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Microsoft Excel Tip: How to lock cells and make them un-editable

There are certain times and conditions when you feel the need that other people can only edit or add and modify data from selected cells in your Excel sheet. The rest of the cells in the sheet or workbook must be un-editable. Example of these Excel sheets are survey questionnaires wherein other people can just input their answers but not alter the questions. Others can be a fillable form wherein other people can just enter their personal or other information but the form content and layout are locked for editing…. Read More

Hotmail Tip: How to remove all ads from Hotmail / Outlook.com email views

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023

As you use your powerful and full-featured Hotmail, now called Outlook.com interface, you might have noticed that sometimes, advertisements appear in your Inbox. These ads are cool at times but sometimes, they can be annoying. Ever wonder how to eliminate those ads? Like Gmail, Yandex, or Yahoo Mail, Hotmail (Outlook.com) is also offering their email service for free. As a result, Hotmail runs some ads to monetize their email service and pay for their infrastructure and product improvements through research and development. If you want to have a clean Hotmail… Read More

Gmail Account Recovery

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023 2 Comments

When you first setup your Gmail account, you are given the option to enter an alternate email address. This alternate email address is very useful when you are unable to access your account because you can reset your password and Gmail will then send a reset link to that email account. What do you do with reset link? Well, when you receive a reset link after initiating a password reset for your Gmail, you just need to click on that link, and you will be able to enter a NEW… Read More

Microsoft Excel: Using Data Validation to provide drop-down selection menu

How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023

In Excel, there are various ways to provide a drop-down menu in a form or in cells. With drop-down menus, also called combo boxes, you can select an option based on pre-selected data. Samples of data where drop-dowm menus will be useful are gender (Male and Female options), Status (Single, Married, Divorced, etc options) and many others. The major reasons for providing a combo box or drop-down selection menu includes the following: On the other hand, combo boxes or drop-down selection menus are only applicable when: In this article, I… Read More

Hotmail Tip: Cleaning up your Inbox using “Move all from” feature

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 8, 2023

If you are using Hotmail, with its new “Outlook.com” look-and-feel”, you can now enjoy the benefit of easy organization and cleanup of emails using the cool feature called “Move all from…”. This command is only shown at the top of the message window when an email is selected or displayed. The function of this command is to automatically move the “selected” email message and “all” other messages that came from the same sender to your preferred email folder. Therefore, it is good to create custom email folders first before using… Read More

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

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 6, 2023

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

Recovering Yahoo email account

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 6, 2023

It is undeniable that Yahoo Mail is one of the pioneering and widely used email service. It comes in two (2) versions: the free account and the Yahoo Mail Plus account that collects a small fee annually. Like any other existing email provider, Yahoo email security is conforming to industry standards providing safety and security for email account owners, both free version and the paid version – Yahoo Mail Plus. The only obvious difference between the two versions of Yahoo Mail is the yahoo mail support. While email accounts are… Read More

How to add another email account (not an alias email account) to your Hotmail

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 5, 2023

If you are using your Hotmail account for a very long time already, and as you are expanding your business, you might have accumulated other custom-domain email accounts. And switching between emails — from your Hotmail to your company emails, could be tiresome in the long run. The good news is, you can centralize your email access to your Hotmail account. That is, you can receive your company emails, you can send from your company emails, while logged in to your Hotmail account. This is similar to Gmail’s centralized mailing… Read More

Hotmail Tip: Using the feature called “My friend’s been hacked” to report compromised email accounts

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 5, 2023

With the new Hotmail (Outlook.com) interface, several cool features are added. Despite the troubles that other people are experiencing with their Internet Explorer browser and Hotmail, overall impression is still excellent. (I’m a Hotmail fan huh :D). One of the cool features added to the new Hotmail interface is the ability to report a compromised account. For instance, this is a very common scenario. You got an email from a friend stating that he or she was on a trip to Asia and was in trouble. Now he or she… Read More

Hotmail emails are not working when using Google Chrome browser. Please help!

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 4, 2023

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When you are using a Hotmail email account and you are using the prominent Google Chrome browser, you might have experienced some common issues in viewing or accessing your Hotmail messages. The truth is that, Hotmail and Chrome browser have some incompatibility issues. And the ost prominent problem caused by this incompatibility thing is that emails in your Hotmail won’t launch or open normally inside Chrome like it would in other browsers like Firefox or Safari. If you are using Chrome to access, send and receive emails with your Hotmail… Read More