Tips, Tricks & Secrets

We have discussed several Excel Tips and Shortcuts so far. Here comes the first post on Microsoft PowerPoint Shortcuts. I hope you would find them useful.

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Google is determined to take you search experience with Googl.com a great and most popular search engine to a next level. The Web 2.0 is what we call it that delivers the next generation content on the internet. You may want to work with Goole on it Beta program to enhance end user Search Experience.

The new Search navigation feature lets user navigate through Google Search Results without lifting finger from the keyboard. Navigate search results quickly and easily, minimizing use of your mouse.

Keyboard shortcuts

You may want to Try this feature: http://www.google.com/experimental/

Navigate search results quickly and easily, with just your keyboard. As you navigate, items are magnified for easier viewing. If you use a screen reader or talking browser, the relevant information is spoken automatically as you navigate.

Current keyboard shortcuts include:

For now, you need to use the Firefox 3 web browser with this experiment. This note will be updated as other browsers are added. Magnification already works with Google Chrome and Apple's Safari.

Google is determined to take you search experience with Googl.com a great and most popular search engine to a next level. The Web 2.0 is what we call it that delivers the next generation content on the internet. You may want to work with Goole on it Beta program to enhance end user Search Experience.

The new Search navigation feature lets user navigate through Google Search Results without lifting finger from the keyboard. Navigate search results quickly and easily, minimizing use of your mouse.

Keyboard shortcuts

J                    Selects the next result.

K                   Selects the previous result.

O                   Opens the selected result.

<Enter>      Opens the selected result.

/               Puts the cursor in the search box.

<Esc>          Removes the cursor from the search box.

You may want to Try this feature: http://www.google.com/experimental/

In order to search a text in an Excel File  we need to invoke the “Find and Replace” tool in Microsoft Excel by hitting [Ctrl]+[F] as shown in figure 1.1 below…

Figure 1.1

To search the next occurrence of the text one has to again invoke the same “Find and Replace” dialogue box.

However, not many of us really know that Excel provides a quick way to repeat the search without invoking the Find dialogue. The quick Find Next works as stepped out below…

1. Invoke the “Find and Replace” dialogue box by pressing [Ctrl]+[F] key combination
2. Type the text that you intend to search and click “Find Next” button in “Find and Replace” dialogue box.
3. Press [Esc] key to close the “Find and Replace” dialogue box.
4. Press [Shift] + [F4] key combination to repeat the search without invoking “Find and Replace” dialogue.

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If you don't know what a Hex editor is, you probably shouldn't be hex editing anything, but if you want to try, Google for "hex editor" - UltraEdit is perhaps the best and easiest one to use. Before doing anything to the PST with a Hex Editor, make a copy of the PST, or you may end up losing all of your email.

1. Open the PST in the Hex editor.
2. Delete positions 7 through 13 with the spacebar. Since you're using hexadecimal numbering, this actually clears 13 characters in the following positions:
   00007, 00008, 00009, 0000a, 0000b, 0000c, 0000d
   0000e, 0000f, 00010, 00011, 00012, 00013
   As you clear the characters, the editor displays the code “20” in their position.
3. Save the PST, it is now corrupted.
4. Run the Inbox Repair Tool, SCANPST.exe, to recover the file. Use Windows Search utility to find it. For more information on the Inbox Repair Tool, see KB article 287497
5. The Inbox Repair Tool creates a backup and repairs the damage and recreates the PST.

Open the new PST in Outlook. The Deleted Items folder should now contain the deleted messages, unless Outlook has already deleted them for good by compacting the PST.

I have recovered lost folders and mails using this method several times. I hope you all would be able to recover your lost emails.

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A PST is a database. Items are records within the database and there is an index that points to each item. When you empty the Deleted Items folder, Outlook doesn't actually delete the items, it just deletes the items' listings from the index. The item is still in the PST, but unrecoverable because Outlook has no idea where it is without the pointer in the index. The space the item takes up is called "whitespace".

When you Compact a PST, the item is finally removed permanently and the whitespace is recovered, often shrinking the PST by many megabytes. Once the PST has 20% "whitespace", Outlook begins compacting the PST. If the Deleted Items folder contained a lot of messages, Outlook may begin compacting the PST immediately and the items will be deleted forever within a few minutes.

To recover the items which are no longer in the index you need to force Outlook to rebuild the index by causing corruption. You can cause corruption by using a Hex editor to delete some characters from the beginning of the PST file. If you delete the wrong ones you'll cause corruption but not in the index and Outlook won't rebuild the index.

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