So, one of your employees learned how to upload the photo that appears next to their name in Outlook. Now, everyone is uploading glamour shots and pictures of their dogs. Some of them are uploading their picture upside-down and they can’t figure out how to change it. These pictures are normally used to identify employees, […]
Category: Microsoft Office
Drag and Drop Message to Create New Appointment
This article is more of a stub. Please don’t judge me. In the olden days (back before Office 365) I used to drag my emails to the To-Do Bar calendar to create quick meetings or appointments. Dropping the dragged email on a date popped open a new meeting with the subject and body pre-filled. I […]
Removing a Varied Number of Characters from the Beginning of a Cell
I’m terrible with Excel. I know that using formulas will make my life easier, but I struggle. Terribly. Searching for information on the interwebs can also be difficult because everyone assumes you’re not an idiot. Anyway, for my own later reference, here’s a formula that came in very handy for me. I dumped a query […]
Drag and Drop Stops Working in Outlook (or Windows or Lync)
When using Outlook (or Windows generally), you may lose the ability to drag and drop items. For example, you may not be able to drag an email from the inbox into another folder. The solution to this problem is (drum roll, please………..): press ESC. You may need to press ESC more than once, but it […]
“Cannot Create File” error when opening, saving, or printing an attachment
Background: MS Outlook uses a local cache to work with e-mail attachments. Every time an attachment is opened from an email, Outlook creates a copy of the attachment in the local cache. This is not usually a problem as attachments are typically saved if they need to be referenced frequently. The problem occurs when attachments with […]