Disable

Disable permanently delete items warning message in Outlook

November 22, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Outlook displays a warning message when deleting outlook emails. It displays a dialog box with message “Are you sure that you want permanently delete the selected items” as shown below

This is very useful warning option for the users before deleting the mail items permanently. But If you do not want to see the permanently deleted warning message then turn off or disable this warning message.

Disable warning message in Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

Click on the File menu –> Options and navigate to Advanced tab.

Scroll down to Other section and clear the checkbox with label as Prompt for confirmation before permanently deleting items. Click OK to save the changes.

Turn off permanently delete warning message in Outlook 2007

This warning message can be disabled in Outlook 2007 by using Tools –> Options.

Go to Tools –> Options and select Other tab.

Click on the Advanced Options button. The following Advanced Options window would be displayed.

Uncheck the “Warn before permanently deleting items” to disable the warning message.

Also See: How to turn off send without attachments warning message in Outlook

Disable sending a read receipt in Outlook

November 9, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 5 Comments

Microsoft Outlook will send a read receipt when a new message requests for read receipt. Sending read receipt option is by default enabled in Outlook. And if you do not want to send a read receipt request then you can disable using the options available as part of Outlook settings. Listed below are the steps to disable sending read receipt in Outlook 2016, 2013 and Outlook 2010

Step 1: Click File menu and select Options from the menu list.

Step 2: In the Options window, click to Mail tab and screen down to Tracking section.

Step 3: Select the radio option “Never send a read receipt” under “For any message received that includes a read receipt request”

Step 4: Click OK to confirm and save the changes.

Demo Video – Disable sending read receipt in Outlook 2010

Also See: Request for delivery message and receipt message in Outlook

How to disable auto fill feature in Excel

November 9, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Auto fill in excel is quite handy feature, using this you can fill series of cells based on the entries of other excel cells. But if you want to turn off or disable auto fill feature then you can use Excel options for doing this. Listed below are the steps to turn off auto fill in Excel 2013, Excel 2010 and Excel 2007

Excel 2016, 2013 and 2010

Click on the File menu –> Options link and navigate to Advanced tab on the left hand side.

Under Editing options, un tick the check box with label as Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop. This will turn off the auto fill feature in Excel 2010.

Excel 2007

In Excel 2007, this feature can be turned on or off using the Excel Advanced Options.

Click on the Office button –> Excel Options

Under Excel Options select Advanced section

By checking or un checking “Enable fill handle and cell drag-and-drop”, you can turn on or off the Auto fill feature in Excel 2007.

Also See: How to disable autocomplete suggestion feature in Excel 2010

Save messages in sent items folder in Outlook

August 12, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 7 Comments

Microsoft Outlook automatically saves the sent messages in sent items folder. But if you do not want to automatically save the sent messages then you can turn off this feature using Outlook Options. Listed below are steps to enable or disable saving copies of messages in Sent Items folder in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007.

Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

Click the File menu –> click the Options link . In the Options window select the Mail tab and scroll down to Save Messages section.

You can turn off or disable the save sent messages sent items folder by un marking the checkbox with label as Save copies of messages in the Sent Items folder.

Save message in Sent Items for single message in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

The above settings would affect all the message but if you want to specify only for selected messages then you can use the options available as part of Message window.

In the message window, navigate to Options menu then to the more options section.

Click the down arrow available below the Save Sent Item To menu option.

The different options that are available are

Use Default Folder – This would save the sent messages in the default sent items folder.

Other Folder – This allows users to specify the folder where this messages needs to be saved.

Do Not Save – This will not save the sent messages to any folder.

Outlook 2007

In Outlook 2007 to enable or disable “Save copies of messages in Sent Item folder”, Click Tools ->Options -> Email Options

Under Message Handling section, by checking Save copies of messages in Sent Items folder, messages that are being sent would be saved to Sent Items folder.

Also See: How to automatically save messages in Outlook 2010

How to turn off display of screen tips in PowerPoint 2013 & 2010

July 20, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

PowerPoint 2013 and 2010 displays screen tips along with feature description when we hover the mouse over the menu items. By default screen tip feature is enabled in PowerPoint but if you do not want this extra information to be displayed then you can turn off using PowerPoint options.

Click File menu and then Options link

In PowerPoint Options under General tab, navigate to User Interface options.

Set the value for ScreenTip style dropdown to Don’t show ScreenTips and click OK to confirm and save the changes. This would disable the display of screen tips for all menu items in PowerPoint.

How disable the sound for keyboard clicks in iPad

February 13, 2015 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

The sound heard for keyboard clicks in iPad can be disabled using the settings. To disable the sound

Tap the settings icon on the iPad home screen.
In the settings screen, navigate Sound settings.

And this would Turn off the sounds for the Keyboard clicks in iPad 2

How to disable advance slide on mouse click in PowerPoint

November 12, 2014 By Ravi Shankar 4 Comments

In this short beginners PowerPoint 2013 and PowerPoint 2010 tutorial, we will see the steps to disable advance slide on mouse click. During a slide show, you can move to next slide either by pressing ENTER or SPACEBAR on keyboard or on mouse click. And using Transitions menu, you can disable or enable the advance slide on mouse click.

Click the Transitions menu and navigate to Timing section

If you want to disable the feature, then un mark the check box labelled as On Mouse Click.

Also See: Start PowerPoint Slide Show using Windows Explorer

Turn off Pop-up blocker on Google Nexus 7

January 28, 2013 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

This is a short article on the steps required to turn off pop-up blocker in Google Chrome installed on Google Nexus 7. By default the pop up blocker is enabled in Google Chrome. But if you are frequently accessing websites that display popups that you need to have access to then you can turn off pop blocker using the Settings available as part of Google Chrome.

Step 1: Launch Google Chrome on Google Nexus 7

Step 2: Access the Chrome Settings by tapping option available at the top right hand corner.

Step 3: In the Google Chrome settings screen, tap the Content settings option under Advanced section.

Step 4: Now to turn off the pop up blocker, un mark the checkbox with label as Block pop-ups to allow pop-ups from websites.