Smart Learning

29/04/2026

Maybe Zhali should become the co-host of my Microsoft sessions 😍

15/08/2024

This morning SCA (a great sponsor of SCBWN) put on an informative breakfast “Cyber Security Wake-up call”. Some quick take aways to share:

5 myths
1. It’s the IT departments problem. Everyone is responsible.
2. Cyber-attacks only go for big business. Newsflash: small business are the biggest targets. This could be, we are the gateway to big business and most often less secure.
3. Don’t need to update our equipment. 4.2million Malware was developed in the last 14 days!
4. A password is all I need.
5. I use a MAC and iPhone, so I am safe. Sadly, not anymore!

Biggest breaches:
* Payment redirection. If someone asks you to change bank details, call them before doing this.
* Remote access. I’m from XVZ and we have noticed your computer is not performing, let us help you.
* Promised romance
* Promised investment wins
* Phishing emails

Last comments:
Ø It’s not if, it’s when
Ø Multi-factor authentication is a must
Ø If you obtain personal information and you don’t need it, delete it.
Thank you, Wendy for the invitation.

01/06/2024

Brisbane writer's festival continues. OMG this young lady, Katy Hessel, was informative, entertaining and left you wanting more.

Couldn't resist the dinosaur on the way out

17/04/2024

Working in Excel yesterday, it seemed the mouse got it's own mind when tried to use the wheel on the mouse. The spreadsheet thought I was zooming in and out!!

And today I found the sneaky little option in Setting that somehow got turned on by mistake!

File > Options > Advanced > (Editing options) Zoom on roll with IntelliMouse - it needs NO tick in it!

23/10/2023

You may have noticed I have been missing in action from showing tips and tricks - well tomorrow (Tuesday pm) I will show how I helped a team while on holidays to find the unique list of entries from a list(/table). Join me if you can. Alternatively check out the result from the website on Wednesday.

05/10/2023

A great seaway to the weekend, a stroll through Brisbane South bank

31/08/2023

Spring is here. Beautiful start ...

24/08/2023

In PowerPoint there is this cool tool called Morphing. This will facilitate you changing an object on one slide to another size and/or image on the next slide.

Join us live at 4pm or watch another time by clicking on

PowerPoint has some cool Transition styles and Morphing is one of these. Join me to see how to use this style to take an object from one side of a slide to ...

17/08/2023

And that's another week

16/08/2023

Have you used these 2 great quick tips in OneNote - it as a calculator and 1 keystroke to make a table? Join me today

You are preparing for a meeting, and you need to:Get your content a little more organised – the quick way to create a table, andYou need to double check your...

16/08/2023

Great start to the day.