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I’m a great fan of Teams. I’ve found it really useful in my own business and am convinced of its value for others. The whole concept of Teams seems wonderful to me as I’ve outlined in other articles. Up to recently my experience had only been with the paid version, this has now changed! I’ve recently […]

    This was originally published on our old website in February 2018. I need a copy of Excel and Word! When I set up my own business in 2014 I knew that I had strong skills in building and developing Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets and Access Databases.  So, I needed to make sure that I […]

If you buy your Microsoft products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint with an Office 365 license you get far more for your money than just those applications.  Most of the Office 365 plans come with a host of other useful applications.  One of these applications allows me to automatically do what I’m very bad at […]

Originally posted on our old website in June 2017. Pipeline under the ocean (P.L.U.T.O.) A few weeks ago my wife and I took a short holiday on the Isle of Wight.  While we were there we visited Shanklin Chine and had a very pleasant couple of hours.  While there we learnt about P.L.U.T.O.(Pipeline Under the Ocean). Towards […]

Originally published on our old website in March 2017 For many, this argument about the software was won years ago.  Thirty years ago if an organisation needed a suite of applications to achieve something be it paying pensions, managing bank accounts, handling a payroll they would have employed a project manager and recruited a development […]

Originally posted on our old website in March 2017 Most people who work in business have Microsoft Excel loaded on to their pc or laptop.  Whilst there are other fine pieces of software available that do a similar job Microsoft Spreadsheet has dominated for many years.  Now we can even have a copy loaded onto […]

I’m a great fan of Teams. I’ve found it really useful in my own business and am convinced of its value for others. The whole concept of Teams seems wonderful to me as I’ve outlined in other articles. Up to recently my experience had only been with the paid version, this has now changed! I’ve recently […]

Here’s another short “How To”. This week a project that we had been working on before our adoption of Microsoft Teams and had become dormant burst into life again. In line with our “Teams” way of working I created a Team relating to that client. So, of course, I want all the files that we had created in […]

Writing a piece of software is fun! Or, at least most of the time it is.  I enjoy working out what the software needs to do then planning how to achieve that.  Sometimes the nitty gritty of the development can get a little less exciting but in the main, I enjoy that too.  The trouble […]