Productivity Tips

Find Emails Quickly & More Easily

Do you spend too much time searching for old emails? You can save time by simply changing the subject line of the email. Here’s how:

Sharing a Calendar in Outlook

How much time do you think it would save to have a co-workers calendar readily available within your Outlook? Here’s how to create calendars in Outlook, and share them with your team:

Saving Emails Directly To Folders

Do you save your emails to individual sub-folders in Microsoft Outlook? How much more productive would you be if these emails went directly into your subfolders? Steps to Setting Up a Rule in Outlook:

Are Email Alerts Good For Productivity?

Do you like those little boxes that pop up to notify you of an incoming email? Or... Do you feel that email alerts are bad for productivity, and would like to stop them?

Print email attachments quicker

If you’re like many of our clients, you frequently receive email attachments that need to be printed. So what happens when you get multiple emails containing multiple attachments – and you need them printed quickly?

Tips for creating a strong password

In 2009 alone, McAfee detected 1.5 million malware samples representing an increase of 1,800 percent over 2006.

Take steps to secure your confidential data

You don’t have to be a techno-geek to secure your data. Sure, we recommend having a certified IT consultant ensuring the security of your IT systems.

Tips for effective PowerPoint presentations

Have you ever sat through a boring PowerPoint Presentation? Did you find yourself nodding off? Did the presenter reads directly off the slides, word…for…word?

Creating a "theme" for your presentation

Have you ever wondered how to customize a slide show with designs, colors, images, and sounds? Would you like to know how to add a hyperlink to a particular slide?

Selecting a background for your presentation

Have you ever wondered how to customize a slide show with designs, colors, images, and sounds? Would you like to know how to add a hyperlink to a particular slide?

Inserting images into your presentation

Like presentation backgrounds, the amount of images you can insert into PowerPoint is endless. However, anyone who uses our computer services knows that we recommend simplicity when it comes to presentations. See the video above or contact us with your questions.

Inserting links into your presentation

There may be a time in which you need to show your audience something outside your presentation, and it’s as easy as inserting a hyperlink.

Using animation in your presentation

There may be a time in which you need to show your audience something outside your presentation, and it’s as easy as inserting a hyperlink.

Accidentally sent the wrong email?

Have you ever sent an email and immediately after clicking the Send button, realized you made a mistake? Either within the contents or recipients, or even just a grammar error you were going to fix prior to sending?

Quick Productivity Tips & Shortcuts

Have you ever wanted to just be able to find a definition using Google without having to scroll through a ton of results?

Can't find a "meeting" email you accepted in Outlook?

Have you ever lost a “meeting request” you accepted in Outlook? You clicked the “Accept” button - and it was gone? Would you like to keep these meeting requests in your email or subfolder for future reference?

Quick Productivity Tips & Shortcuts

Have you ever wanted to send a picture of your screen via email or inserted in a document and you just didn’t know how? Did you receive an error message that was long and you didn’t want to write the entire thing down to remember it?

Is Today’s Text-Focused Communication Passing You By?

This week we’re taking a break from IT support tips to lend a hand to those having a tough time understanding “Text-Lingo”.  
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