Tag Archives: productivity

Better Email Accounts Management with Zimbra Desktop

If you are involved in a lot of internet activities, like social media or running blogs, you may need to have multiple email accounts. While both Mozilla Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook allow receiving messages from multiple POP3 email accounts in the same inbox, not all web-based email services offer this possibility. GMail does, but Yahoo [...]

How to make MS Excel macros to run across all sheets

MS Excel macros can boost your productivity, saving you a lot of the time you spend on doing boring tasks, such as formatting or printing. If you didn’t know by now, find out how you can use a macro across all worksheets:

After you choose Tools, Macros, Record New Macro, in the dialog box, at [...]

The 10 Firefox time savers for web marketers

Do you know what Firefox and IE have in common? Basically they do the same thing: they help you browse the net. Yet, if you are involved in internet marketing, web design or SEO, Firefox can save you a lot of time. All you have to do is to install a few add-ons.
Here you can [...]

How to assign a toolbar button to a macro in MS Excel

Do you know what a macro is? Or how to make a MS Excel macro? Have you ever made a macro? If you had, it means you use it frequently, this is why you made it, isn’t it? It must be boring though, every time you want to run it, to go to the main [...]

How to use macros in MS Excel

It happens many times that we have to accomplish boring repetitive tasks in MS Excel, such as formatting cells in lots of tables, to make them look more professional, in order to print, let’s say, a report for a client. Those tasks, although easy to do, require a lot of time to complete. Repetitive tasks [...]

How to write faster in Microsoft Word

As I got positive feedback on my other posts regarding productivity using computer software (Windows XP and Microsoft Excel), I am now continuing the series with a collection of Microsoft Word shortcuts which are saving me much time when writing. Why to delete one letter at a time, when you can delete a whole word [...]

The Hidden Face of Microsoft Excel

I don’t know how many Microsoft Excel users take advantage of all its features or even know such features exist. Probably very few ones. Although I have used this software a lot, for many years, I still discover new things everyday.
I put together here a list of shortcuts which proved very useful to me, especially [...]

Get a little bit more productivity in Windows XP

When I first started using Windows, I wasted a lot of time looking for the applications I wanted to launch or minimizing all applications to finally get to see my desktop. And these are only two examples. As I decided to get more productive, I discovered a bunch of useful tips that improved my work. [...]