1. Keeping E-mails organized
Have you ever tried to find all the e-mails on a particular project or from a key client. You search through your Inbox and it seems impossible. One way to make it easier to find e-mails on a certain topic is to organize your e-mails in folders. This is almost identical to how we organize files on our hard drive into folders. Simply create a folder for each project, client, location or whatever logical organization works for your situation. When you have finished reading an e-mail or responding to it, simply move it to the appropriate folder. You can also move e-mails that you have sent to the folder so you have a record of your replies as well. You can even set up sub-folders under a folder for clearer organization (I have a folder called Clients and then a sub-folder underneath for each client). When your e-mail program displays these folders, you can use the collapse/expand box to show all the sub-folders or hide them all.
2. Adjust brightness of pictures for data projectors
If you include pictures in your presentations slides and they will be shown using a data projector, remember to check how the picture looks through the data projector. Depending on the room lighting and the brightness of the bulb, I have found many pictures appear much darker when displayed through a data projector than what they look like on the computer screen. You may need to adjust the brightness of the picture to make it look good when displayed. To do this in PowerPoint, right click the picture and select Format Picture on the pop-up menu. Then select the Picture tab. In the Image Control section, increase the Brightness setting to above 50% (the default). You won’t need to increase it very much or it will start to wash out the details shown in the picture. I usually find a setting of 55-65% to be sufficient.
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