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If you’ve bought a laptop in the last few years, you may well have found it doesn’t have a physical network port, called an Ethernet port, which looks like this image below:- If so, it doesn’t mean you can only connect the laptop to internet using wi-fi (though it is more convenient for most people)….
Struggling with poor sound quality during a video-conference call in Zoom? If so, this super little tip – which takes just a minute to do – can restore your ability to hear others, and be heard. It did yesterday for me during a meeting when the host said they couldn’t hear me even though I…
If you have Microsoft Office 365, you probably use Word, Excel and PowerPoint as its popular programs. Have you considered one of its other packages Publisher can turn this image:- …. into this image, ready for printing on an A4 sheet Publisher is part of many MS Office 365 Packages (Home and Business) – and…
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This video gives clear, step by step guidance on how to join (and leave) a meeting from an iPad. Many beginners find such a device the easiest way of using Zoom.
Do you sometimes find it hard to see your mouse on screen when it looks like this? Wouldn’t it be easier if it looked like this design? On almost all Windows PCs, such a change can be easily accomplished by following the few steps below:- A. Type ‘mouse pointer’ into the Search bar within the…
Do you know you can filter your Outlook Inbox by whether they have an attachment (often a document or picture)? I used this feature all the time when I was in employment as often I didn’t want to see emails which were ‘plain text’ without attachments – viewing just the ones WITH attachments. To activate…
Any hard drive from a desktop computer (and many older laptops) can be easily transferred into a USB Drive Enclosure like the one shown below:- This one is for a desktop hard drive (3.5″) – whether an older IDE one or a newer SATA. It can be bought from PC World for about £30-40. Those…
Do you ever find it hard to see the mouse pointer, especially on some backgrounds – like shown below:- Did you know that you can change the size of the pointer – and also the colour? Here’s my favourite size and colour:- This is a relatively small size on the range available. To get to…
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If you find yourself unable to log onto your account, don’t panic! Visiting www.facebook.com/login/identify takes you to a page which allows you to prove you are the account holder (in a few different ways) and regain access. NOTE: Once you are back into your account, NOW is the time to reset your password – unless…