Category Archives: Tips

Tip: Wichita IT Support – What is Search Engine Optimization?

SEO.  You have probably seen the letters before, most likely in the glut of emails you may receive from companies offering to rocket your website into the top of the search engine rankings overnight.  Though those companies are talking about … Continue reading

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Tip: Windows 7 Support – Pin It, Unpin It!

Today’s tip from IT support helps you keep your most needed applications right where you need them, without cluttering up the desktop with a sea of icons (guilty). If you’re running Windows 7 (if not, call us about  moving!), the … Continue reading

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Tip: PowerPoint – Templates Make Life Easier

If you’re not harnessing the power of office.com in your use of Microsoft Office 2010, you are depriving yourself of a wealth of free professional content. Today’s tip will help you leverage the free templates in Microsoft PowerPoint, helping you … Continue reading

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Tip: Click Here to Download Pictures? Training Outlook 2010

Have you ever seen this message in an email? Notice the red ‘x’ where the picture should be?  This actually serves as a distraction from the actual issue.  Look at the very top line.  Click here to download pictures… Outlook … Continue reading

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Tip: Autosum in Excel 2010 – Adding It Up

As a Wichita IT support professional, I see a number of users mystified by using Microsoft Excel.  This powerful spreadsheet tool can be used for a number of things, the least of which is adding up the numbers, but that’s … Continue reading

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Tip: Do You Snap in Windows 7?

For those of us that don’t have the luxury of having the space for dual monitors or work on a laptop most of the time, comparing two files side-by-side means jogging windows around and resizing them manually. Windows 7 has … Continue reading

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Tip: Freeze a Column in Excel 2010

Have you ever had a large spreadsheet and had trouble remembering what the row or column names were when you had to scroll them off the screen? A quick fix in Excel 2010 can help lock that first row or column … Continue reading

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Tip: Windows 7 – Show the Desktop

We’ve talked about Windows-Key tips before.  Windows +D shows your desktop.  The same key combination again returns your windows to their previous positions.  In the Information Technology field, a good computer tech will realized that some users, however, don’t like … Continue reading

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Tip: Does Your Business Have a Google Places Page?

You’ve seen them in search results.  You search for a business and Google presents the normal search results, plus a map with a bunch of pin icons.  These are links to pages on Google Places, a Geo-location feature on Google. … Continue reading

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Tip: Avoiding Conflicts with the .docx standard in Word 2010

If you’ve been the first in your office to move to Office 2010 and your office skipped 2007, you may have experienced some issues with the .docx format.  .docx is the default save format in the new Microsoft Word. One … Continue reading

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