Tips – How to create an Out of Office message in Outlook
There is nothing more annoying than sending an email to someone, expecting a reply and receiving none. When you later find out that they were out the office for several days...
6 productivity hacks from an entrepreneur
An entrepreneur's biggest asset is time. While you might have the motivation, the passion and the ideas, it doesn't mean a whole lot if you're not actually getting anything done. So...
Tips – Creating and editing the custom dictionary in Word
We all, I am sure, end up mistyping words especially when we are in a hurry. There are many more reasons for not typing correctly but I won’t go into that. We...
Tips – How to create a simple table in Word
People generally don’t like change and if you have been using Word for forever and not Excel then creating a table in Excel would be excruciating, so I am going to...
Tips – Creating Table of contents in Word 2016
I have been constantly astounded that students still do not know that it can be so very easy to create a table of contents for their dissertations. Not only that but...
Tips – Read receipts in Outlook 2016
I thought I would continue on the theme of Outlook again this week and cover Read Receipts. The little item that really helps when you need to know the person you...
Tips – Delay Delivery of emails in Outlook 2016
Have you ever wished you could write a few emails in advance and be sure that they would not get to their destination address until a designated time in the feature?...
Tips – How to change the default address book in Outlook
It's the first day at your new job. You sit down at a clean and tidy desk and turn on the PC to send out email. The problem is that your...
Tips – how to stop distribution lists taking down your company
This week saw the NHS email system grind to a halt. It was caused by someone creating a distribution list that included everyone in the NHS. This is the sort of thing...
Tips – using range lookup in the Vlookup function in Excel.
In my last tip, Using Vlookup in ExceI, I explained how to create a Vlookup function. I only showed you how to use the first three lines of this function and...