Who among us enjoys standing in line at the DMV every year to renew vehicle license plates? All that time to get a sticker and registration, oh, and write a check—the most important part.
Speaking for my own state, Ohio, it is now so easy to renew plates online that I cannot imagine anyone with a [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Time Saver category.
A no-brainer technology time-saver
Send Text Messages From Your PC
Suppose a text message arrives on your phone while you’re sitting at your desk. Do you really have to peck out the reply on the phone’s tiny keypad? Not if you know the recipient’s phone number and carrier. Just fire up Outlook or any other mail client and compose your reply like an ordinary e-mail. [...]
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Free 411 – Directory Service via your Cell Phone
Business road warriors frequently place calls to numbers they do not have in their cell phone contacts. Verizon 411 (aka ‘directory service’) calls are very handy, but also very expensive. Waste money no more! Try 1-800-GOOG-411 to get the same results entirely for free.
It’s very simple. Create an entry for Google (or whatever you wish [...]
Consolidated list of Excel combo-key shortcuts
If you are a shortcut key junkie like me (or if you seek to become more compuFicient!!) then visit this link to scan for Excel key combinations to speed up your work even more: [click here]
Firefox + Sxipper = say ‘goodbye’ to passwords
I mentioned in a previous post that RoboForm is a ‘must have’ product-especially if you check into and out of countless password protected web sites daily.
So when I stumbled upon the FREE look-alike ‘Sxipper’ recently I had to give it a try. The interface is not quite as flexible as RoboForm, but Sxipper definitely gets [...]
Repeat the Last Action
Here’s a handy trick to know.
We often find ourselves making an editing decision that we then need to reapply throughout an entire document or spreadsheet. For instance, you may want to change the indent of your paragraphs.
As long as you don’t make any other actions, you can repeat that action throughout your document. [...]
Small business CompuFiciency FREE eBook
Expertise takes a long time to achieve and no one can be expert at everything.
You are an expert in your business and people are willing to pay for your services and knowledge.
Anyone in business knows there’s a big difference between ‘doing’ the business and ‘running’ the business. More often than not running the business is [...]
Solve a business problem–fast, accurately, and repetitively
If you are debating whether or it’s worth your time learn macros or delve a little deeper into the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, perhaps it’s because you simply don’t understand how it could solve business problems for you, or perhaps you question whether the payback for your learning time is legitimately not [...]
Reclaim your desk – mount the monitor
If you really want to maximize efficiency in the office environment, there are a few no-brainer steps you need to take. Besides a cordless keyboard and mouse, and double-monitors (the obvious choice being flat-screen monitors), the next improvement is to mount your monitors above the desk surface.
Most all newer flat-screen monitors come with industry-standard bracket [...]
Voicemail as emailed text – what a great solution
This is the next best thing to a memory! Each voicemail is transcribed and sent to your email account and your cell phone.
Not only does it take seconds to scan to the most important parts, it gives you a written archive for those things you would like to retain, act upon, forward to a colleague [...]
How to parse non-delimited text data using Excel macro
Continuing the Excel macro theme… many employees receive company data from mainframe systems–perhaps even a screen copy or web paste.
Often the data is not delimited or structured in any way, so it does not want to go into Excel columns. They must first spend significant time ’shaping the data’ into columns and rows prior to [...]
