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.

FEATURED ARTICLE

Beginners Guide to XLOOKUP in Excel

One of the more exciting software features to be released in Excel is the XLOOKUP function. Just looking at the name, you might think I did a typo and meant vlookup. No, this is an entirely new spreadsheet function that makes looking up data easier with fewer limitations on your lookup column. In fact, Microsoft recommends that you use it over VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP. The catch is that this lookup function is not available to all Excel users. Where Can You Find the Function? To start, this new lookup function is only available with Microsoft Office 365. If you use ...
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EASY TUTORIALS

How to Add a Signature in Outlook.Com

Microsoft has several email products. One of the most popular ones is the free version called Outlook.com. However, the feature set is different than the paid counterpart like Office 365. One difference deals with creating an email signature. Most of ...
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Quick Guide to Excel Solver

Some time back, I wrote an article 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. However, Microsoft has a more powerful add-in analysis ...
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Easy Ways to Clear Cookies in Chrome

Ever delete all your cookies and then regretted it? Sometimes, you do need to take those steps but often times you can take less drastic moves. This guide shows how to find and manage your cookies once and for all ...
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Simple Ways to Protect Your Online Accounts

I met a friend for dinner who found out that someone broke into his online accounts. Naturally, he was concerned about his data, but also the amount of time it would take to fix the problem. I told him one ...
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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 to do one which was date agnostic. I plan to continually add to this one. I have a number of products which I'm testing and a few which are on pre-order. Also, ...
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