Getting Coupons Before Buying Online

Just this last week my son Chris graduated from high school. For his graduation gift my husband and I bought him a Dell computer with all the bells and whistles. I had thought we would originally spend about $800 or so for a great laptop. By the time my son and my husband got done it was $1,700 at Dell.

Before they completed the order I asked, “hey, did you guys do a search for a Dell coupon?”. They both looked at me like I was a nut. I jumped to my computer, did a Google search on Dell coupon, went to the first site and called out the coupon code. This quick action added another $150 discount to our Dell order. After Dell’s discount and the coupon code I found, the computer is now at a more reasonable $1,300 total.

My tip is when you are buying something big like a laptop, computer, software, television, go a quick Google search and see if there’s a coupon that you can take advantage of with a few clicks.

In our case, we didn’t even have to leave the Dell order to buy the item on the coupon site, we just entered the coupon code and were good to go. Let the power of the Web save you money too with just a few clicks.

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Outlook 2003 Missing Holidays?

I have Outlook 2003 on several of my computers and found that on one there was no entry for Memorial Day this year which is on the 26th of May. Funny, isn’t it, maybe you have the same problem. I found that Office 2003 may not be showing the holidays past 2007.

I found a fix at Microsoft. In my case, I was not able to just install the update. I have to change the outlook.hol file to outlook.old, remove all of my loaded holidays from within Outlook, download the update for holidays to 2012, and then re-enable holidays in Outlook all over again.

It sounds complicated, but is not really. Just click my post title to read the instructions, get the download link, and follow step by step instructions.

If you are not sure if you have a problem, go to July 4th in your calendar. If you don’t see the Fourth of July holiday listed you have the same problem as I did. In my case even having Office service pack three did not resolve the problem. My computer was up to date, but the holidays had simply not loaded and reverted back to the old holiday file. Microsoft addresses this specific issue in the link and exactly how to fix it.