You’re on the Internet, but you can’t get a website to pull up. It could be that the website is down, or it could be something on your end. Perhaps your Internet connection is down or is being slow, or maybe there’s a problem with your computer. You could have too many Internet temporary files, […]
When you’re in Microsoft Outlook 2007 and you’re adding contacts that work at the same company (or you’re adding an additional contact with the same company), you can save yourself the steps of re-entering the company’s name, address, phone number, fax number, and other company details each time you create a new contact. Here’s how: […]
We often work on a Microsoft Word document over a period of several days or even weeks. There are a number of ways to make it easy to open a document you recently worked on. You could look through your directories to find it, you could create an icon and save it on your desktop, […]
The New York Times has a great blog on personal technology called Gadgetwise. I highly recommend it. According to their website: “Gadgetwise is a blog about everything related to buying and using tech products. From figuring out which gadget to buy and how to get the best deal on it to configuring it once it’s […]
You probably already know that you can use the “cut and paste” feature in Microsoft Word to copy one set of text to another place, but if you want to select several different pieces of text to cut and paste, it’s much easier to copy each snippet of text at once and have Word save […]
Microsoft Word has a very cool feature you may not know about. You can type anywhere in a document by simply moving your cursor to that exact place, double-clicking, and then typing. You don’t need to press <Enter> to skip lines, you don’t need to press <Tab> to move over, nor do you need to […]
Studies show the average law firm spends upwards of 30 percent of its time creating documents, most of which are repetitive. This area should be low-hanging fruit for improving productivity. The problem has been that most solutions are expensive, complex, and time consuming to install, learn, and program. TheFormTool has changed all that. There is […]
You may have heard of Siri, Apple’s intelligent “personal assistant” that allows you to use your voice with your iPhone 4S to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more. However, not all of us have access to Siri (or even want to). Did you know that Google has a free app for both […]
You may have heard of WebEx and Go to Meeting, or even participated in a session using these tools. When connected to the Internet, both allow you to see someone else’s screen and are used for document review and collaboration, demonstrations of anything that can be displayed on a computer screen, software training, remote tech […]
By default, Outlook will notify you whenever you receive an email. This can be very distracting when you’re in the middle of doing something else and a pop-up appears in the middle of your screen. Here’s how to turn off that notification in Outlook 2007: Open Outlook Choose Mail Choose Tools Choose Options Choose Preferences […]