How-to videos
Check out our very own Top Tech Tips or these Microsoft’s how-to videos on Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams showing you time-saving tips and helpful hints . Or watch our celebratory video made to commemorate or 25th anniversary in business.
Hands On IT’s Top Tech Tips
Sometimes the amount of notifications appearing on your screen can be overwhelming. This tech tip shows you a very simple way to mute the alerts before they start getting on your nerves.
Looking for a specific video in Google?
Here’s how to filter your results by duration, time, quality and source!
If there’s a particular and important chat you access frequently, you can create a shortcut for it on your device’s home screen.
If there’s a particular and important chat you access frequently, you can create a shortcut for it on your device’s home screen.
If you’d like to capture long web pages in their entirety – for use in documentation, presentations or competitor analysis – Google Chrome has a lesser-known but built-in way for doing this.
If there’s a particular WhatsApp chat you would like to prioritise, you can pin it to the top of your chat list.
If you’ve found a specific passage of text in a web page that you’d like to show to another person, Google Chrome has a built-in feature that allows you to share the link.
Save yourself time by messaging a group of people the same question whilst making it look as though you’ve asked them individually (so you don’t have to open each chat to ask them separately).
Here’s a fun way to remind yourself of what Google’s search engine looked like back in 1998.
Check your Outlook Online to see whether you have been compromised and to see if any malicious rules have been added
If you’ve got a long list of bookmarks in Google Chrome that’s not in order, using ‘Bookmark Manager’ can help you get your bookmarks organised and easily navigable.
Did you know you can change the font in your WhatsApp messages to add some emphasis to your text?
Watch to see how easy it is!
Are you sitting comfortably?
You will be after watching our tips on how to get a better posture at work.
Get the exact results you are searching for by using this quick and easy tech tip when using Google Search!
Clean up and Free Up space on your device by using Storage Sense.
What exactly is Phishing? How do you spot it and what can you do if you have been attacked.
Set up automatic replies or an Out Of Office response in Outlook and Online.
Encrypt your Word or Excel documents with a password for safe sending and sharing.
Here’s how to open and edit or copy any text from a PDF file in Microsoft Word.
If you need to send sensitive information by WhatsApp, make sure you know how to make your image or video will disappear once the recipient has seen it.
Inside the Google Photos app, you can use ‘Google Lens’ to learn more about the picture you’ve taken. Perfect for shopping or learning about something new.
Whether you want to send your document as a PDF, make your file smaller or perhaps you want to make the document harder to edit, you can easily print your file to PDF from any program.
Do you have a habit of forgetting where you’ve left the car? – Use Google Maps on your mobile to temporarily save your location.
Using Clipboard History can save you loads of time.
Watch our short video to see how!
A really handy tip to use if you are meeting friends somewhere, or perhaps you want to temporarily track a family member home safely.
8 easy ways to help extend your phone’s battery consumption plus extend it’s life!
Easily and quickly remove the background from any of your images.
Snip Snip ✂✂ – Easily copy and paste with this handy tip.
Give it a try!
Want to take a trip down memory lane? Google Archives will show you how your neighbourhood used to look in the past.
Give it a try!
Yes! – There really are 11 really useful internet browser keyboard shortcuts.
How many do you know already?
* No energy to move your mouse to the address bar on your browser?
* Frightened of spraining a wrist?
Then this is the shortcut for you! 😝
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