Creating simple drop-down lists in Excel
Recently I’ve had a few requests on how to create drop-down lists in Excel. These are really useful as (a) they are time saving; the user chooses from a pull-down list instead of laboriously typing …
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Solved: “Enter network credentials” (Windows 10 home network)
This has plagued me for years. Your home network is set up exactly as it should be, and folders shared as per instructions. You get prompted for network credentials, and nothing you enter in the …
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Converting Word Documents to Latest Version!
Could you be guilty of saving Word documents as an older version of Word? If so, you’re not alone; in the last 2 weeks I’ve been sent documents by different clients that are still in …
Outlook – ‘Quick Steps’
We’re quite excited at the prospect of running the first of our live online sessions on Outlook next week. We start with sessions for two good clients of ours, and to give you a taster …
PowerPoint’s Summary Zoom
We’re really looking forward to running our ‘PowerPoint Essentials’ session this afternoon for a very good client of ours. It feels like we’ve got into the groove now with these 1¼ hour live sessions which …
PowerPoint Picture Frames
Here’s a really quick, simple and effective way to create a picture frame for your photos in PowerPoint. You use the Eyedropper tool to ‘pick up’ a colour from your photo and then apply the …
PowerPoint: Resize & Crop Images
Having just finished 5 days work editing a PowerPoint project for a customer, I felt I must put together a few Help videos on some essentials when building presentations. The 5 days work could have …
How’s the Online Training Going?
It looks like we’re not going back to classroom training any time soon. E-Learning has its place, but sometimes you need to ask questions and interact with the trainer. So with a bit of trial …
Solved: ‘Meeting Chat’ Panel Missing in Microsoft Teams Meeting
I’ll try to précis this from a long story. The problem appears to be common, and various not-entirely-convincing solutions are all over the Web in various help forums. Everybody has different setups, the Microsoft techs …
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Juggling more than one client or project when working from home?
You’re engrossed in a project and suddenly get an urgent phone call from another client about a different project. It’s only a ten-minute job so you break off from what you were doing and do …
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