GMail Notifier is a handy tool that sits in your system tray and alerts you when you have new messages in your GMail account. When you see the icon in your system tray, new messages have arrived. Just right click on the envelope, go to “View Inbox” and you will be taken directly to your [...]

You just spent time setting up a new worksheet and realized that you want the columns to be rows and the rows to be columns. Well don’t fret, you do not need to start from scratch.
Just highlight the table, click Copy, then go to another area of the worksheet and select Paste Special. On the [...]

It’s a good idea from time to time to change some of your website passwords. Instead of picking your pet’s name or street address, perhaps something to inspire you in 2010 such as L00$e15lbs or succe$$2010. What are your goals for 2010? Nothing like reinforcing that goal each time you need to type it.

You just typed three hyphens in a row (—) , hit the enter key and now you have a long horizontal line on the page. This can be a very handy shortcut but have you ever had trouble deleting the line? Sometimes you can back space over it and it will go away, other times, [...]

I am asked this question quite a bit and I thought I would share in case others also wish to learn how to retweet (RT) a post. To “retweet” is to share someone else’s tweet along with adding RT to acknowledge the original tweeter. You may modify the original tweet to make it more interesting [...]

For those who are writers, did you know that you can add a toolbar to MSWord that shows you in an instant what your word count is?
To display this toolbar, go to View – Toolbars – Word Count. Just click on the recount button each time you want to see your current word count.

Okay, so I have to admit that it’s getting a bit difficult to read the fine print, so for all you fellow 50 somethings – here is a great tip. You just visited a web site that has a lot of very useful information, but the font is just too small to read!
All you have [...]

Windows – MS Outlook Add On: Xobni
Xobni (www.xobni.com) – ‘inbox’ spelled backwards is a new favorite “must have” tool for productivity.
XOBNI is an MS Outlook plug-in that indexes all your email (including those you’ve sent) and creates a sidebar profile for each of your contacts. When you click on an email, you can [...]

Windows Tip of the Month: Hard Drive Maintenance
So…it’s the end of the year – time to clean up your hard drive. Cleaning up your hard drive will keep your Windows system working well. You should occasionally run the disk cleanup and disk defragmenter utilities. This also helps if you are short on hard drive space.

Disk [...]

Windows Tip of the Month: Keyboard Shortcuts for Changing Font Size

To change the font size of selected text, try these keyboard shortcuts:
To increase or decrease font size incrementally according to the sizes listed in the font size drop-down list:
Increase: [Ctrl] + [Shift] + >
Decrease: [Ctrl] + [Shift] + <
To increase or decrease font size one [...]

Did you know that you can browse the internet from Outlook? If you are using versions 2002, 2003 and 2007 – you can. Perhaps you are reading an email and a Website is mentioned that you want to check out. Instead of closing Outlook and opening your Web browser, you can view the site directly [...]

Number of Worksheets:  Excel’s default is three worksheets and 99% of the time you probably only need one worksheet. If you send the file to someone, they are most likely to click on the other two worksheets to see if there is content on them. To change the default to one worksheet:

Choose Tools, Options. Select [...]