Microsoft Office

Here’s a quick question we just got from a reader: I have educated myself on the topic of  developing VBA macros for Outlook using your tutorials. Now, i would like to run my newly created macro and i get a message stating that “Macros in this project have been disabled and and i should be … Read more

Here’s a question we got from a reader: Long time lurker, first time asking: Started to use Outlook 365 a couple months ago. Last week i started to notice some lagging in Outlook performance, which became quite slow to refresh my email (send / receive takes longer than usual, inbox syncronization is also somewhat slower). … Read more

Here’s a question from Kevin: Just starting out with Microsoft Access and looking into sample database i just built. Wanted to understand bit more about the procedure for exporting data from an existing table. I understand that if i am interested to apply some follow up analysis to the data using Python’s Pandas library, then … Read more

A couple days ago, a reader asked about there is a way to automate creation of PowerPoint presentations from scratch and then quickly add slides to that existing presentation. I though that script might be highly in the list of the most useful PowerPoint Macros.  As we indicated in the past, PowerPoint doesn’t include a … Read more

Here’s a question from a reader: Just heard of a new Business Intelligence add-in from Microsoft that ships with Excel and lets you crunch data from different data sources at the same time. That sounds interesting.Looks like Power Pivot is missing in my system, as i don’t see it in my Excel 365 installation. How … Read more

Last Updated: July 2020. Here’s a question we got from a reader: I use my Outlook calendar to manage my business meetings and appointments, tasks and contacts; but also my personal appointments, as well as reminders to call friends on their birthday. As such i keep constantly getting reminders and notifications from Outlook on overdue … Read more

Last update: October 2019. Here’s a question we just got for a reader: Hello there, i am a travel agent, and would like to define a custom email template to answer emails that my customer send me. I also would like to speed up my appointment scheduling process and have a template i can use … Read more

Here’s a question we got from a reader: I am trying to figure out macro development from going through code examples in your website. I figured out that some of the examples point out to the developer menu in Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook. For some reason, i don’t see that menu item in the … Read more

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