You can perform a manual backup of your Windows user files with an external drive by using Backup and Restore in Windows Settings. Backup and Restore makes copies of the user files only (Documents, Desktop, Pictures, Downloads etc.) it does not back up system files or programs. This will require a reasonably large external hard
If your service shares a computer, network drive or cloud storage between staff, committee and volunteers, you might find it useful to restrict some Office documents from modification with a password or encrypt others for confidentiality. This tip will explain both how to encrypt a document and how to restrict modifying a document. Within larger
Excel documents are often ‘living’ documents that are intended to be viewed and updated collaboratively. To avoid users introducing errors to your documents, Excel’s protection options can lock or hide cells or formulas. The Protect Workbook command locks the entire document. It isn’t encrypted and can still be viewed but changes require a password. The Protect Sheet command
This guide demonstrates how to password protect a PDF created in Microsoft Word or Publisher. With the file open in Word or Publisher, click on File go to the Backstage view. Select Save As from the menu and navigate to the desired save location. Use the Save as type dropdown to select the PDF file
This guide demonstrates how to password protect a PDF created in Microsoft Word or Publisher. Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – Password protect PDFs exported from Word
If your service shares a computer, network drive or cloud storage between staff, committee and volunteers, you might find it useful to restrict some Office documents from modification with a password or encrypt others for confidentiality. This tip will explain both how to encrypt a document and how to restrict modifying a document. Browse to
Excel documents are often ‘living’ documents that are intended to be viewed and updated collaboratively. To avoid users introducing errors to your documents, Excel’s protection options can lock or hide cells or formulas. Browse to it on our Tips page or from this direct link: Tip – How to protect worksheet cells in Excel
Each year, many kindergarten staff need to transfer the contact details of enrolled families from an Excel spreadsheet into Outlook. Within Outlook, staff often also want the family emails grouped into Contact Groups for each session or cohort of enrolments. These two tips provide two methods of setting up the Contact Groups in Outlook: Tip
This tip will explain a method of creating Contact Groups in Outlook from an Excel spreadsheet by importing the data, sorting the new contacts by “Company” and then creating Contact Groups. This method assumes you have a large number of contacts (30+) in an Excel spreadsheet. If you only need to create a smaller number
This tip will explain one of two methods of creating contact groups in Outlook from an Excel spreadsheet. The guide assumes you have the contact details in an Excel spreadsheet sorted into the appropriate groups. Our example uses an Excel spreadsheet of family contact details sorted into each child’s enrolment group. If you need a
