Office 2007 Install Add-Ins
You can install Add-In software to most Office 2007 applications. Microsoft bundled add-in software with this release of Office. The software is included with 2007 but is not automatically installed. Here I …
Mozilla Sunbird Calendar
Hate the new calendar in Vista? Not a fan of the Outlook calendar or don’t like the idea of always being connected to the web to use Google’s Calendar? Love Open Source and all things Mozilla? Then Sunbird i…
Overlay Calendars in Outlook 2007 (like Google Calendar does)
Remembering to update a single calendar is tough enough for me, but many people use multiple calendars to keep track of teams or events. But what if you want to view all the items merged together into one calendar, similar to…
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….
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……
Save Time With Search Folders in Outlook 2007
This article was written by MysticGeek, a tech blogger at the How-To Geek Blogs.
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?…
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…
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 management. Since…
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.
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….
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 this helps wh…
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 simple, and…
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 you ne…
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’t sp…
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 items s…
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.
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. In Outlook 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 comfortable …
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 reality…
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 you that…
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.
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 that supp…
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.
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….
