by Tony Holowitz | Sep 29, 2019 | Office 2003: Outlook 2003
Microsoft Outlook 2003 Training Part 2 of 3 Click Here to watch Outlook 2 (32:00) Note: this is a recording of a live webinar Begin: Distracted by email | Cleanup your inbox | Train people that send you email | Sending an Email | To, CC & BCC | The importance of...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 29, 2019 | Computers 101
I recently taught a community education class that included Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint. Quite honestly, I typically don’t teach these classes but I did it because a friend of mine is the director of the local community education and she asked...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 28, 2019 | Quick Tips
When you review many of my free computer training tutorials and videos, for example my Microsoft Word tutorials, you will see that they are typically in a numbered order. The reason for this is very simple. If you watch and read these tutorials in order starting from...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 27, 2019 | Microsoft Excel
Sometimes it is important to protect your Excel data. When you have spent a lot of time working on an Excel spreadsheet it can be important to make sure that people don’t have the ability to edit that data in some situations. Maybe you’ve created important...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 26, 2019 | Quick Tips
I have learned through the years that a large number of senior citizens have taken advantage of my free computer training. Quite often, these are good folks that missed the computer revolution and they are trying to catch up. Not to worry. Teach an Old Dog New Tricks...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 26, 2019 | Quick Tips
Spritz is a new tool that takes text from something you read and tries to speedup and simplify the reading process. I recently discovered when I watched a local news show called Chronicle, an excellent news magazine here in the Boston area. Quite often they will do...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 25, 2019 | Microsoft Access
Sorting and filtering are tools that help you organize your data. Sorting arranges things in alphabetical or numerical order. Filtering hides data based on its value, allowing you to just focus on the most relevant data. Depending on what type of data you have, you...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 25, 2019 | iPhone | iPad Tips
iTunes Radio no longer free, requires Apple Music subscription One of the main reasons Apple was able to eventually make the deals with music publishers to create Apple Music was that Apple promised there would be no free version of the on-demand service, like there...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 24, 2019 | Quick Tips
Make sure you pay attention to your Facebook profile, privacy & account settings. These settings and options can change frequently and you should come back and look at them periodically. Facebook is collecting a lot of data about you and you want to protect...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 24, 2019 | Office 2003: Excel 2003
Learn Microsoft Excel 2003 for Free Most of my Microsoft Excel training videos were recorded using Excel 2003. If you are using Excel 2007 or Excel 2010, the fundamentals you’ll learn in the Excel 2003 videos will carry over to these newer versions. The biggest...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 23, 2019 | Gmail
15 Free Gmail Plugins That Will Help You Conquer Your Inbox Kyle Pearce May 9, 2014 Work Email is a big part of running a mobile office and doing nearly every knowledge work related job today. The key to getting things done faster and more efficiently is not allowing...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 23, 2019 | Microsoft PowerPoint
Here is another great tutorial from GCF Learn Free that will teach you how to create and modify a slide master in Microsoft PowerPoint. You may have noticed that when you select a theme in PowerPoint, it rearranges the text on your slides and adds shapes to the...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 22, 2019 | Microsoft Excel
Written by Rachel Sprung | @rsprung How to Use Excel: 14 Simple Excel Shortcuts, Tips & Tricks Sometimes, Excel seems too good to be true. All I have to do is enter a formula, and pretty much anything I’d ever need to do manually can be done...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 22, 2019 | Computers 101
My experience has been that people that are savvy with how to work with files on their computer sometimes gets stymied when working with pictures and keeping them organized. A client of mine downloaded some pictures to a folder on her computer and she wasn’t...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 21, 2019 | Office 2003: Word 2003
I was recently asked why I continue to post Microsoft Office 2003 tips. Let me tell you. I have people that subscribe to my computer tips email from all around the world. This morning I got a new subscriber from Nepal. Many of those subscribers still use Microsoft...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 21, 2019 | QuickBooks
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 20, 2019 | Google
Think of YouTube channels like television channels. If you find videos on YouTube that you like to watch that are part of the channel, you can subscribe to that channel quite easily. When you subscribe, you’ll get updates when that person puts a new video on...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 19, 2019 | Computers 101
Learn Microsoft Word First When I teach people about computers I always tell them a great place to start is with Microsoft Word. I can only speak for myself, but when I teach people Microsoft Word I also teach them a lot of little things that will carry over into...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 17, 2019 | Microsoft Excel
Working with groups and subtotals in Microsoft Excel can help you simplify your Excel data. The folks at GCFLearnFree.org have produced a great video that shows you how to use groups and subtotals in Microsoft Excel. As I have stated in the past in will continue to...
by Tony Holowitz | Sep 16, 2019 | Computers 101
This past Saturday I lost my Internet services for the entire day. I typically come into my office for a few hours on Saturday mornings to catch up on things and this past Saturday was no exception. Unbeknownst to me, I would be without the Internet all day and my...