The tutor shares a find he made in the new Microsoft Services Agreement, effective Sept. 15, 2016, relating to work or school accounts. Although I use a lot of open source software, I’m a fan of Microsoft. There are some …
The tutor finds the “keys” to missing sections of text. Especially on a laptop, when I’m typing a post, a chunk of text suddenly disappears. I’ve got in the habit of right-clicking, then clicking undo, to resurrect the accidentally deleted …
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If, in Windows command prompt, the copy command doesn’t seem to work for you, here might be why. Lately, with one of my Windows 7 computers, I’ve not been able to paste a text file to a new location: when …
The tutor shares, to him, a very useful find. Writing an email, I often want to check something else – possibly another email. Sometimes, when I’ve gone to do so, I’ve lost what I was writing (or at least, that’s …
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The tutor shares a discovery he made while researching Windows 10. In my June 26 post I began about the possibility of upgrading to Windows 10 from Windows 7. I’ve heard the deadline to do so for free is July …
The tutor brings up a useful command for Windows. The 2015-2016 academic year over, I’m looking into the Windows 10 upgrade. Today I began gathering information: For example, when was Windows 7 installed on this computer? Searching the internet, a …
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The tutor offers a way to view your history when it’s not showing. I love Firefox; it’s the browser I use with my Linux (Ubuntu) computers. Yesterday I clicked, at the top, History. A drop-down menu appeared, showing websites I …
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The tutor digs into a topic that has unnerved him for years. Once in a while, I get a serious email from an unknown party; of course, it goes to junk. However, I check the junk to decide if any …
The tutor explains the use of Excel’s built-in function to calculate the number of work days between two dates. Excel’s networkdays() function is located in the Formulas tab by clicking the Date & Time icon. It calculates the number of …
The tutor shares a find from today’s Excel session. I use Excel for very specific purposes, mainly programming and such. There are common skills I’m only now accumulating. Today, from Microsoft, I learned that the Select All button is the …