You probably see files with extensions like .docx and .pdf everyday, but every so often someone sends us a file with an extension that we’ve never heard of. And just when we’re expecting Windows to allow us to select a web service to open the file (note to Microsoft: why isn’t “Select a program” the [...]

Someone once told me that every time you take your hand off the keyboard to use the mouse, you’re wasting valuable time. That advice has stuck with me over the years, and where possible I always strive to use keyboard shortcuts. Here are some of the more common (and useful) shortcuts which can help you [...]

I recently had to re-install an Excel macro on a new computer, that I had written a few years ago for a customer. The macro reads information from a database and updates cells in a spreadsheet and is therefore dependant on some external libraries most notably Microsoft DAO. However during the installation process I was [...]