Run Multiple Instances of Outlook with Extra Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is undoubted the one of the most powerful desktop email client, but you cannot have multiple copies of Outlook running at the same time connected to two different servers. What we mean is not multiple profiles, but two separate instances running concurrently, each with their own associated profile. This can be achieved using [...]

Send Large Files From Microsoft Office Using YouSendIt

YouSendIt, a service which helps to send large files online, has announced the release of an add-in for Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 which allows you to send files from Office using YouSendIt. Once installed the plugin will add a sub menu in Send options (Office button->Send). When you want to send a file, click [...]

How to Change the Startup folder in Outlook

This is a guest post by Aseem Kishore, the lead blogger for HelpDeskGeek.com, which focuses on providing Help Desk tips to IT Professionals.
When you open Outlook in XP and Vista, the default folder that you get to view is the Inbox. In some versions of Outlook, like XP or 2003, Outlook will open up to [...]

How to Retain Formatting While Copy-Paste in Word

Many times when we paste contents from other documents or programs to Word, the formatting in the open document is lost and the contents copied from other sources will have the default formatting. So after pasting contents from other sources or document, we have to format it again and this becomes a tedious job many [...]

How to Add a Watermark to Excel Sheets

Previously we had published a tutorial on how to add watermark for a Word document. You can also add watermarks for Excel sheets, but the procedure to add watermark is different from that of Word documents as Excel does not have a built in feature for doing it. So in Excel you can add an [...]

How to Add a Summary to Word 2007 Document

A summary is good feature to have if you have a huge document containing several pages. But adding a summary to a large document will be a tedious task. Microsoft Word has the feature of AutoSummarize by which you can specify the length of summary and word will automatically create summary for you. The advantage [...]

How to Disable Mini Toolbar in Word 2007

Mini Toolbar in Word 2007 displays formatting whenever we select any text. The formatting tools appear on top of the text when you select them, but this could be sometimes annoying for users. This can be easily disabled in Word 2007 and once disabled formatting can be selected from the home tab in the ribbon.

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