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I ran into the problem when embedding files into a Word document. I was using Office 2007, but this may be a problem in other versions. Word says that it is waiting for another application to complete an OLE action . What I had to do is open the task manager and end acroread.exe or whatever pdf program was running. After that I could embed the file successfully. I'll upload screen-shots if I ever run into it again.

Print screen the active window only by pressing ALT + Print Screen . On a mac you press Command + Shift + 4 then  Space-bar , then click the window . Mac: Just a quick tip for reference. There's a more comprehensive tutorial for macs here:  http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/13/print-screen-mac/  or  http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/screencapturemac/ht/macscreenshot.htm Windows: If you want to capture a selected area in windows, you can do it if you have One Note installed with Windows + S , or from the Insert menu in OneNote, select screen clipping.  You can also use the screen snipping tool in Windows Vista or 7. Here's a good tutorial on how to assign a shortcut to the snipping tool:  http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/assign-a-shortcut-key-to-the-snipping-tool-in-windows-vista/

dir > print.txt The ">" symbol is telling to put the output of the command to whatever is next. In this case "print.txt". This is useful for writing any output to a file in a script or whatever. Example: dir > %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\print.txt This example will print the directory listing to print.txt on your desktop. Other flags: dir /b file names only dir /s include all sub folders & files Original source:  http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000772.htm Actually I really like that site, and spent some time taking their quiz. Entertaining.

I had the need to combine several CSV (excel) files into one file. The set was long enough that even opening them and copy/pasting would take over an hour. This little trick will do it in a few seconds. (in windows) 1. Put all of your files in the same folder. They all need to be CSV format and should be the only CSV files in the folder. You may want to remove headers from your spreadsheets if you don't want them later. 2. Open a command prompt. Windows+R > cmd This should be the normal command prompt because it doesn't work in powershell. 3. Navigate to the folder with your .csv files 4. type " copy *.csv newfilename.csv " 5. A new file named "newfilename.csv" will show up in the same folder. If you wanted to copy it somewhere else you could run copy *.csv path\newfilename.csv. Example: copy *.csv  %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\newfile.csv This will copy all the CSV files from the folder you are in to a file on your desktop named newfile.csv...

For some reason, our installation of communicator was set not to save any messages by default, but it did save my call history.  Since I don't have any juicy communications at work, I don't have any problem saving everything in communicator. I save those chats for gchat. By the way, administrators of communicator can view your conversations in communicator, so I would be careful when using it. They also control if these settings are available, so you might not be able to change much anyways. When this option is selected, your chat messages and history will be saved to a folder in Outlook named "Conversation". (Image) Enabling this is very easy. It's done in Communicator, NOT in Outlook. 1. In Communicator go to file, tools, options... 2. Check the box that says " Save my instant message conversations in the Outlook Conversation History folder" After restarting you will have a folder in Outlook that will save your chats from now on. Here ...

This fix is if Windows XP is only showing one processor on a multi processor/core machine. 1. Boot to safe mode with networking  2. Delete (or rename) the following if they exist from C:\WINDOWS\System32\ hal.dll ntoskrnl.exe ntkrnlpa.exe (Check for these. They usually do not exist but delete them if they do) halmacpi.dll ntkrnlmp.exe ntkrpamp.exe 3. Copy the following into C:\WINDOWS\System32\ from the files described in the bottom note. hal.dll ntkrnlpa.exe ntoskrnl.exe 4. Reboot and it should fix itself the rest of the way.   NOTE: The new files in step 3 were taken from the originals which can be found on other machines in C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386: halmacpi.dll renamed to –>HAL.DLL ntkrnlmp.exe renamed to –>ntoskrnl.exe ntkrpamp.exe renamed to –>ntkrnlpa.exe

It took me a while to figure out how to change the default from address in Outlook when using gmail or a google apps account. I've done it in Office 2010. This will make your alias the default email address when sending any emails. It won't say "on behalf of" or anything like that. 1. Set up gmail account in outlook if you haven't done so already http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77689 2. In file tab, open Options 3. Select Advanced Tab 4. Send/Recieve... 5. Edit... 6. Select your account and click Account Properties... 7. IMAP E-mail tab 8. Change E-mail Address: (not User Name) Now when sending emails from the original account, the email address will actually be the new one even when the original account is selected. Note: You can't use google apps sync with this solution; you have to use use calendar sync if you want use the calendar also. If you just want to change the from address once, you c...