Date Archives October 2023

How to Easily Extract Images and other Embedded Files from DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files

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Have you ever wondered how you can easily extract the embedded images, graphs, illustrations or drawings in your MS Word document, your MS Excel workbook, or your MS PowerPoint presentation files? With embedded images, you might explore copying the image and pasting it to MS Paint and then saving each one at a time. This conventional process is tedious and time consuming. Imagine if your MS Word document has 50 embedded pictures in it. You need to copy 50 times, paste to MS Paint 50 time, and then save the… Read More

How to Create or Add Shortcuts to “My Computer” Window

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When you are using Windows 7 or Vista, you might notice that when you open your Explorer window by going to Start => Computer, the explorer window shows shortcut icons for selected programs. By shortcuts, I mean program launchers – icons that launch the programs when double clicked. These programs actually manage their entry to the “Network location” shortcuts during installation. But if you want to add shortcuts to your comonly used programs in this location of the “Computer” window, you can do it manually. The steps are described below:… Read More

How to easily access Multiple Gmail Accounts using a Web Browser

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One of the most widely used email accounts today is the free Gmail account. It is not just because it is free, Gmail also offers several features that will make your email life comfortable. As a matter of fact, one person can sign up for multiple free Gmail accounts that can be used for various purposes like casual or personal mailing, business mailing, and others. Having multiple Gmail accounts has no problem if you are accessing Gmail using an email program like MS Outlook, Windows Live Mail or Thunderbird. However,… Read More

Microsoft Word: Printing extra page showing Filename, Directory, Template & other stuffs

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If you are having trouble printing your MS Word document because there is always an extra page printing last, the page which contains text information about the Filename, Directory, Template and other related information, the problem is not with your printer, not with your printer settings or the document being printed. The problem is in your MS Word settings itself. The screen shot below is an example of an extra page that is printed by MS Word each time you print your document: If you are seeing this extra page… Read More

My Outlook.com (Hotmail) account is flooded with notifications. Is there a way to automatically delete notifications?

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Using the NEW Hotmail interface known as Outlook.com with its “Microsoft blue” theme, several cool features are worth using. Among these features is the automatic deletion of emails from a specific contact in a given period of time. This is known as the “Scheduled Cleanup”. This is specially useful if you are getting a daily emails and you don’t want to block them nor automatically archive them. Thus, you can setup a schedule to delete the emails in a “scheduled” manner. This also helps in keeping your Inbox in good… Read More

How to auto-forward your Hotmail emails to another email account

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If you have multiple email accounts, managing them is tricky and critical. It is tricky because you need to manage these email accounts, read their mails and respond to them and this is tedious if you have several email accounts with various sets of contacts. It is critical because it is easy to forget the passwords of these accounts and writing your passwords in a sheet of paper to keep track of your passwords is not a safe practice as well as using a single or the same password for… Read More

How to Add or Update Your Security Information in Your Yahoo Mail Account

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There are several thousands of Yahoo Mail accounts that are being compromised every single day. To easily recover your Yahoo Mail account after an unfortunate email compromise, you need to update your security information in your Yahoo Mail to ensure account recovery. NOTE: If you are reading this post and your Yahoo Mail account was already compromised and therefore inaccessible, these procedures will not work for you. Please read this article on how to Recover your Yahoo Mail Account. Step 1: Sign in to your Yahoo Mail account using your web browser using this link: http://mail.yahoo.com…. Read More

How to Add or Update Security Information of Your AOL Email Account

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Among the widely used and patronized email service in the world is AOL. It offers both free and paid service. Regardless of the type of account, still there are thousands of AOL accounts being compromised everyday. One perfect tool that helps you easily recover your AOL account in case it is being hacked is your updated security information. This includes an updated recovery email address, updated alternate email address and updated mobile phone number. When an email account is compromised, the very first recovery procedure is to reset the account… Read More

How to add and manage aliases in Hotmail.com / Outlook.com

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When your email account ends with @Hotmail.com, @Live.com, or @MSN.com, it works on Outlook.com. Thus, there’s no need to change your address or get a new one. However, if you want to use an address that ends with @outlook.com, the best way is to add an alias to your existing account instead of creating a separate email address. Basically, an “alias” is an additional email address that uses the same inbox, contact list, and account settings as the primary alias, or the primary email account. Also, you can sign in to your account with any alias—they all use… Read More