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Learn How To Recover An Unsaved MS Word Document

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We all might be very much familiar with MS Word, the most popular word processing software. It has almost replaced the need for doing paperwork as everyone is finding it as a better solution and also as an affordable solution as well. But saving the file is the most important thing that needs to be remembered while working on the word document. Forgetting to save a file will result in the loss of the whole data in the file in case of any sudden shutdown of the PC due to power failure or any other damage. But there is actually a way for recovering an unsaved file that many people might not be aware of. Here are the steps that need to be followed.

Steps To Recover An Unsaved Word Document

Note: These steps work for MS Word 2007 and below versions

  • If you happen to close the application manually by yourself accidentally, then don’t worry, Word will get back it to you as it saves the document every 10 minutes
  • All you have to do is just relaunch the application, it will search for any such unsaved files and will present you on the left side pane of the window
  • Just click on the document listed there to recover it

Remember, once the pane is gone, you can’t get the document again

If it is not the case of manual closing and the computer shut down issue, then this is the way to get it back

  • MS Word saves the file in the temporary storage of the computer memory
  • So, navigate to C:\Documents\Users\[Username]\Application Data\Local\Temp
  • You can find so many temporary files there, but you can trace the word files as they will be like wrdxxxx.tmp
  • Just open them using Notepad and search your lost ones
  • Copy and paste the text only as there will also be so many codings in between

Recovering a word document is thus an easy process, just give it a try.

How To Backup Gmail Data To Your Computer In Different Ways

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The Google services like Gmail, Contacts have almost helped us in replacing the things like books, papers, diary. How much access we have got to our cloud services, and storage devices, the information we will be having in the Google services is very much important and no one would obviously wish to lose that data. So, here are some of the simple and different ways to backup Gmail data that you may have.

Backup Gmail Using Google

Google’s native tool allows you to get this thing done for you. You need to head to the website https://myaccount.google.com/ and then login using your Google credentials. Once you are done with logging in into your account, then just navigate to Personal info & privacy> control your account from the panel on the left side of the screen.

Then head to the ‘Download or transfer’ your content section of the page to find the option ‘Download your data’ and then click on ‘Create Archive’

Then Google will let you select the apps and even let you decide on choosing the specific data in each menu using the drop-down menu.

After all the selection, click on next and decide how you wish to download the data and finally click on create an archive.

Using UpSafe  

This is really easy to use Windows app that is available to use for completely free. You can just simply download it on your computer. You can schedule your backups, archive inboxes, manage backups, and filter backups using this wonderful application.

There are also certain other apps for this purpose, but we really think the UpSafe tool is worth it.

Email Forwarding

The email forwarding is another such a simple way to backup Gmail data that is not considered at all. This is a simple way where each and every email your primary Gmail receives will be transferred to a secondary Gmail account. You can set up your settings in your Gmail account so that the received emails will be sent to other email ids that you wish to. The setup is simple.

We will come up with an article on automatic mail forwarding in our next one.

Hope you find these ways to backup Gmail data simple and useful.

4 Applications To Hide Photos And Videos In Android

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Our smartphones are filled with lots of personal data including many of our personal pictures and videos. But have you ever thought about their safety and have you ever thought about how secure your data is on your mobile phone. Many eyes may be spying on your data on your device. So, it is better to take a few steps and one of them is definitely as we all to hide photos and videos from gallery. There are many Android applications available in the Google play store that gives us this facility to hide our personal and private data that we don’t wish to reveal to others. So, here we present you to some of the applications that you can check out and try.

Best Apps To Hide Photos And Videos

KeepSafe Photo Vault

It has been available for quite a long time and is still among the best apps for this purpose of hiding the pictures and videos. It will come with various authentication options to make it more secure. The folder grid of the app will be clutter free and looks clean. KeepSafe Photo Vault has got in-app purchases with which you can enjoy the premium features.

LockMyPix Photo Vault

It is another very useful application that you must definitely give a try. The LockMyPix Photo Vault application allows users to encrypt videos and photos right from their home screen of the application. You can just simply shake your device to close the app. It even removes the app from the app drawer.

Hide Something

This app comes with a simple way of hiding photos and videos. It is just as simple as sharing pictures, videos. It is one of the most trouble-free application with an intuitive user interface and comes with various features. It even has got a fake login mode to further protect your privacy.

GalleryVault

This application enables the users to quickly hide, encrypt the pictures, videos and any other files. This is one of the most popular apps in the Play store to hide photos and videos. It comes with various features like shake to lock, break-in alerts, fake login, fingerprint authentication, stealth mode. It even allows you to hide SD card files.

So, don’t miss trying these applications.

Here Are Some Little Tools That Help You To Write Better Emails

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We get to write, forward, reply to emails every day. They may be work-related, personal emails or any others, we get to pass through mail-related task every day. Now here in this piece of article, I am going to take you through some little tools which will definitely help you to write and send better emails.

Email, like it or not, is the one tool that pretty much everyone has, everyone uses and everyone checks on a daily basis, so the business use of email isn’t going anywhere soon as an external communication tool. Then how can we ignore the sharing of information regarding the simple tools that make your email experience a better one? Here we go

Tools For Better Emails

Giphy for Gmail 

Like GIFs? Of course, you do, you’re currently on the internet. Now you can easily include the entire spectrum of human emotion in your emails.

three.sentenc.es

The Three Sentences mantra isn’t going to work for everyone, but some people it will work like a charm.

The website, ‘three.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be three sentences or less. It’s that simple.‘

Gorgias:

Stop creating templates in an unstylish way. They will not come to your use, other than using your space and they will be on drafts. Now you can create stylish chrome extension and productive templates by using a simple tool Gorgias. This is available as a free Chrome extension.

Grammarly:

The Grammarly Chrome extension helps you in a very brilliant way by checking for any grammatical mistakes and errors in your mail and thus saving your time of checking or rereading the mail before you send it. This one tool will definitely help you in sending better emails.

These are the little tools and extensions that might help you to be quick, clever and great at sending emails. Make use of these and send better emails.

Useful Websites For Troubleshooting Computer Problems

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Technology has come a really long way since the past few years, but there are still possibilities for the wrong things to happen. And ComputerEra always wishes to stay by your side and help you in resolving many of your issues, we have been providing you with a lot more issues and solutions to them. But we may not cover all the issues that you have faced or might be facing.

Websites For Troubleshooting Your PC

There are many different things that could cause a problem with your computer. No matter what’s causing the issue, troubleshooting will always be a process of trial and error—in some cases, you may need to use several different approaches before you can find a solution; other problems may be easy to fix.

In case you have ever stuck in a situation where you need some help in troubleshooting your computer. The websites listed below will help you a lot, so don’t ever miss trying them.

Bleeping Computer Forums:

It is not just a tech support website, it also publishes plenty of tech news articles. The Forums section of this website offers you some support and needed advice, guidance from the tech geeks. The Forum helps the users in solving many of their hardware, security and software issues with their Windows and Mac devices. Bleeping Computer Forums also have different support sections for mobile devices, Linux, and gaming.

Computer Hope Forums:

This website the Computer Hope Forums has been in the upfront for many years in the field of tech troubleshooting. But whereas the forums are very much Windows-centric, but will be very much useful for the Windows users. This website also holds a very nice FAQ section.

Reddit:  

Reddit needs no introduction at all among the internet users. Users can find subreddit for every device, manufacturer or an app that you can think of which can help you in getting your problem solved.

Keep in mind that most computer problems have simple solutions, although it may take some time to find them.