Transcribing text from images can be a real pain. When text is presented as an image or some other non-selectable format, school and work become difficult. The only solution is to put those eyes and fingers to work and get to typing it—or is it? Optimal Character Recognition, or OCR,...
How To Set Out Of Office Replies In Outlook
If you’re heading off to a vacation and you’re not going to be available to reply to your emails, it’s a good idea to set an ‘out of office’ reply in Outlook on your computer. This way, anyone who sends you an email will receive an automatic response letting them...
How to Report a Phishing or Spam Email to Microsoft
Microsoft can analyze dangerous emails to determine why those messages made it past your spam filters. You receive an email that you find suspicious--potentially a phishing email--so you ignore or delete it. Another option is to report the email to Microsoft for analysis via the Outlook add-in called Report Message...
How to Group Worksheets in Excel
If you’re editing multiple worksheets in Microsoft Excel, it might be helpful to group them together. This allows you to make changes to the same range of cells across multiple worksheets. Here’s how to do it. Grouping Multiple Worksheets in Microsoft Excel Grouping worksheets together in Excel can be useful...
How to Safely Dispose of an Old Computer
Have an old computer lying around the house? Don't just throw it away. Computers house all sorts of toxins that are bad for the environment and all of us who live in it. Not to mention the personal information—passwords, account numbers, license keys or registration numbers for software programs, addresses and...