Programming note: Weston’s offices will be closed on Wednesday, January 1, 2025, for the New Year Holiday. Here’s hoping you have an enjoyable New Years!
As we say goodbye to 2024 and dive head first into 2025, we’d like to look back on the year with a year in review newsletter, looking back at the most popular newsletter articles of the year and some of the things we got accomplished this year. As always this time of year, New Year’s technology resolutions of the past still apply as good practice and the 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015’s year-end wrap-ups are all worth a read.
Our core purpose at Weston is to better the lives of others. That is why we are in business in the first place and we have really taken that to heart the last couple years. We truly care about the communities we live and do business in as we support lots of great non-profit organizations financially and continue to provide our time and expertise whenever we can. These organizations directly impact the well-being of those in our local communities, nation and the world and we feel it is a privilege to help and support them. We’ve been doing this for over 30 years now, and we’re glad you’re here with us.
In addition, we got a few things done this year we wanted to share, too:
- We got ourselves some CMMC training and certifications.
- We achieved a Sonicwall Gold-level partnership.
- We rolled out a new chat service.
- We rolled out a new customer support and payment processing portal.
- We’ve been able to donate time and money (and lots of children’s toys) to lots of great non-profit organizations thanks to you! We’ve also featured a lot of these non-profits in our newsletter and blog including Sparrow Clubs, Healing Reins, Foster & Adoptive Parent Association of Lane County, Partners in Care, Companion Animal Medical Project, CASA of Central Oregon, New Each Morning, and Stone Soup Group!
We hope this newsletter has been a valuable resource to you (and please email us if there is any particular type of content you’d like to see more or less of). We ran some numbers to see what people are reading in this newsletter and on our blog. These individual articles from the last year were the most popular based on newsletter clicks and post views, so you can revisit them again or read them for the first time if you missed them when we mentioned them before. These are in no particular order:
- Missing Calibri? How to Get Rid of Aptos (Mostly)
- Microsoft Publisher Is Officially Discontinued
- Why are my USB Ports Different Colors?
- New Outlook and Teams Feature: Follow Meetings
- Office 365 NCE Coming to Non-Profits, Price Increases Coming
- 7 Things to Look for In a New Laptop for Remote Work
- Changes Coming to Office 365 Pricing for Government
- How to Rank Data in Excel
- Comparing Two Microsoft Word Documents
- Regular Expressions Now Available in Excel
- New Outlook Is Not Ready for Prime Time
- Is Windows 365 Right for Your Business?
- Reposition Your Start Menu in Windows 11
- Quick Tips to Make Your PowerPoint Presentations Better
- Wi-Fi 7 – Do You Need It?
- Using FlashFill in Excel to Save Time
- Extracting Images out of an Office Document
- Format Your Word Document with Borders and Dividers
In addition, these articles we wrote up prior to 2024 are still getting a lot of traffic and are still relevant:
- Quick Tip: Outlook Out of Office from Outlook Mobile
- Disable Excel’s Auto Formatting of Dates
- View Your Saved WiFi Passwords
- Add Stock Data to Excel Spreadsheets
- Removing “Get Outlook…” Signature in Outlook Mobile
- How to Lock Position of an Image In Word
- Difference Between Dell OptiPlex and OptiPlex Plus?
- Is Data Truly Deleted When You Delete It?
- Quick Tip: Ctrl-Shift-V and Ctrl-Alt-V to Paste Plainly
- New Keyboard Shortcuts in Microsoft Word
- Use Vector Images in Office Apps For Higher Quality Documents
- Adjust Kerning (Letter Spacing) in Word
- Checkboxes Now Available in Excel
- Truly Random Numbers in Excel
- 3 Ways To Easily Control Two Computers From One Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor
- Quoting a Message in Teams Chat
- Insert Icons into Your Word Documents
- Windows “Run” Commands You Should Know
- Easier Sharing of SharePoint and OneDrive Links in Outlook
- Intel 14th Gen CPUs are Coming, Dell Business Machine Updates
- Add a Live Camera Feed to Your PowerPoint Slide Show
- AutoStart a Presentation in PowerPoint
- Turn Off Office 365’s New Look
- Saving Thumbnails for your Office Documents
- Placing Images into Cells in Excel
- Tech Tip: Wifi that Requires Logon or Hotspot Agreement Page
- Synchronize Changes in PowerPoint While Presenting
- Tech Tip: Insert Special Characters from Foreign Languages
- Improvements to Excel Online
- Simple Calculations in OneNote
- Did You Know Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Win+L Opens LinkedIn on Windows?
If you’re looking to catch up on all the past reading material, you can follow our blog posts here and make sure you sign up for our newsletter here to get all sorts of fun bonus reading material (catch up on old issues here)!
Thanks for supporting us and we look forward to working with you in 2025!