Matt Refghi

Transcription So have you ever been in a situation where you try to double-click an Excel file, and it just doesn’t open? Watch this, if I double-click File2, nothing happens. You do see the wheel going in Windows, so it’s actually working, but nothing’s happening. What’s also puzzling about this is that if you check the task bar here, Excel’s not flashing, nothing’s flashing, it’s like nothing need my attention… so what gives? Now to understand why this is happening, let’s click the Excel icon in the taskbar. So here you can see that I was already updating a file called File1.xlsx, and the file we were trying to open is actually File2. Now what’s interesting here is that there’s … Read more

Transcription Hi everyone. Let’s say I needed to take a screenshot of this, what you’re seeing right here, the Google search page, but more specifically, the Web Store button and I wanted to explain to someone that hey you can remove this, you can get rid of this button. Well, the way to do that is you have to hover on it, then you press this, then you press remove. Simple, right? Well, the problem is, if I want someone to know how to do this, often what works best is having a screenshot, so if I want a screenshot, I have to kind of like hover on this, to make sure that the triple dots are visible, the button … Read more

Transcription “So starting with Windows 10, Microsoft got really comfortable with showing ads for apps, games, and, you know, Bing searches, things like that, in Windows. They’re trying to, of course, push their own products, push people to buy stuff in the Windows Store because they get a cut, things like that. So from their perspective they think they are being helpful, they’re offering us these “suggestions,” but personally I find these suggestions really irritating, because I don’t want sponsored content appearing everywhere as I’m working. So here’s 3 different places where we can turn off these helpful “suggestions,” and I’ll also show you how to keep your lock screen clean in Windows, so that you don’t have like these … Read more

Transcript “Hi everyone. Let’s say you’re working in Excel Online, and you find that you’re not able to see enough of the document at a time. Alright so, by saying, by Excel Online I mean in the browser, right? So this is an Excel document open in a browser. It looks a bit ridiculous of course because there’s a giant smiley face, but the idea behind this example is that let’s say I need to see many rows of data at a time, and I’m just not able to see them all in the browser… what can I do to improve the situation? In this case we’re just going to use the smiley as an example. What do I do … Read more

Description This video is a fresh take on my “Reducing Email Attachment Sizes With Compression” video, posted April 20th, 2011. Since then, things have changed – it was time to revisit it. As mentioned in the video, I had difficulty uploading the partial 7z files to Gmail as attachments. I’m not sure why – your mileage may vary. 7z would be preferable because it likely has more compression options, and even without instructions I like that searching for “7z” will inevitably lead you to conclude that it’s related to 7-zip whereas “zip” is more of a household term. I’m not sure that all applications that handle zips can handle the multi-volume approach done by 7-zip. Transcription “So let’s say you … Read more

Transcript “Hi everyone. In this video, I’ll be showing you how to convert old Office files into their newer formats. So by old files I mean the DOC extension, the XLS extension, or the PPT extension, how to convert those into their X equivalents. So DOCX, XLSX. So what happened is, in Office 2007, Microsoft introduced these newer formats, the X formats, so it’s possible that when you encounter old Office files, that you sometimes have to convert them to the newer formats – there’s a number of reasons why you’d want to do this, but let’s say you need to do this. Let’s start the Word document, let’s open it up. Once it opens up in Word, it’s actually … Read more

Most programs let you decide whether you’d like to them to open up automatically when you start Windows. Naturally, this is typically only an option when it’s logical to do so – for example, having Spotify immediately open with Windows makes sense. Having Notepad open with Windows… not so much. But what happens when a program doesn’t offer you that option, but you’d like still it to start up with Windows? Solution There’s a few ways to achieve this, but one of my preferred options is using the Task Scheduler in Windows 10.  Press the Start button, and search for “Task scheduler” or “Schedule tasks.” In the “Actions” menu on the right, click “Create Task.” On the “General” tab, specify … Read more