Continuing our series on tips for office, here are some handy tips when using Excel and its features Conditionally Format Looking at a huge amount of data and wondering who has the highest (or lowest) score, what the top five are? Excel’s Conditional Formatting will do everything from put a border around the highlights to […]
Taking time to explore Word’s features can make the program even more useful for you. Below are a few features that you might not know where there and you might start to wonder how you ever worked without them. Break the language barrier Translate words, phrases, or sentences to another language in Word. In your […]
Display technology has been improving for some time. As monitors are mostly light flat panels, the size has consistently grown so that average is now 22-24″. I can recall that it would take 2 technicians to lift some 21” CRT screens on to a desk. A larger monitors gives you: more usable area increased resolution […]
These are our top 8 factors when choosing a PC monitor. Usage – What are you going to be viewing on the monitor? Is it for gaming, office, or professional uses? A gamer for example would typically require a low refresh rate and high resolution, professional who are using Photoshop will use colour calibration to […]
Should you upgrade to Windows 11 from October 5th? Microsoft will be starting the free upgrade to Windows 11 from 5th October 2021, this will be a phased so you will need to meet the new requirements that Microsoft have advised previously (see Windows 11 Launch) Microsoft have learned a lot from the launch of […]
Microsoft currently support the following Windows Server products: Windows Server 2012 & 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2022 Microsoft recently announced that Windows 2022 would be generally available from September 2021. The evaluation version can be downloaded from https://aka.ms/WS2022Preview When does support for Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2012 R2 end? Mainstream support […]
Microsoft has published its pricing for Windows 365 and you can sign up for a virtual Windows desktop. A Windows 365 device can be added to your Microsoft 365 subscription. This will allow small businesses to provide users with access to a hosted desktop environment that can be accessed from an office or home or […]
Soon after Microsoft announced its new Windows 11, Microsoft have announced that they are providing Windows 365 as a cloud service. This will allow businesses to access a cloud based desktop with Microsoft’s Office 365 (AKA Microsoft 365) and allow users to work effectively with the Microsoft Azure Server platform. Microsoft’s Windows 365 will be […]
On the 24th June 2021, Microsoft announced the next version of Windows that will provide users with a more graphical experience and is built upon the same foundations that Windows 10 provided. The product will begin being delivered to eligible device that are running Windows 10 later in 2021. As some clients will have only […]
Over the years, we have seen several versions of MS DOS (3.2, 4, 5, 6) and Windows 3 (3.0, 3.1, 3.11), Windows 95, ME, 98, Windows NT 3.51, NT4, Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (plus all the server software). Users have not always been happy with it, so it is […]