Just about every corporate email account is using Outlook and Exchange server to handle user email and there is an awful lot of data stored in those PST files. My own work PST file for Outlook is close to 500 MB. Before switching to Gmail completely, my personal email file was over 1.5 GB! Now [...]

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One of the major issues most users have with Outlook is the fact that it gets really slow and eats up a lot of memory on their systems. I have a 1.5 GB Outlook file, but Outlook runs fast and doesn’t hog all the resources on my computer! Why? Well, it’s because I optimize my [...]

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If you work with Word documents often, there has probably come a time when you had to merge multiple Word documents into one master file. Unfortunately, Word does not have a simple Import/Export function to combine multiple documents into one. Instead to merge Word documents, you have to go to the Insert tab. Now find [...]

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Previously, I’ve written about how you can secure your Outlook PST file with a password, which is great, unless you forget the PST password! Luckily for you, the password encryption for a PST file is not terribly strong, which means it can be hacked. There are a few tools out there that you can use [...]

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Unlike Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007 installation is very easy to customize. By customizing Microsoft office 2007 you will be able to avoid entering the product key every time you install the office suite , answer all setup questions during the installation, automatically remove previous office suites, customize office applications according to your needs [...]

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The guys over at LifeHacker wrote up an excellent article on how to revert back to the Office 2003 menu in Office 2007. For those of you who do not like the new Office 2007 ribbon interface, you can go back to the original classic menu using a free tool. Earlier, I wrote about a [...]

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Working in a corporate environment as an IT support technician always means you’ll end up dealing with weird problems that would never occur on a normal consumer PC. Why? Well, it’s because weird stuff can occur when you  have 20 people using one computer! One such error I ran across recently was while using Microsoft [...]

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You may have noticed that in Word, Excel and all other Office programs, there is a list of recently used or opened documents at the bottom of the File menu option. It’s kind of like the My Recent Documents features on the Windows Start Menu. However, if you want to remove the recently used file [...]

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Unfortunately, for IT Administrators, there are many third-party programs out there that install add-ins to Microsoft Outlook. This is sometimes very useful, such as better search programs like Google Desktop or Windows Desktop Search, but it’s also very annoying, like when Adobe tries to add PDF buttons to the entire Office suite! Eventually, when you [...]

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If you have ever used Outlook for more than a month, you’ve probably seen several occasions where the message “The Outlook data file did not close properly“ pops up and you have to wait a few minutes for Outlook to repair the file. Pretty annoying, but at least you can view your emails after waiting. [...]

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