Voyage Technology Blog

Voyage Technology has been serving the Beaver Dam area since 1999, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

How to Access a List of Your Recently Copied Text on Your Clipboard

How to Access a List of Your Recently Copied Text on Your Clipboard

If the fact that you can enable Windows to save a list of your most often-used lines of text is news to you, I offer you my sympathies. You’ve missed a lot of potential productivity in the years since Microsoft added clipboard history functionality.

Let’s talk about how you can take advantage of clipboard history, starting with how to enable it.

Continue reading

How to Get a Handle on Windows 11

How to Get a Handle on Windows 11

Windows 11 has some cool tools that can make it easier to use, especially if you set things up to fit how you like to work or play. Here are four easy tips to help you organize your Windows desktop and get things done faster.

Continue reading

Tip of the Week: These Google Docs Shortcuts are Really Valuable

Tip of the Week: These Google Docs Shortcuts are Really Valuable

Does your business rely on Google Workspace for productivity? If so, we have some helpful tips to boost your efficiency by using lesser-known shortcuts. Let’s dive into a few tricks that can save you time and help your team work smarter.

Continue reading

Tip of the Week: Name Your Spreadsheet Cells for Quick and Easy Reference

Tip of the Week: Name Your Spreadsheet Cells for Quick and Easy Reference

Spreadsheets are handy tools for businesses, although it can become pretty easy to lose track of where and what certain data is as they grow… not to mention a pain to keep referencing back to as needed.

However, there’s an easy workaround: naming the cells of your spreadsheet.

Continue reading
0 Comments

How to Make Your Conference Room the Place to Be

How to Make Your Conference Room the Place to Be

The conference room for any business is bound to be pretty interesting, and it can tell you all there is to know about a business. This is why it’s especially important to ensure your conference room gives the right impression, especially if you have clients who frequent your office. Let’s go over how you can make your conference room the best it can be!

Continue reading
0 Comments

A Digital Detox Might Be Just What You Need

A Digital Detox Might Be Just What You Need

You and your employees are likely exhausted from dealing with technology day in and day out. Even if it is what allows businesses to flourish, you still might want some time away from it from time to time. When it feels like too much, know that a digital detox can be a valid way of temporarily moving away from technology—even in the workplace.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Here Are Some Desk Exercises to Keep You Healthy at Work

Here Are Some Desk Exercises to Keep You Healthy at Work

While sitting all day might sound appealing at first glance (after all, who doesn’t like sitting?), it’s not something that our bodies are designed to do. Sitting, as a result, can have considerable negative consequences on our overall health when done in excess. It doesn’t have to be hard to fit a workout into your day, though; you can do these simple desk-ercises right from your office to combat the creep of becoming too sedentary. 

Continue reading
0 Comments

Tip of the Week: How to Turn Your Excel Sheets into Heat Maps

Tip of the Week: How to Turn Your Excel Sheets into Heat Maps

My team and I are big fans of a good spreadsheet, just as a simple way of organizing and contextualizing your data. Therefore, we’re all for sharing some neat ways that you can make these visualizations even easier to communicate your findings through.

Let’s talk about how you can make your Excel spreadsheets into a heat map, giving you this kind of increased visibility.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Tip of the Week: Five Simple Steps Towards a More Productive Business

Tip of the Week: Five Simple Steps Towards a More Productive Business

If asked, most business owners would likely rank “improving productivity” as one of their overall business goals—and for obvious reasons. Often less obvious, however, is how to go about accomplishing this particular goal. Here, we’ve put together five different but equally effective ways to do so.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Tip of the Week: Optimizing Your Business’ Technology in Three Ways

Tip of the Week: Optimizing Your Business’ Technology in Three Ways

Businesses cannot run without technology. This relationship has only grown more complicated and complex over time, and with so many businesses depending on their technology in ways never before seen, you’ll have to understand just how great of an impact your technology has on the way your organization runs. Here are three ways you can implement the right tools to see increased success.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Tip of the Week: How to Copy Excel Data

Tip of the Week: How to Copy Excel Data

So, you’ve spent a ton of time and energy transcribing data into Microsoft Excel, only to find out that you need this same data elsewhere in your spreadsheets, too. Bit of a bummer, unless you know how to accurately and easily copy all of this data. Let’s go over how you can do so.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Work Email for Personal Accounts

Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Work Email for Personal Accounts

Efficiency is great, but it should never come at the cost of boundaries. A perfect example of this is your work email address. It might be easy to use it to subscribe to an online service, like Netflix, but this is far from the best idea. Let’s take a look at why it might be a bad idea to breach these boundaries between your personal life and your work life, and why it might have lasting consequences.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Why Shadow IT is Such a Big Deal

Why Shadow IT is Such a Big Deal

Shadow IT is a considerable problem for businesses that rely on IT in their operations. Let’s take a  quick look at what shadow IT really is and how it can impact your business. We’ll also discuss ways you can avoid it.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Tip of the Week: Easily Alter Individual App Volumes in Windows 10

Tip of the Week: Easily Alter Individual App Volumes in Windows 10

When you’re in the thick of the workday, you’re likely to miss a notification, especially with so much media playing all at the same time. To make sure that your notification sounds don’t get drowned out by your other applications, we’ve put together a tip on how you can adjust the volume levels of your individual applications in Windows 10.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Have Circumstances Changed Parents’ Views on Remote Work?

Have Circumstances Changed Parents’ Views on Remote Work?

Remote work has thrown a wrench into the operations of countless businesses around the world, some more than others. While some employees have been able to adapt and make the most of the circumstances, workers with children at home might find themselves questioning their line of work or considering a change in careers.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Tip of the Week: Handy Productivity Features in Microsoft Word

Tip of the Week: Handy Productivity Features in Microsoft Word

Many businesses rely to some degree on Microsoft Word as their word processor of choice. Considering this, it seemed fitting to go over some of the productivity-supporting features that Word has to offer.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Tip of the Week: Microsoft Word Features You May Not Have Known About

Tip of the Week: Microsoft Word Features You May Not Have Known About

If your business utilizes Microsoft Word in any way, shape, or form, there’s a good chance that you aren’t using it to its full capabilities. Let’s go over just a few of the features that the software offers that can assist you in excelling (whoops… wrong Office application) in your day-to-day responsibilities, and how to put them to use.

Continue reading
0 Comments

How to Optimize Your Technology Budget in 2021

How to Optimize Your Technology Budget in 2021

After 2020, it is understandable that many businesses would be seeking out a way to recoup a lot of the expenses and losses that the year’s events likely incurred upon them. This has led many to turn to their IT investments as the sacrificial lamb. While we are undeniably biased, we would argue that there are better ways to streamline your business’ expenses in terms of its IT than to simply cut them outright.

Continue reading
0 Comments

Is Your IT Infrastructure Fully Documented and Tracked?

Is Your IT Infrastructure Fully Documented and Tracked?

When reviewing their inventory, many businesses forget to consider one of their most used, most important resources: their technology. Let’s go over a few reasons that your business’ technology inventory needs to be tracked—and what goes into properly doing so.

Continue reading
0 Comments

3 Employee-Related Threats and What To Do to Stop Them

3 Employee-Related Threats and What To Do to Stop Them

I think most business owners would be kind of surprised to find out that the biggest threat to their business wasn’t hackers or natural disasters, it was coming from the same people they depend on the most: their employees. 

Continue reading
0 Comments

Sign Up For Our Newsletter!

Mobile? Grab this Article!

Qr Code

Tag Cloud

Security Technology Tip of the Week Best Practices Business Computing Data Productivity Business Software Innovation Hackers Cloud Network Security User Tips Hardware Internet Efficiency IT Support Malware Privacy Email Google Phishing Workplace Tips Computer Collaboration IT Services Users Hosted Solutions Mobile Device Ransomware Quick Tips Small Business Cybersecurity Microsoft Workplace Strategy Communication Data Backup Smartphone Saving Money Passwords Business Management VoIP Smartphones Android Mobile Devices communications Backup Data Recovery Managed Service Upgrade Managed IT Services Browser Disaster Recovery Social Media Microsoft Office Windows Tech Term Network Internet of Things Remote Artificial Intelligence Facebook Automation Cloud Computing Covid-19 Miscellaneous Current Events Gadgets Productivity Remote Work Server Managed Service Provider Outsourced IT Information Holiday Encryption Spam AI Employee/Employer Relationship Windows 10 Data Management Business Continuity Compliance Government Office Training Windows 10 Bandwidth Virtualization Blockchain Wi-Fi Business Technology Data Security Apps Two-factor Authentication Mobile Office Chrome Gmail Managed Services Voice over Internet Protocol Budget Apple Networking App Employer-Employee Relationship Vendor Mobile Device Management Conferencing WiFi How To BDR BYOD Computing Hacker Applications Information Technology Avoiding Downtime Marketing Access Control Office 365 Tip of the week Augmented Reality Retail Storage Password Healthcare Bring Your Own Device Managed IT Services Big Data Operating System HIPAA Computers Router Virtual Private Network Risk Management Website Health Help Desk Analytics Office Tips Firewall Document Management Remote Workers Telephone The Internet of Things Scam Data loss Social Cooperation Free Resource Project Management Windows 7 Going Green Patch Management Save Money Microsoft 365 Remote Monitoring Vulnerability End of Support Vendor Management Solutions Customer Service Cybercrime Display Printer Paperless Office Windows 11 Infrastructure Monitoring 2FA IT Support Excel Professional Services Money Saving Time Virtual Machines Humor Managed IT Service Maintenance Safety Antivirus Sports Downloads iPhone Mouse Licensing Vulnerabilities Entertainment Administration Data Privacy Images 101 Telephone System Multi-Factor Authentication Robot Mobility Customer Relationship Management Cost Management Settings Printing Wireless Content Filtering Hacking IT Management Presentation VPN Employees YouTube Meetings Physical Security Integration Cryptocurrency Wireless Technology User Tip Modem Computer Repair Mobile Security Processor Virtual Desktop Holidays LiFi Data storage Data Storage Smart Technology Supply Chain Word Video Conferencing Outlook Machine Learning Managed Services Provider Writing Distributed Denial of Service Workplace Public Speaking Lenovo Gig Economy Screen Reader Service Level Agreement Internet Service Provider Virtual Reality Computing Infrastructure Teamwork Hiring/Firing Lithium-ion battery Hacks Server Management Regulations Compliance Entrepreneur Scary Stories Private Cloud Identity Evernote Paperless Fun Co-managed IT Superfish Bookmark Identity Theft Smart Tech Memes Deep Learning Download Net Neutrality Twitter Alerts SQL Server Technology Care Undo Financial Data Error History Business Communications Social Engineering Break Fix Scams Browsers Smartwatch Education Connectivity IT Upload Procurement Remote Computing Azure Hybrid Work Mobile Computing Social Network Telework Cyber security Multi-Factor Security Tech Human Resources Search Dark Web Cables CES Tablet IoT Communitications Application Best Practice Trends Supply Chain Management Alert Managed IT Customer Resource management FinTech Buisness File Sharing Regulations Dark Data Google Calendar Term Google Apps How To Microsoft Excel IT Maintenance IBM Legal Data Analysis IT solutions Star Wars IT Assessment Business Growth Gamification Flexibility Notifications Staff Value Business Intelligence Organization Travel Social Networking Legislation Shortcuts Cortana Ransmoware Techology Fileless Malware Digital Security Cameras Google Maps Smart Devices Alt Codes Content Remote Working Wearable Technology Memory Vendors Competition Health IT Downtime Unified Threat Management Motherboard Data Breach Comparison Google Play Be Proactive Permissions Workforce Unified Threat Management Directions Videos Hosted Solution Assessment Electronic Health Records Typing Wasting Time Threats Trend Micro Network Congestion Specifications Security Cameras Workplace Strategies Knowledge Fraud Meta Google Drive User Error Microchip User Internet Exlporer Software as a Service Username Managing Costs Amazon Point of Sale eCommerce 5G Black Friday SSID Experience Virtual Assistant Outsource IT IP Address Google Docs Unified Communications Database Surveillance Bitcoin Network Management Running Cable Tech Support IT Technicians Virtual Machine Environment Media Google Wallet Proxy Server Reviews Cookies Monitors Cyber Monday Medical IT Tactics Development Hotspot Transportation Small Businesses Recovery Hard Drives Windows 8 Laptop Websites Mirgation Hypervisor Displays PowerPoint Domains Drones Shopping Nanotechnology Optimization Addiction Electronic Medical Records Language Employer/Employee Relationships Outsourcing SharePoint Refrigeration Management PCI DSS Halloween Chatbots Navigation

Blog Archive