It takes more than technology to be productive.

Most everyone appreciates technology and its promise. The flip side is it can also be a pain. It could be you have the right tools but you aren’t sure how to use them to your advantage. How many times have you stared at a screen and wondered, “now what?”. I have and it’s frustrating. The goal of this site is to pass on my learnings.

Whether you’re frustrated or simply trying to level up your skills, we’d like to help. We’ve written a number of tutorials and informative articles covering everything from Amazon’s Alexa to Microsoft Excel with lots in between. And we’re open to suggestions.

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Snagit 2021 Captures Screens & Your Imagination

If I were to give an award for the software program I've valued the most over the years, TechSmith's Snagit would be toward the top. It's one of those essentials you immediately install to a new computer because you don't want to work without it. Just don't call Snagit a screen capture or print screen program because it can do much more than your native screenshot program. Snagit consists of two programs. The first is ...
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Essential Gmail Keyboard Shortcuts & Customization

Keyboard shortcuts can enhance your productivity. The benefits are compounded the more you use a program like Gmail. The problem is learning them and committing them to memory. In the case of Gmail, there are many and some don't seem ...
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Reuse Text & Images with Outlook Quick Parts

For a moment think of the emails you've replied to this week. I'm guessing some of them were repetitive with people asking the same questions. I dislike having to type the same thing countless times. Instead, I prefer to use ...
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Quick Guide to Microsoft Excel Solver

Some time back, I wrote a tutorial about a useful function in Microsoft Excel called Goal Seek. It quickly allows you to solve easy “what-if” scenarios. Although helpful, it comes with limitations. Fortunately, Microsoft has a more powerful add-in analysis ...
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Make Your Own Word Keyboard Shortcuts

Sometimes using the Microsoft Word menus is slower. Granted, many built-in commands have keyboard shortcuts, but many do not. This was the case for me when I wanted to use Word's Reading Mode. Instead of finding the correct tab and ...
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Outlook’s Smart Date Logic

Microsoft Outlook is one of those programs that has many features that you stumble across. One of these is date interpretation. Although Outlook is great for typing a date or selecting one from the Calendar control, it also has some ...
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GIFTS & PLANNERS

Practical Gift Ideas For Anytime

This is not your typical gift-giving guide. Those tend to be centered around specific holidays, whereas I wanted a date agnostic one. I plan to revise this one continually. Also, keep in mind that these prices fluctuate during the year, so they may not be in the category I specified ...
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