Microsft Outlook is a very popular e-mail program, especially on Windows 10 computers and laptops. You may be using it as well, for example at home, school or in the office. But you may be annoyed with a recurrent pop-up message that is being displayed every so often. The pop-up says the following: A program Continue reading →
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Accidentally open the Research Pane? Here is how to disable it in Office (Excel, Word)
The Research pane is a small utility build in some Office applications. It allows to search the meaning of a word, get synonyms, pronunciation… The Research Pane is, however, often opened by accident. When pressing the ALT key and clicking, the window opens on the right side. This can be very annoying to say the Continue reading →
HOWTO: Outlook – Decline meeting but keep on calendar
When someone sends you a meeting request, you have three main options: accept, tentative or decline. Additionally (and if this option was not unchecked by the sender), you can propose a new time. Accepting the invite means it will appear in your calendar. Selecting the option ‘tentative’ means it will also appear, but it Continue reading →
Add a watermark overlay in Excel
Excel is a powerful tool with a great deal of features. However, it does not include a feature to add a watermark to an Excel sheet. For example, if a document is in draft mode, you may want to indicate this status by adding a watermark to the Excel sheet. While you could insert an Continue reading →
Check Disk Quota on Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 is an online collaboration suite that is very similar to Microsoft Office, but it’s entirely hosted in the cloud. However, even if your mailbox or documents are now in the cloud, there is a disk quota. So once you go over this quota, you will no longer be able to send or Continue reading →
Excel: COUNTIF: The formula you typed contains an error
In Microsoft Excel (part of the Microsoft Office productivity suite), you can count the number of times a string (a piece of text) appears in a range of cells. Let’s take the following table as an example: Option A Option B Option C Totals X X 2 X 1 X X X 3 To get Continue reading →
Disable OneNote 2016 on startup (icon in tray)
Included in the Microsoft Office 2016 package is OneNote 2016, a tool to organise notes and thoughts. If you do not use OneNote 2016; it will still automatically start up the next time you boot your Windows device. To prevent OneNote 2016 from starting up the Send to OneNote Tool, you can disable this behaviour. To Continue reading →
Keyboard Shortcut to Autocomplete E-mail/Username in Outlook
In a business/office environment, the Microsoft Office suite is a popular productivity set to manage e-mail, craft documents or create presentations. Especially Outlook is my personal favourite, since it offer a rich set of tools to manage e-mail, calendar and my address book. When using a directory that contains a great number of entries, for Continue reading →
Launch Word 2016 with new (blank) document
Opening Word 2016 (part of the Microsoft Office productivity suite) will show you the startup animation. Then, you are presented with a bunch of templates to start with. This can be handy, if you are looking for a good foundation to start a document with. But this behaviour can also be annoying. Personally, I mostly Continue reading →