Convert MS Office 2007,2009 files to MS Office 2003

You may know that we can't access any of the 'MS Office 2007 or later version' files in 'MS office 2003 or previous versions' unless we convert them though software or online converters.

If you are using MS Office 2003 for you should also use Microsoft Compatibility Pack. This is the Simple & Best converter provided by Microsoft. This patch will do the following things.

Converts .xlsx to .xls (Excel)
Converts .docx to .doc (Word)
Converts .pptx to .ppt (Power Point)..etc
 
Installation Process: 

Download Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.

Open downloaded .exe file (37MB)

Accept the terms and conditions and continue.

Installer asks for Restart..Click OK. Once the system restarted your software is ready to use.

Now to test the software I'm opening .xlsx(MS Office 2009) file in MS Office 2003. A popup shows the conversion is taking place,

Now you need not to use any of the following keywords in Google to wast your time.

Converts .xlsx to .xls 
Converts .docx to .doc
Converts .pptx to .ppt

Note: This software won't actually converts 2007 to 2003, but makes it readable and editable in 2003.

Making a Square Image using Microsoft Picture Manager

Recently I have changed my Blogger logo to ‘DD’ (Da Decoder) using Favicon. Blogger or Domain both needs a square image to add logo.

Here are the simple steps to make an Image or photo Square.

Right click on the image and select 'Open With' and choose ‘Microsoft Office Picture Manager’

Picture manager opens with your image then go to Picture>> Crop

1. On the task panel you can see Original Dimensions and New Dimensions.

2. Adjust crop handlers carefully till ‘Left-Right’ & ‘Top-Bottom’ Dimensions become equal.

3. Make sure you do the cropping to the center of the image (or) your desired position of the image.

If your New Dimensions of the image are equal then your image is squarer. Click OK and save your square image.

Now you can use this square picture for your website or blog as Logo.

Add Shortcut Buttons in MS Word 2007 & 2009

Each one has a different purpose of using MS Word, for example i use it for Macros. In MS Office 2007 and above versions we can add shortcuts & Quick access buttons as per our requirement.

‘Quick Access panel’ enables us to add shortcuts in MS Word.

This panel is on Top Left side of the MS Word.

Save, Undo, Redo options are enabled by default, you can add the remaining as per your requirement (like Quick Print, Print Preview Etc).

For more options you can customize the panel. To customize open ­'More Commands…'

Select ‘All Commands’ from ‘Choose Commands option’ (or else you can choose the option as per your requirement.

Select the option from the list and click Add and OK.

 If you don't want the shortcut on MS office just right click on it and select 'Remove from Quick Access Toolbar' 

Reduce Image File Size using MS Paint

Open your image in MS Paint

Press Ctrl+W

Give 50/50 for first 2 options

ans save image in JPEG format.

This is for regular users.. If not understood just read the following...

Most of us may have faced this problem with photo file size, mostly during sending an E-Mail. As most of our E-Mail providers won’t let us to attach file size of more than 10MB this will be a bigger problem.

To reduce the image file size most of us uses a software like Photoshop or goes for online converters. The problem with these solutions is both consume lot of time (Ex. To Download and installation of software)

Most common reasons for huge file size are (a) Image Quality (b) Image Format. Here, we can deal with both of these problems using nothing but MS Paint

Quality: Some of our cameras or scanners are with high ‘DPI’ causing huge file size. To Decrease size you have to reduce some quality for sure. To do so.. do the following steps..

Open your image in MS Paint. Usually Right Click on the image and click Edit.. This will be shortcut to open image in paint, or else open MS Paint (type mspaint in Run and enter) and open your image file

Go to >> Image >> Stretch/ Skew (or else just use Ctrl+W)

In The stretch Column Give Horizontal ‘50’ and Vertical ‘50’ (These values are not fixed but you can learn after few experiments on few images) and hit ‘OK’…. Now you can see the image a little bit smaller than previous one

Format: The best compressed image format if ‘JPEG’ remaining ‘GiF’, ‘TIFF’ etc will consume lot of disc space.

So you have to use ‘save as’ option and save in JPEG format. See the process below.

Now you can see the HUGE difference between previous and present images.