Rob Woodgate
Contributing since July, 2018
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About Rob Woodgate
Rob Woodgate is a writer, trainer, and IT consultant who currently lives in the UK. When he's not writing O365 articles for How-To Geek he spends his time advising companies on knowledge management, speaking at the occasional conference, and playing Assassin's Creed. Rob's likes include the Xbox, Ludwig Wittgenstein, peanut butter, and Windows. His dislikes include Macs, rudeness, leafy green vegetables, Facebook, and anyone who says "bro", "brah", or variants thereof. Rob has a beard but little hair, meaning he fits in very well in groups of other middle-aged men who work with computers.
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