I have to admit this. Some people are good at keeping meticulous records, but I am not one of them. My colleagues laugh at me because I am always losing notes, notepads, and even the pens I use to write my notes. Knowing this, I do use technology to help me. For some bizarre reason(…)
Do you ever use the Track Changes feature in any Microsoft Office products? It’s great! I use it in Word all the time. It’s especially useful when I’m working with a client and they have revisions to make to documents. Track Changes makes it easy to locate and see exactly what changes they’ve made. Recently, we’ve had to(…)
I suspect that many people are like me. We prepare a document. When it’s ready, we compose a quick email explaining the purpose of the document, we attach the document, and finally we send it. But, if you’re really like me, quite often we forget to send the attachment. We realize what we’ve done five minutes later(…)
Do you ever find yourself continuously sending emails to the same groups of people? I do. Still, it feels like I’m constantly reviewing and thinking “who did I miss?” Then I wised up and realized there’s a solution for that! Now you can stop racking your brain with questions like, “who was on that committee?” And there’s no longer(…)
Most people are familiar with the saying that power corrupts and that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Some people know that the expression is associated with Lord Acton (1834 – 1902). But few people know anything about the contex or that the quotation isn’t entirely accurate. The complete remark was “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power(…)
Learning Solutions would like to thank System Source for writing this blog article. Did you know that Microsoft Outlook 2013 can change the color of email messages sent to you by a particular person, like your boss, your best customer, or a co-worker? Let’s say that you’d like to color-code the emails from your co-worker, “Suzanne.”(…)
I think many of us have been waiting for the day we could stop using Internet Explorer. And now, finally, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yesterday, at the Windows 10 press conference, Microsoft showed off boatloads of new software and technology. Among these announcements was a brand new web browser that will come(…)
Working with dates in Excel is easy, and there are all sorts of formats that you can use to display dates in your spreadsheet, including: April 1, 2015 Wednesday, April 01, 2015 4/1/2015 4/1 1-Apr-15 01-Apr-15 1-Apr-2015 Selecting the format is quite easy: Move your pointer or your cursor to the cell or column(…)
Unfortunately, we’ve all been subjected to a couple (or more) dull, verbose, and graphically painful PowerPoint presentations that would make anyone happily poke her eyes out with a dull pencil instead of sitting through the 100+ slides. Here’s how you can insert audio into your PowerPoint presentation to make things more interesting. (Please note: These instructions are(…)
Before PowerPoint was developed, most presentations were made within departments that shared common knowledge sets. With a changing work environment in the 60s and 70s came a need to clearly communicate between departments. A simple, illustrated guide was needed to organize and share information. The outcome was the presentation medium of 35mm slides, followed by less-expensive(…)