word and AI

Our session on Monday last, was a follow up from a previous session. It was how to write a book, paper or article in WORD using content entirely from AI sources. Although there is a faction out there who think AI is cheating, and yes in education, but in the real world it is a business tool now and it is here to stay, so let's exploit all the advantages it has to offer. 

One of our members suggested a book on Victorian Christmas. So using Copilot, We asked it to "Create chapters for a book on Victorian Christmas", it then created a 12 chapter structure and  using the chapter heading, we asked for more detail which was then copied and pasted in to Word. 

In the Word doc itself, some personalised editing is done, some validating the facts are true! Then format the word doc using STYLES, auto contents page, page numbers etc. And there you have it. With 30 mins we had a small book set up but not fully completed. 

Interesting enough, we used the search and replace to remove annoying ### ** from the script by replacing with no character (ie blank), just one of the time saving features of this software. 

The advantage of the AI is that it uses the same sources as a search engine etc. But does the actual script for you, saving time retyping. 

This exercise was part of a Word Course which we did at Morley Digital a couple of months ago. 

Practice makes perfect and word has a lot more to offer in terms of creating professional documents. 

In 2025 Morley Digital will be running more Word courses both beginners and more advance, get in touch. These are free.....

Latest scams from Which

Which has produced an article about the latest scams. Please click on the link to view it.

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/the-latest-scam-alerts-from-which-aBRLy2b02WkC

Skimming and Scanning- protecting your money and property

 

The advent of the digital age has created more opportunities for theives to take advantege of the general public in a couple of ways at least:

1: Skimming your Credit and debit Cards while their are in your pocket using a device that reads the contactless chip.

2: Scanning and copying your Contactless Car keys while they are either in your pocket or hung up in your house.

However, all is not lost, there are ways to prevent these types of thefts happening with just a little effort, although there is some cost.

A bit of theory:

The Faraday cage (named after Michael Faraday one of the pioneers of electricity) is effectively a screen which prevents radio waves from passing through it. So the way to stop both these types of thefts from happening is to use the Faraday Cage principal.

Cards: a few ways to prevent the skimming:

Car Keys: A couple of ways:

 

 

 

 

 

Effectivness of your Safe/Box:

To test your safe, place a mobile phone inside , then call it and see if it can recieve the signal. 

Obviously there is a cost for these prevention techniques, all the products shown can be purchesed from Amazon.

 

New Support Web Site launched for electronic distribution of Fact Sheets

Having undertaken the support work on IT and other subject, I have started to create a series of Fact Sheets which are free to for our Morley Digital followers.

Up to now these have been paper based, but I have created a custom web site to allow the free distribution of the fact Sheets and other information more easily.

You can access the site by clicking here

In some of the topics, the Facts Sheets are still being created, however, please suggest any sheet title that you would like to see and I will endeavour to create it.  

Create a Single WINDOWS SHUTDOWN ICON for your Computer

 

How to create a single Shutdown Icon for your Windows Computer

 

1: Create a shortcut on desktop: Right Click on desktop and create a new folder.

 

2: Add the commands to shutdown the pc: Type in the following:

shutdown /s /t 0

 [watch out for the spaces, the s = shutdown, the t is time and the 0 is amount of seconds] 

3: then press enter and

Call it 'Shutdown' if not already named.

 

4: Right Click the new shortcut, click on Properties, select the Change ICON button

 

5: Choose an appropriate ICON [RED square perhaps]

[If message come up saying no icons etc, just press enter  and a list of icons should appear]

 

6: Pick your ICON, press Return, apply and then Return

 

7: Drag the ICON to the TASK Bar at the bottom of the screen, then delete the desktop shortcut.

 

So, to shutdown PC easily, without going through mouse actions, just click the ICON on the Task Bar

Keeping Your Device Information Safe and Secure

 

Do you keep the details (eg serial number, date of purchase, model no) of your devices in case you need them for insurance or warranty claims?? Have you ever lost your phone or Camera? What can you do? Well most people do not, and if you do where do you keep the information?

 

Well, this is a system to keep your information safe and secure. Here at Morley Digital we recommend yu us an app called 'Bitwarden' Password Manager to keep all your logins and passwords safe and secure. But Bitwarden does more than just save passwords, it has a few other features that are very useful but not used:

 

Login: is the section where logins and passwords are stored

Cards: is where you can store your bank card details

 

Identity: is where you can store personal information about people, eg, name address, safe and secure.

 

Secure Notes: is where you can store any information you like in text form, for example, keep information os insurance docs, or car docs etc. Plus this is where I store details of my devices, eg, phone, camera, tablet etc. Info such as Model numbers, Serial numbers, date of purchase, warranty dates etc. 

 

So, how do we do this? 

 

The assumption is that you already use Bitwarden for logins and passwords. (If not, contact us at Morley Digital and we can help you get started)

1. Click on Folders + and create a new folder called INVENTORY
2. Click in the large + sign at the bottom of the screen to add a new entry
3. Where it says TYPE, change it to SECURE NOTES
4. In the NAME box enter the name of the device you are recording
5. Click on the FOLDER box and choose INVENTORY
6. In the NOTES box further down enter the details of your device, eg, Model No, serial No, IMEI number if its a phone and any other information, like warranty etc
7. Click on SAVE

Your information is safe and secure and available from any device which you have Bitwarden synchronised to.

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 26 Feb at the Salvation Army

Another busy session covering setting up a new laptop; Kindle; Zip files; printing labels; smart phones; change of search engines; settings and quite a few laughs.