t need to tell the couple hundred of yo...

Brian Burgess Jul 10th, 2007

Add Effects To Your Pictures in Word 2007

Word 2007 has a ton of great effects that can be added to pictures in your documents, and they are all quickly accessible via the Format tab on the Ribbon.

Brian Burgess Jul 6th, 2007

Copy a Group of Cells in Excel 2007 to the Clipboard as an Image

If you want to share a small part of your Excel worksheet but don’t want to send an Excel file, you can copy part of the worksheet to the clipboard as a picture instead, which can be pasted into any application tha...

Brian Burgess Jul 4th, 2007

Easily Rotate Pictures In Word 2007

When you are including graphics in a Word document many times you want to place the image in a particular way or at a certain angle. Word 2007 has just the tool for the job.

Brian Burgess Jul 4th, 2007

Add Windows Calculator to the Excel Quick Launch Toolbar (2007, 2010, 2013)

If you like to use Windows Calculator to perform quick calculations while in Excel, you can save time by adding it to your Quick Access Toolbar. This should work for any version of Excel that has the Ribbon....

Brian Burgess Jul 3rd, 2007

Make To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007 Show Only Today’s Tasks

One of the best new features in Outlook 2007 is the To-Do bar, where you have quick access to your calendar as well as your task list. Unfortunately, the default setting of showing all of your tasks regardless of date ca...

Lowell Heddings Jul 2nd, 2007

Make Excel 2007 Wrap Text in Cells

In Excel if you have a long entry in a cell the text automatically spans into multiple columns. Here’s how simple Excel 2007 makes the task of wrapping text in worksheet cells....

Brian Burgess Jul 1st, 2007

Magnify Selected Cells In Excel 2007

Excel has a zoom feature so that you can increase the size of the entire document, but sometimes you just want to zoom in on a specific set of cells that you are working on, and Excel 2007 makes this task simple....

Brian Burgess Jul 1st, 2007