Office Tips

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 […]

If you’re a heavy Word user, you probably have come across a situation where it would be convenient to merge multiple Word documents into one master document. Even though it’s not very difficult to do this in Word, it’s also not very intuitive. You would think Microsoft would have included some merge documents feature into […]

Looking for a way to recover a password for an Outlook PST file? I recently tried to load up an old PST file that I used at my previous company many years ago, but realized it had a password set on it. I tried every password I had ever used, but nothing worked. Finally, I […]

Are you planning on leaving a job and want to make sure you get a copy of all your emails in case you need to refer to them at a later point? Or maybe you just want to export them for backup purposes in case your Outlook PST file becomes corrupt, which happens quite often. […]

Office 365 Personal, Home or Business products are great ways to access all of Microsoft’s Office products on your desktop, tablet or mobile phone. It’s way better than having to buy each version of Office individually and enter a product key, like we used to have to do before. With Office 365, you get free […]

If you’re using Word 2007, 2010 or 2013, you might run into a strange error when opening a DOCX file. Recently, I tried to open a DOCX file I had created on Windows 10 using Office 2013 and got the following error message: The name in the end tag of the element must match the […]

If you’re having problems with any Office program like Word, Excel or Outlook, you can always perform a repair, which will try to fix any issues that may be causing the program to not load properly or  some other type of problem. Repair MS Office To repair Office, you first have to open the Control […]

I installed Office on my Windows machine a long time ago and everything was working fine until today. I tried to open a Word document from my desktop and for some strange reason Word opened in Safe Mode. Strange I thought, so I shut it down and opened the file again. Safe mode again! Then […]

I recently ran into a very annoying problem while using Outlook on my computer. When I tried to click on a link, I ended up getting the following message: This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator. Hmm, I was able to open hyperlinks just […]

If you work with formulas a lot in Excel, you know that the value of a single cell can be used in a formula in many different cells. In fact, cells on a different sheet may reference that value also. This means that those cells are dependent on the other cell. Trace Dependents in Excel […]