Reader Questions

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You may remember the Reader Question from a few weeks back involving synchronizing Microsoft Outlook information between two computers. I posted a list of possible solutions courtesy of Outlookipedia (and the comments to the post also contained some great suggestions, including using IMAP rather than POP3 email).

I also continued to follow up with this reader behind the scenes to see if I could find a better solution for this dilemma. I’m happy to report we did.

Click the “Read More” link for this reader’s review of SynchPst.

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A reader asked me recently how to calculate the difference between two dates. My response? Well, it depends. Fortunately, there are only two scenarios to pick between, and I’ve illustrated them both in this post. Click through for complete tutorial on how to calculate in Microsoft Excel using dates.

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Reader Question: The macro that won’t save

by The Guru on September 29, 2011

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One reader (an attorney) had a puzzling dilemma: he’d record macros, but they wouldn’t be there the next time he started Word. After a couple of suggestions didn’t solve the problem, we finally found one that did.

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If you’ve got Microsoft Outlook on both your work and home computers, and you want to receive all your email both places, it’s, um, complicated. After trying one solution (one that works fine for synching smartphone/webmail and Outlook, but not Outlook to Outlook on two computers), I find a whole slew of third-party applications designed just for this purpose.

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Reader Question: Type Once, Repeat Many?

by The Guru on September 6, 2011

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A Legal Office Guru reader wrote in, asking for help with some forms she’d been asked to create to . “Is there a way to autopopulate a field?” she asked. “I’d like it to work similar to Adobe [Acrobat], where if you give the fields the same name, the text in one will automatically fill up in all of the others. I’ve read something about making each field an REF field, but I don’t understand how to do it, and I’ve tried tons of Google search results. Can you help?”

To achieve that Adobe-like effect, I’d choose Word’s Bookmarks feature. Click the “Read More” link below for the full illustrated tutorial.

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Reader question: Page number macro misfire

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by The Guru on August 26, 2011

A Legal Office Guru reader has an “insert page number” macro that works just fine … until he logs off. How I solved his dilemma.

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