PCTips Box

Here is a pctipsbox for those of you who frequently schedule meetings using Outlook 2007. It is sometimes handy to have a hard copy of the names of attendees invited to a meeting, along with the name of the meeting organizer. Although it requires a few steps, you can print this information in Outlook 2007.

Your first step is to copy the names of attendees and the organizer:

1. Within Outlook, click the Calendar.

2. Open the appropriate meeting request.

3. On the Meeting tab, click Scheduling Assistant.

4. Select the names in the All Attendees list.

5. On the Format Text tab, click Copy.The names of the meeting organizer and attendees are copied. (more…)

Microsoft is hard at work searching for ways to improve its Office System. This is why the company has introduced a quasi-independent effort dubbed Office Labs. Designed to be a sandbox set up to streamline the experimenting, building and testing of new ideas, Microsoft Office Labs will offer the first taste of new products and features while still in the most early stages of development, even as prototypes. An illustrative example in this regard is Search Commands for the Office 2007 System.

“Search Commands helps you find commands, options, wizards, and galleries in Microsoft Office 2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Just type what you’re looking for in your own words and click the command you need. Search Commands also includes Guided Help, which acts as a tour guide for specific tasks,” reveals the product’s description. (more…)

I tend to be wary of programs that purport to make computers go faster, fix problems and so on. The vast majority of them are worthless snake oil. I’m also a bit suspicious of Russian software – they’ve still got a reputation for dodgy programs and scams and anything that comes from a company called Loonies is bound to set the alarm bells ringing so Actual Booster doesn’t get off to a very promising start.

Nevertheless, after giving it a fairly thorough road test I can tell you that Actual Booster really does liven things up a bit. It’s also free, and as far as I can see there’s no iffy content and it doesn’t try to phone home. (more…)

Here are some trick you can play with your microsoft word and window folder. Just for fun let try and you can see something…

Lets start first trick:

* Go to start and open an empty notepad file
* Ok now you type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
* Save notepad as whatever name you want and now close it.
* Now open it again..LoL what you can see there? (more…)

Now that Microsoft Office 2007 is out in the wild users of older versions of Office and Word may encounter problems opening Word, Excel and PowerPoint files from Office 2007 users. The new suite introduces new file formats, called Open XML. Frankly it’s a nuisance but there is a solution so if you are having trouble and you need to download the Office 2007 (more…)

Along with its new interface, Microsoft Excel 2007 offers several subtle improvements to those spreadsheet tools you use every day. Start with the worksheet size, now in excess of 1 million rows by 16,000 columns. Lists are now called Tables. You now have more color selections for formatting, and Excel’s styles and new table formats take advantage of these. Chart types are easier to read; you can select styles to format charts quickly; and objects such as titles and data tables are easier to find and configure in the Chart Tools tab.

After formatting a chart to your liking, you can save it as a template. When you copy and paste a chart into Microsoft Word, the chart is linked by default so that changes to the Excel version of the chart affect the version in Word. (more…)