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- CCNA Tips: Tips for CCNA 640-801 Exam
- This paper explains some tips to follow for the CCNA test. Tips includes points like how to Relax before exam, how to Familiarize with exam, How to manage time, about negative marking in the exam. The duration for the exam is 90 minutes. One must determine how much time one...
- Tags: CCNA, Tips
- White papers
- IT Dojo: Quickly map drive letters in Windows XP with SUBST, PUSHD, and POPD
- Mapping drive letters in Windows XP is a common task. It's not a complicated process, but you can save time with a few easy shortcuts. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler demonstrates three old DOS commands that making mapping folders and network shares a snap. First,...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Information Technology, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, it dojo, windows xp, drive mapping, tips, help desk, network shares
- Videos 2008-04-29
- Another 10+ tips for keeping your writing sharp and professional
- Your job focus may be technical, but you can't completely escape the burden of writing tasks: e-mails, status reports, performance evaluations, RFPs, and system documentation, to name just a few possibilities. If your writing experience has been limited, you could probably stand to brush up on those skills -- especially...
- Tags: Tips, Career, 10 things
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- 10 things you can do to increase performance in Vista
- Windows Vista has some great new security and functionality features, as well as cool eye candy, such as Aero transparency, Flip 3D, and other graphical tricks. But all this comes with overhead that may lead to a performance hit on anything less than a top-of-the-line supercomputer.If you find Vista's performance...
- Tags: 10 things, Tips
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- 10+ tips for keeping your writing sharp and professional
- Writing abilities are among the most important business skills for a CIO, senior IT manager, or any IT person seeking a promotion. Yet the rules of good writing are often elusive. This list covers some of the critical areas you should keep in mind when writing anything from a lengthy...
- Tags: Tips, Career, 10 things
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- 10 obscure Word tricks that can expedite common chores
- Over the years, successive versions of Word have introduced some solid innovations, some mind-boggling changes-for-change's-sake, and a few usability-crushing "enhancements." But through it all, one thing has remained constant: Buried within Word are lots of cool tricks that not too many users have discovered. These are small things--shortcuts that, in...
- Tags: Tips, Support, 10 things
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- 10 tips for working more efficiently in Excel
- Excel is so powerful that nobody knows everything about it. If you use Excel frequently, you probably run into situations, from entering data to calculating complex workbooks, that slow you down. The following tips won't solve unique problems, but they will help you complete common tasks more efficiently.This entry originally...
- Tags: Tips, Support, Shortcuts, 10 things
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- 10+ tips for designing flexible and efficient Access tables
- Access stores one of your most important assets--your data--in tables. Now, truthfully, the table you see onscreen is just a graphic representation, but you use this representation to determine how the rest of your database uses and reacts to your data. For this reason, it's important to spend time up...
- Tags: Tips, 10 things
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Analyze Excel data with the Match function
- Is this in all versions of excel?Or, only office 2003/2007?Dan
- Tags: droolin, excel, Microsoft Excel, software, tips
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- 10 tricks for working more efficiently in Microsoft Outlook
- Do you see your users doing a lot of things the hard way in Outlook? What kind of questions come up most often and what tips do you routinely share with them?
- Tags: JodyGilbert, software, tips, microsoft outlook, 10 things, susan harkins, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-02-23
- Using script to record terminal sessions
- ok, you just made me one happy camperThis could be used for any number of reasons... TrainingThis is what I did and typed. As you suggest, logging log in secessions.Thank you very much.Here is a followup tip... Working in a ssh window, your performing multiple tasks. Instead of...
- Tags: droolin, secession
- Discussion threads 2007-02-12
- US-CERT: A free source of valuable security tools
- I don’t believe a day passes when I dont search for potential vulnerabilities in either new or existing information processing and delivery systems. One of my team’s responsibilities is to ensure that risk associated with known vulnerabilities is identified and properly reported to management. Our job would be...
- Tags: Computer Crime, Cybercrime, Government, It Management, National Vulnerability Database, NCAS, Security, security tool, Software, Threats, Tips, Tom Olzak, tool, US-CERT, vulnerability
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Calling All Linux Experts!!!!
- Alright! For those who remember, I had a lengthy question in the past, concerning Windows XP SP 2, limiting user connections to 10. There is basically no way around this, and one gentleman, suggested Fedora Core 6, well...after talking it over with my boss, we decided we don't...
- Tags: Fedora Project, mikea@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-30
- Let Excel enter decimal points for you
- Great toolTakes a few sessions to get used to, but then it saves a lot of time.Should be used with caution if others have access to your PC and worksheets.May add more key strokesIf, in your worksheet, you enter a large number of integers, then this tip would cause you...
- Tags: keypad, Let Excel, tips, excel, cell, sofi.trien@..., hardware, Microsoft Excel
- Discussion threads 2006-08-16
- Trying to like it here
- Trying to like it hereI love the idea behind the site with the customization touches and the "myspace-like" touches... but the forums... er um... "Discussions"....Wow.Awful.Unwieldy is a term that comes to mind. It can take 10 minutes to read a thread with 14 replies. Any plans to move to a...
- Tags: Web browsers, Print
- Discussion threads 2006-05-31
- Avoid e-mail faux pas with Office AutoCorrect
- Microsoft Word users commonly save time and eliminate mistakes by using AutoCorrect to automatically expand abbreviated text. Even if you don't use Word as your Outlook e-mail editor, you can use AutoCorrect to cut down on typing time and catch mistakes Spellcheck misses, or can’t detect. For example, proper names...
- Tags: e-mail, video, AutoCorrect, Microsoft Word, outlook, tips, word, staff, Bill Detwiler - TechRepublic, Microsoft Office, Office AutoCorrect
- Discussion threads 2006-05-26
- Save time with multiple control selection in Access
- Save time with multiple control selection in Excelthat's the title in the newsletter emailed out, however clicking on the link takes one to tips for MS Access.
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Save Time, Save
- Discussion threads 2006-02-20
- DOWNLOAD: Control Excel data entry with these five powerful tips
- Using Microsoft Excel, you can store and analyze financial information, statistical data, mathematical formulas and more. Yet without accurate data, your sophisticated spreadsheet calculations are useless. Data accuracy can be particularly problematic if multiple people enter data into the same spreadsheet. There are ways to control Excel data entry and...
- Tags: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, powerful tip
- Discussion threads 2005-11-21
- DOWNLOAD: Get the most from your Excel charts with these five tips
- Visual aids make complicated data more understandable. Excel's pie charts, bar graphs, line charts and other built-in charts help your data jump off the page. But to get the most from Excel's chart feature, you must go beyond the basic Chart Wizard offerings. This six-page document gives you five powerful...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel
- Discussion threads 2005-11-18
- DOWNLOAD: 10 things you should know about being a great IT manager
- DOWNLOAD: 10 things you should know about being a great IT managerIT Managers can easily get caught up in day-to-day operations and activities and lose sight of important management behaviors. Whether you're a new or seasoned manager, the following suggestions can help you be a great IT manager.Download and review...
- Tags: team, Bill Detwiler - TechRepublic, it management, tips, janice ward, 10 things, training
- Discussion threads 2005-11-07
