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If you’re trying to send a program file as attachment in Gmail, an error message similar to this will be shown: “Error - HoboCopy.exe is an executable file. For security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of file.” It won’t works if you simply rename the program file extension

Ever wanted to convert a Microsoft  Office document to PDF without purchasing any expensive PDF authoring software? Here is a free plug in from Microsoft that converts any Office 2007 document to a PDF format - Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS. Once the plug in installed, a new option “Save as PDF or XPS” will appear in the “Save As” menu.

Added on Sunday, September 28, 2008 by Shirley Cawte. Tagged with fun file, office, games, tricks.

A business user wishing to integrate Excel pivot tables with an existing database implementation, such as Microsoft CRM, will face a number of challenges that may frustrate and intimidate our end users: Connection points to the data sources are mysterious and so numerous in choice, that a user often

A business user wishing to integrate Excel pivot tables with an existing database implementation, such as Microsoft CRM, will face a number of challenges that may frustrate and intimidate our end users: Connection points to the data sources are mysterious and so numerous in choice, that a user often

How do you convert Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations and Word documents files to the new Office 2007 format. 1. Open all of them in the associated Office program and manually save them in the newer (docx, xlsx or pptx) format. Or follow these steps and convert all documents.

In previous versions of Office, to make a document read only, you need to right click, select properties and make the document read only. But Office 2007 has a built in feature inside word to make the document read only. The advantage of using the feature is that once the document is made read only, ribbon features are also disabled.

First of all, this post is dedicated to my aunt Gayla who runs a small business and has a lot of trouble with this feature. This post is not dedicated to those who might use this feature for spamming. :) Mail merge is a feature of Outlook and Word that allows you to send a set of contacts a personalized e-mail as though they are the only person receiving the e-mail.

Keyboard shortcuts are very useful to improve the productivity. Today while drafting a design document I learned few keyboard shortcuts of Microsoft Word that are very helpful to apply various header styles to text.

There are times when you want to convert a file without the need to download and install a software. For example if you are at work where you can’t install a software because you don’t have administrator rights.