Office Apps like Word, Excel, Visio, Outlook, Project, Powerpoint, 2003, 2007 and 2010
See the attached screen shot for both a picture of the problem and the steps to resolve it. If your Word document does not display the header but does display the footer then you have most likely disabled “SHOW WHITE SPACE BETWEEN PAGES”. You can accidentally turn this off by Read more…
Have you ever had data in two different Excel tables and need them joined / merged into one table? If so, this short video is for you.
I recently had a client request to supply some Visitor / Guest Management software for a office reception that saw between 5 and 30 visitors a day. They felt that their sign in log book made the company look old and out of touch. After an hour of research I could Read more…
I am an old FoxPro guy and gave up development about 10 years ago (best decision I have ever made) but I needed to write a very basic app to track visitors in Access. When I was writing my Visitor Management software I needed to lookup a number of items Read more…
EMBED VIDEO VIMEO or YOUTUBE into POWERPOINT It is possible to to ’embed’ a Vimeo or YouTube file into your PowerPoint: UPDATE2: May 14 2014: This is now fixed in PowerPoint 2013 with the most recent round of Windows Updates. READ THIS for more details. UPDATE1: FEB 2014: If you are Read more…
The short answer is you can’t. The long answer is you can if you don’t mind a pile of scripting. See this page for full details word.mvps.org/FAQs/MailMerge/MergeWithAttachments.htm
After your have download and run the “Office Desktop Apps” update from portal.microsoftonline.com/download/default.aspx and Obtain the required info from OWA: Log into OWA, in the upper-right corner, click the question mark (Help) icon and the click About. Locate and note the Exchange Client Access Server Name, Mailbox Server Name, and Host name. Read more…
When clicking a link from Outlook you see the following error popup: The problem is that your Browser is apparently not set as default for Outlook. Personally, I see this whenever someone installs/uninstalls Google Chrome. There are two ready ways to fix this: You can either use the Microsoft online Read more…
…Two Microsoft engineers with more than 30 years of combined experience in supporting Office, Outlook and Exchange Server have produced the Outlook Configuration Analyzer Tool (OCAT), a useful program that will scan your Outlook 2007/ 2010 profile for common issues and report on anything it finds… … On our test Read more…
Below is a quick table providing the the 2012 roadmap: Windows 8 Anticipated release: Between Q3 2012 and early 2013 (UPDATED 2/10) Windows Server 8 Anticipated release: Between Q3 2012 and early 2013 (UPDATED 1/27) System Center 2012 Anticipated release: Early 2012(UPDATED 2/7) SQL Server 2012 Anticipated release: First half of Read more…
If you have changed your default font, boarders, page size, and you can’t remember how to undo those changes or if you just have a weird Word 2007 2010 2013 problem, you can easily reset your settings back to default by deleting a few files. Before you begin, close Word. Read more…
As soon as you click (right or left) on a rooms calendar that is in your Outlook but removed from Exchange some time previous, you may receive the error: “The connection to Microsoft Exchange is Unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action”. Outlook is online but, again, the room has been removed Exchange Read more…
What this means is that there is a pre-Beta of the next version of Office, but you can’t get it. “Not since Office 2003 has Microsoft taken such an “ambitious undertaking” to reinvent the productivity suite. Today, PJ Hough, CVP of development for Microsoft’s Office division, announced the “technical preview” Read more…
While no one knows for sure, the rumours are, and Microsoft’s historical release pattern, predicts that the next version of Office will enter Beta 1 at the January 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. The beta at CES will likely show off the new “Metro” styled interface with an emphasis on simplicity Read more…
To avoid a major rant, let me just say that I can not think of a single good reason for Microsoft to remove the VIEW, UNREAD MESSAGES option that has existed in Outlook 2000 and 2003. To the point, if you want to view your unread messages in Outlook 2010 simply: Read more…
Business Productivity Online (BPOS) should VERY easily connect to your Windows Mobile 7 phone… but it doesn’t. It does take some configuration: On the Start page, flick left to the Applications list Press Settings & then press Email & accounts Press Add an account and select Outlook Enter your email address and your Read more…