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How to export contacts or address book in Outlook 2010

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Suppose you have thousands of email addresses or contacts in your MS Outlook 2010 and you want to move this contacts to your MS Outlook 2010 in another computer, or when you simply want to have a safe backup copy of your emails, all you need to do is export your contacts as an external file. This will give you a CSV file that opens in MS Excel. To export all your contacts from Outlook 2010, follow these detailed procedures: Step 1: Open MS Outlook 2010 Step 2: In the bottom left panel,… Read More

Ways to send huge files through email or chat

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Sometimes you might need to send a file through the internet to your contacts or to specific group of people. This is usually done using email. However, when the file to be sent is too huge, it can exceed the file attachment size limit of most email providers. Most email providers only allow an attachment NOT more than 25MB. If you have a file that is a little biger than 25MB, you can try to compress it using WinZip or WinRar and see if the compressed file is smaller now… Read More

How to show the Developer Menu/Tab in Microsoft Word 2010

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If you you just installed your MS Office 2010 software package, by installation default, the Developer menu is not visible. As a result, you cannot add controls to your MS Word document and you cannot code a macro. Here is a screen shot of the Main Tabs of MS Word 2010 where the last tab is the View tab: To enable or show the Developer menu or tab, here are the steps: Step 1: Open MS Word 2010 Step 2: Click on the File menu Step 3: Click on Options Step 4: In the Word Options dialog box, locate and click on “Customize Ribbon” on the left sidebar or panel… Read More

Importing Contacts to Hotmail/Outlook Account

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If you are using a web browser to access your Hotmail account, (or MSN account or Live account), you can add your existing contacts or those contacts of your other accounts to your Hotmail following the steps described in this article. With Hotmail, you can import (transferring or copying) your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, or using an exported address book in a file form, which is usually a CSV file. To know the steps in exporting your contacts from another account, or from an email program… Read More

How to split a large file into several smaller files using WinRar and how to merge them back

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Sometimes when you need to send a file to a friend or contact through email, the size of the file attachment matters. With Yahoo Mail, you are allowed to attach files not bigger than 25MB. If it is bigger, then Yahoo will prompt you to use its partner service, Dropbox.com. With Gmail and Hotmail, there are also file size limits for attachments. If you have a huge single file that you want to send through email but it is impossible to send because of the file size, there is a… Read More

How to recall an email sent using MS Outlook 2010

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Have you tried sending an email to a wrong person and you want to retrieve the said email before the person could have actually read it? This kind of situation can really make you feel uneasy and sometimes critical. This is because the email message can contain a confidential information that must only be read by the right contact. However, if you are using an email software especially MS Outlook 2010, you can recall the email message sent in error. In order to recall an email sent in error using… Read More

Enabling the Developer Tab in MS Publisher 2010

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If you are using MS Publisher 2010 for the first time after a recent installation, the default behavior is that the Developer tab is disabled. This means that the macro feature, add-ins and customizations, controls and ActiveX are not available. The last menu in the Main Tabs is View. When the Developer tab is enabled, it will be shown as the last tab in Main Tabs shown below: To enable the Developer tab, follow the steps described below: Step 1: Open MS Office Publisher 2010 Step 2: Click on the File menu Step 3: Click on Options… Read More

Gmail launched the new “compose” and “reply” interface

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Gmail, the leader of the email technology recently launched its new compose and reply interface across all Gmail users. This new enhancements in the Gmail interface is promised to bring fast composition of message right from the Inbox, simple and clean design, and powerful innovation to allow you to check emails as you’re typing, minimize drafts for later, and even compose two messages at once. The full features of this release is available in this link: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/2645922?p=newcompose&rd=1 However, several people using outdated web browsers are having issues with the new… Read More

How to recover desktop or laptop BIOS password

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You were tweaking your system BIOS configuration to maximize your hardware component performance. You decided to password-protect the system BIOS so that only you can access it since you firmly believe that only you shall be able to access it since critical changes in the BIOS may harm your computer system. That was a good intention. However, after several months, you have forgotten the BIOS password and you are now unable to access it for further changes and hardware configuration. What shall you do then? One known solution to this… Read More

How to Add an Email Signature in Gmail

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You might have noticed that when you receive an email from some people or organization, they might have appended a graphic or customized greeting at the end of the email message. This is called an email signature. An email signature is typically a bit of “personalized” text such as your contact information or a favorite quote, company logo with slogan, that is automatically inserted at the bottom of every message you send. Here’s a sample signature: The message above is from a Gmail account sent to a Yahoo Mail user… Read More