If your companies IT policy allows it, you may wish to setup your corporate Exchange account on your personal computer / laptop copy of Outlook. You can then take it one step further, if you so wish, and configure Lync on the back of this. Every company has a different setup, so some settingsRead More
If you want to see your mailbox utilization, FileàInfo will show you the size of your mailbox, and your usage When your mailbox starts to get full, you may see a notification at the bottom of your screen on the status bar showing how full you are (a daily occurrence for many, I’m sure!) However,Read More
In this post, I’m going to cover how to create a ‘Job’ in Access, and how to setup a reminder in Outlook, including a ‘Trigger from Outlook’ button. This post assumes you’re largely familiar with importing data into access (I’ll try and do a post on this some time, for those of you lessRead More
If you use Outlook, it’s a good idea to compress your Data files from time to time – especially if you’ve had an email clear-out. Even if you haven’t, it a good practice to follow As you receive more mail, your email Data File grows. Deleting mails itself, doesn’t generally reduce the size of theseRead More
Line charts are a great way of showing the trend of information over time. I often use them to show both the historic actual, but also the forward forecast. Sometimes, however, it’s not always clear looking at a chart where your ‘actual’ ends and your forecast begins. I like to add an indicator showing meRead 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
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
One of the many new features introduced in Excel 2010 were Slicers. Slicers sounds fancy, but just think of them as Filter Buttons. They sit on top of Pivot Tables to make it easier to filter your data, and is a great way of presenting your data to someone else, who perhaps wouldn’t notice /Read 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
