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MS Outlook is one of the oldest desktop email clients in the market. It’s also one of the most powerful clients with features such as rules to make it even better. Over the years, the email client has evolved both in terms of features and UI. The UI of Outlook …

Audio video calls have changed the way we communicate. A few years ago, Skype was the only app that could reliably make both audio and video calls but since then, a whole host of other messaging apps have joined the fray and are actually doing better than Skype. Skype has …

MS Word lets you create documents with pages that are in landscape or portrait view. You can change the orientation any time you want but it applies to every single page in a document. There is no option to change the page orientation for a single page in MS Word, …

Social media apps have become something of an addiction. Excessive use of social media isn’t good and if you own an iOS device you can limit it with Screen time. That said, not everyone uses an iPhone which is why it helps if social media apps have a way to …

Where would we be without meetings? Probably getting more work done but once the number of people you work with reaches a certain number, meetings become necessary. Scheduling a meeting isn’t easy; you have to check and make sure everyone is available, make sure they know when the meeting is, …

You can use speech recognition in Windows and dictate a document in MS Word, or an email in Outlook. Windows’ dictation feature isn’t the greatest tool for this purpose. MS Office apps don’t have a built-in dictation feature so that’s really all you can use. If you’re not averse to …

Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet app. It lets you process a substantial amount of data. You can sort it, apply formulas, and use conditional formatting to make it easier to read. Add to this the many types of graphs it supports and you can get a lot done with …

MS Word has a neat ‘Pick up where you left off’ feature. When you close a document, Word bookmarks the exact location you were last working on within that file. It does so by identifying where the cursor was when you closed the document. When you open it again, Word …

PDF is the format to use when you want to publish documents online. PDF is easily one of the most common file types found online and it’s used to publish not just documents but also presentations, reports, and catalogs. The thing with a PDF file is that while the format is exceptionally …

There’s two ways to spell color, with and without a ‘U’. That’s the case with a few other words; neighbor, favor, etc. The correct spelling is drilled into you in grade school but Microsoft Word generally doesn’t know where you went to grade school. It has spellcheck which tends to …

Facebook announced it would add a feature to its Messenger apps that would allow users to unsend a message. There was no real ETA on when the feature would roll out but the feature has now rolled out to all users, worldwide. You can unsend messages on Facebook Messenger within …

Connecting to a WiFi network usually involves selecting the network from a list of available networks, and entering the password for it. This is how it works on phones, tablets, and desktops. There are devices that do not fall under these categories but need to connect to a WiFi network …

If you use Excel to maintain schedules and/or time sheets, you might have needed to find the date of a specific day of the month. For example, what date does the second Monday of the month fall on? If you ever need to look up this same information but don’t …

Stories have become a lot like the like button. At one point, every social media app had one. Now that almost every social media app has stories, they need to try and differentiate the feature on their own respective platform. Instagram is doing this by making its stories interactive. It’s …

Cross referencing is essential if you have a particularly large document. It allows the reader to go back to relevant parts of a document that support or elaborate a particular section of it. Cross referencing is a very well developed feature in Microsoft Word which is particularly useful for academic …

Managing your inbox on a phone is different than when you do it from the desktop. There are several factors to consider when reading emails on your phone; the smaller screen, multi-tasking on a phone, and making sure you don’t miss anything important. Email clients on the phone aren’t even …

If Microsoft Word ever crashes or you experience a system crash while you have an MS Word document open you can likely recover most if not all of your document through the auto-recovery copy that the app saves regularly. In most cases, this will always save you when something goes …

You can add graphs, tables, images, and text boxes to a document in Microsoft Word. It doesn’t have a snapping feature like PowerPoint does however there is a ruler that allows you to align items. The ruler, by default, is scaled in inches however, if you’re not comfortable working with …

Instagram has been working to improve the messaging side of its app. It may be a place to share photos but it is slowly also becoming a messaging platform for many users. We’d be lying if we said messaging wasn’t something everyone was getting into and Instagram isn’t any different. …

You can use Window 10 with a local account, or with a Microsoft Account. A Microsoft account doesn’t necessarily have to be one that’s created on one of Microsoft’s domains e.g., Outlook, or Live. If you have a Gmail account, you can use it to create a Microsoft Account and …