Microsoft Office

Last update: December 2019. Here’s a question from a reader: I am using Microsoft Office 365. I have noticed that after i click on a specific email entry in the Outlook Mail tab and open it for reading, it shows as read. What’s annoying is that i have noticed that items that i view in … Read more

Here’s a question from a reader: Just finished to setup Outlook in my computer, and started to get some emails from different people. One thing i notice is that i started also to receive those small black alerts that keep popping up on my Windows 10 desktop. I don’t recall those appearing on Windows 7. … Read more

Applicable to Microsoft Office 365, 2019 and older. Windows operating Systems. Here’s a question we got from a reader: I have a need to automatically resize all images stored in a specific presentation I have to prepare for my management. As the slides are quite standard, this looks like something I could automate using a … Read more

Applicability: Office 365,2019, 2016, 2013. Sometimes, we would like to make our Word documents more interactive and even capture some user input. Enter message and input boxes . As the name suggests a message box is a piece of information that is displayed to the document users. Input boxes are instrumental to capture information from … Read more

Applicable to: Office 2019/2016/365 Here’s a question from Mike: “I know how to create Access forms and capture user input into a database table, but as i have already gathered  there a way to automatically import data from an Excel workbook into an Access database table instead”? Good question, Thanks. Yes, you can automatically import … Read more

Applicable to: Outlook 2019, 2016, 365; Outlook.com. Windows and macOS operating systems. Here’s a question we received from one of our readers: I would like to put an animated file into an Outlook message that i want to send to a friend having her 50th birthday. Not exactly sure about to go about adding the … Read more

This tutorial is applicable to: Office 365, 2019, 2016 (Windows 11 & 10) and Google Docs (Windows, macOS and Linux). Here’s a note we got from our reader, Diana: I work as a business analyst and often use Microsoft Word as well as Google Docs to author some performance tracking reports which i submit to … Read more

Applicable to: Outlook 365, 2019, 2016, 2013; Windows 10 / 11 / 8 /7 and macOS computers. Here’s a question we got from a reader about her Microsoft Outlook client not showing new incoming emails automatically: “Unlike when using my GMail account, it looks that my Microsoft Outlook 365 folders are not automatically updated with … Read more

Skyler set us a note about her Microsoft Excel spreadsheet not opening in Windows 11: “I work as an analyst and have a significant number of old .xls files were created in the previous versions of Excel. Now that i have upgraded to the new version, Excel 365 won’t open the existing files telling me … Read more