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Recently, I met a friend who looked stressed. He returned home from work only to find out that someone had broken into his online accounts. Naturally, he was concerned about the data, but also the amount of time it would take to fix the problem. I told him an easy way to reduce the risk of account breaches is to use something called "two factor authentication" or 2FA. But, it has some issues if you're not careful.
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I recently attended a meeting where an agenda item was to review a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. One bullet point showed a daily cost of 37 cents. Several people wanted the bullet point to show 37¢. Others commented that there is no way to use these symbols as the cents sign since they weren't on your computer keyboard. This got me thinking about the different methods you can insert special characters in Windows .
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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 tool called Excel Solver that overcomes these issues. You can even add a constraint.
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Email signatures can be a great marketing tool. However, I often run into people and business owners who struggle with trying to get their HTML versions into Microsoft Outlook. The process to add the code to emails is a bit different. Included are two ways you can add them.
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Are you looking for gift ideas? If so, I've assembled some items by price category that I've bought and used. I've tried to keep the ideas practical and have intentionally omitted things like gift certificates or other soft goods.
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One issue I run into with this site is software updates. I'll be updating an article and low and behold, something is missing or changed. Usually, this is a result of software changes. The area that is impacted the most is the Excel Ribbon. In two articles, I noticed I was missing the Forms button and in the other case, the Excel Developer tab. Both issues are easily fixed when you know how to customize the ribbon.
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People often think Google Docs isn't full-featured. However, it can handle many of the tasks of commercial programs. But sometimes, you just have to know how to work around the system. In this tutorial, I show how to make a letterhead template with a logo.
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These days, it's tough staying current with information particularly at the rate at which it's produced. I'm sure we've all felt like we're falling behind. To gain a competitive advantage, our job or class work demands we read more books, technical papers and trade journals. It doesn't seem fair that the amount of information we're supposed to know has exploded, yet we still have the same number of hours in a day. Blinkist can help.
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VLOOKUP is one of the most popular spreadsheet functions with spreadsheet fans. It allows you to lookup needed values and use them elsewhere in your spreadsheet. This tutorial will show you step-by-step on how to use the function. Includes downloadable file.
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I'm a creature of habit and each Wednesday I go to my local supermarket's website to see the specials. Certain of these specials are unique to me so I need to log in to see them. This week I couldn't log in. Each time I got a message saying my session expired and to log in again. I had a pretty good idea that the problem was with some site cookie. The good news is there are multiple ways to clear cookies for one site with Google Chrome.
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