Information management and technology assurance

Q: Is it possible to receive email anonymously? I don’t intend to do anything illegal, but occasionally I’d like to use an anonymous email address to sign up for reading websites or for temporary communication purposes. A: A website called Mailinator (mailinator.com) lets you create any email address and check

Q: I recently produced several professional videos promoting our company’s services, and I’ve uploaded them on our webpage. Unfortunately, our website is hosted by one of those inexpensive web-hosting companies with a bare minimum of performance and internet bandwidth; therefore, our new videos take forever to load, and once they

Q: Can you point me toward a good website that provides default business letters and contract wording so I don’t have to prepare all of my business letters and contracts from scratch? A: Instead of referring you to a website, I will instead direct you to Word 2013’s templates, which

Q: I found an anomaly with a rather simple Excel computation; specifically, Excel calculates 111,111,111 times 111,111,111 to equal 12,345,678,987,654,300, which is incorrect (the correct answer should end in “21,” not “00”). If Excel’s arithmetic fails, then what else is false, and why does this happen?   (Author’s note: You

Q: Our training room’s projector died, and we are in the market for a new one. Can you give us some advice as to what we should look for in a replacement projector? A: The good news is that today’s projectors are better than ever—and far less expensive. There are

Q: Is there a fast way to navigate dozens of worksheets in an Excel workbook? A: Yes. In Excel, to move to the next worksheet (to the right), press Ctrl+Page Down. To move to the previous worksheet (to the left), press Ctrl+Page Up. To move back and forth by multiple

Q: Is it possible to forward an email as an attachment in Outlook? A: Yes. To forward an email as message threads, press Ctrl+F; to forward an email as an attachment, press Ctrl+Alt+F. This Forward as Attachment option is also available from the Message tab, in the Respond group, under

Q: We have six new computers running Windows 8 with about 400 gigabytes of data in total. We are looking for a backup solution that requires no monthly or annual fees, and little effort. Does such a solution exist? A: Before addressing your question, I feel obligated to tell you

Q: For unknown reasons, the print queue on my laptop (running Windows 7) does not automatically empty after printing. Whenever I turn my computer on, it prints whatever is left in the queue. This problem also happened with my prior laptop. How can I get the print queue to empty

Q: I know it is possible to paste-link Excel data into Microsoft Word so that any formatting changes I make to the original data are automatically reflected in the pasted data in Word, but is there also a way to paste-link Excel data into another Excel worksheet so that formatting

Q: Recently several of my colleagues have told me that my photo shows up in Outlook 2013 when they receive and open my email messages, and the worst part is that the photo is a picture of a cat (pictured below). I don’t understand why or how this is happening

Q: I am using Windows 7, and I have installed several Excel add-ins (Analysis ToolPak, Solver, PowerPivot, Power View, Inquire, and QuickBooks Excel Report Updater). Unfortunately, these add-ins make Excel launch much slower. I don’t always need to use these add-ins, so I’d like to know if there is a

Presented below are three reader questions related to merging your Outlook, Gmail, and Android email. Reading Gmail in Outlook Q: Is it possible to read my Google Mail on my desktop computer using Outlook 2013? If so, how? A: Yes, you can set up Outlook to retrieve your Gmail messages