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Snappy Sparklines in Excel
Want a quick glance at your data trends without creating charts? Well now you can with Excel Sparklines! Brought in with the release of 2010, these sparklines sit neatly within a cell and capture the...
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Effective Project Meetings
As part of managing a project one of the most important governing tasks is to plan and chair project meetings. There are many different types of meetings that a project manager may need to conduct...
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Become an Email Mail Merge Maestro
Dreading spending hours typing new names and addresses into the same email? Did you know you can send Mail Merge messages directly through your email account from Word? Starting in Word and working...
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Change Control
Managing Change during Projects This time of year, one thing you can be sure of, is that the leaves will change colour and fall to the ground. Similarly to the certainty of the leaves changing colour,...
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12 Tips of Christmas – Presentation Skills
TIPS FOR MAKING PRESENTATIONS Preparation is critical to successful presentation. Key points of preparation: Establish the required outcomes – what people should know and be able to do Identify your...
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12 Tips of Christmas – Excel
Create your own Personalised Business Planner/Calendar with Excel 1. Instead spending money on a wall planner or calendar this year why not try one of Excel’s powerful templates to create and...
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12 Tips of Christmas – Outlook
Manage Flagged emails better Flag emails for follow up and select the appropriate time, if you need a reminder be sure to use the Add Reminder option. You can add a Flag to emails in you Inbox/ Sent...
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12 Tips of Christmas – Project
Christmas Checklist As Christmas is approaching and many people are taking holidays, this means that many projects will be stopped over this time. If you are a project manager what should be done...
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12 Tips of Christmas – Excel
Keep regularly used documents and folders available by pinning them to your application Do you find it frustrating to have to search or drill down into folders for documents you use regularly? Why not...
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Automate repetitive tasks with Quick Steps in Microsoft Outlook
Quick Steps apply multiple actions at the same time to email messages. This helps you quickly manage your mailbox. For example, if you frequently move messages to a specific folder, you can use a...
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Outlook Overload – AKA – Frightful Folders
Does your Outlook folder system require a degree in computing to navigate or is it organised to the nth degree? Can you find your emails quickly or is it a mammoth task dictated by expanding multiple...
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What makes a good Project Manager?
Due to increasing demand from businesses, sourcing an effective project manager can be a real challenge today. There is a skillset and a plethora of characteristics that are required by great project...
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The Wonders of OneNote
Have you ever seen the icon for OneNote on your system, briefly wondered what it is, and then moved on to something you do know? After all, why click on something that might open a minefield – right?...
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Summer Sizzler!
I don’t know about you but we here at Olas are in awe of this wonderful weather we have been having. Long may it last! To celebrate it, Olas are offering a special offer of 10% discount on any of the...
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Planning with Planner
Have you checked out the new Planner App for Microsoft Office 365? You’ll be organised before you know it! The New Planner App for Microsoft Office 365 This handy new app can help you and your team...
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How to Commute while Working from Home
One of the perks of working from home is having no commute and no traffic. We gain extra time each morning and evening and we avoid the stress of travelling. What’s not to love! The Benefits of...
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Tipping Teams
Who ever thought that this relatively new technology would explode across businesses throughout the commercial world, in the way Microsoft’s collaboration tool Teams would this last crazy year?...
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Leading People Remotely During COVID-19
We’ve all been taken by surprise by speed of events in relation to COVID-19. Here are some pointers to help you lead your team from a distance. How to Lead People Remotely During COVID-19 Here are...
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Visualise Your Data with Microsoft Power BI
Create powerful, interactive visualisations using business intelligence with Microsoft Power BI. Introducing Microsoft Power BI The business world is increasingly data driven. Small and large...
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Tips to Reset and Refocus for 2021
As we reach the end of an extraordinary year, the focus in business switches to 2021. Here are some tips to help you to reset your focus and make new plans. How to Reset and Refocus for 2021 The...
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