MS Excel has some known inconsistency or incompatibility when it comes to its data validation list feature. The exact problem is that, if your file contains data validation lists created in Excel 2007, these data validation lists are gone when you open it in Excel 2010. If this “data validation” thing in Excel is new to you or something that you have not tried so far, please read this article for the complete and detailed procedures in creating and using data validation lists: http://www.technicalforum.org/ms-office/excel-200720102013-using-data-va… Let us take as an example… Read More
Date Archives August 2022
Creating Groups or Contact Categories in your Hotmail/Outlook Account and Managing Contacts
When the classic Hotmail interface was replaced by this “NEW Outlook” interface, several things changed. This includes working with email contacts, managing your contacts and creating categories or contact groups. If you want to manage your contacts or the various email addresses you have accumulated over the years, one way to do so is by creating GROUPS. Groups are just “labels” or “categories” that will group email addresses together. When you send an email to a group, you just need to enter the group name or select the group from… Read More
Copying your existing contacts to Gmail
This article describes how you can add your existing address book or contacts to your Gmail account provided that the following conditions are true: You are using an email program like Thunderbird, MS Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010 or others; and You are accessing your Gmail account using a web browser. To be able to copy your existing contacts in your email program, like MS Outlook, to your Gmail account, you need to first EXPORT your contacts as a CSV file using your email program’s Export function. For MS Outlook, the… Read More