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About garysch

A bit of a techno nut who likes sharing what I know about technology, especially with those who struggle with it. Also through my podcast www.jargonfreehelp.com

How to Enter a Series of Dates in Excel That Are Only Weekdays

Do you have to enter data for a bunch of dates but only need weekdays? Excel has the answer for you using the Autofill feature. It allows you to create a series of dates that only include the weekdays.  All … Continue reading

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Excel: How to Enter the Same Day but Different Month and Year

We all want faster ways to enter data and you’re probably already aware of the autofill feature in Excel. To enter a series of consecutive dates you just need to enter the one date and then click and drag on … Continue reading

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Reinstalling Plug-ins After Updating Photoshop CC 2015

Adobe have done another update to Photoshop CC and as always just as I thought I’d learnt enough there is more to learn. This software just gets better and better One thing that did happen on this update, because it … Continue reading

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How to do a Screen Recording in PowerPoint

If you are doing a PowerPoint presentation you may want to show how something works like a website or some software. You could open the website or software and switch to it during the presentation. However, that can be time … Continue reading

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Embed a YouTube Video into a PowerPoint Presentation

Switching from PowerPoint to a browser in the middle of you presentation to show a YouTube can be messy and time consuming. So wouldn’t it be better if you could just embed the YouTube video into your PowerPoint presentation? It … Continue reading

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Copy Video to Your iPad or iPhone All Photos Using iCloud Photo Library

Copying video to your iPhone or iPad so that you could use it in apps for sharing like on WordPress, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc or for editing in something like iMovie meant storing videos in the right folder and then … Continue reading

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Hands On Introduction to Your DSLR

Sometimes technology can take away the enjoyment of things we like doing such as photography. So many of us like taking photographs and would like to take better photos so invest in a DSLR. DSLRs take great quality photographs and … Continue reading

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Why I Use Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom has become an essential tool for all my photography. It is really powerful and when you know what it can do it is pretty straightforward. Lightroom not only works as a database to catalogue your photos and videos … Continue reading

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Adding an Author’s Name to a Word Document

If you need to create Word documents and people reading it need to know it has come from you then you may want to automatically add your name to it. This is useful in organisations and this feature can be … Continue reading

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Drawing Shapes and Using Brushes on Photoshop Layers

The great thing about layers in Photoshop is that they allow you to add things and move them about without affecting the original photograph or image. You can try out different shapes and designs on different layers and hide them … Continue reading

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