How to edit Powerpoint template

This is just silly. I can’t figure out how to update the year in the left corner of my company powerpoint slide. I’ve tried footer and header, no help at all. Finally Google comes to rescue.

So I think this might be worth to share with you all as well.

Just go to View menu –> Master –> Slide Master

That’s it though! You can edit any part of the template as you wish. If you want to save that as new template, you can easily do so via File –> Save As and choose Design Template as Save as type.

Source : Office.com

Chrome password recovery

With all the buzz Chrome is getting, you wouldn’t be surprised there are tools developed aim at Chrome. Are using Chrome daily basis and saved your password in it, but can’t remember anymore?

No worry. There is Chrome password recover utility available now.

All you have to do is download Chrome Password Recovery tool. No need to install, just run it and it will list all your Chrome saved passwords. Cool, huh?

Gtalk Lab Edition, very few people know of its existence

Have you ever heard of Google talk? Of course, who could ignore big G IM client? But anyone familiar with Gtalk Lab Edition? Very few people left.

Let me introduce you the Gtalk Lab Edition. As the name implies, it is an experimental program from Gtalk team with the philosophy of bringing the web and desktop together. What differentiate Lab Edition and normal version is the use of the open source Webkit engine to host the Google Talk gadget.

Here is the list of features available only to Gtalk Lab Edition.

• Group chat, tabbed chatting
• Receiving notification from Gmail, Orkut and Google Calendar
• Option to set Gmail as default mail client
• Launch Gmail, Orkut, Google calendar from system tray
• Snooze option – temporarily stop notification

Wait a second please! Don’t get rid of your normal version for this lab edition unless you don’t mind of this missing features.

• file transfer
• voice chat
• option to hide offline friends from list
• option to change display picture

Yap. You’ve heard me. You can’t change your display picture in this lab edition yet. So it’s up to you to decide whether you’re willing to give up your existing features for the other cool new features or not.

How to install fonts without admin right

In Windows, you can’t install new fonts if you don’t have admin rights. Microsoft have made it extremely difficult for normal users to install fonts. As all the Fonts in Windows live peacefully in C:\Windows\Fonts, which is only writeable by Administrators or elevated privilege account owners

So, how can we install fonts without having to ask for Admin rights? Well, thanks to Tsukasa, there’s a workaround. He has developed a tool called Registerfont (You can download here)

What this tool actually does is that add a number of fonts to your font cache which do not need to use an elevated user account. How to use this tool is very simple.

• Just download the above file.
• Extract it to anywhere you can have access.
• Find the Bin folder and copy the font files into it.There you’ll also find registerfont.exe
• Go to Command Prompt and locate to registerfont.exe then type “registerfont add font1.ttf font2.ttf font3.ttf … font1000.ttf”

What if you don’t even have access to command prompt?

Well, then, you can create shortcut by right clicking on Registerfont.exe, choose create shortcut. After that right-click on that shortcut and go to Properties. Then append the string add with the name of the font file you want to add.

Example : “C:\Documents and Settings\usernamexxx\My Documents\RegisterFont.exe” add font1.ttf

Please note that you have to put Registerfont.exe, its shortcuts and all your fonts in the same folder. That’s it! Once you run the shortcut, you can see that the fonts you added are available to all your favourite Windows applications such as MS Office or Web Browsers.

How to disable UAC in Windows Vista

If you are using Windows Vista like me, you must be familiar with the following dialog box, don’t you? This is because of Windows Vista new addition security feature called User Account Control (UAC).

Some people gave up on Vista and return to XP because of UAC. Well, it is quite surprise to know that some people couldn’t figure out how to disable UAC and they simply blame on Microsoft. These people are really pathetic.

Let me show you how easy it is to disable UAC.

1. Simply go to Start Menu –>> Control Panel –>> User Accounts

2. After that simply click on Turn User Account Control on or off as shown in the picture below.

3. You will see the last time UAC dialog to click Continue.

4. And then rebooted your computer.

Simple, huh? Enjoy your Vista!

How to make your Document as Final in Word 2007

I love Windows Vista and Office 2007. No matter what other people are saying, Microsoft introduces a lot of great new features.

Do you know that in Word 2007 you can mark your document as final so that other people could know that no editing should be done?

Here’s the step to do that. Yes it’s easy!

• First click on Office button and then go to Prepare.
• After that click Mark as Final.

• You will see the following dialog box telling you that the document will be marked as final and saved. Just click OK.

• After that you will see another dialog box telling you more about Mark as Final info. Just click OK.

Now your document has been marked as final. No more accidental editing could occur and your collegues could also aware that they shouldn’t edit the document anymore.

You can differentiate normal document and mark as final document easily as in Mark as Final document, you couldn’t type or edit anything. Also, if this any help, the Word Status bar also telling you as follow.

I hope this tip could help you make more productivity.

How to make Word 2007 to save default in Word 97-2003 format

Microsoft has introduced new file formats in Office 2007. I’ve already told you guys about how to open docx files for those who still don’t have Office 2007.

But for me, as a Office 2007 user, sometimes I forget to save the file in Word97-2003 compatible mode and save it in 2007 new format and then send to my friends and coworkers, who are still using Office 2003 or older. After a couple of times happened, I’ve got to find a way to change Office 2007 default save file format. After a dozen times of accidentally sending a Word 2007 document to co-workers still stuck on Office 2003, I’ve decided to make Word save in the Word 2003 format by default.

Here is the procedure:

1. First click on the Office button and then choose Word Options as in the following picture.

2. After that Choose the save on the left column. And then from Save files in this format drop-down menu, choose Word97-2003 Document (.doc) as in the following pic.

After that click save. From now on, Word 2007 will always save file in Word 97-2003 format. No more incompatible format saving any more. As you can guess, even though I told you only about Word 2007, you can apply this tip in Excel 2007, Powerpoint 2007 and any other Office 2007 applications.

Useful Windows Vista shortcuts

With Windows Vista, noticably Windows+tab is 3D Flip cycles through opened Windows. There are many more shortcuts you can execute to make computing with Vista a lot faster. Here is the list.

My daily work become faster after I’ve got used to the Windows shortcuts. Hopefully this list could help your life a lot easier too.

How to disable Windows XP error reporting

For the users of Windows XP, you may get the pop-up windows that appears every time some of programs crashes. You have the option to choose whether you want to report the error to Microsoft or not. We usually click No and the message disappears, and we get on with our work.

Well, I have always just clicked NO, and moved on. I never even bother to click YES. I just wanted to get on with my work, so that I find a way to stop the computer to avoid showing that popup. Well, now I’ve got the tip to fix the problem. It is a simple fix.

• Just right click on the My Computer and click Properties.
• Once the System dialog box is open, click the Advanced tab
• And then click the Error Reporting tab at the bottom.
• Check the box that disables Error Reporting.

That’s it. I never have to look at that annoying popup again!

How to copy Windows error message

We all got different error messages on Windows. We can get the solution by googling the error messages. The annoying part of that is we have to manually type the error message as we can’t select the text in the error message box.

But hey from lifehacker blog, I’ve got a much simpler way. Simply just make active the error message window and then press Ctrl+C. All the error message text including Windows title will be on the clipboard. Just paste it in the Notepad, select the message you want and then start googling. No more manual typing.