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Where I work we are looking at introducing an IT Tip kind of email once a month. The kind of thing where when someone shows you something you're like how come I never knew this. We have done things like keyboard shortcuts, printing handouts from a powerpoint presentation - not each slide! How to create personal folders in outlook.

Does anyone have any suggestions, especially considering some people are now into MS7, we are nearly out of ideas.
 
Just some I can think of off hand:

Printing duplex if you don't already.
Zipping a folder.
Creating shortcuts on desktop.
Out of office in Outlook.
Setting default printer.
Saving a file! (loads of time wasted in IT restoring files!)
Password protecting a file.
Rather than emailing a file internally, put it in shared folder and just send link.
Only delete emails that you don't need anymore (some people think it's ok to use the trash folder as a sort of filing system!)
Emptying trash folder.
How to view emails according to size (helps to delete big one's)
How to search for a file (alot of people still don't know how to do this)
 
How to defrag your computer
How to set a homepage..

Those are questions that I get asked by friends.
 
If you have laptop users perhaps tips on power saving options.
A general overview on how to do some basic health checks on your computer
Getting rid of cookies
Clearing browsing history
E-mail archiving
Firewall vs Anti-virus: what are they, what do they do
 
If you're doing a clean-up of folders on the PC/laptop, don't delete the TEMP folder as it may be needed by programs when running!

(Knew an IT "fixer" who did this on several machines before he was caught by someone whose programs subsequently started to stall!).
 
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