General Tips

These Excel Factor tips are from Dr Isaac Gottlieb, professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. Every month Isaac publishes a series of Excel tips at his University website. He offered to share his tips with us….the problem I had was choosing just a few for this post, so feel free to visit his site and [...]

If you work in large Excel files, Word documents or even e-mail, you may find it takes a long time to navigate and find the location you’re after. Hyperlinks are like a time machine in that they can take you there in an instant (but unfortunately they can’t take you back in time), and the [...]

I'm sure you like to know handy little things that make your life easier or let you get things done just that little bit quicker. So here are 6 features of Microsoft Office that you should know about and use. AutoCorrect This is a handy little feature and can be used in more than one [...]

If you have an email address, then you will get spam. It’s just a fact of life. I want to share with you some of my top tips to avoid spam. There are many reasons why you get spam but they all boil down to your email address being found by those bad, nasty people [...]

Have you ever wanted your very own interactive Google Map dotted with locations relevant to your business?  You might want to plot the locations of your stores or service agents.  Or if you’re presenting performance data to management it’s a great visual representation of sales locations and density.  These are just a few examples of [...]

Almost everyone has had the negative experience of receiving unwanted or harassing email.   Anyone who has been targeted by this type of email knows that it can be extremely upsetting- especially since you generally don’t know the identity of the person behind it. Is this a real threat? Is this some kid who thinks [...]

Everyone knows they should back up the data on their PC right?  Yet every year 43% of computer users lose their documents, photos, email, music and more. How can this be?  You back up don’t you?  You’re not in that 43%? In my experience the majority of people either don’t know how to do it, [...]

Let’s face it, we’ve got too many passwords to remember off the top of our head.  We know we should make them more robust, but it’s just quicker and easier to use common words or family names and re-use passwords on multiple websites. This sets us up for attack from hackers and, and as a [...]

Are you fed up with how long it takes your web browser to load a webpage? Maybe you’re one of the poor majority who don’t even realise how slow your browser is. If you are reading this in Internet Explorer then I’m talking to you. Results of a recent comparison of web browsers at Six [...]