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What you Need to Know About the Change in Plain-Old-Telephone-Service (POTS)

You may never have heard of plain-old-telephone-service, or POTS, but you have most likely used the technology it provides. POTS lines are the phone lines that supported the telephone infrastructure for decades. POTS lines are analog lines made up of copper. These were the original lines installed in people's homes

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How to Separate Items in One Column into Multiple Columns

One of the biggest challenges of collecting and organizing data starts before you even have any data. This of course is deciding how to best organize the information you plan to track. Excel is a powerful spreadsheet tool that tracks all kinds of data. The reason Excel is so incredibly

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How to Share your Google and Microsoft Calendars

Often times it is more efficient to share a calendar with coworkers, friends or family, instead of going back and forth hoping to find a common time to schedule an event. This is especially true when several people are involved which requires a decent amount of coordinating. Luckily, many calendars

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What You Need to Know to Choose the Best Computer for You

Shopping for a new computer, whether it is a laptop or traditional desktop, can be overwhelming. Is the one on special really a good deal? What's the difference between it and a more expensive model? Is the extra cost worth it? These are some of the most common questions people

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How to Remove Images from Emails You Want to Print

While many people and businesses have done their best to go paperless, and save documentation digitally rather than printing them on paper, there are times when this is not possible. Email also falls in this category as often times information in an email is the backup to why a certain

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Security Updates: A Microsoft Office 365 Flaw and the End of Internet Explorer

Updates to software applications are continually being released by their publishers. Sometimes updates are released to address security issues, sometimes they introduce new features, while other times they retire features. Regardless of the reason for these changes, users can only avoid updates for so long. Eventually you will want to

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Save Time by Automating Tasks Using Shortcuts on an iPhone

Saving time by being more efficient can be a challenge. When it comes to technology, there are some common ways to be more efficient. This includes knowing multiple ways to accomplish the same thing, which helps when you get stuck or something is not working right. Another thing that helps

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Why All Your Emails Sent to Google Accounts are Suddenly Being Rejected

If you send emails to Gmail accounts using any account other than another Gmail account, you may have recently experienced an issue where your emails were not being received. This problem has been happening to people sending from many different domains, but the issue has nothing to do with the

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5 Lesser-Known Features that Make Excel Easier to Use

Excel is a powerful spreadsheet program that can help track, find trends, make calculations, and process entered data hundreds of different ways. Once you know how to use Excel and become more familiar with it, you will find more and more reasons for using it. Beyond the tools you regularly

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Why Default Programs Associated with Files on Windows Suddenly Changed

Every file on a Windows device has a default program associated with opening that file extension type. Some files can only be opened by one specific application, while others can often be opened by several apps. For example, a .pdf file can be opened in Adobe, or in one of

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Security Round Up: 21M Records Exposed, a SonicWall Vulnerability & Windows Malware

As with every month, there have been several new threats to our data and privacy. Most recently, there was a data dump that included personal information on 21 million people, a vulnerability in some SonicWall firewalls, and malware directed at Windows systems. This post discusses what happened, what you need

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How to Manage Permissions on Shared OneDrive Folders

OneDrive is a file syncing tool used to store files in the cloud or as a hybrid of in the cloud and locally. The OneDrive app is included with most Microsoft Office subscriptions, both O365 and Microsoft 365, and includes 1TB of storage. OneDrive shows up as a folder in

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2 Ways to Share Files Created in Google Apps

Google apps are an affordable suite of apps utilized by many because they are cloud-based, reasonably priced and do not require a local download. One of the most beneficial uses of Google apps is the ability for multiple users to make changes to the same files in real time. Some

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How to Control Data Entered into Cells using Drop-Down Lists in Excel

Excel spreadsheets can be a great way to collect information. However, how valuable that data is depends greatly upon the conformity of the data inputted. One way to keep the data uniform is to control the data that is entered by inserting drop-down lists with preset selections that users can

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The Best Way to Link to Different Sections in a Word Document

When using Word to create a document that is long, has steps, or covers many areas of content, it is a good idea to create titles or headings that can be linked to sections in the document. The benefit of using links is it allows users to jump right to

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Security Round Up: Fake Antivirus in Google Play Store and T-Mobile Data Buyback

Like most weeks, there have been new security breaches and other issues affecting both businesses and individuals. Two that affect the greatest number of users include a fake anti-virus app in the Google Play Store and T-Mobile trying to buy back their customer data that had previously been breached. This

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The Most Secure of 3 Forms of Two/Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor, or two-factor, authentication is a security feature that helps protect users' accounts by requiring extra input when a user attempts to log into one of their accounts. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is allowed by the provider of the account, and there are different forms of MFA. Multi-factor authentication occurs after

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Why you Can't Save an Access Database After Updating a Field

Last week we discussed how to modify the length of a field in an Access database. This process includes documenting the linked relationships, breaking the existing relationships where the field being changed exists, updating the fields in all tables where it exists and saving all modified tables. Unfortunately, when trying

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How to Manage Field Lengths in an Access Database

Access is a Microsoft database application used to track larger groups of data that would be challenging to track in a spreadsheet. The benefit of using Access, and any database application, is that they allow you to create a number of tables, each collecting unique data, that tie together to

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How to Include and Exclude Filtered Data in Excel Functions

Using Excel can help you group large amounts of data in nearly any way you want to see the data. This helps find trends and patterns that can help build your business, reduce loss, track sales or inventory, and much more. A helpful time-saving feature is the ability to filter

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Security Round Up: A Windows Data Wiping Bug and Recent Malware Attacks

As there always are, new security breaches and updates have been in recent news. While it would be nearly impossible to cover everything, we specifically pick those stories that we think affect the most individuals. As such, this post discusses an important Windows data wiping bug as well as the

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5 Easy Steps for Moving your Data to a New Computer

The process of moving to a new computer often discourages people from replacing a device that is not as efficient as it could be. Older devices are often slower for many reasons, meaning users waste time waiting on requests. Devices naturally get slower over time due to the number of

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3 Things that May be Causing Your Monitor Issues

Monitor issues can be really frustrating, especially since the symptoms you experience can vary greatly. For example, you might have a monitor whose picture glitches, one whose content is not crisp, one with automatic resizing issues, or something else altogether. If you are experiencing monitor issues, replacement should be the

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How to Format Emails in Outlook When the Options are Greyed Out

When writing emails there are lots of reasons why you might want to underline, bold, italicize, create lists, or any of a variety of other modifications available. These formatting tools allow you to accentuate certain text and can be extremely helpful when making specific points or trying to get follow

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How to Modify the Windows 11 Taskbar Defaults

If the device you use has the minimum specifications required by Windows 11, you may have already been updated whether you initiated the update or not. The update to Windows 11 is optional, but was installed automatically for some users if they did not specifically ignore the update in the