If you’d like a tidy, easy way to see your Gmail emails and Microsoft emails all in one place in Windows 10, here’s how to set it up: – Click on ‘Start’ and type ‘Mail’, and select the Mail app. – Open the app, right hand side click “+ Add account” and select Google/Gmail from the list. – Enter…
If you’ve lost your Google Chrome history and you’d like to avoid the frustration of having waste time trying to find those useful and interesting websites that you remember looking at, here’s how to back-up your history so it doesn’t happen again: Enable Sync Enabling sync on Google Chrome history copies your history (and bookmarks) to your other devices…
Emojis can be a great tool for creating more engaging social media posts and more, so here’s a site where you can find and copy all the emojis you’ll need: – To find the emoji you’re looking for: – Go to https://emojipedia.org/. – Type a name/description of the emoji required into the search field or select the category of emoji…
If you need to search just one domain for a particular search term, here’s how to use Google to do just that: – Go to Google.com. – Enter site: www.website.com search term into the search box e.g., site:bbc.co.uk painting. – Refine your search.
If you’d like to know a fast way to minimise all your open windows with one click in Windows 10, here’s how. – Look at the bottom far right-hand side of the screen, to the right-hand side of the ‘notifications’ icon. You will see a tiny, vertical line. – Click on the line and all your open desktop windows…
If you’ve copied and pasted several items today but need to quickly and easily go back and use something you pasted earlier, you can use the clipboard history in Windows 10. Here’s how: – To open the clipboard history, press the Windows logo key + V (and then select Turn on if it’s not on already). – Find the…
If you’d like to get data-driven insights into your work habits to improve your productivity, you could try Microsoft 365 MyAnalytics platform. Here’s how: – Sign into your Microsoft 365 account. – Select MyAnalytics from the app drawer or click on the 9-dot square menu (top left) and select the ‘All Apps’ link and click on the ‘MyAnalytics’ link….
Google Tasks (like Microsoft To-Do), which is already built into Gmail and Google Calendar offers an easy way to create simple to-do lists. Here’s how to use it: – Sign-in to Google, open Calendar, and click on the ‘Tasks’ symbol (right-hand side, blue circle with pen symbol). – Click on “Add a task”. – Add the title, details, date,…
If you’ve ever wanted to click on a link to a website but wanted a way to check first whether its spam or worse, here are five ways to safely check: 1. Check the status of a website URL using Google’s Transparency Report, which harnesses Google’s Safe Browsing technology. See: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?hl=en 2. Use URLVoid to check a website’s reputation and…
If you use Google Sheets and need to simplify data-entry, adding dropdown lists can really help. Here’s how to add them: – In Google Sheets, select the cell where you want the dropdown list. – Click on ‘Data’, select ‘Data Validation’, and select ‘List of items’. – In the field that loads, type the items you want to include…
