Productivity

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.

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Andrew Perlas will be going over three tips in Microsoft Review: you’ll learn how to restrict editing to specific users and parts of the document, and manage what type of edits can be made. This makes Review a powerful collaboration tool when working with multiple reviewers.

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Nathanael Emenaker will be going over some of the basics in Microsoft Review, a powerful collaboration tool that makes editing Microsoft Word documents quick and easy. Today we’ll be going over how to Track Changes, add Comments to the text, and manage how Word displays your edits.

On this episode of One-Minute Wednesday, Aaron Kohn will be showing you some more advanced Google search operators. You’ll learn how to search for specific file types (like powerpoint presentations), use wild cards to help you find unknown terms, and find search terms on a specific website (like Wikipedia).

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Chase Powers will be going over a few advanced Google search operators. These commands allow you to customize your searches by looking for specific phrases, excluding unwanted search terms, and searching for multiple phrases with the “OR” operator. Save time with better Google searches!