May 16th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Office Tips
It seems like every time Microsoft releases a new version of Office, they move everything around! You get used to seeing one thing under one menu and then next version of Office moves that option to another menu! Grrrr. I’ve upgraded to Office 2010 and one of the most common features I use is the [...]
May 13th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Office Tips
One of the great things about online email services like Gmail is that you never have to worry about things like autocomplete because all your contacts are stored in the cloud and Gmail automatically builds a giant index of everyone who has email you or who you have emailed. When you start typing a name [...]
May 8th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Office Tips
I have Outlook 2010 installed on a Windows 7 64-bit system and up till now it’s been working fine. Yesterday, I went to open it and I got the following error message: “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” What’s sad is that I’ve had this EXACT same problem in Outlook 2007 and [...]
April 20th, 2012 by Aseem | File in: Office Tips
I’ve been running Office 2010 in a virtual machine on my Mac for over a year, but suddenly the other day when I tried to open Word, I got the following error message: Cannot verify license for this product Hmmm, of course I have a license! The product key was valid and it had activated [...]
November 11th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Featured Posts, Office Tips
In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps to get Gmail setup in Outlook 2010. I will also talk about how to get it to work if you have 2-step verification enabled on your Gmail account. Overall, it’s not a very complicated procedure, but it still helps to explain it sometimes. The first thing [...]
November 8th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Office Tips
I recently ran into a problem when using Microsoft Outlook on my laptop. It’s got Windows 7 and I am using Office 2007 at the moment. I went to open Outlook and I got the following error: Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. I hadn’t run into any problems with Office [...]
October 10th, 2011 by Aseem | File in: Office Tips
We experienced this particular problem very recently with a Word document that several people were collaborating on. The document was returned to us from a review cycle, and it lost most of its very intricate formatting. In this case, the issue may have been the result of a .docx document being saved in compatibility mode [...]
August 9th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Office Tips
If you have upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 or 2010, but you’re having trouble getting used to the new Ribbon interface, we have a solution for you. We found a tool, called UBitMenu, that allows you to go back in time and use the familiar menus and toolbars from Microsoft Office 2003, without having to [...]
July 8th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Office Tips
If you like to use the keyboard to accomplish tasks in Windows and in applications, we found a handy trick that allows you to find out what keyboard shortcuts are available in Microsoft Word. This trick works in Word 2003, 2007, and 2010. The trick involves running a macro, called ListCommands, that is built-in to [...]
April 14th, 2011 by Lori Kaufman | File in: Office Tips
If you have a lot of fields in your Word document that you are not going to be updating, you may want to convert them to plain text. To do this, you will want to easily find your fields by turning on the field shading. This post shows you how to turn on and off [...]
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