Productivity

Time to clean up that messy desktop! On this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Amber Brito will be going over some of the desktop view options in Windows 10. These allow you to customize and organize your desktop, making files easier to access and decluttering your onscreen real estate.

Never send an email with spelling errors again! On this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Chase Powers will show you how to set up automated spell checking in Outlook. This setting automatically runs the spell checker as soon as you send an email and is a great way to keep your emails polished and professional.

Get started on becoming an Excel pro with these basic functions! Last week on One-Minute Wednesday, we covered a few basic functions in Microsoft Excel, and this week, Jackson Roberts will be showing you how to use the =MIN, =MAX, and =TRIM functions. These allow you to easily find outlying values in a list and clean up messy data.

Learn how to leverage some basic Excel functions to better manage data! On this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Jonathan Schaumloeffel will be showing you how to use the =SUM and =AVERAGE functions to quickly add up or average out large ranges of numbers.

Keep your inbox clean, uncluttered, and easy to read with the Archive quick step! On this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Yung Min will be showing you how to create an Archive folder, plus a quick step that will allow you to mark emails as read and move them into your archive with a single click (or keyboard shortcut). Never let old emails that have been addressed clutter up your inbox again!

Save time with customized keyboard shortcuts! For this episode of One-Minute Wednesday, Drew Lawson will be showing you how to create custom keyboard shortcuts for any application on a Mac. If you’ve ever found yourself regularly using a command that doesn’t have a native shortcut, you’ll love knowing how to create one yourself.

Dealing with a misbehaving website? Try clearing your cache! On this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Isaac McIntosh will be talking about clearing your browser’s stored cache and cookies. Learn how to do this and why it can help resolve some minor website errors.

Create ultra-secure passwords without having to worry about remembering them! Last week on One-Minute Wednesday, we showed you how to create secure passwords and protect them from hackers. This week, Jackson Roberts will be talking about our favorite password management tool: LastPass.

For this episode of One-Minute Wednesday, Dan Myers will be discussing a few tips for creating secure passwords and keeping them safe from hackers. With millions of user credentials compromised by each new security breach, it’s important to know what steps you should take to protect yourself.

Learn how to efficiently organize data with Excel tables. On this One-Minute Wednesday, we’ll be showing you how to use tables in Microsoft Excel, which allow you to automate things like sorting, formulas, and more.

Save time with this handy Excel function! On this episode of One-Minute Wednesday, Amber Brito will be going over AutoSum functionality in Excel. This is a quick way to calculate the sum of a range of numbers in Excel.

This week, learn how to protect yourself and your computer from USB drive attacks! For this One-Minute Wednesday, Waleed Afzal will be talking about a common attack vector for malware: malicious users leaving infected USB drives in public places, waiting for someone to pick them up and plug them in. Don’t miss out on learning how this works and how to avoid it!

Make team collaboration and meeting organization a breeze by sharing your calendar. For this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Cang Dao will show you how to share your calendar and manage user permissions in Microsoft Outlook. For anyone who regularly schedules meetings or works as a part of a collaborative team, this is a key feature in Outlook.

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Aaron Kohn will be going over some of the advanced rules you can set when creating an Outlook Auto Reply. You can customize your auto replies for specific people and set up notifications for high-priority emails that hit your inbox. This is a great way to keep in touch with important individuals when you’re out of the office, while still reducing the amount of normal and low-priority messages to wade through while you’re trying to enjoy a vacation!

On this One-Minute Wednesday, David Larsen will show you how to customize your ribbon in Microsoft Word. You can create new groups in the ribbon and add commonly-used shortcuts and commands, making it much easier to access important Word functions. You’ll never need to dig through the menu again!

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Brandon Klein will be finishing up our series on Microsoft Review by showing you how to accept or reject changes and compare documents. These features allow you to quickly and easily incorporate any changes that others have made to your document. Document Compare is also exceptionally useful for finding out when someone has made changes to your document but forgot to track changes with Review.