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Using Office 365 Home Premium? The method described below doesn’t work in Office 365 Home Premium. You’ll need to follow a different route, which I describe at the end of this article. Also note that these instructions are for those using Windows 7 or...Basic Computing, Blog, Office Apps, Tips, Word
Documents consist of words. They also consist of spaces and it is the spaces that make our words readable. Because of that, it’s worth paying attention to how you use spacing in all your documents. There are all sorts of spaces. Spaces around the edges of the document...Basic Computing, Blog, Internet, Tips
How crackable are your passwords? Do you, like hundreds of thousands of others, use ‘password’ or ‘12345678’ as your password? Or do you cunningly resort to using your daughter’s—or mother’s, sister’s, brother’s, father’s, partner’s, pet’s, favorite sports...Basic Computing, Excel, Featured, Office Apps
Creating a budget is of one the simplest and most useful tasks you can do using a spreadsheet. By using a spreadsheet, any changes you make to your budget are instantly updated across the whole budget, with totals calculated for you. This tutorial shows you how to...Basic Computing, Blog, Reviews, Tips
Sliced bread…the zipper…Velcro…the mouse wheel. Seemingly simple innovations which make life oh so much easier. Here’s another for that list: Dropbox. Dropbox takes all the pain—and most of the brain—out of sharing files. It lets you synchronize files across all your...Blog, Internet, News, Security
Here’s a quick list of major services that were affected by the Heartbleed bug and which require a password change. I’ve included services where it’s not clear yet whether you should change your password in the “Yes, change” list....Basic Computing, Excel, Office Apps
What makes a good spreadsheet? Two things: good design and good data. This may sound obvious, but it’s all too easy to dive into creating a spreadsheet without putting much thought into its design. And a poorly designed spreadsheet is bound to make it harder to enter...Blog, Commentary, Windows, Windows 7
Windows 8 is not for everyone. Should you upgrade, or should you stick with Windows 7? Here are 10 reasons to stay with 7, 10 reasons to take the leap to 8. Ten reasons to avoid Windows 8 The learning curve. Windows 8 is an entirely new experience. There’s no gentle...Featured, Tools and techniques, Windows
Windows Search has gradually improved with each successive version of the operating system. In Windows 7, search is central to how the file system works and you’ll find search boxes in the Start Menu and every folder window. Although search in Windows 7 is pretty...Blog, Databases, Office Apps
Note: I’m working on updating this series of articles. This article is really showing its age. All the examples are for Microsoft Access 2000/2003, and things have changed a lot since then. While the concepts are still the same and you can learn a lot from...