Track your activity automatically with the Qlockwork time tracking add-in for Outlook

Mar 2, 2017

Microsoft Word or Excel “Editing Time” — is Qlockwork an Alternative?

If you want to automatically track how much time you spent writing a particular Word document one option is Word’s “Editing Time” property. In this post, I’ll demonstrate that Qlockwork is a more accurate…

Qlockwork

Mar 1, 2017

Outlook 2016 Journal — Alternative Options

Microsoft have been trying to retire the Journal since Outlook 2007 — even then you had to manually enable Journal (with a discouraging popup). In Outlook 2016 Microsoft have finally turned it off.

How To Remove Duplicate Lines From An Excel Spreadsheet

Qlockwork

Feb 28, 2017

How to Remove Blank Lines from an Excel Spreadsheet

Qlockwork

Feb 27, 2017

New Qlockwork Release Available

3.7.4 Now available and free to all existing users.

Anne Currie

Oct 14, 2015

Re-enabling a stubborn disabled Outlook add-in

Just to prove that sometimes developers have problems with their own applications too, I’ve just resolved a rather odd, stubborn problem with my own Qlockwork add-in for Outlook 2010 having got stuck in a disabled state.

Anne Currie

Sep 1, 2015

New QW patch coming soon for IE on Windows 8.1

Microsoft have released a patch for Windows 8.1 that subtly changes the IE behavior in a way that stops Qlockwork recording IE activity. The problem doesn’t seem to reproduce on Windows 7 (though we’re currently playing around with Windows 7 to…

Anne Currie

Jun 11, 2015

How to write a VBA Macro for Excel

Today I’m going to do this for the first time in years — so it’s fundamentally from scratch. My first job is to get the developer tab in my Excel s/s

On the File tab, choose Options to open the Excel Options dialog box.

Anne Currie

Mar 24, 2015

How to add national holidays to your Outlook calendar

I can never remember when the UK national holidays are, never mind the US vacations. Fortunately, there’s a way to get Outlook to add national holidays to your standard Outlook calendar.

Anne Currie

Mar 16, 2015

How to highlight or color Outlook emails from a particular email address in your inbox

Quite a useful feature in Microsoft Outlook is the ability to make an email from a particular person appear in bold or in a specific colour or font.

Anne Currie

Mar 14, 2015

Managing Time in Outlook: How to Manage Outlook Tasks More Easily

Outlook lets you set 5 different statuses on a task: “Not Started, “In Progress”, “Completed”, “Waiting on Someone Else” or “Deferred”. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to set these without having to open the task and…

Anne Currie

Mar 11, 2015

How to Export the Calendar from Outlook

Sometimes it’s useful to have a list of your Outlook calendar meetings in an Excel spreadsheet or csv file. Qlockwork will let you export your calendar meetings to csv, but you don’t need Qlockwork for this — you can export your calendar directly from Outlook.

Managing Time in Outlook: How to Bulk Delete Outlook Tasks

Tasks can be very useful in Outlook, but I often want to take an action on lots of tasks at once, for example delete them or mark them as complete.

Anne Currie

Dec 2, 2014

Common Qlockwork Questions

I was just writing this out for a prospective customer. Made sense to post it here too.

How does Qlockwork work?

-Qlockwork comes in 2 parts: an application that runs all the time (see the Qlockwork icon in the system tray) and an…

Anne Currie

May 16, 2013

Productivity and Reading, Is Reading Paper more Productive than Reading a Screen?

Reading paper isn’t more effective than reading a screen, but you’ll stick at reading paper longer, according to an interesting study in the journal of the American Psychological Association.