Outlook 2016 Gives the Message "Creating a new item from the selected items could take some time…are you sure you create a new item…?

You Cannot "Move" a Calendar Item, so you can move everything else to an archive but those.

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mfplat.dll missing for Plex Server

I kept getting this pop-up after a windows update. The solution for me was found here: Link

• Navigate to
  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/mediafeaturepack  
• Select:  Media Feature Pack for Windows 10 version 1803

Get to Any Google Cached Page

I needed to read a post that had been deleted and see all the pages in the thread. Even if you click the link in the cached version, it does not link to the cached version of that link, but the live version. To get to any google cached page you can enter the following:

You can access the cached version for any page that has been saved by Google with this:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://example.com/

Change http://example.com/ to any URL. You can also create a custom search engine on Chromeor a Firefox keyword to go to cached versions automatically by adding a keyword before the current URL address.

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Outlook 2016 Search Does Not Find Recent Emails

Had an issue where the search feature was not finding mails earlier than "Two Weeks Ago" solved with the following link

• File > Account Setting
• Then under the email tab click on the email account and select Change...
• Uncheck the box for "Use Cached Exchange Mode".
• Click Next and finished.
• Close and restart Outlook.
• It should now bring up recent emails

Powerpoint 2016 Flashes Table Before It Appears

This is not a post with a solution, just noting I'm not the only one seeing it: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/table-flashes-in-powerpoint-2016-presentation/214e3675-eacb-4a5d-89e1-2c001f53dbc4

Display or Hide Zero Values in Excel

Annoying issue where when I changed the formatting to Scientific, all the blank cells became 00E00. I didn't want that crowding my spreadsheet.

Solution:

• File > Options > Advanced 
• Under Display options for this worksheet, select a worksheet, and then do one of the following:
• To display zero (0) values in cells, check the Show a zero in cells that have zero value check box.
• To display zero (0) values as blank cells, uncheck the Show a zero in cells that have zero value check box.

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Github Backup for Organization with Script

I'm not a github wizard, but I needed to backup the repos on our organization by cloning them all, where most of the repositories are private. After playing around I found a script that would work in the windows git console below. The text in read is what you change.

1. Go to: https://github.com/settings/tokens and generate a personal access token. Make sure you write it down because it will disappear afterwards
2. In the below code, orgname is the name of your organization, and your_access_token is the token you just generated, you will also need to run it for each page.

CNTX=orgs; NAME=orgname; ACCESS_TOKEN=your_access_token; PAGE=1
curl "https://api.github.com/$CNTX/$NAME/repos?page=$PAGE&per_page=100&access_token=$ACCESS_TOKEN" |
  grep -e 'clone_url*' |
  cut -d \" -f 4 |
  xargs -L1 git clone