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MS Word: Edit PDF

Microsoft has brought in the ability to Edit a PDF directly from Word. Select the File Menu then select Open Word tells you that it’s going to make a copy of the PDF and convert its contents into a format that Word can display. The original PDF won’t be changed at all. Select OK. Depending on the size and the speed of your workstation this process can take some time. Be Patient. After your…

MS Word: Create a Document

When opening MS Word it opens in the Back Stage View, This view has three primary menus at the top Right. Home – Uses a combination of the most useful commands from the other Menus New – Different options to create a New Document Open – Selection of available locations from where documents can be opened. Blank Document A Blank document is an empty sheet that you can start from Scratch. On…

MS Word: Toolbars and Ribbon

The ribbon is a set of toolbars at the top of the window in Office programs designed to bring the most popular commands to the front to help you quickly complete a task.The Ribbon consists of three Basic parts: Tabs, Groups, and Commands Tabs The tabs open a ribbon with specific activities that can be used. The Home tab activities are the most commonly used among the other Tabs on the Menu…

Operation Could Not Be Completed Error 0x00000bc4 No Printers Were Found

When trying to connect an end-user workstation to a Shared Printer on a Windows Server you get the error “Operation Could Not Be Completed Error 0x00000bc4 No Printers Were Found“. This issue can be because by many different reasons. To Resolve the issue you can attempt the following: Restart the Printer Spooler on the Workstation and the Server Open Command Prompt in Admin Mode on both the…

Find Character in String from Right in Excel

Working with some log files based on a Flat file, we use Excel to get the data in a structured way to be able to use against other datasets. Getting data from these Text-based logs does sometimes need some creativity. This is the case when trying to get an unknown amount of characters after the last instance of a specific character. To understand how to get to this, let’s work through three…

Learn Excel: What is Excel? Excel Layout

Whenever I meet a User that complains about knowledge and learning Excel better, I find that most of the time it is because they are shown the difficult side of Excel. With the difficult part, I mean they see functions within functions and get told these functions are easy. This is true if you used each function separately or even if you understand a few concepts of how Excel works. What is…

ADDS – New AD Error: You must supply a user account name.

While creating a Test Environment to check a few issues I am experiencing on a Previous RODC I set up. The following error kept coming up: “You must supply a user account Name”. Upon doing a bit of research I did not find much except for an article advising to create a new account and adding the user to the Domain Admin Groups. Which is fine and it worked but it did not make sense why I could…

Find which program is using a Specific Port in Windows

While installing a web server on a workstation, I kept getting an error that the port number was in use. This obviously caused some issues as it is an IT machine, who knows what was installed using the ports? There are two ways to figure out what software is using the ports required. The first is Command Prompt which is a Legacy way of doing it but still works fine.Secondly is with PowerShell…