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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

The Simplest Way to Add Up a Column in Excel

The Simplest Way to Add Up a Column in Excel

Microsoft Excel is an extremely capable spreadsheet creation and management tool, made all the more powerful via the inclusion of many handy shortcuts and features. We wanted to share one for a common enough function that you are sure to find a use for it: quickly adding up the values in a single column.

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Google Alerts can be a Helpful Resource

Google Alerts can be a Helpful Resource

There are numerous ways that Google can be a valuable resource for a business of any size. One way that you may not have thought of before: an automated insights collector.

Listed below: how you could be using Google Alerts to keep yourself up to speed on basically whatever you want.

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An Upcoming Android Feature May Help You Save Storage Space

An Upcoming Android Feature May Help You Save Storage Space

Have you ever struggled with storage space on your Android device? For those who have, we bet that downloading applications that you ultimately don’t end up using very often is a major culprit here. To help you clear up storage space on your device, Android will receive an auto-archiving feature that can save you significant amounts of storage space by archiving your unused applications.

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How to Adjust the Size of Your Desktop Icons

How to Adjust the Size of Your Desktop Icons

If you frequently utilize your desktop to store icons and files, and if you’re like most people who do this, you probably have a cluttered desktop that is difficult to manage. While you can and should take time to clean it up from time to time, one faster way you can do so is by adjusting the size of the icons found on your desktop.

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How to Create and Manage More than One Google Calendar

How to Create and Manage More than One Google Calendar

Your Google Calendar is an imperative part of your productivity practices, but with the help of some additional calendars, you can make managing daily tasks easier than ever. Listed below is how you can use multiple Google Calendars to be more productive, as well as how you can get them set up.

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How to Create a Windows Shortcut

How to Create a Windows Shortcut

Do you have a file or folder on your PC that you always seem to access, yet you have to dig through countless folders or files in your organizational hierarchy to find it? Windows makes it simple to add a new shortcut to your PC. How you can make a shortcut to a file, folder, or program on your Windows computer is listed below.

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How to Create a Desktop Shortcut to a Webpage

How to Create a Desktop Shortcut to a Webpage

If you’re looking to maximize your productivity, then having the web-based resources you browse to everyday is a must. You can take this idea one step further by assigning a shortcut icon to a specific web page you frequent. Listed below is the process for how you can do this.

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The =DATEDIF Function Calculates Time for Your Business

The =DATEDIF Function Calculates Time for Your Business

Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets both provide a variety of features to those who know how to use them, many of them with really niche applications to businesses. For example, there is one function that allows you to easily calculate the time between the current date and a specified day that, if applied properly, could easily provide businesses with some serious utility.

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How to Improve Your Wireless Network's Security

How to Improve Your Wireless Network's Security

Wi-Fi connectivity is a remarkable technology when you think about it, and it has fundamentally changed how we work today. What hasn’t changed, alas, is that hackers and cybercriminals will try to utilize this technology to their own advantage. Thus, let’s discuss a few relatively simple ways that you can enhance your wireless network’s overall security.

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How to Manage Virtual Desktops in Windows 11

How to Manage Virtual Desktops in Windows 11

Most of the time, user productivity is just about getting down to business. However, sometimes there are simply just too many different tasks to complete and it can bog down the production process. One way that users can use Windows to help them manage tasks is via the use of virtual desktops. Users can utilize multiple desktop experiences to separate the myriad of things they need to do. Listed below is how to utilize multiple virtual desktops in Windows 11. 

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Unfollow on Facebook Vs. Unfriending on Facebook

Unfollow on Facebook Vs. Unfriending on Facebook

Social media can be overstimulating, and for some users this is a problem which is difficult to navigate without giving it up entirely. If you want a nice middle-ground to deleting your account entirely, you can instead curate your news feed by unfollowing accounts that don’t enrich your day. How you can do this is listed below.

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How to Copy Excel Spreadsheets

How to Copy Excel Spreadsheets

If you have ever invested time into an Excel spreadsheet, then you know how irritating it is to move all that data to a different sheet. Fortunately, you can easily and accurately copy this data using a simple technique. How you can do it is listed below.

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How to Freeze Panes in Your Excel Spreadsheets

How to Freeze Panes in Your Excel Spreadsheets

Microsoft Excel is a great tool for keeping data and figures organized…until you need to scroll down at all, leaving some critical headers out of sight. Luckily, there is a way to keep your headings in view: freezing the panes they are present in. How to do so is listed below.

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How to Share a Web Page Between Your Mobile Device and Workstation

How to Share a Web Page Between Your Mobile Device and Workstation

How often have you been searching the web on your phone, only to find something that would be legitimately helpful for your work so you wanted to be able to access it from your workstation? There’s actually a very easy way to make this happen, thanks to the multi-platform nature of the Google Chrome browser.

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How to Create a PDF Out of an Outlook Email

How to Create a PDF Out of an Outlook Email

Have you ever wanted to download an email from your inbox? Whether it’s documentation or a different reason, there is a way to download your messages into a PDF. PDFs make for great file-sharing formats, as the document type preserves formatting and makes editing difficult, preserving authenticity. How you can download an email from your Outlook inbox as a PDF is listed below.

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How to Cap Google Chrome’s Battery Usage

How to Cap Google Chrome’s Battery Usage

Google Chrome, used by about two-thirds of Internet users, is an infamous battery hog…or at least, used to be. Google recently released Chrome 108, and with it, a feature called “Energy Saver.” Listed below is how to enable it.

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How to Save Some Time Using Google Chrome

How to Save Some Time Using Google Chrome

If you want to optimize productivity, then you’ll want to take a look at the startup page for your Google Chrome web browser. If you change this setting, you can shave off countless minutes every week while you fumble around trying to find your favorite or most frequently visited page.

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How to Translate an Email within Gmail

How to Translate an Email within Gmail

How often do you receive emails from someone written in another language? We bet the answer is “not usually,” but you never know when being able to translate an email might come in handy, especially if you ever do business overseas. Listed below are some facts about the built-in translation functionality that comes with Gmail.

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Helpful Google Chrome Shortcuts

Helpful Google Chrome Shortcuts

When working in your browser, we know how efficiency is imperative. Like many other pieces of software the developers at Google have baked some keyboard shortcuts to make getting around their browser easier for the average user. Listed below is a look at some of the most useful shortcuts. 

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How to Save Your Documents as PDFs

How to Save Your Documents as PDFs

Being able to download something is a great feeling, but so is being able to download it as a PDF file. In cases where you want to save something as a PDF rather than its original image or web page file, you can do so relatively easily in order to make printing and other tasks simpler. You can do all of this right from your web browser.

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