Since the pandemic, QR codes have moved from a little known technology to full on main stream and you now see them everywhere. They are a useful tool to use in education, as it gives you a quick and easy way to share web links with your class. Simply add a QR code to your… Continue reading #746 Quick QR codes from your browser
If you need to summarise the key points from a document, ChatGPT can help you to do that. In the demonstration below I’ll show you how to use ChatGPT to summarise the key points covered in a TED Talk video using a very simple prompt.
Wordtune has an extension in Google Docs as a virtual writing assistant. You can generate writing on topics or get it to suggest counterarguments or expand on points. It gives you five suggestions to choose from and enter them directly into the document. This allows you to quickly explore perspectives you may not have even… Continue reading #744 Wordtune: Word Spices
How many times have you accidently moved a carefully placed object on your PowerPoint slide? It’s certainly an annoying, frustration that I was pleased to find a solution to. PowerPoint contains a Lock function which allows you to lock into place, any object on your slide. This includes text boxes, images, objects etc. Watch the… Continue reading #743 Lock objects in Powerpoint
goblin.tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task tools, designed to help people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult. I’ve used the Magic ToDo list to create a list of tasks but you could easily use this to create checklists or to-do lists with a click of a button (thanks AI). There are other tools… Continue reading #742 GoblinTools: Breaking things down so you don’t
You can add maps to a Google Doc quickly and easily from inside the insert menu.
There are a number of quick add-ins in Google Docs called Building Blocks that allow you to quickly add customisable template blocks. One example is review so you can easily make checklists or review sections in your docs. Particularly useful if you want to track little projects or collaborative tasks.
In this latest instalment of looking at ClipChamp (Microsoft’s fab video editing software), we look at screen and video (webcam) recording. This is really useful if you are either doing a talk-through with PowerPoint or a demonstration with some software etc. We’ll look at how easy it is to use the facility within ClipChamp
You may be surprised that one of our most popular videos and the video with one of the most comments is #345 Get rid of the white space between your pages in Word! This seems to be a very annoying problem. A few people in the comments have asked whether this is possible in Google… Continue reading #738 Get rid of the white space between your pages in Google Docs…then get it back again!
You can run multiple tasks in Outlook with just one click on an email once you have set up your Quick Step recipe. So with one click you can mark it as read, move it to a folder, set a retention policy on how long to keep it, automatically send a reply and an array… Continue reading #737 Multiple tasks in Outlook with Quick Steps
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