Here’s a question from Dana: Working on a quarterly operational report for management. I have a nice spreadsheet with some sales information that i would like to insert into a Word document that i am authoring. Any ideas? Thanks for the question, Dana. See below for the details. I assumed you are using Windows, but … Read more
“I need to process dozens of similar emails each day, extracting information and filing them in specific folders. It’s taking up hours of my time. Is there a way to automate this in Outlook without purchasing third-party software? I’ve heard about macros but don’t know where to start or if they’re difficult to set up.” … Read more
Dorothy wanted to learn how to insert objects into her Excel spreadsheets: I believe that i have seen a Microsoft Excel worksheet that had a Word document embedded in it. Can you explain how can i insert Word files into Excel and in general how to embed file objects in Office? Just so you are … Read more
Applicable to: The other day, i received the following note from a friend who uses Outlook to manage his mail, contacts, tasks and calendar; and also happens to travel quite a bit in between:-): Hey, don’t know if you noticed that the Outlook calendar is now shipping a tiny weather widget that displays the current … Read more
Here’s a question from Katie: My new manager asked me to create short series of 2-3 meetings with his main reports. Seems to me that setting up a series of meeting would be somewhat of an overkill and waned to ask you whether there is a simple way to manually duplicate occurrences of Outlook meetings. … Read more
Applicable: Microsoft Excel 2019/365/2016; Windows and macOS operating systems. Here’s a question we got: Dear Team – some time ago i have created a quite sophisticated Excel spreadsheet for my manager which i password protected for increased security. The thing is that it seems that i have forgotten the password which i previously set. So … Read more
Note: This post content is applicable to Office 2019,2016, 2013, 2010; desktop and Office 365 versions; Windows 10, 8 and 7; Here’s a question from Deanne: I work in the Retail industry. I use Outlook in order to manage my contact information. I am quite fond of Outlook as my contact manager, but clearly i … Read more
Here is a question we received some time ago from a reader struggling to read a Onenote files on macOS: I have received a bunch of .one files from my colleagues as attachments to an Outlook email. The challenge is that I don’t know how to open these files and I don’t find a compatible … Read more
Applicable to: Outlook.com on Windows (7,8,10), Android and IOS computers, as well as Apple Mail and other 3rd party mail apps on IOS. Last update: October 2019 This thread started as a question from one of our readers about how to change his Hotmail / Outlook.com / Microsoft Mail password across multiple devices he owns. … Read more
PerfLogs is a system generated folder, that is indeed safe to remove, but we’d recommend you to leave it as is.