Top 10 Microsoft Office Tips
Microsoft Office highlighted several technology news reports last week when the world’s most popular productivity suite announced enhanced cloud storage integration, more online-co-authoring and editing options, and an expanded palette of apps available to Mac users. Many tech experts even anticipate 2016 will be the year that Microsoft’s Office 365 consumer cloud offering will overtake […]
Top 10 Microsoft Word Tips
Get the most out of Microsoft Word with these 10 (ten) tips from Denver Tech Solutions: 1) Quickly toggle between text cases. Rather than digging through multiple toolbar menus to change text from UPPERCASE to lowercase to CamelCase (Where The First Letter Of Every Word Is Capitalized), highlight a block of text and press Shift+F3 […]
It’s Time to upgrade your computer with a Solid State Drive!
It’s Time to upgrade your computer with a Solid State Drive! You’re probably familiar with conventional hard disk drives (HDDs). They whir, click and crank when booting up your computer, saving documents and opening files because of their moving parts. Now there’s a better solution for data storage and access – the solid-state drive, or […]
Adobe Flash Exploit – IT Security Is Important
Recently, flaws were discovered in Adobe Flash Player that could allow malicious banner ads running on legitimate websites to infect unwitting computer users. These “malvertising” exploits have been shown to produce a variety of consequences; some install malware that illicitly inflates ad click numbers, while others can immediately encrypt all files on a user’s local […]
Password Security Strategies
In a recent Dell Power More article, results of an online survey revealed that half of all passwords were more than five years old. The report, which was commissioned by TeleSign and conducted by Lawless Research, also found that 77% of consumers hadn’t changed their passwords in a year or more, 21% still used passwords […]
Top 10 Excel Tips
For years, Microsoft Excel has been the standard when it comes to spreadsheet software. Microsoft Office, the productivity suite in which Excel comes packaged, still claims approximately 80% to 96% of worldwide user share. As PCMag wrote in 2013, Excel is “far and away the most powerful, and now the easiest to use worksheet app, […]
Internet Explorer End of Support – Jan 12, 2016
Starting on January 12, 2016, Internet Explorer, 11 will be the only web browser receiving updates and patches for Windows 7, 8, and 10. Any other version of Internet Explorer will not receive security updates, compatibility fixes, or technical support. According to Microsoft, “Internet Explorer 11 offers improved security, increased performance, better backward compatibility, and […]