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Top 5 fixes for Excel 2013 has stopped working also works for Word Powerpoint Outlook

Top 5 fixes for Excel 2013 has stopped working also works for Word Powerpoint Outlook Recently Ive started encountering a particularly annoying problem with Office 2013. Every time Id open Excel 2013 under Windows 8, it would crash instantly, leaving me a message: " Excel 2013 has stopped working ". I looked around and found a few solutions, but nothing worked for me. Eventually, I managed to fix the problem all by myself. Im going to describe the steps that Ive tried here. Note that this post is also valid for messages such as: Word 2013 has stopped working Powerpoint 2013 has stopped working Excel 2013 has stopped working Outlook 2013 has stopped working Office 2013 has stopped working (insert any other Office tool here). Most of these solutions are also valid for Office 2007 and Office 2010 applications . Solution 1: change the default printer This solution fixed all my problems, so Im going to describe it first. Also its the simplest! Try this first before anything else, ...

Sync e mail etc on your BlackBerry to Outlook

Sync e mail etc on your BlackBerry to Outlook Two friends have asked me how to sync their mail on BlackBerry without a BlackbEnterprise Server or hosted BES account. And theyve said theyre committed to Microsoft Outlook. So besides telling them to dispense with Outlook (which many would say) heres what I recommend: 1. Run all your mail through GMail--if you arent using GMail, forward all your mail to a GMail account. You can continue to use Outlook or the equivalent and get your mail from GMail through an IMAP (rather than POP3) protocol. IMAP can be enabled just like POP3 when you set up a new mail account in Outlook (or the equivalent). With IMAP, everything on Outlook will be in sync with GMail, because thats what IMAP does (versus POP3). Within GMail you can specify a return address for each of the e-mail accounts that you have, so if you have work and personal e-mail addresses, and set yourself up to get those e-mails through GMail, you can also reply from the e-mail address that ...

Sync Facebook Photos with Microsoft Outlook Contacts

Sync Facebook Photos with Microsoft Outlook Contacts If some of your Microsoft Outlook contacts are also Facebook friends, you will find OutSync pretty useful. OutSync takes the profile photos of your friends from Facebook and adds them to the matching entries in your Microsoft Outlook Contacts List. The utility also lets you to selectively update Outlook contacts. Update: OutSync is no longer active but you can use Yahoo Mail to export email address of Facebook Friends which you can then import into Outlook using CSV format. You can then sync Outlook with your mobile phone and see photos of your friends appear during calls instead of the plain text names. OutSync works with Outlook 2003 or 2007. It was originally written by Mel Sampat, a Program Manager in the Windows Mobile team at Microsoft. The main benefit of OutSync is for users who sync their smartphones with Exchange or Outlook. Updated contacts are copied to your iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android or BlackBerry devices, and ...