Archive for July 2014
Tuesday Tip: Use Trip Advisor When You Travel
By David Gracey I packed up the wife and kids for a summer vacation to the beach recently. Like the Beverly Hillbillies, we packed up and headed out (albeit in a minivan, which Louise calls her “living room on wheels”). Before the Google was invented, finding hotels, restaurants and things to do in a vacation…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Adding Rows and Columns in Excel without Getting Your Mouse Involved
By Richard Stokes Since we started writing and posting our Tuesday Tips there have been many dedicated to tricks and time savers in Microsoft Excel. If you missed out on some of our previous ones, here are a few for your reading pleasure: Divide and Conquer: Columns in Excel, Excel Conditional Formatting and How to…
Read MoreTuesday Tip – A Picture is Worth 1000 Words – and About 20 Pages
by Cheryl Sklar Back in the day, we would take pictures at a special event, birthday party, family vacation or whatever, with whatever type of camera we had at the time. Then we would physically take the film out of our camera to the drugstore (or mail it off in a special film envelope), and…
Read MoreNFMGMA July 2014 Educational Session – What Exceptional Leaders Know
Tracy Spears – Regional VP of Transworld Systems by Richard Stokes John Quincy Adams once said; “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” I’m not much of a history buff, but it’s not difficult to see that history is filled with great leaders…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Get the Most Out of Your Clipboard
by Tony Rushin Sometimes the best tips come from taking a fresh look at what we already think we know. This is one of those tips. Craig Cothern, the legal administrator at the law firm of Huff, Powell & Bailey, inspired this tip. One of the attorneys at the firm was answering an interrogatory that…
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Improving Performance of Outlook
By Richard Stokes Microsoft Outlook is the most popular email application in use and, for most people, it’s difficult to keep their mailbox tidy. The unfortunate consequence of that (and I’m just as guilty as anyone) is that the larger your mailbox gets, the slower the application gets, which can be frustrating. There are lots…
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