– Bulletin Online Only
Welcome to a continuation of our Byte Me articles in the Bulletin ‘Online only’ format. We will continue to keep you alerted and up to date with many of the developments in our industry and hope to also save you money among the way. One of the advantages with the online format is that we can now provide more URL links that are ‘clickable’ for you to look at further information on different topics.
To kick off today’s article I wish to share one of my favourite tips when using Microsoft Excel. If you have a spread sheet that is running off the screen and causing you to scroll left to right or up and down to see everything – simply highlight with your mouse the extents of the cells that you are interested in and then click on ‘View’ and ‘Zoom to Selection’ buttons to see all of your cells at once. This works for both the horizontal and vertical directions.
Today we will kick off the first article in a series of 2 or 3 about emails, their use and associated security. As the Internet came of age it was realised pretty quickly that using it as a medium for the transport of a note or letter was a really great idea. Emails were invented and were great as long as the other party that you needed to correspond with had an email address as well.
The uptake of email addresses pretty soon outstripped the uptake of Internet connections with many people having more than one private email address and often a business address as well. We now also see the situation of many families having the one Internet connection but a separate email address for every member of the household.
Adding to the attractiveness of emails, we discovered that we could ‘attach’ a computer file to a standard email transmission. Attached to an email, this file could contain a purchase order, an invoice or receipt, a picture, a song, an Internet link or even several or a variety of these aforementioned files. Again – emails gained in popularity.
The above features combined with the ability to deliver a rather secure message at near instant speed to the recipient combined with their option to reply when it suited, soon created a basis upon which person to person, person to busines and business to busines document transmission could reliably occur every day. Basically emails are here to stay.
Now – enter the old saying that ‘every rose has its thorns’ and we fast forward to today where every advertising entity and their dog wants to jump on the email bandwagon and ‘spam’ us with largely useless emails about products that are also largely useless and often a scam. Now the amount of frustration, financial hurt and time wasting that these emails cause is considerable.
So, how do we filter out the email ‘junk’ that we do not want? There are many solutions to this problem that all vary in their effectiveness. Essentially you are wanting some sort of filtering service to remove the emails that are junk and leave you with the emails that are important to you. This is a little bit like asking someone else to do your wardrobe shopping – it can easily go pear shaped!
Next week we will explore some of the filtering options that work as well as discussing those that don’t. Until then – I hope that you are enjoying reading these articles online and that your computer is still serving you well.
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