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How to Embed Fonts in a Microsoft Word Document

When you email someone a copy of your Word document or PowerPoint presentation and they don’t have a font installed, Microsoft Office shows that document with the default font instead. This can mess up the whole layout and ma…

Chris Hoffman Nov 2nd, 2017

What’s the Difference Between CC and BCC When Sending an Email?

The CC and BCC fields when sending email work similarly. CC stands for “carbon copy,” while BCC stands for “blind carbon copy.” Though these terms may have been immediately obvious when email was invented, they’re a…

Chris Hoffman Jun 12th, 2017

How to Import an iCal or .ICS File to Google Calendar

Someone sent you an iCalendar file, but you’re a Google Calendar user. Can you even use this?

Justin Pot Apr 3rd, 2017

How to Create a Vacation Away Message for (Almost) Any Email Account

If you are heading out of town, you might want to put a note on your email to let people know you won’t be available, or to contact somebody else while you’re away.

Lori Kaufman Mar 13th, 2017

How to Mark Messages as Read as Soon as You Click on Them in Outlook

Do you ever feel annoyed that Outlook doesn’t mark messages as read as soon as you click and view them in the Reading Pane? Here we show you how to make Outlook mark them as read as soon as they’re opened….

Lori Kaufman Mar 9th, 2017

How to Change the Outlook Startup Folder

By default, when you start Outlook, the inbox of the first email account you added is automatically opened. However, that may not be the email folder you use most.

Lori Kaufman Mar 6th, 2017

What’s the Difference Between Office 365 and Office 2016?

There are two ways you can buy Microsoft Office. You can buy the traditional Microsoft Office 2016 product, or get it as part of an Office 365 software subscription. Here’s the difference.

Chris Hoffman Mar 2nd, 2017

Make Outlook 2007 Mark Items as Read When Viewed in Reading Pane

One of my friends contacted me a while back asking why the default setting in Outlook 2007 is to not mark items as read until you switch to a different email, which leaves the new mail notification sitting in the system tray …

Lowell Heddings Feb 22nd, 2017

How to Set Up an Out Of Office Reply in Outlook for Windows

When you know you are going to be out of the office for a few days, you can set up the Out of Office Assistant to reply automatically, letting people know that you are enjoying your vacation while they are stuck at work….

Lori Kaufman Feb 15th, 2017

How to Back Up and Transfer Settings for Your Windows Programs to a New PC with CloneApp

How many times have you migrated to a new computer, or reinstalled Windows, and lost all the little settings in your Windows programs that you had finally tweaked perfectly?

Lori Kaufman Jan 5th, 2017

Quickly Create Appointments from Tasks with Outlook 2007’s To-Do Bar

Like any geek, I spend many hours looking for ways to save a few minutes out of my day. Everybody knows that dragging emails or tasks to the calendar icon on the left hand Outlook menu will open a new appointment… but would…

Lowell Heddings Dec 16th, 2016

How to Create a Customized Tab on the Microsoft Office Ribbon

Office 2007 saw the addition of the Ribbon feature, which some users found confusing. However, you can use it to your advantage by adding your own custom tabs containing commands you use often. This allows for quicker and eas…

Lori Kaufman Dec 14th, 2016

Stupid Geek Tricks: Browse the Web from Outlook

Most of us spend a painful amount of time in Microsoft Outlook, reading emails from the pointy-haired bosses and sending TPS reports around. Since you’re already in Outlook, why not browse the web a little?…

Brian Burgess Nov 3rd, 2016

Where Are My Outlook PST Data Files, and How Can I Move Them Somewhere Else?

Most people know that Outlook stores email for each account in a personal table storage (PST) file, but figuring out where that file is located depends on what version of Outlook you’re using. Here’s where Outlook stores yo…

Walter Glenn Oct 28th, 2016

How to Set the Default Font and Font Size for New Workbooks in Excel

Excel uses the very nice Calibri font by default in Windows, but if you’d like to use a different font or change the default size, you can easily adjust the setting in the Excel options screen.

Brian Burgess Oct 19th, 2016

How to Share Notebooks in Microsoft OneNote 2016

Microsoft OneNote 2016 is a great free note-taking tool, not just for yourself, but also if you want to collaborate on notes and projects with others, such as colleagues or family members. We’ll show you a few different ways …

Lori Kaufman Jul 21st, 2016

How to Export Your OneNote 2016 Notes to Different File Formats

OneNote 2016 is a great program for taking, storing, and syncing notes, but if you want to archive your notes or share them with someone who doesn’t have a Microsoft account, you can export them to other file formats. Here i…

Lori Kaufman Jul 19th, 2016

How to Sync OneNote 2016 Notebooks to Your OneDrive Account and Access them Anywhere

The best note-taking programs, like Evernote, sync your notes to all your other devices, so you have them wherever you go. If you have some OneNote 2016 notes that are stored locally on your computer, you can sync them to yo…

Lori Kaufman Jul 14th, 2016

Secure Your Private Word 2007 Documents

If you are worried about sensitive data in your Microsoft Word document you can both encrypt and password protect the document to keep it secure. This feature is very useful if you have to store your documents in a shared loc…

Brian Burgess Apr 28th, 2016

Add Security to Your Important Documents in Office 2010

Sometimes you need to keep your important documents secure so only certain individuals can read and edit them. Here we take a look at how to restrict editing and encrypt your documents in Office 2010.

Brian Burgess Apr 28th, 2016

How to Convert a Row to a Column in Excel the Easy Way

You’ve set up a worksheet, when you realize it would look better if the rows and columns were reversed. There’s no need to re-enter all that data. Just use Excel’s Transpose feature.

Lori Kaufman Apr 28th, 2016

How to Nest a Table Within a Table in Word

If you create documents in Word with complex layouts, tables are a useful method of arranging your content. You can use the cells in a table to structure your text, images, and even other tables. And yes, you can even nest ta…

Lori Kaufman Mar 11th, 2016

How to Use VLOOKUP in Excel

VLOOKUP is one of Excel’s most useful functions, and it’s also one of the least understood. In this article, we demystify VLOOKUP by way of a real-life example. We’ll create a usable Invoice Template for a fictitiou…

Lowell Heddings Feb 11th, 2016

How to Delete a Table in Word

If you’ve inserted a table in Word and you now want to delete it, you may have found it’s not all that straightforward to delete the entire table without deleting other content around the table. We’ll show you a couple …

Lori Kaufman Aug 4th, 2015

How to Select All or Part of a Table in Word

Just like selecting text and images in Word is a very common task in Word, so is selecting content in a table. There may be times you want to select a single cell, an entire row or column, multiple rows or columns, or an enti…

Lori Kaufman Aug 3rd, 2015

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