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I was just preparing a PowerPoint presentation for next week, and added a text box to my slide.
As I typed the content for the text box, the words would wrap automatically, but words were split in two (as shown in the image above) - instead of the wrapping being between words. Here is how I could quickly fix this issue in Powerpoint on my Mac
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I just checked and found that my details have most definitely been stolen, which means that my Name, Phone Number, Date of Birth, Gender, Geographic Location, Employer and Relationship status now freely available to anyone who wants to access this huge stolen list of Facebook user details. This is a real concern, because I have previously caught out Telstra accepting only a Name, Phone Number and Data of Birth as proof of identity for a password reset for a client. They did not request any other verification, even though they should have. So how do you check if your own details are on the list of over 500 MILLION Facebook user details that were stolen? 8/4/2021 0 Comments Data Validations in Excel - how to automate validation of dates entered into cells In the Excel Boot Camp series of classes and videos, one of the important topics that we cover in Part 5 is Data Validations - how to set up automated validations to ensure that entries into cells are correct. For example
This week, we include an extract from Part 5 for iTandCoffee Club members, showing how to automate the validation of dates entered into cells in a column. 8/4/2021 0 Comments Easily combine PDF's and images into a single document - or add, remove and rearrange pages
A client recently asked me if there is an easy way to combine several separate scanned documents into a single PDF file. Another had the requirement to add a blank page in one spot, and remove a blank page from another spot.
The super-handy Preview app on the Mac makes such tasks so easy - allowing you to create a PDF from several image files or other PDFs, insert pages into an PDF, move pages around and delete pages 
I featured this tip about a year ago, but was reminded of it by a friend this week.
If you have some slides that you would like to scan into digital format, there is an App that may also be worth a try - and it is from the same people who made one of my favourite photo scanning apps (which I have covered in this previous Handy Hint: For those who are looking to organise all those old photos - there's a great app for that!). 
While assisting a client with a new iPhone recently, I realised how much I had come to take for granted a setting that I have enabled on my own iPhone 8 - the Rest Finger to Open.
Similarly, there is a setting on my iPhone 12 Pro that I like, one that I often find is not enabled on the iPhones (and iPads) of those I help - the Tap to Wake setting (which is available on devices that don't have a Home Button). Here's why I choose to enable these features of my iPhones and iPads.  iTandCoffee regularly runs a free session topic of Online Safety - how to detect scam email and texts and how to protect yourself online.
Because we recognise the importance of everyone understanding how to detect a scam, and what to do if caught out, we are making the 1-hour video recording of this iTandCoffee information session available to all readers of this blog.  I was out walking the other day with my AirPods playing some music, and received a message from a family member.
The music turned down slightly and the message was read out to me by Siri! I didn't have to pull out my iPhone to check the message, and I could reply to the message simply by speaking my reply If you are the owner of AirPods (either 2nd generations or Pro versions), you too can enable this handy feature. 
At the iTandCoffee User Group last week, one of the attendees asked about whether there is a particular App that I would recommend for her iPhone, for scanning QR codes.
QR codes are such a feature of our lives at the moment, so it is important that you can quickly access your QR code scanner. The great news is that there is built-in QR code scanner on your iPhone, one that you can easily add to the Control Centre so that it can be accessed in a flash. 26/3/2021 0 Comments OneDrive issues on Mac - cannot find location of OneDrive folder, cannot sign in
Just recently, I started encountering OneDrive issues on my Mac. They started after I did a re-start of my Mac, after an update of Mac's Big Sur operating system.
The first message I got is shown at top left of the above image. When I looked at my OneDrive 'clouds' in the menu bar, one showed a cross and asked me to sign in again. Any attempt to Sign in would fail. Strangely, there was a second OneDrive cloud icon for the same account, that showed no problem! So I had two OneDrive clouds referring to the same account! The only way to get rid of the cloud with the cross was to click Help & Settings and then Quit OneDrive. I then got a variety of error messages popping up at different times - as shown above. While I could get my iTandCoffee business OneDrive accounts to sync, the problem that I was encountering prevented me sync'ing another business account that I use. I then discovered this week - through calls for help from several clients - that I am not the only one who has been encountering OneDrive issues on the Mac. It may well be a co-incidence, but I doubt it. |
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