If you are suspicious of any files in your system or URLs, you can use VirusTotal to check if the file or URL is virus free. It's good, in case, when you get email with links and you are not sure if the link is virus free. Then, you can copy the link and chek it in VirusTotal. https://www.virustotal...

In Excel if you have a cell that contains a number, and you drag it down, the number increases by one in every next cell. This is normal. Here cell B3 contains me1 . When you drag it down the columns, the number increases by one. http://shamskm.com/forum/exceltutor/Autosumshortcut/how_to_stop_auto_i...

If you have a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) with images in it , and you want to extract those separately from your document, the easiest way is to save the document as a web page. Open your document in Word > click on Save As > click on Other Formats . Now from Save as type: select Web Pag...

VLOOKUP or 'vertical lookup' is one of Excel's frequently used lookup and reference functions. In general, it looks for a 'value' you want to look up from a table or a range, and when found, returns that value. VLOOKUP function has four parameters or arguments in its syntax. The parameters are sepa...

In Microsoft Word, if you want to move any single word or any block of text to any other location of your document, then simply highlight the word or the block of text > press F2 > now place the cursor at the location where you want to move your text > press Enter . Your selected word or block of te...

Just press Ctrl + Enter or Alt + Enter at the end of your line or after any word where you would like to break and start a new line. It will create a new line there in the same cell.

For beginners who just started learning German or for newcomers in Germany, the German language could look very difficult to absorb at first look - specially words, grammer, then comes the slangs which are widely used in everyday life. But hold on, put a smile on your face and let me start :-) In fa...

So you want to remove the table in your word document while the text inside the table should retain its structure as it is, right? Select the table by clicking on the small plus sign on the top left corner. http://shamskm.com/forum/exceltutor/removetable/how_to_remove_table_in_word_document.jpg Once...

Yes, a group of German researchers say, it's risky to go to Sauna when you have high blood pressure. According to Deutsche Hochdruckliga (German High Pressure League): The sauna session is initially a burden for the cardiovascular system. Skin and body temperatures can rise upto 40 degrees Celsius. ...

Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound (Source: Wikipedia)


A nice article on the subject on the New York Times by Kenneth Chan: "Tiny Bubbles Implode With the Heat of a Star"

Let's start with normal sentence formation in German. In a simple or normal structure the subject comes first, then the conjugated verb, then the object and any infinitives or participles. Ich lese ein Buch – I read a book. Ich trinke Kaffee – I drink coffee. Ich spiele Schach - I play chess. Comple...

R.I.P or RIP is an abbreviation of 'requiescat in pace' (Latin meaning: May He/She Rest in Peace) or in English - Rest in peace.

It's an idiomatic expression wishing eternal rest and peace to someone who has died.

Oben, Unten, Vorne und Hinten. These are commonly used adverbs in everyday life for German language speakers. In German, these spatial adverbs (oben, unten, vorne, and hinten) are essential for describing positions, directions, and movements. In addition, they are also frequently used in expressing...

Milestone charts are used to represent important events or commitments in your projects. It's also known as timeline chart. So let's start : Data Preparation: As you see in the following table, I have 3 columns. One for Date, the other one for the Events and the third one is actually a helper column...

Sometimes you have error checking, otherwise known as, green triangles in the upper-left corner of your cells in Excelsheet possibly suggesting errors in the formula in those cells. Sometimes you get it if you type numbers into cells that were previously formatted as text. Sometimes you get it if yo...