For many years, Office has followed a consistent colour scheme for its applications – Blue for Word, Green for Excel, Red/Pink for Access etc. And Outlook was always a yellow/orange colour. 2010 & 2007 2003 2000 ’95 Well, you get the idea. And the application itself would also follow this same yellow hue.Read More
As mentioned in my previous post, I’m playing around with the Windows 8.1 Preview. One of the other minor, yet significant, changes made, is the ability to boot directly to the desktop, rather than to the Start Screen we previously had to go through. The location of this option isn’t obvious though, but easy enoughRead More
I’ve been busy the last couple of days upgrading to Windows 8.1 Preview – not helped by Microsoft’s strange decision not to support upgrades from UK English machines despite it being supported in Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Swedish etc. There are a good few, and welcomed, usability improvements, but the most talked about changeRead More
Outlook is a great, powerful email Client – especially when hooked up to Exchange within a corporation – everything integrates very well. However, it’s easy for Outlook to get very cluttered with various panes for one thing of another – particularly if you’re using a laptop / small screen / low-res screen. This post willRead More
Another simple one today In Windows XP (whilst that may sound like ‘a long time ago’, there are still a lot of corporations using, or not long moved away from, XP), you will have likely had a little icon in your Quick Launch which, when clicked, would minimize all your applications to show you yourRead More
Sorry for yet another Excel post – what can I say? I like Excel! Another feature introduced with Excel 2010, is Sparklines / Spark Charts There are tiny charts that sit inside a cell, and used to show trend data for many areas at once. They’re simple to use, and helps visualize your trend data.Read More
Nice & easy one today, but useful none the less. Screenshots are a useful way of sharing something on our screens, especially with the plethora of different systems that different parts of the business may use that you won’t all have access to. We all know how to take a screen shot – and weRead More
I use search engines a lot – usually because I’m trying to find out how to do something. Like any good researcher would, I’ll go to various sources before deciding which approach works best for me. I tend to do a Google Search (other search engines are available, apparently ;o) ) and then open halfRead More
This is one setting I think everyone should use – it defers the sending of an email in Outlook, giving you some options when you realize you sent your boss the mail you meant to send to your colleague (probably because it was about your boss) I’m not sure when it was introduced, but IRead More
the Topic for this post is what started System Secrets – it’s based on the first mailing I sent out as Issue 1 of System Secrets in January 2011. It’s focus was very much our internal file-share system, but have re-worked parts of it to make it more relevant to a wider audience, but still stillRead More
