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Creating Groups or Contact Categories in your Hotmail/Outlook Account and Managing Contacts

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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

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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

How to import your saved contacts or address book to Outlook 2010

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You can easily save your existing MS Outlook contacts or address book by exporting them into a CSV file. This process is documented in my previous article. However, even if the contacts are not coming from MS Outlook 2010, you can still use them in your MS Outlook 2010 software. For instance, you have an older version of MS Outlook like 2003 or 2010, you can still use this saved address book file with your MS Outlook 2010 provided that the exported file meets the CSV requirement of MS Outlook. If… Read More

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

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If you are using MS PowerPoint 2010 after the initial installation, the Developer tab is disabled by default. Therefore, without the Developer tab, the Macro features, Add-ins and controls are not available. The Developer Tab buttons are shown below: To enable this Developer tab, here are the steps: Step 1: Open MS PowerPoint 2010 Step 2: Click on File menu Step 3: Click on Options Step 4: On the PowerPoint Options dialog box, click on Customize Riboon command in the left panel Step 5: In the Customize Ribbon group, select “Main Tabs” Step 6: Locate and click on the “Developer” item to put a check… Read More

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