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
Applicable to the following Office versions: 2019, 2016, 2013, 365; on Windows 7, 8 and Windows 10. Here’s a question we received from one of our readers: “I’ve just installed a new version of Office 365 in my system but it’s clearly not defined as the default program for viewing and editing of Microsoft Office … Read more
Several languages such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu or Hebrew are usually written from right to left. Today we will learn how to shift the writing direction in Office 2016/2019/365 from the default Left To Right (LTR) into Right To Left direction (RTL). For convenience, we are providing detailed instructions for Word and Outlook; however process … Read more