October 23, 2009
The best things in life are free. How trite. I think the best things in life are free things that don’t suck from a company that gets picked on a lot. Don’t worry, I’m not standing up for Microsoft. They’ve got broad shoulders and can take care of themselves. You should know, however, that Microsoft [...]
October 17, 2009
Sometimes what we hide is more important than what we reveal. Especially, documents with sensitive information, some things are supposed to be “˜for some eyes only’. Such scenarios are quite common, even for the more un-secretive among us. You want to show someone a letter composed in MS Word, but want to keep some of [...]
October 6, 2009
So you’re stuck with a DAT file (.dat file extension) that was supposed to be a WORD document and you don’t know what to do with it? Don’t worry, help is here! You probably wonder what a DAT file is in the first place. Simply put, DAT files contain data in text or binary format. [...]
September 27, 2009
Office suite applications are ubiquitous. There are so many options available if you want to a create a document or a spreadsheet. There are open source free desktop applications, then there are free cloud-based applications. Microsoft has been working on a free version of its popular Office franchise as well. The free version would be [...]
September 23, 2009
If you live in a country where power outages are common then pay heed. Then again, if the power utility company doesn’t get you, a buggy OS just might. Even if you manage to evade all disasters how often can you escape Murphy’s Law? Doesn’t it say – If anything can go wrong it will. [...]
September 18, 2009
The most amazing property of unformatted text is that it has none. But isn’t it the basic building block of all that we write and design? If you are quick with your copying and pasting and you do it with large amounts of text then I am sure you are careful about massive blobs of [...]
September 14, 2009
It is a known fact that if you want to commit something to memory, continuous revision is the key. You read something every time you are at your desk and within days it becomes second nature. To be able to revise quickly and often, it helps if the information is terse and to the point [...]
August 28, 2009
I want to help you get a handle on the handle. Excel has, for quite a few versions now, had a number of shortcuts for using the mouse rather than the keyboard. I want to clarify how some of them work, so you can make the most of the tools at your disposal. Cell handles [...]
August 27, 2009
As an avid Excel user, I often find myself trying to do things with Excel that most folks would never consider. There are several reasons for this, but the most important is that Microsoft Excel has certain features that make certain unique formatting tasks extremely simple and easy to automate. Earlier, I introduced MUO readers [...]
August 26, 2009
I got a hot tip today on a piece of Chinese software that will make my life MUCH easier by adding Microsoft Office tabs to your installed MS applications. Have you heard of OfficeTab? Well if you are not into finding the latest and greatest software you have probably never heard of it. But I [...]
