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Maximize Space by "Auto-Hiding" the Ribbon in Office 2007

The Ribbon feature in Microsoft Office 2007 is full of features that make it easier to navigate through options, but it takes up a lot of space. If you think the Ribbon is too big, you can put it into a pseudo &#822...

Brian Burgess May 19th, 2007

Add Signature In Outlook 2007 Using The Ribbon

Adding your contact information as a Signature to your emails is very useful in a corporate environment, but also for personal emails as well. You can add a signature the same way as you would in 2003, but you can ...

Brian Burgess May 19th, 2007

Detect and Repair Applications In Microsoft Office 2007

How many times have you had a Microsoft Office application crash or lock up your system? The worst culprits seem to be Outlook and Access for me.

Brian Burgess May 19th, 2007

Export an Access 2003 Report Into Excel Spreadsheet

In the corporate environment, Excel is king. So when you have an Access database report that you would really prefer to analyze in Excel spreadsheet form, there’s an easy way to convert it.

Brian Burgess May 16th, 2007

Create A Report in MS Access 2003 Using Report Wizard

Microsoft Access is used within many businesses to store and access information. You can also create a simple report easily using the Report Wizard.

Brian Burgess May 16th, 2007

Add Your Gmail Account to Outlook 2007

Everybody loves Gmail, but some people use a desktop client, especially in corporate environments where Outlook is king. Adding your Gmail account to Outlook 2007 couldn’t be easier.

Brian Burgess May 15th, 2007

Create Mailing Labels in Word 2003 With Mail Merge

You can use Mail Merge in Word 2003 to create mailing labels for a database full of customers.

Brian Burgess May 15th, 2007

Change The Default Color Scheme In Office 2007

The Microsoft Office 2007 color scheme certainly fits in Windows Vista, but fortunately for those of us unhappy with so much light blue, the color scheme can be changed.

Brian Burgess May 14th, 2007

Fix for Slow "Instant Search" In Outlook 2007

If Outlook 2007’s new Instant Search just isn’t… instant… there’s a patch from Microsoft that might fix this problem for you.

Lowell Heddings Apr 27th, 2007

Share Your Calendar in Outlook 2003 / Exchange Environment

If you would like better communication with your co-workers here is a quick tip on sharing your calendar in Outlook. This will only work if you are using an Exchange Server e-mail account, typically something you’d be u...

Brian Burgess Apr 24th, 2007

Quickly Clean Your Inbox in Outlook 2003/2007

If you get hundreds of emails every day your inbox can fill up quickly. Outlook 2003 has an easy way to clean up your inbox quickly without having to go through each email individually to decide what needs to be kept....

Brian Burgess Apr 23rd, 2007

Save Time With Distribution Lists in Outlook 2003

Everybody sends out emails to the same group of people on a regular basis, but most people don’t realize that you can create your own private list of email addresses in Outlook by using the Distribution List feature....

Brian Burgess Apr 21st, 2007

How To Import a CSV File Containing a Column With a Leading 0 Into Excel

Microsoft Excel will automatically convert data columns into the format that it thinks is best when opening comma-separated data files. For those of us that don’t want our data changed, we can change that behavior....

PingTong Apr 20th, 2007

Create an Email Template in Outlook 2003

If you have an email you send out every day that contains the same information, or a form that requires users to dictate answers to the same questions – you can create a template in Outlook to help save you time....

Brian Burgess Apr 17th, 2007

Clear the Auto-Complete Email Address Cache in Outlook

Outlook 2003 has an automatic completion for any email address that you try to type into the To or CC fields. This feature does not pull from the contacts or address book, because you may have tried to email somebody that was...

Lowell Heddings Dec 6th, 2006

Use "Find As You Type" Search in Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2005 includes a great feature that they call Incremental Search, but I like to call “find as you type”, because that’s really what it does.

Lowell Heddings Nov 22nd, 2006

Encrypt Traffic Between Outlook and Exchange

If you are using Outlook 2003 with a Microsoft Exchange server for your email, typically in a corporate environment, you may be interested to know that you can encrypt all network communications between the Outlook client and...

Lowell Heddings Nov 20th, 2006

Export Exchange Global Address List to Access

Outlook doesn’t give you an option to export the Exchange Global Address list to any format. You don’t even have the option to sort while searching, which drives me crazy.. If I want to see who works in the Housto...

Lowell Heddings Nov 16th, 2006