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Add Word/Excel 97-2003 Documents Back to the "New" Context Menu After Installing Office 2007

If you are using Office 2007 in an environment where everybody else is using Office 2003, you might have already set Excel or Word to always save to 2003 format, but what about when you create new documents using the New menu…

Lowell Heddings Aug 17th, 2008

Gadgets To Help You Work More Efficiently In Outlook 2007

For this Sunday’s Office tip we are going to look at Vista Sidebar Gadgets that can help you better manage appointments and GTD lists in Outlook 2007. When Vista first came out I was not a fan of the Sidebar or its ga…

Brian Burgess Aug 17th, 2008

Backup or Transfer Microsoft Office 2007 Quick Parts Between Computers

After reading an article I wrote over at Lifehacker on how to use the Quick Parts feature in Outlook, reader Jason wrote in asking how you can transfer them to another computer once you’ve created them, and it seemed useful e…

Lowell Heddings Aug 14th, 2008

Create An Electronic Business Card In Outlook 2007

During a workday things can definitely seem overwhelming as the amount of data we are expected to absorb increases at such a rapid pace. In this fast paced environment it can be easy to misplace an important contact or …

Brian Burgess Aug 10th, 2008

Create An Electronic Business Card In Outlook 2007

This article is part of Mysticgeek’s IT blog, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery.

Brian Burgess Aug 9th, 2008

Transfer or Move Your Microsoft Office Custom Dictionary

One of our great readers wrote in yesterday asking how to migrate the custom Office dictionary from one computer to another, and it seemed worthy enough to write about for everybody’s benefit. Thanks Josh!…

Lowell Heddings Aug 8th, 2008

How-To Geek on Lifehacker: Debunking Windows Performance Tweaking Myths

In my latest article on Lifehacker, I examined some of the most offensive myths out there regarding PC performance tweaking, and debunk them once and for all:

Lowell Heddings Aug 5th, 2008

Subscribe To RSS Feeds Mozilla’s Thunderbird

A while back I wrote an article on how to use Outlook 2007 as an RSS reader. In my new position I am actually using Thunderbird as my email client and wanted to subscribe to RSS feeds using this instead of using a separate …

Brian Burgess Aug 5th, 2008

Convert An Excel Spreadsheet To A Tab Delimited Text File

When it comes to the business world and office documents, there are tons of file formats, extensions, and associations to be considered. When Adobe came out with the PDF format it was to be the “standard” and even that …

Brian Burgess Aug 3rd, 2008

Keep An Eye On Webmail With POP Peeper

Having one location to check all of your email accounts via your desktop is always a good thing. There are many email managers to choose from including Outlook and Thunderbird. Being able to check your email from …

Brian Burgess Jul 24th, 2008

How To Insert Characters and Symbols Into Excel

Many times we will want to enter in symbols and character other than the standard. You might be doing business in Europe and need to enter in Euro’s or other symbology into Excel sheets. We can achieve this in e…

Brian Burgess Jul 21st, 2008

Keyboard Ninja: Create a Hotkey to Switch to Your Open Outlook Window

Have you ever wondered how many times per day you check your email? For many of us, it’s far too often… and if every single time you have to click on a little icon in the tray, or find the Outlook button in the taskbar, it …

Lowell Heddings Jul 9th, 2008

Add Your Gmail Account To Thunderbird

If you missed the option to set up your Gmail in Thunderbird during the initial installation, here is how to set it up quickly and easily.

Brian Burgess Jun 24th, 2008

Create A Backup Of Windows Calendar

So many of us rely on calendar applications during our busy day. Some rely on the Outlook Calendar, Gmail Calendar, and yes even some folks use the built in Window’s Calendar in Vista. Today i am going to show you…

Brian Burgess Jun 17th, 2008

Mysticgeek Blog: Create Appealing Charts In Excel 2007

This article is part of Mysticgeek’s IT blog, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery.

Lowell Heddings Jun 5th, 2008

Create Appealing Charts In Excel 2007

Creating a professional looking chart for Excel presentations is extremely easy in Excel 2007. Making charts is a more interesting way to present data than just going through the rows and columns on a spreadsheet….

Brian Burgess Jun 5th, 2008

Keyboard Ninja: Using the Instant Search Shortcut Keys in Microsoft Outlook 2007

If you are using Microsoft Outlook as your email client, you’ve likely already used the instant search box… but using it can be even more “instant” if you learn how to use a couple of shortcut keys, instead of having to res…

Lowell Heddings Jun 2nd, 2008

Prevent Outlook with Gmail IMAP from Showing Duplicate Tasks in the To-Do Bar

If you are using Outlook with Gmail over IMAP, you might have noticed a really annoying problem: if you flag an email in Outlook, or use the Star feature in Gmail, you’ll often end up with duplicate items in the To-Do bar….

Lowell Heddings May 29th, 2008

Troubleshooting: Prevent "Locate Link Browser" Popup Dialog when Clicking on Links in Outlook

This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, a technology enthusiast and lead blogger for Online-Tech-Tips.

Lowell Heddings May 13th, 2008

See Task Type at a Glance by Adding the Icon Column to the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar

Have you ever noticed that the To-Do bar in Outlook 2007 doesn’t show you what type of item is in the list? It could be a task or a flagged email, but which one is it? With a simple tweak you can add the icon column to easily…

Lowell Heddings Apr 30th, 2008

Final Set Up After Installing Open Office

In a previous post I showed the initial screen shots for setting up Open Office on Vista. In this post I would like to show the final finishing set up steps.

Brian Burgess Apr 25th, 2008

Stop Hitting Snooze: Change the Default Reminder Time for Outlook Appointments

How many times has the Outlook reminder popped up on your screen only for you to hit the Snooze button to be reminded again in 5 minutes. How can you possibly be productive while hitting the snooze button repeatedly throughou…

Lowell Heddings Apr 25th, 2008

Installing Open Office 2.4

Last week i wrote about switching my main OS to Kubuntu and so far everything has been going fairly well except for a few configurations here and there. I hope to have some cool posts regarding Linux topics in the near futur…

Brian Burgess Apr 22nd, 2008

Stupid Geek Tricks: Find Messages Quickly Without Searching in Outlook

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

Brian Burgess Apr 17th, 2008

Create a Query in Microsoft Access to Find Duplicate Entries in a Table

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

Brian Burgess Apr 16th, 2008