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Microsoft Project - The How To Series that Project Manager too embarrassed to ask (part 1) - How to print gantt chart and rename resource?

I often times want to do certain things in Microsoft Project that is supposed to be trivial but I always end up I could not find that particular command or function based on my current habit of looking up for things. Even I tried to google for answer but it just returns irrelevant stuff. I suppose these are consider too trivial or too shy for people to ask this sort of questions. So, this article is meant for anyone who shares the same trait like me. Bumping into simple stuff in Microsoft Project that need a quick answer without having to attend formal Microsoft Project training. 1. How to rename the resource in the project? Resource is the usually the team member of the project, it could also be machine or what ever that are required for the tasks to be carried out. The default view of Microsoft Project is Gantt Chart, so, whenever someone wants to rename assigned resource for the task, usually you will just double click on the task and go to "Resources" of the tas...

Making all the sticky notes in Outlook 2010 to appear sticky again

I use sticky notes for one reason is that it will stay sticking on my screen until I have decided to remove it. The Microsoft Outlook the moment you create the sticky note, it will stay on top of the screen. However, when you have switch off your machine or close your Outllook application. The sticky notes will go disappear itself. You have to reopen one by one in the Outlook again to make it sticky on top again. Imagine if you have tons of sticky notes in your notes folder.  Of course for the case of Microsoft Outlook, if you want to quickly check back what you have put into the note is that you can change the view of the Sticky Note folder to list. But then again, that defeat the purpose of me using sticky note. That is not the reason why I use a sticky note, I might as well use task or something else in Outlook for that purpose. So, here goes my solution which is to make use of Office VBA macros. It is not a daunted task as you may think, just a little bit of google se...

Ways to get more system storage for Android phones

There are a lot of ways to clean your storage so then to get more storage for new app installation. If you search in market, you get a array of these kind of apps. Before we talk about cleaning storage. Lets talk about why we need to house keeping sometimes. It is good to have extra system storage, not just for you to install more apps or place personal data. In fact, by having more extra system storage will prevent running into hanging issue for your Android phone. The reason being that some apps will generate temporary files when it performs some tasks in the phone, depending on how good is the developer of the app. If they do not do a proper exception handling in their code, if the phone run into cases that the system storage has run out, the app might cause the entire phone to hang. So, it is important to ensure there are ample amount of system storage available in your Android phone. OK, here goes the real topic of how to get more system storage for your phone. My appr...

Evernote VS OneNote

I was running into situation to pick either OneNote or Evernote for my exam preparation. Version that I am using to compare are - Evernote 5.3 Windows version and  Evernote for Android Mobile. - OneNote 2013 and OneNote2010. I synchronize across few version of OneNote for the same stuff. And then, OneNote for Android recently launched. Experience on the software wise, I have used both OneNote and Evernote for years. Although I have to be frank that, due to heavy duty of notes that I am taking and I am using Windows on my PC. I used OneNote more often. Evernote I came across this because of its popularity in Android community. My feeling towards both of the software are,  features wise, Onenote wins Evernote hands down. Evernote I would say currently it only carries a subset of features what Onenote has. Ranging from tagging, Onenote has ways more in term of doing a tagging like it allows tagging by a selected text in a paragraph. Not just by page. Evernote however ...