Has Your Windows Taskbar Disappeared? Go to click on a program on your Windows taskbar and realize it’s missing? Sometimes, the taskbar will vanish and you won’t see anything at the bottom of the screen and other times only the Start button remains, but everything else is gone. So how do you get your taskbar back? Well, there are a couple of ways you can restore the taskbar, but it’s also a good idea to know what can cause the taskbar to disappear....

How to Automatically Delete Files in Windows Earlier I wrote about a program called DropIt that automatically moves or copies files for you when new files appear inside a folder. This can be useful, for example, if you have limited space on a local hard drive and want to move all your downloads off to an external storage device. If you want to automatically delete files, there are two ways you can go about it in Windows....

How to Combine or Merge Multiple Text Files There are several occasions where you may need to merge multiple text files into single text file. For example, you may receive a CD that contains hundreds of text files, all in different directories, which you need to combine into one file for importing into Excel, etc. It’s also useful if you have network log files, server log files, or backup logs that you want to combine for purposes of data mining or data analysis....

How to Combine Multiple PowerPoint Presentations Do you have multiple PowerPoint presentations that you need to combine or merge into one presentation? I’ve had to do this myself a couple of times and one of the most important aspects when merging presentations is whether you want to maintain the format and theme of the inserted presentation or have it match the theme of the main presentation. The second most important factor is whether you need to maintain any animations and transitions that might be included in the inserted presentation....

How to Hide Sheets, Cells, Columns, and Formulas in Excel If you use Excel on a daily basis, then you’ve probably run into situations where you needed to hide something in your Excel worksheet. Maybe you have some extra data worksheets that are referenced, but don’t need to be viewed. Or maybe you have a few rows of data at the bottom of the worksheet that need to be hidden....