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Office 365 Training for users

14 February 2018

Microsoft have been working hard to produce a training portal for end suers to help them get familiar with the full suite of products provided with Office 365 Office 365 User Training Portal https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=853062 If you do nothing else we would encourage you to have a look a these guides Learn the basics https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/office-365-basics-video-training-396b8d9e-e118-42d0-8a0d-87d1f2f055fb?wt.mc_id=otc_home&ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB Get…
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Tech Tip – Timeline For Windows 10

9 February 2018

Currently being tested and likely to come out soon in an update is a browser history for your Windows desktop known as ‘Timeline’. This feature will allow you to search through files, apps and sites you’ve previously had open, and jump back and pick up what you were doing. What’s more, it will extend to…
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SharePoint Mapper

6 February 2018

Mear Technology designed a tool to create a company share and monitors its availability. This tool will allow your OneDrive for Business to be assigned to your computer. Benefits of using this tool include: OneDrive can be assigned a drive letter (This will appear in This PC in Windows 10). No caching of Data on…
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Tech Tip: Malware Protection With Windows 10

2 February 2018

As the Malwarebytes annual State of Malware report shows, malware is a popular tool used by cyber criminals. With this in mind, “Windows Defender” on Windows 10 can help you to adopt a multi-layered approach to protect your systems. Windows Defender is a security tool that can be set up to block malware attacks in…
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Tech Tip: Windows 10 – Create Multiple Desktops

26 January 2018

If your work involves having different jobs that need different sets of apps, or if you need to have lots of different things open and you only have one monitor, you may find that it helps to create multiple desktops. To create multiple desktops: Click on the task view button next to the search bar…
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Tech Tip – Windows 10: “Print” Documents Straight To PDF

19 January 2018

Windows 10 finally lets you “print” documents to PDF, which means that you no longer need to install a third-party app to save a web page or document for use offline. You can now simply select PDF as a printing output option. To Print to PDF in Windows 10: Open up your document e.g. in…
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Tech Tip – Battery Saver In Windows 10

5 January 2018

If you need to squeeze the most out of the battery charge of your laptop or tablet, try the Battery Saver feature in Windows 10. This feature disables unnecessary background functions such as live tile updates and email and calendar syncing. It can also auto-dim your screen brightness. Here’s how to access it: Go to…
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Tech Tip – Windows 10: Fix Search

15 December 2017

If Windows Search can’t find files that you know are there somewhere, then you have the option to rebuild its index. Here’s how: Click on Start. Type index. Click on Indexing Options. On the Control Panel entry that opens, go to Advanced > Rebuild. Try searching again, once the index has been recreated.

Tech Tip – Sort Outlook Deleted Items by Date Deleted

1 December 2017

If you’ve ever accidentally deleted an e-mail and you can’t remember what day it was originally sent to you, and you need to track it down then this is the tip for you. Here’s how it works: For Outlook: Go to the deleted items folder In the top ribbon bar, click on View tab then…
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Alexa Now Recognises Multiple Voices

20 October 2017

Amazon’s Alexa AI digital assistant is now able to tell the difference between the voices of different users in the same household, thus enabling the Amazon Echo to handle multiple-user profiles in a convenient way. Following Google This latest development from Amazon follows Google Home’s rollout of multi-user support in the UK back in June.…
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