Information management and technology assurance

In response to the August Technology Q&A topic “Dating Problems, Part 3” (page 85), reader Daniel Warco, CPA, (controller for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Washington) sent me a better solution than the ones I had ­suggested. As a reminder, the Excel question involved converting two-digit-year, text-based numbers

How to block unsolicited spam callers on Android-based smartphones.

How to find merged cells in an Excel workbook created by someone else.

Pinterest launched an option that allows you to create a business page.

Outlook has a Quick Steps feature that allows you to automate several tasks as a single task.

Excel can produce a filled radar chart, which can be useful for comparing a multitude of attributes across multiple items, and the visual results may be the solution you seek.

To stay abreast of the newest technologies, I maintain links to more than a dozen gadget websites for my own use, each of which typically posts about 10 to 15 brief articles daily about new and emerging gadgets.

Is there an easy way to automate an operation to display word counts on the Word document—perhaps with a macro or VBA code?

Here are five operators (or search filters) that can help you better search the web when using the major search engines.

Paste to forward. To forward information slightly more quickly (e.g., when sending hotel or airline reservations to a colleague), copy the hotel or airline reservation from the reservation confirmation webpage, toggle to Outlook, and then press Ctrl+V to automatically create a new email containing that copied information, as suggested in