Office Productivity
How to Access Google Documents on Your Smart Phone
(Excerpts) This week, with a little extra time on my hands, I decided to try to look for a phone that I can use to access the full internet. I have a Boost phone I pay for by the month. In truth, I don’t use my phone much on a daily basis, but use it…
Read MoreScheduling and Keeping Up with Your Goals & Clients
You’ve made a New Year’s resolution… You want to write that book… Get that diploma or certificate… Exercise 3 times a week… or whatever it may be. But there’s a slight “problem”… How are you going to keep track of all those promises? Why, with scheduling software of course! Here are some suggestions: Google Calendar.…
Read MoreWhitelisting – a Comprehensive List of Instructions
Most mail servers protect their users from spam by a robust firewall and spam filter. That’s the good news. The bad news is, sometimes they do that too efficiently so that they end up blocking the email that you would like to receive as well. The solution is “whitelisting” such sources, that is, defining them…
Read MoreA Great Manual from Open Office: "Creating Large Documents"
The free writing suite Open Office has come up with a great free PDF document that should be of great help for all writers generating long (over 50 pages) documents. (I’d like to thank my reader George L. for bringing this free resource to my attention.) The 48-page “Creating Large Documents” is written in an…
Read MorePersonal Productivity Tips and Tools
Here are some personal productivity tools and tips for you: *** Track Your Documents *** You have sent a PDF or Word document by email. But do you know if it has been read at all? Now there is a software that can tell you not only if your attachment is read but also * …
Read More10 MS PowerPoint Power Tips for Greater Productivity
PowerPoint is a great tool for writers to present ideas, products and services. Follow these 10 power-user tips provided by Microsoft to give riveting, effective and memorable PPT presentations. 1. Provide a compelling spoken content to accompany your PPT slides. 2. Keep your slides simple. Do not have more than six lines of written information…
Read More5 Things You Might Not Know You Can Do on Google
1. Enter “define” in the Google search box, then a colon, then a space, and then the word or expression you want defined. 2. Find out what Google thinks about just about anything or anyone (including you) at www.googlism.com 3. Enter an airplane’s tail number in the Google search box to find out the plane’s…
Read MoreEXCEL Tutorial – How to Construct a Compounding Interest Financial Calculator
You can construct an almost infinite variety of calculators right within your MS EXCEL spreadsheet application. Here is how you can construct your own 10-year compounding interest financial calculator that would help you to see, for example, how much your $100 will grow at x percent of interest a year, on a year by year…
Read MoreOpen Source Software – 10 Great Free Tools of Technical Communication
Are you sick and tired of paying hundreds of dollars for writing and design software that does not work? You may want to give the following open-source programs a try. OpenOffice, the king and queen of office suits. Available for PC, Mac and Linux platforms. (Try NeoOffice if you own a Mac.) Totally free and…
Read MoreHow to "Whitelist" a Vendor's Email Address
by Early to Rise Unsolicited, unwanted advertising e-mail, commonly known as “spam”, has become a big problem. It’s reached such proportions that most e-mail services and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have put blocking and filtering systems to keep these messages out. The systems work… but sometimes they work too well, blocking messages that you have…
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