Practical guides

Everyday file problems, organised by situation. Each guide ends with the tool that solves it.

• Email attachment too large? How to get a PDF under 25 MB in a minute

  Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo attachment limits, how much you can compress a PDF without losing readability, and what to do when it still won't fit.

  Compress PDFSplit PDF

• Remove location data from photos before selling or posting online

  Phone photos carry GPS coordinates, timestamps and device model. See what is inside your photos and strip it in one step before a marketplace listing or blog post.

  Remove photo metadataCompress images

• CSV shows wrong characters in Excel — the UTF-8 fix

  Why accented and non-Latin text turns into symbols when you open a CSV in Excel, and the 30-second fix that does not involve the import wizard.

  Excel ↔ CSV

• Make a Wi-Fi QR code for your café, shop or guest room

  Turn your Wi-Fi name and password into a QR code guests can scan to connect instantly. Free, never expires, print-ready.

  QR code generator

• How to save only specific pages of a PDF (extract vs. split)

  Pull a few pages out of a long PDF into a new file, or break one PDF into several. Which tool to use and how to write page ranges.

  Extract pagesSplit PDFOrganize pages

• Free PDF tools without daily limits, watermarks or sign-up — how this works

  Most free PDF sites cap your daily tasks or stamp the output. Here is why browser-based tools can skip all of that, and what they cannot do.

  Merge PDFCompress PDFSplit PDFImage to PDF

• Add a CONFIDENTIAL watermark to a PDF before sending it out

  Mark proposals, quotes and drafts so copies can be traced and misuse discouraged. Text, opacity, angle and tiling settings that work — plus the metadata you should also clear.

  Add watermarkEdit PDF metadata

• Turn phone photos of a document into a single PDF (no scanner needed)

  Photograph a form or contract with your phone, then combine the shots into one clean A4 or Letter PDF. Ordering, margins and keeping the size small.

  Image to PDFCompress imagesOrganize pages