Any users of Microsoft's spreadsheet app that deal with datasets that include phone numbers will at some point have run into a problem in which Excel treats a phone number as a "real" number and therefore removes the first zero. Here's our guide on how to prevent this.
A new defence tool against scammers is being added to Microsoft's Edge web browser. While their "Defender" security suite does already have the ability to warn about website scams, that assumes it's something they already know about. What if you're the first to see it?
For a while now, the UK government has been asking various tech companies for access to the encrypted data of its users. Apple is the first to comply with this, although not exactly in the way the government intended. What does this mean for UK users?
Most of us will have been told that we're just about to run out of storage space on our PC at some point. The question then becomes "what is using that space and where is it". Windows 11 now has a nifty feature that can help track down the largest files.
It's now almost a couple of years since we wrote our first in-depth article about the rise of AI and the impact it may have on 3aIT and our clients. So, how are things looking as we get stuck into 2025? Are any of these new tools actually useful?
As we have been flagging for some time, Microsoft will no longer be supporting their Windows 10 operating system from October. They've now announced that the other 365 apps (Word, Outlook etc) will be subject to the same fate. Support for these will be withdrawn on the same day.
You don't have to have a memory that goes back that far to remember when most of us were buying new phones every couple of years or so. That hasn't been the case for a while, and it's not just phones. What's changed, and what are manufacturers doing to try and get us to splash the cash now?
While many of the features in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software involve maths to some degree or another, one handy feature you may not know about is the ability to create a column that includes custom text combined with data from cells in your file.
As we have highlighted before, and will no doubt highlight again, support for Microsoft's aging Windows 10 operating system ends in October. In preparation for this, Microsoft have now outlined pricing for optional "extended" support beyond this date.
Microsoft have been quietly making significant to the Windows screenshot app for a while now. Most recently, they've added the ability to record a portion of your screen as a video file, and the ability to copy text straight out of images. They now going to add another clever string to its bow.
