Tech Tip – Optimise Power Plans For Your Battery Life
Windows allows users to customise or switch between different power plans based on their current needs, balancing performance with energy consumption. This is especially useful for laptop users who may need to maximise battery life or require full performance during intensive tasks. Here’s how works: – Right-click on the battery icon in the taskbar and […]
Tech Tip – Optimise Email Signatures with Transparent Images for Dark Mode
With many users adopting dark mode in the new Microsoft Outlook, including a transparent background for images such as logos or signatures ensures your emails look professional across both light and dark themes. Why It Matters: – Many users enable dark mode, which displays emails on a black or dark-coloured background. – Images with a […]
Tech Tip – Open Pinned Programs Easily With Keyboard Shortcuts
If you use certain Windows 10 Microsoft Office programs often, you can pin them to the taskbar and then open them quickly and easily with keyboard shortcuts. Here’s how: – If you have a program open e.g., Word, hover your mouse over it (in the taskbar), right mouse click and select ‘Pin to taskbar’. Do […]
Tech Tip – Open All Tabs At Once
If you’re using Microsoft’s Edge browser, a handy organising feature means that you can easily get a full, instant view of every window you have open and quickly tab between them. Here’s how: – Press Alt + Tab. – Holding down Alt, click Tab to move between the windows and to select the one you […]
Tech Tip – Minimise All Windows Instantly With The Show Desktop Button
If you’d like to know a fast way to minimise all your open windows with one click in Windows 10, here’s how. – Look at the bottom far right-hand side of the screen, to the right-hand side of the ‘notifications’ icon. You will see a tiny, vertical line. – Click on the line and all […]
Tech Tip – Matching Displays
If you need to use 2 or more monitors to help you to get more things done and multi-task, here are some tips for making sure those monitor displays match up. If the monitors are the same make/model Windows may be able to automatically extend the desktop horizontally. With different monitor models/makes you may want […]
Tech Tip – Mark Up And Annotate Any Portion Of Your Screen With This Keyboard Shortcut
If you’d like to be able to mark up, annotate and share screenshots, here’s a fast and easy keyboard shortcut that lets you do just that. – Hold down Win + Shift + S and select (click and drag the square) to select a screenshot of the area to annotate. – Click on “Select here […]
Tech Tip – Making Your Browser Remember Your Passwords
Your browser may have a Password Manager but sometimes an issue (e.g., conflicting extensions) may cause the browser not to save or remember your passwords. Here’s how to fix the issue for popular browsers Chrome and Edge: For Google Chrome: – Open the Chrome menu (the three dots top right) and select ‘Settings’. – Select […]
Tech Tip – Making ChatGPT Produce Answers In Tabular Format
If you’d like to save time and stay organised by getting outputs from ChatGPT that are already in tabular format, here’s how: – Ask ChatGPT to list the benefits of two or more different ways of delivering a list, and to answer in a table format. For example, type “List the differences between rugby league and […]
Tech Tip – Make MS Word Spellcheck Uppercase Too
You may not know that Microsoft Word doesn’t spellcheck uppercase words by default so, if you’d like to make sure your entire document (even your uppercase words) is fully spellchecked, here’s how: In Word, click on ‘File’. Click on ‘Options’. Click on ‘Proofing’. Un-check ‘Ignore words in UPPERCASE’ and click ‘Save’.