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If you author a long document, having a table of contents can help your readers get the information they need fast. Here is how to insert a table of contents into a Google Doc. In order to use the Table of Contents feature, you need utilize the preset heading and title formatting option. This can be found next to the font on the dashboard. Note: Anything formatted as ?Title? will not be included in your table of contents. Heading 1 is used for major topic changes or phases, like chapters and sections. Even though they are set to be a commonly used heading size and font, you have the opportunity to update the size and header to whatever you want to use for your document by selecting to update heading. After updating the heading information, you?ll notice that the drop down menu has also updated the heading options to your selected format. You?ll want to repeat the two previous steps for the other subheadings. When you?ve finished setting your headers, you can now tell Google Docs to generate a table of contents. Select Insert > Table of contents then select the table style you like the best. You can select from a table with page numbers: Or one with hyperlinks: Whichever option you choose, you will now have a tiered, easy-to-navigate table of contents in your document. For more great tips and tricks that you can use to gain productivity, visit White Mountain IT Services?s blog regularly.

Google intends to provide the most likely targets of hacking attacks and cyber surveillance with the Advanced Protection Program. This includes election and campaign officials, victims of domestic violence, and other individuals who may be targeted for various reasons. For the loss of some of the convenience that Google usually packs into their programs and services, those who use the Advanced Protection Program can have their information protected by increased security measures. This program will affect many of the services that most people use in one form or another almost every day, including Google Drive, Gmail, and YouTube. After an individual has been brought onto the program, their accounts are automatically equipped with Google?s best security solutions. The Advanced Protection Program is largely in response to the high-profile attacks that were leveraged against officials throughout the United States presidential election of 2016. Google was caught up in the aftermath of the controversy surrounding John Podesta and his Gmail account, which was breached in a phishing attack. By implementing the Advanced Protection Program, Google is working to ensure that this backlash isn?t repeated in the future. The Advanced Protection Program relies on a security key, as well as a Bluetooth key verification process for use with a smartphone or laptop. The Advanced Protection Program does not allow any program that isn?t developed by Google itself to access the information on your Google account. It also features a more hacker-resistant, slower account recovery process. While this admittedly makes the process more arduous for the user, it provides the more secure experience that the audience described above needs. If you were in a position to use the Advanced Protection Program, would you? Sound off in the comments section with your answer.

Does your business use Google?s line of Android devices for business purposes? Well, you might be happy to hear about Google?s new zero-touch solution for enterprises for their Pixel line of smartphones. If you provide smartphones for your business? employees, you know how much of a hassle it is to set up these devices. This new zero-touch policy attempts to make a change to this. Google often targets businesses like this with specialized devices designed to make onboarding easier. Examples of these attempts include specialized versions of the Google Play store, additional security features, and even management dashboards to add a high level of customization for their clients. Due to this high level of customization, though, many businesses are finding that it takes quite a lot of time to configure each and every device that they are going to use for their organization. Thus, the need for zero-touch devices becomes quite apparent. When we talk about zero-touch, we mean devices that are already pre-configured so that your organization doesn?t necessarily have to do as much work to get them ready for action. However, while this might sound like the best way to approach devices, you might find yourself held back at first. For one, zero-touch is a concept that?s only available through certain carrier opt-ins (like Verizon). Another restriction is that it?s only available on Google Pixel devices in the United States. However, other providers like AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile plan on implementing these services soon. Additionally, third-party Android device manufacturers are willing to go the distance for these solutions. Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Sony, LG, Blackberry, and Motorola all want to bring zero-touch to devices in the coming months. Despite all of its restrictions, zero-touch solves one of the most difficult parts of managing mobile devices for your organization: multiple devices with different operating systems. You can be confident that there is a uniform OS being used on all of your devices, mainly because there is only one available at this moment. If nothing else, this is something that you can look forward to, along with the time saved by eliminating the time needed to set up each device. If your business needs mobile devices or mobile device management, reach out to White Mountain IT Services at (603) 889-0800.

1. Wireless Hotspot in Your PocketToday?s devices make it easier than ever to bring them with you as a means of increasing productivity. However, this is often defeated when there is no Wi-Fi connection available to connect to, as the cloud has brought much of the work that people do online. Your smartphone can help to solve this problem by acting as a wireless hotspot and providing Internet access to your other devices. In order to make the best use of the phone?s hotspot capabilities, you may want to ensure that your employees have an adequate plan. With a Bring Your Own Device strategy, you can provide them with a stipend to cover the costs, or if you prefer, you can provide them with company devices that already come with sufficient data service. 2. Sort Your ScreensYour smartphone allows you to rearrange the items on the display to pretty much match your personal preferences. Grouping your most-used apps and utilities together to make accessing them easier can help you save time and effort, and will help keep you from ?misplacing? a crucial app during a time crunch. 3. Try Out Your Email and Browser OptionsYou don?t necessarily need to stick to the factory-presets when it comes to your mobile browser and email management applications. The official application stores will have many alternatives for you to experiment and explore. However, make sure you stick to recognizable names to avoid installing any malware that might have slipped past the moderators. These non-default apps often have functions and capabilities that you just won?t find in the default apps that make your use of them much more smooth and efficient. 4. Use Your ShortcutsTry to become familiar with the shortcuts available for your device. While these shortcuts may only save you a moment or two when compared to the ?typical? way of doing things, these moments can add up to a lot less time spent fiddling with your phone that could be spent accomplishing something based on what you checked on your phone. Your model of phone will have an impact on how you can activate your shortcuts, due to differences in software. Some experimentation may be necessary, but once you discover your phone?s capabilities, you can use them to save yourself some valuable time. 5. Research Your InsuranceYour mobile device often serves as a key tool for you to use as you go about your business. Therefore, it is important that–should something happen to it–a replacement isn?t too time-consuming to obtain. You should be sure to collect as much information as you can to make the best decision regarding your insurance policy and the coverage you can expect for your devices. What are your favorite smartphone tips? Which ones do you think should have made our list? Let us know in the comments!

The issues present in voting infrastructure have been known for years. By using expensive electronic voting machines, many polling places are putting themselves in the position of being stuck with old, outdated systems without the necessary funds to replace them. In fact, it was predicted that 43 states would use ten-year-old electronic voting machines, an age that is uncomfortably close to the total lifespan of the machine. This could easily result in machine crashes and failures, potentially causing votes to be lost or–with some touch-screen machines–registered for a different candidate than the voter input. Adding to this issue is the fact that, with exclusively digital voting machine, there is no way to check the results against anything else if there needs to be an audit. This issue was only proven further during the 2017 DefCon conference, where the unprecedented Voting Village revealed what a hacker could do to an actual voting machine. This kind of activity had never been done before because, until late 2016, it had been illegal to tamper with voting machines–even if just for research purposes. Researchers discovered that there were plenty of ways to breach voting systems through both remote access and physical tampering. Influencing an election doesn?t even necessarily require tampering with the votes themselves, either. By slowing the systems to a crawl, or simply rendering them inoperable, hackers can easily keep many people from voting. Lawrence Norden, of the Brennan Center for Justice, argues that going low-tech is the best way to combat this kind of interference, supplemented by the use of encryption, blockchain, and other technological solutions. According to a blog post by Norden, the voting process needs to reintroduce paper. As he says in his blog: ?Specifically, every new voting machine in the United States should have a paper record that the voter reviews, and that can be used later to check the electronic totals that are reported. This could be a paper ballot the voter fills out before it is scanned by a machine, or a record created by the machine on which the voter makes her selections?so long as she can review that record and make changes before casting her vote.? According to Norden, this would eliminate the risk of an undetected change or error in software causing an undetectable change or error in the outcome of an election. Just like your organization, having accurate data and computing infrastructure that doesn?t work against your goals is key here. When hardware and software becomes out of date, not only do you deal with the same quirks and problems that were baked in from the beginning, but you also deal with new problems and unreliability. When your data is at stake, this can be a major issue. If your business has embraced digital filing (which we highly recommend), imagine putting the integrity of your data at risk by using an old computer. While going back to physical paper documents might be a solution, it will cost your business a lot of time and effort to accommodate, when compared to the cost of upgrading your IT. What are your thoughts? Leave them in the comments section below.