Tips & Tricks – Page 5 – Technical Forum

Microsoft Word Tip: Repair damaged and corrupted MS Word files easily and quickly

It is really frustrating when an MS Word file that you have worked for several hours, days or weeks will no longer open after MS Word gives an error message. This usually happens when MS Word crashed, or when your computer crashed while the Word file is still open. Repair Microsoft Word documents with ease. Easy Word Recovery offers step-by-step recovery for corrupted and erased documents made by all versions of Microsoft Word up to Word 2010. State-of-the-art Word repair algorithms enable surefooted recovery of badly damaged documents as well… Read More

Outlook Tip: Moving sent emails to Inbox

Email Tips How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks October 23, 2023

When you are using MS Outlook of any version (2003, 2007, 2010, etc.), it is a common experience that when you send an email, a copy of the sent email is saved in the Sent Items folder. This is the default behavior. What if you want Outlook to move it to your Inbox folder so that you can keep an eye on the progress of your communication? If you are using MS Outlook in a business setup, you might want to place the sent email to your Inbox. For what… Read More

My Firefox web browser is getting slow. Status bar shows “Connecting to i.74055djs.info”

How Tos Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 23, 2023

Just recently, I notice that my Mozilla Firefox was becoming slow. I checked my ISP and the tests reported no internet speed issues. So I immediately suspected that this is caused by a malware infection. I also noticed that the status bar is showing “Connecting to i.74055djs.info” whenever I browse a web page. First, I needed to run a standard system scan using my Avast antivirus. Malwares were found and removed. I then setup my Avast to perform a Boot Scan, then restarted my computer, some other malwares were removed…. Read More

My Hotmail emails are shown as a group of emails. How can I show them individually?

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 23, 2023

If you have been using Hotmail for a long time and you are now faced with the new Outlook.com interface, with its great feature set, you might be overwhelmed. One important feature in particular, you might be complaining about your emails stacked in groups. This is called “conversation” mode of display. Compared to the old classic Hotmail, when people sends you emails and you reply to each of them, each email received is listed individually. With this new Outlook.com feature, it is now listed in “conversation” view. See the screen… Read More

How to count or calculate “unique” data in Excel (count duplicate data once)

How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks October 21, 2023

Have you ever faced an Excel situation wherein you need to count or calculate rows and columns of data uniquely? Or in other way of saying — to count duplicate data only once? This can done using “Pivot Table” approach, but Excel also has several formulas that you can exploit to come up with the same results. Suppose you are operating an online store. Your website’s back-end e-commerce system reports sales per item and per day, like the table below: Suppose further that you want to know how many unique… Read More

How to Defragment Drive C

How Tos Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 21, 2023

As your computer is used, many times data are written to your hard disk drive. These happen when you create a file and save it to your hard drive, when you copy files from external drives like portable hard disk drives or USB Flash drives, when you download files from the internet, and many other sources. On the other hand, many times data are also removed or deleted from the disk drive. These happen when you delete a file or files and moved them to your Recycle Bin, when you… Read More

How to combine text in Excel cells so easily

How Tos MS Office Tips Tips & Tricks October 19, 2023

Suppose that you are working with an Excel sheet where a column of cells contain various text entries. And one of your tasks is to combine the text contents of the cells into one summary cell. How are you gonna do it in Excel? What formulas or functions will you be using? Using CONCATENATE Function When working with text in Excel, CONCATENATE function will simply combine the contents of cells into one. The CONCATENATE function joins up to 255 text strings into one text string. The joined items can be text, numbers,… Read More

How to configure Gmail for POP3 and IMAP

Email Tips How Tos Tips & Tricks October 19, 2023

When you are using a FREE version of Gmail, you can still add it to an email program like MS Outlook 2003/2007/2010, Mozilla Thunderbird and other email clients and be able to send and receive emails from their using POP3, SMTP and IMAP. Unlike Yahoo Mail, only paid versions called Yahoo Mail Plus can be added to a POP email client. If you want to add your Gmail account to your email client, whether it is MS Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, Mozilla Thunderbird or others, you need to first configure… Read More

How to tell how long your Windows computer has been running

How Tos Tips & Tricks Windows Tips October 17, 2023

Have you experienced forgetting to turn off the computer that was left unused? Or using the computer for long hours that you worry if the hardware blows up with matching smoke and smelly fumes? Some computers, especially laptop computers can be used for long hours as they are not heating up so easily as compared to desktop computers. However, in case you need to inspect as to how long your Windows computer has been running, please do the following: If it has been too long already, you might decide to… Read More