Productivity

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Jonathan Schaumloeffel will be showing you how to create Quick Steps in Microsoft Outlook. Quick Steps are customizable shortcuts that allow you to be more flexible and efficient with your email.

For this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Cang Dao will be showing you how to create a custom keyboard shortcut in Microsoft Word. This is a great tool for those of you who regularly use functions that don’t have a default keyboard shortcut, or for those of you who’d like to tweak a default shortcut to better fit your workflow.

For this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, we’ll be showing you how to convert and edit PDF files using Microsoft Word’s PDF Reflow. This new tool allows you to make changes to your PDFs, even if you’ve lost the original files.

Last week on One-Minute Wednesday, we showed you how to create custom search folders in Outlook. This week Eddie Duong will going over some of the advanced options for search folders, allowing you to further customize your folders.

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Michael Yu will be showing you how to make custom search folders in Outlook. These allow you to create a folder that will pull up all the emails in your inbox that fit your chosen search parameters, allowing you to quickly and easily organize your Inbox.

For this episode of One-Minute Wednesday, Matt Grimes will be talking about the meeting invitation responses available to you in Microsoft Outlook. These options allow you to quickly respond to a meeting invite with comments, a new time proposal, and so on.

Welcome to another One-Minute Wednesday! This week, Andrew Perlas will be showing you how to batch rename files on both Windows and Mac. This is a great way to quickly rename and reorganize a folder with hundreds of photos, for example.

For this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, John Pekcan will be showing you how to secure your documents in Microsoft Office. This is a great function to have when working with sensitive documents, and you have several options: restricting editing, encrypting with a password, restricting access by user, and so on.

For this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Heriberto Lupercio will be showing you how to select a default program when opening up specific file types. For example, if you wanted to have images automatically open in Photoshop rather than the standard picture viewer, you would set the default program for images. Here’s how:

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Joe Ensch will be showing you how to turn off startup programs. Many programs automatically boot up whenever you start your computer, and removing unnecessary ones from the startup list can improve your computer’s performance.

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Cang Dao will be showing you how to delete browsing data in both Firefox and Google Chrome. This is another way to optimize performance, getting just a bit more speed out of your machine.

For this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Nathanael Emenaker will be showing you how to delete old and unused files on your machine. Certain file types can build up over time and slow down your performance; removing them can help your computer run just a bit faster.

For this week’s episode, Drew Lawson will be talking about phishing and email spoofing. Phishing attempts often involve a spoofed email address, where the email asks for sensitive information while appearing to come from someone inside your company. Learn how to avoid falling victim to this type of scam on this week’s One-Minute Wednesday.

For this week’s One-Minute Wednesday, Evan Canaday will be showing you how to connect to a network printer by using the directory. Occasionally your computer will fail to automatically detect a network printer, and when that happens you can add it manually from the directory window.

This week on One-Minute Wednesday, Chase Powers will be discussing how you can integrate Outlook Tasks with your emails. Use tasks to clear out your inbox and prevent important emails from slipping through the cracks!

Welcome to another One-Minute Wednesday! This week, Melanie Nunn will continue our series on Outlook Tasks. She will be discussing some ways to organize these tasks using categories, the To-Do List, and the Peek.