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Two of My Favorite Things

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Recently I’ve had a few people ask my “favorite” this and my “favorite” that and it got me thinking. I have a few random favorites that would be fun to share! Excel Function – VLOOKUP I can’t tell you how many times I have been confronted with needing data in one spreadsheet to have a field or 6 from another. And they are never 10 records – always several thousand. That’s where VLOOKUP comes in. You tell it to match a field from one sheet to another, and when it finds a match, bring over additional data. AWESOME! So how do you use it? Here’s an example: A client exported a list of customers from their contact management system, added a bunch of information and then realized they forgot the company name. Email is a unique identifier so we were able to run a VLOOKUP […] Continue reading

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: appointments, calendar, excel, Outlook, vlookup

Are You a Digital Hoarder?

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Clearly hoarding is something looked at as an anomaly since there are entire shows about it. But what about being a digital hoarder?  This week I’ve spent a large number of hours taming one client’s email.  It went back as far as 2004.  His Inbox alone was 28,322 emails.  That didn’t include subfolders, sent items, deleted items (that was 3,270 alone!) and drafts.  His feeling was if he kept it, he would always have it if he needed it. I beg to differ. Outlook as a piece of software was never designed to handle that kind of volume. In fact, it was really only made to handle about 2GB worth of email.  And for the average person, that’s all they can handle as well. We all get email every day that we will never need again – and probably didn’t need today.  So rather than […] Continue reading

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: archive, email, organization, Outlook

The Importance of Managing Outlook

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So I’ve spent the bulk of the last week fixing Outlook for people. It isn’t that Outlook has a lot of problems, but most people don’t invest the time necessary to properly maintain it. First and foremost Outlook has a storage limit of 2 GB. With most emails being around 14 kb, it takes a long time to get to 2 gb. But, when you do, it takes a long time to fix! Instead, make it part of your daily management and you won’t have problems later. 1. Shift+Delete is your friend. Shift+Delete actually deletes the item from Outlook rather than moving it to your recycling bin. For all those spam messages, jokes, and read newsletters, this is a great way to keep your Deleted Items to a manageable level. 2. Archive projects – Filing emails in folders will keep you organized. When you conclude […] Continue reading

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Our Managing Partner, Kathy Breitenbucher, has been in business for almost 20 years. The lessons learned throughout her career have brought her to a place to offer businesses her expertise and understanding of how people get the job done. Read More…

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