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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you utilize Android mobile devices, then you’ll know that updating your device is routine maintenance to keep it safe from threats and security breaches. Not only that, but updating your device can resolve numerous bugs which impact functionality. Listed below: how you can update your device to the latest version of its operating system.
How much paper does your office waste on printing, and it’s all because someone printed out a large multi-page document on single-sided paper? It’s very easy to forget to check these settings, but sometimes people don’t even know they exist. Listed below: how you can print on both sides of the paper and take full advantage of the prime real estate that can be found on the flip-side of your documents.
We are major advocates for multi-factor authentication, but it’s also imperative to understand that it’s not a catch-all solution. In fact, it has forced hackers to be even more innovative to find alternative methods of attack. One method hackers utilize to gain access to your systems is to use what’s called MFA fatigue to their advantage.
Sticky Keys, the Windows accessibility feature that keeps modifier keys like Shift and Ctrl active after you’ve pressed them, have a legitimate and necessary purpose for some. On the other hand, those who don’t need Sticky Keys can find them immensely annoying. How to deactivate sticky keys if you don’t need them is listed below.
Microsoft Excel is a valuable tool that offers lots of value to power users, but oftentimes users just don’t have the knowledge to make the most of it. Fortunately, you have power users like us to guide you through some of the more intricate processes in the spreadsheet software. Listed below is a look at one such process: removing duplicate values in columns.