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If you have an Office365 account, you likely know that you have 50GB worth of storage space. However, it is not obvious how much of that 50GB limit you are currently using. Questions like: ‘How large is all of my email’, ‘How much space do I have left in my Read more
Conversation View was a pretty neat idea that I thought I would really like when it was released in 2013. The idea of bringing all of the replies into a single thread in Outlook sounded great. In practice I HATE IT because I find it much harder to find individual Read more
If you have ever not received an email that you know was sent but did not bounce back to the sender, it might be that the backend server has marked it for deletion and put in the Quarentine. Microsoft, and all good companies, have email filtering that saves you from Read more
If you have an Excel table with a number of ROWS you want to have selected and removed based on the contents of a cell, you can use the SORT & FILTER editor. It is very easy to use. Simply click on the column you want to evaluate On the Read more
If you are attaching files from your Office365 Onedrive Sharepoint cloud storage using Outlook 2016 you will find that it provides a lovely drop down showing you your recently edited files. If you select files from that list and they are stored on OneDrive / SharePoint what it will actually Read more
If you want to select copy paste only the visible cells in Excel: In Excel 2007, 2010, 2013 or Excel 2016, select the cells you are interested in On the HOME tab, click SELECT GOTO Click GOTO SPECIAL Click VISIBLE CELLS ONLY Right click on the cells you selected in Read more
If you are sick of seeing the “cars and connect” page for Microsoft logins, good news! You can now customize and brand the log in page if you have a corporate Office365 or Azure account. To be clear, if you have a corporate Office365 account then you have a corporate Read more
If you have an Xbox and you set your kids up as children on the Microsoft Account, you may want to edit their security and privacy settings. SHORT WAY: Click https://account.xbox.com/en-us/Settings Click on your child’s icon / gamer tag Click PRIVACY Change the settings you want to change Click XBOX Read more
If you are using OneDrive for Business then you should be concerned about how to access the data your staff are storing on in that Microsoft cloud. Fortunately there is a way to access the files that does not involve you changing the users password and signing in as them. Read more
If you can not PASTE content into OneNote, you are likely in VIEW ONLY mode. If you have purchased OneNote or you have an Office 365 subscription that includes OneNote, you can confirm this is the problem by: Click the menu bars (three horizontal lines in the top left corner). Read more
The short answer is yes, but you need to add each contact one by one using their Skype Name 2015. In April 2015, Microsoft Offce365 support said: …it is not feasible to add the free Skype users except those who have Microsoft accounts as contacts to Skype for Business. Currently, to Read more
If you are using PHPBB, the most awesome of all the Bulletin Boards, you will likely want to add in your Google Analytics tracking code. The question is how? Well the answer is, in the same place you add in Google AdSense advertisements. Open the following file, using a text Read more
This is a touchy subject because the good people that write PHPBB want to receive credit for their hard work… and I personally agree with that. However, I wanted to add in my own Copyright and owner information on each page so and the easiest way to do that was Read more
If you are using PHPBB (PHP Bulletin Board) you likely want to make some money using Google Ads. If you are using the latest branch of PHPBB 3.1.x you likely have already figured out that you need to add your Google AdSense code to: phpBB-3.1.xxx\phpBB3\styles\prosilver\template\overall_footer.html but now you can’t figure Read more
If you have ever used OneDrive or OneDrive for Business, you most likely have tried to move a folder in and been promoted with “Folders and Invalid Files Can’t Be Dragged To Upload” which just makes no sense at all for a product that has been around this many years. Read more
I recently had a friend ask how to add a contact into Office 365 web mail so I thought it was worth documenting in case someone else is also stuck. The easiest way to add contacts to your Office 365 mail is to connect it to Outlook and add the Read more