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Did you know that you can ‘pin’ any number of files to a special menu in Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Publisher? Its as simple as pressing the little pin icon on the right hand side of the image below:- Pinned files are easy to access as they are kept on a separate, but easy to…
Did you know you can bookmark the current page by simply pressing Control D – or pressing on the yellow star shown here? The star looks the same in Chrome, another popular browser. In Internet Explorer, it looks a little different like this (but the same shortcut works):- Afterwards, a box like this pops up…
Have you heard of PowerPoint’s Slide Sorter View? This option (3rd from the left) under the View Menu allows you to:- A. insert slides B. delete slides C. hide slides from the presentation D. …. or even create new sections for some of them! This is what it looks like:-
Have you checked what features are available to help you manage them? The screenshot below shows some of them:- I use the Rename option most commonly – here’s how it works:- The tab colour option is also very handy – here’s how it works:- …. and the result is this appearance when the tab isn’t…
If you have a Gmail account, did you know you automatically have a whopping 15GB of free online cloud storage? To access it from your webmail (ie. gmail.com in a browser), here are the steps:- Click on the set of 9 dots next to your profile icon on the top right hand corner of the…
Looking for a handy calendar to plan the coming months? Then you may appreciate this calendar to see all the Bank Holidays (as well as weekends). If you like it and would like to download a JPG copy please head to https://pcgp.biz/resources. To stay up to date with updates on this calendar – and all…
As a followup to this post:- If your device has a USB-C port, you could keep your regular USB port free for other items and use the C one. But is that a good idea? According to an experienced user, USB-C ports don’t hold the cable as tightly which means it can easily slip out…
It allows you to add a live feed from your webcam to the slides of your presentation – visible constantly as you play the slides Below is a still image of me in my office, within a PowerPoint presentation. If we were playing this slideshow as part of a online meeting (whatever platform you use…
One factor you can improve is your experience using the mouse – especially laptop users using a built-in trackpad. Switching from the one which came with my desktop PC to this ergonomic one (this one is cabled), was a great usability experience. Suddenly all my tasks seemed easier as the mouse glided across my screen…
Did you know how easy it is to create a shortcut to your favourite program (eg Word)? 1. Simply find its icon within the Start Menu 2. ….. click with the right mouse button ! 3. From the menu which pops up, you will see options for adding an icon to the Taskbar (bottom of…
