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Making it Work When Working From Home

Making it Work When Working From Home

by Andrew Hunt | Mar 17, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS

Working remotely can be invigorating from time to time, but there’s a reason why we don’t do it permanently. If we’re forced to work remotely for a long period, how do we overcome isolation effects? Working together in an office has a number of social benefits. You...
THREE EDGE TIMESAVERS

THREE EDGE TIMESAVERS

by Andrew Hunt | Jan 2, 2020 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS

Who still uses Microsoft Edge? It’s a point of pride among many users to immediately swap out their default web browser on Windows from Edge to something else.   To be fair, that’s because Microsoft’s past browsers have fallen behind the marketplace – other browsers...
Excel’s Best Ideas

Excel’s Best Ideas

by Andrew Hunt | Dec 4, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS

Have you noticed the ‘IDEAS’ icon in Excel? (It used to be called ‘Insights’ ). It’s Excel’s attempt to make you look smarter and more thoughtful. Simply start with a table (not a pivot table) of data, and hit the idea’s button and see what comes. Based on my...

Compare two (near) identical Word files, without going insane

by Andrew Hunt | Aug 17, 2019 | TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS

Of course, in a modern cloud world, this shouldn’t happen! We should share a link to a file and use versions to maintain it’s history.  But we’re not in a perfect work, and we often get multiple people updating copies of the same file.  Its all good until we have to...

9 Common Excel Mistakes

by Andrew Hunt | Jun 30, 2019 | IT News & Insights New Zealand | Cybersecurity, AI & Microsoft Updates, TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS

We were reminded of the risks of messing up spreadsheets in a recent blog post at Oracle: The scary fact they quote is that 88% of all spreadsheets are wrong! The consequences of relying on bad information as a result can be insane! That reminded me of a couple of...
Have you noticed the new Office search?

Have you noticed the new Office search?

by Andrew Hunt | Apr 1, 2019 | TIPS TRICKS AND HINTS

We love that Office365 keeps improving.  One of the most common challenges we all have is finding things. So, if this resonates for you,  the new search feature might be just what you need. [header2 text=”Microsoft Search in Office”...
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