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2022-01-13 00:17
I originally created this PowerPoint in 2007 to assist knowledge base writers at my company. As I've worked at different companies and time has passed, I found that this presentation is stil… Read More
2020-03-28 18:26
Keeping in-touch with family and friends using the phone, SMS, or email is good, but with a video conference, you can have a great time together. There are several video conferencing solutio… Read More
2019-10-01 23:38
I really struggled with this one. I had a Visio diagram (Miscrosoft Visio Pro 2019) that ran 50 inches by 11 inches, i.e. 3 tabloid pages strung together in landscape.The solution ended up b… Read More
2019-08-13 17:45
Slow and steady wins the race.-Robert LloydIt took me 5 months from the time I was let go from my former job to find another position that would leverage my skills and bring me both challeng… Read More
2019-06-05 23:37
Occasionally we have the need to search just a single website, yet the site search engine doesn’t seem to be up to the task. Google has a great feature that many don’t know about… Read More
2019-06-05 22:36
There are many job search apps and websites including LinkedIn, Monster, and Indeed. It seems with all the various search apps and sites, it’s difficult to find a good match for the jo… Read More
2019-04-16 17:16
You’ve invested in a knowledge management program, maybe Knowledge Centered Support (KCS), to improve the availability of self-support content for your customers. It’s going reas… Read More
2019-04-09 01:17
Only Microsoft Word has a built-in watermark feature, but Excel and PowerPoint have a reasonable workaround to adding watermarks on those files, as well.For each of the instructions, I'm usi… Read More
2019-04-08 21:18
If you've ever used a Microsoft Word template, you often find the same line that has both left flush and right flush text. I had a recent need to do this and set out to figure out how to acc… Read More
2019-04-04 17:16
Many times I've heard from colleagues who want to make our help website search the top priority and I think they’re really missing more important priorities that are much more eff… Read More
2019-03-27 14:49
We push our writers to always front-load their titles and paragraphs not just because we think it's a good idea, but because studies back up the technique.Jakob Nielsen posted a great articl… Read More
2019-03-26 21:53
I’ve been on both sides of the interview table throughout my career. Having been hired and passed upon as well as hiring (and firing) great employees, I’ve had plenty of time to… Read More
2019-03-25 21:41
Let me start first by talking a bit about scope and strategy. The discussion on measuring your help knowledge base often gets caught up in the measure of call deflection on your website and… Read More
2019-03-15 17:31
Recently a friend of mine asked me “I always wonder how to find a Boss rather than a job. Any pointers or experiences, kindly share. Let us assume I am on the interview and I don't kno… Read More
2017-05-20 01:55
I use a tool that displays elapsed time in the format of Xd Xh Xm, for days-hours-and minutes. If it's less than 1 day, then the output is Xh Xm. It's easy for me to scrape the output, but I… Read More
2017-02-10 18:27
This eluded me for some time! Usually it didn't go all the way through the shut down, as there were files that needed saving. Either way, it was a pain getting going after my Mac was asleep… Read More
2017-01-25 17:28
Google Sheets has a nice feature to notify yourself if something has changed, but every person who wants to be notified must add a notification for themselves. With a simple script, you can… Read More
2016-06-29 15:00
We push our writers to always front load their titles and paragraphs not just because we think it's a good idea, but because studies back up the technique.Jakob Nielsen posted a great articl… Read More
2016-06-28 15:00
As we know, readers on the web don't really read, they scan and skim articles, and won't ready anything that's long form. With the Hemingway Editor, you can improve your writing by making it… Read More
2016-06-27 22:44
It's 2016 -- if you're not texting, you've fallen behind. I text my family, I get appointment reminders via text, and text is being used for 2-factor authentication.At my company there are s… Read More
2016-06-27 18:31
It's been a year since I've posted, and only once in 2015... how time flies! I was sharing with a friend my favorite podcasts, and thought I could share here.Daily Tech News Show (DTNS)… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Ever copy a webpage of data into Excel, and it brings along a bunch of hyperlinks? Of course it isn't practical to remove each hyperlink manually. Fortunately there are a couple of options t… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I'm always looking for shortcuts to reduce the time I spend moving the mouse. My company just sent this email with a few helpful Outlook shortcuts, and therefore I'm sharing them with you… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I recently purchased a Lenova Yoga, which is a laptop - tablet hybrid (an article for another time). I am quite happy with it, but have been rather annoyed with one "feature."While using the… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I recently copied hundreds of rows of data from a webpage into Excel. Unfortunately it brought over several unwanted objects, which I needed to delete.It seemed quite consuming if I was to s… Read More
2013-07-27 04:12
RoboForm is one of those go-to programs that if it doesn't work in my browser, I don't use the browser. I became quite frustrated when RoboForm quit working in Chrome. I tried going into the… Read More
2013-06-25 00:40
Trying to find or replace special, non-viewable characters in Word? It's easy if you know how! Once you know how, you'll find many new uses. For example, I recently received a table of value… Read More
2013-02-10 03:15
For the past several years I've started playing Eurogames. Eurogames are board games that are much more strategic in nature than the games we grew up with. Basically they require significant… Read More
2013-02-10 02:30
With the changes to iTunes 11, I struggled finding a couple of features. First, the left side-bar was missing.Hide or show the left side-bar by clicking CTRL-s (or CMD-s).The other thing I s… Read More
2013-01-22 17:27
I recently had a situation where I needed to merge PowerPoint slides that had originated from two different language versions. While both were written in English, one group of slides were cr… Read More
2012-11-05 22:53
I frequently copy formulas from one months data to the next, but I run into trouble when I want to get a total off the last row, when the last row is different each month. I discovered a for… Read More
2012-10-30 15:21
I noticed working one day that Excel was no longer letting me make edits directly in cells (when I double-click on a cell). I needed to go to the formula bar to make my edits, which is much… Read More
2012-08-15 04:48
Using Excel for multiple comparisons with Nested IFs has some limitations. There a couple of different solutions. One would be to use values on a separate sheet and the vlookup function. Ano… Read More
2012-05-11 20:19
For the last 4 months I've been using a Macbook at work... my first Mac since the late 90s. I did this so I could enjoy all the benefits Mac lovers rave about. Today I replaced the Macbook w… Read More
2012-04-30 16:10
Sometimes we want programs to automatically start for us when we start our computer. For Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, it takes just a few steps.Open System Preferences.Look in the System sect… Read More
2012-03-30 22:00
Who knew? The default date system in Excel for a Mac is different than that used on Windows.I was working across spreadsheets, referencing a column from one to a column from another and my r… Read More
2011-12-12 20:01
In Windows XP it was fairly easy to add a link to the right-click menu in Explorer, so when clicked it would open the Command Prompt at that location. I posted a how-to in April 2008 on how… Read More
2011-11-30 00:32
On my work laptop, running Win7 Pro, all of my MS Office apps are all 2007 except for Visio 2003. When Visio was installed, for whatever reason the clipart was not installed. If I tried to… Read More
2011-11-29 16:43
I started getting this error, 1602, when attempting to complete the update request from Adobe for Acrobat Reader. I'm not a fan of PDF files, and use FoxIt in most cases as an alternate PDF… Read More
2011-11-29 16:42
Want to use Outlook to access 2 or more email accounts? By adding additional Profiles to Outlook, you can avoid multiple email clients. The upside is that you can share your archive folders… Read More
2011-11-07 22:00
Windows 7 has a nice feature where using the Windows key + the right- or left-arrow button you can move an application window to be maximized on half the screen. Recently I noticed that when… Read More
2011-11-01 16:28
Do you find yourself having to send the same message over and over again? With Outlook Templates you can save yourself from having to recreate the same message. Further, it can help to make… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
VLOOKUP is a quick and easy way to return a value from a bunch of rows, by matching a single value. But once you need to match two values, all of sudden things become a bit more difficult.On… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I recently had to brush up on my CSS skills to develop a solution where two buttons would appear side-by-side unless the view port was less than 480 pixels, in which case they should then di… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Yes, you heard that right! If you're a Comcast customer and you rent a cable internet modem from them, then it has a separate wireless channel that other Comcast customers can use. This mean… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
With the release of Firefox 29, the Status Bar work-around no longer worked. I don't recall when it stopped displaying, but now there's no option. I found a handy add-on that brings back the… Read More
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