Earlier this week, I was getting bounced mail to a person who I knew was still with the company, and it was part of a Reply To email. I couldn’t figure out why, until our mail administrator asked me to update my cached Outlook address book from the Global Address Book in Exchange. Here’s how that works…
Using the undocumented Lorem Ipsum feature in Word
Sometimes in Word, you need to generate some dummy text to fill in some part of the page until you get the actual content. It’s common to use a Lorem Ipsum generator to do that, but you may not know that Word has one built in. Here’s how you use it…
Missing your Skype chat time stamps?
Have you ever “lost” the time stamps on your Skype chat window? Here’s how you get them back…
Getting rid of the Paste Options button in Excel
Generally speaking, when I paste something in Excel, I have a pretty good idea of how I want it to look. The last thing I want is a Paste Options button showing up (and usually blocking content) on my page. Here’s an easy way to remove it temporarily and permanently.
Removing gridlines from an Excel spreadsheet
The normal default behavior in an Excel spreadsheet is to see all the gridlines that separate the rows and columns and define all the individual cells. But there are times where you might want a cleaner appearance, and it would be beneficial to see those lines go away. This is how you do that…
Finding all the emails in a conversation thread in Outlook
I’m sure you’ve had the issue before… you have a number of emails related to a particular thread, but one of them had a piece of information that didn’t get copy and pasted in the Reply follow-ups. You’ve filed some of the emails, trashed others, and the rest are in your inbox…
Freezing the Header row in Excel
You know how sometimes when you’re in an Excel spreadsheet, you can scroll up and down the rows, but the first row of Header columns stays fixed? Here’s how you do that…
Sending OneNote pages as emails
Emailing OneNote pages to others is easy…
Excel Hyperlinks… more than just web addresses
A hyperlink can be so much more, and Excel makes it easy for you to explore the possibilities.