Microsoft Excel users are entering a new era of productivity this August, as fresh features arrive across Windows, Mac, and the web—moving the world’s leading spreadsheet platform ever closer to a seamless, modern, and highly collaborative experience. These updates, mainly available to Microsoft...
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Opening CSV files on Windows 11 can prove deceptively troublesome, especially when striving for both readability and data integrity. Although the format—Comma-Separated Values—sounds simple, users frequently encounter problems such as jumbled columns, garbled characters, or files stubbornly...
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Transitioning to Microsoft Edge from another browser, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, is a process that Microsoft has streamlined with a particular focus on preserving the user’s existing data and preferences. When users initiate an import from a rival browser, Microsoft Edge...
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Microsoft’s Windows 11 has brought a wealth of features and a refreshed interface—but with creativity sometimes comes clutter. If you’re noticing more ads, suggestions, and nudges for Microsoft services everywhere—from your Start menu to pop-up notifications—rest assured you’re not alone. In...
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Microsoft is rolling out yet another leap in productivity with its latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot. This innovative tool is set to transform the way Windows users interact with Excel by making data import seamless, intuitive, and refreshable—all with the help of natural language...
In the ever-evolving landscape of browsers and systems, Microsoft continues to champion its Edge browser with a zeal that can only be described as relentless. The latest developments have stirred up a mixture of frustration and amusement among Windows users as Microsoft, once again, employs...
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To make a bit less painful to migrate from my aging 32-bit Windows 7 workstation to the latest and greatest, I need to find what apps I most often use, before gathering and installing the latest version of each and importing data files and settings.
The "Last Used On" column in W7's...
This week's episode of Data Exposed welcomes Sahaj Saini, Program Manager on the SQL Server team. Today, Sahaj joins us from our southern California office to show us an exciting new feature of SQL Server 2016 called PolyBase. PolyBase simplifies management and querying of both relational and...
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We are going to import all data from Windows8Forums.com, move the domain here, use a combined salt, and split the data into two different sites. If all goes accordingly, both sites should share the same user database and forum installation while appearing to be two separate websites. Any member...
My husband, mourning the impending death of his Palm device, is looking for a new non-phone PDA (remember those?) compatible with Windows 7 / Outlook 2010. I can't seem to find anything developed in the past year or two.
I saw the Ipaq 111 but it runs Windows Mobile 6 and I assume that one...
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I'm trying to get a good Win XP routine to work in my new Win7 Pro 32-bit OS.
I need to open a document with an application in a non-conventional way.
I'm encountering two problems.
In Win XP you could specify one or more applications to open a file type (i.e., a file of certain extension)...
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so i installed Office 2010 BETA. When i try to connect to the .pst folder, this is possible for everything except the .pst file, saved from Outlook 2007.
When i click adress book i get: contacts-jeff@.... but i never made that ......
The machine works for over an hour.......and when it...
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Having backed up the Outlook Inbox, Sent Item, etc to pst files prior to the build of Windows 7 Home, I get this message when I try & import the data back into Outlook.
A Google search would indicate that this is a pretty common occurrence on other platforms as well but does anyone know why...
I installed this on 7 and found out that MS doesn't have a PFbackup for 7 yet, no surprise considering the newness of the OS so I could not import my personal files to Office 2007. That being said I uninstalled it and installed office 2003 then I imported my backup files and had my data just...