Have you ever received a contact list with all the names listed in full, and you’ve needed to separate them into different cells? I know I have, so I had to find a way to split them without doing it manually. What I’ve found is that Excel is great. The functions can do just about …
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Sometimes when preparing reports in Word, I need to include some simple data calculations. I usually do this in Excel and then insert the Excel spreadsheet into the Word document, but that can be cumbersome and involves more steps than it should. I’m all for work smarter, not harder, so I found a much easier …
Windows 10 has this really cool Snap feature for multitasking and easily seeing all the applications you need at the same time. The best example I have seen of this was on a 40 inch, 4K monitor, with 4 applications open, one in each corner, all visible at 1920 x 1080 resolution. In a typical …
In the last few weeks I’ve noticed an increase in the number of phishing emails that I and our clients are getting. But what are these emails, and how do you protect yourself? Phishing emails are one of the easiest attacks for scammers to carry out, and can be tricky to spot if you’re not …
These days your emails, calendar and contacts are critical to your business. In Office 365 and Exchange Online, you can recover individual emails that are accidentally deleted for a 30 day period, however there are no built-in full mailbox backups. After 30 days they are lost to the ether forever. This is where Skykick Cloud …
Quick Response Codes, or QR Codes for short, have been around for a while now. I haven’t really used them, but I’ve started noticing them more and more, which got me to investigate them. I’ve found that they’re actually pretty cool! QR Codes are a type of barcode, and as such we need to use …
On Friday the 15th of June my team and I attended the 2018 Stirling Small Business Awards, where we won the Stirling Small Business of the Year 2018 award. It was an amazing night for the team, with great company and a wonderful atmosphere. Event We made finalist in 3 categories; Small Business of the Year …
Continuing with the theme I have going about reports and presentations, and how to do things within Office products, I thought I’d write a guide on how to change the orientation of a single page in Word to landscape. It’s something I’ve seen done, and it’s always stuck out as something I’ve wanted to try, …
On March 20th Windows Server 2019 preview and general release schedule was announced by Microsoft. Release is in the second half of the 2018 calendar year, with a preview build available for Windows Insiders. In Server 2019, Microsoft are focusing on Hybrid Cloud Support, Security, Developer Application improvements, and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI). Below I’ve summarised …
There are two methods to insert a YouTube video into your PowerPoint presentation. The first is by using the embed code from the YouTube video directly. This is the easier method, however you are required to have an internet connection during the presentation as it will stream the video directly from YouTube. The second method …
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