Apologies for posting this so late in the day. I overscheduled myself on Thursday, which resulted in having to get up at 4:30 in the morning to write this and send it in newsletter form, and by the time I finished that I was already late for my 7:15 AM commitment.Returning briefly to the backup trenches, I did get my client a new external hard drive, transferred the Ghost image from my own XHD, … [Read more...]

Welcome back to the Microsoft Word Backup tutorial, courtesy of Word Annoyances by Guy Hart-Davis (O’Reilly 2005). Here are tips about backing up and recovering Word documents. The first way, and the way you’re probably already using, is to copy your Word docs onto an external drive, network drive, or some form of removable media, either manually or by using your file or drive backup software. But … [Read more...]

Last week I was reviewing Word Annoyances by Guy Hart-Davis (O’Reilly 2005) for Kickstartnews.com, and I discovered several tips for making backups not only of Word documents but of Word macros, settings, dictionaries, and templates, which can be especially tedious and time-consuming to re-create if you have to reinstall Word after a crash.The book addresses Word 2000, 2002/XP, and 2003 for … [Read more...]

If you're a consultant, an employee, or a home user, you probably don't have specialized Business Intelligence software, but BI is as much of a "must have" in the corporate world as the iPod Nano is among gadget geeks. Computerworld has just published a special report called "Smarter BI: Taking Your Business Intelligence Efforts to the Next Level." If you want to get into the wonderful world of … [Read more...]

Backups are frequently compared to insurance policies, primarily because you hope not to have to use them. Prior to hearing the subject mentioned on the Kickstartnews Revue podcast a few days before I wrote last week’s reminder, however, I’d never thought about the possibility of insuring against data loss.The last time I had a separate insurance policy, it covered hardware and software, but not … [Read more...]