Here’s one super neat trick, a friend of mine shared to me. Since she’s working the more or less clerical post she usually has to draft and format corporate communication in a flash. And one underrated (sometimes even berated) features of Word is the AutoCorrect feature. Well, I haven’t really thought about it until [...]

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Editing on-screen can be a bore and a headache. For me, the best way to go is to still edit on paper. However, if you live in a paperless universe, then you may have to make do with what you have on your computer. If you have Word 2007, then you might just have [...]

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As always, Windows can be a sneaky bastard. While, by law, all the OS’ features should now be documented, there are still some features that are hidden from plain view. Like the context menu for example. If you’re just a regular user, you may not have thought of using modifier keys with your right-clicking. [...]

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In my quest to find my tech groove back on, I decided to tinker with Windows Vista. I automatically installed all apps that I frequently use and that actually led me to overlook Windows Mail - Vista’s default mail client. While I’d prefer using Mozilla Thunderbird this (not that I need to since I’m [...]

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As always, if it’s from Microsoft, it must have bugs. Reports have circulated that Excel isn’t good at math at all, missing out something as simple as 77.1 x 850. Instead of dishing out the pen-and-paper solvable arithmetic (the answer’s 65,535), it gives out the wrong answer (100,000).
This happens on two instances, particularly:

The result of [...]

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If you haven’t really been exposed to Microsoft Office 2007, then you still might not know of the new file formats that Word, PowerPoint and Excel use. They’re those file formats with “x” mysteriously added at the end (e.g. .doc of Word now is .docx by default). Don’t be fooled by this, though. Somehow [...]

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I envy my friends who are still riding out the Vista wave, comfortable computing with their PCs and lappies still on XP. Quite honestly, save for one guy who’s running on a rig with a 5.7 Windows Experience Index, everyone’s doing just fine. Be it for daily office productivity, gaming, and the Internet, XP [...]

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Windows Vista changed a lot of things from XP making the new Vista user quite in the dark when it comes to finding features and options that he/she has gotten used to in older Windows versions. One such feature is the Display Properties. If you right-click on your desktop wallpaper, you might confused where [...]

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I won’t take it against anyone if he has decided to stand firm with Windows XP. Nearly four months into Windows Vista and I have yet to find a really good reason to convince someone to shift. Well, probably it’s because I’m running on Home Basic which really doesn’t have much to offer.
I’d have [...]

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For those of you who are new to Office 2007, you might notice the Quick Access toolbar that’s available at the topmost left corner of your window. By default, it features the Save, Undo and Repeat commands. However, if you want more control of your interface, it’s a good thing that Office lets you [...]

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If you’re an Office 2007 user, probably one of the things you found different in the new interface is the elimination of the those toolbars that suddenly pop up when you select a particular tool. However, Microsoft has just found something else to annoy use with - the Mini Toolbar. And you just have [...]

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I have to admit that I haven’t really gotten to play around with Windows Vista since I’m just using it straight up as an OS to launch all my other applications. In fact, I’d have to say that I haven’t really been impressed by Vista. However, now that I’ve gotten to tinkering around some [...]

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Documents nowadays contain metadata - pieces information that are embedded into a file. These often help you in organizing your files or to easily search or share them over the Internet. However, with this, you might just be handing out a lot of information about yourself without even knowing it - just by sending [...]

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If you’re an Excel user, you might have been familiar with its data entry quirks. By default, Excel automatically points your cursor one cell down when you input data and press the Enter key. Now depending on how you are structuring your data, this behavior can be quite annoying. It’s a good thing that [...]

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There may be times when you need to get some media embedded in a PowerPoint presentation and use them externally as media files). Well, they can actually be individually saved as images inside PowerPoint (just right-click on the image and save it as an image). Amit of Digital Inspiration give us this great workaround [...]

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