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The Importance of Attending
Industry Conferences |
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Better Use of email can
increase productivity |
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60-Second Guide to Building
Word-of-Mouth Referrals |
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September is “International
Strategic Thinking” Month |
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How to Spot an Email Hoax |
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6 Ways to Search the Web
More Effectively |
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Top 10 Most Important Rules of Email
Netiquette |
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Record Keeping tips |
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Become an Expert in Your Field |
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Use Chocolate to Promote
Your Business |
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Low-Budget High-Impact Marketing
Plan |
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25
Office Organizing Tips |
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Turn off Auto-Hyperlinking
in Excel |
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Top 5 Most Effective Tips to
Avoid Getting Spam |
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Using
colors to stay organized in MS
Outlook |
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Say
it, don't spray it: Dealing with jokes, rumors, and spam |
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Use
Rules to manage your e-mail Inbox in MS Outlook |
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Windows
XP Keyboard Shortcuts |
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Save and close multiple Word
documents simultaneously
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Organize Outlook with folders |
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Top 5 Microsoft Excel Keyboard Shortcuts |
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Top 10 Office
Organization Tips |
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Top 10 Microsoft Word Keyboard
Shortcuts |
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QIF TO
IIF Converter |
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Period Space,
Space vs. Period Space |
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To Shred or Not
To Shred |
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Access
Your Calendar Anywhere, Anytime |
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MS Word
2007 Footers |
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- Do you find MS Word 2007
footers challenging? I like having them at the
bottom of the page as "Page X of X" but for the life of me I
couldn't figure out how it to do it. The process of
inserting the 'total number of pages' field is a bit
different in Word 2007. Follow these steps:
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Position the insertion point where
you want the total number of pages to appear. |
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Make sure the Insert tab of the
ribbon is selected. |
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In the Text group, click Quick
Parts. You'll see a drop-down menu. |
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Choose Field. Word displays the
Field dialog box. |
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In the Categories drop-down list,
choose Document Information. |
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In the Field Names list choose
NumPages. |
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Click on OK to close the dialog box
and insert your field |
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| Access Your
Calendar Anywhere, Anytime! Having a calendar on your
computer is one thing; being able to access it remotely is
another! My household utilizes Microsoft Outlook calendar to
maintain our “master schedule” of all work and family
activities. The system involves my husband and me maintaining
individual calendars and inviting the other to “meetings” that
impact the household - typically shuttling kids, sporting
activities and events we plan to attend together. It wasn’t
until recently that my family indicated their need to know the
day or week’s agenda; my little problem solvers started
reviewing the “master calendar” – on MY COMPUTER! Since my
business is my computer, kids are banned from its use; a shared
calendar solution had to be devised allowing household members
access from any computer. <more> |
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| To Shred
or Not To Shred…is really not the question, shredding is the
answer! Identity theft is a very real problem facing
everyone today. According to the Washington State Attorney
General’s office, “Dumpster diving,” or rifling through trash
cans for personal information, is a common tactic used by
identity thieves. You are taking a terrible risk if you don’t
shred sensitive material. <more> |
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Period Space, Space vs. Period Space.
Anyone who took typing in high
school learned that you always put two spaces after a period,
colons, questions marks, and exclamation points. Well, times
have changed, and the two-space rule is dead! Believe it or not,
using two spaces after punctuation is incorrect these days! <more> |
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| The Importance of Attending
Industry Conferences.
There’s more to it than breakout
sessions, speakers, product
demonstrations or exhibits <more> |
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Better Use of email can
increase productivity.
Information and strategies for
“Taming Technology” <more>
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60-Second Guide to Building
Word-of-Mouth Referrals. There is no better form of
advertising than word-of-mouth. <more> |
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September is “International
Strategic Thinking” Month. To be an effective business owner or
solo entrepreneur, you must develop
strategic thinking skills. <more> |
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How to Spot an Email
Hoax. Without researching the factual
claims made in a forwarded email
there's no 100 percent sure way to
tell it if it's a hoax, but here
you'll find a list of common signs
to watch for... <more> |
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6 Ways to Search the Web
More Effectively. This is not an exhaustive list of
techniques, just some interesting
ways to find things on the web. <more> |
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Top 10 Most Important Rules of Email
Netiquette.
These core rules of email Netiquette
help us communicate better via
email. <more> |
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Record Keeping tips.
What documents should be kept and
which should be destroyed?
<business>
<home>
<additional
detail> |
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Become an Expert in Your Field.
There are many, many small
businesses trying to standout in
today’s marketplace making it harder
and harder to get noticed. One FREE
way to market your business is by
becoming a Recognized Expert in your
field. <more> |
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Use Chocolate to Promote
Your Business. American Chocolate Week is the third
week of March. Here are some great
ideas for using CHOCOLATE to Promote
Your Business! <more> |
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Low-Budget High-Impact Marketing
Plan.
The
secret to creating a high-impact
marketing plan is to optimize your
limited budget. <more> |
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25
Office Organizing Tips.
January is National Get Organized
Month. Here are some great tips for
starting the year off on the right
foot! <more> |
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Turn off Auto-Hyperlinking
in Excel. You know, when you enter a URL and
the link becomes active or "hot"
automatically, whisking you away
from your spreadsheet and onto the
Internet. In Excel on the Tools menu, click
AutoCorrect Options. On the
AutoFormat As You Type tab, under
Replace as you type, clear the
Internet and network paths with
hyperlinks check box. Get
more tips at Microsoft's Office
Online website <more>
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Top 5 Most Effective Tips to
Avoid Getting Spam. The best way to avoid spam is not
getting on spammers' lists in the
first place. Find out how to use
disposable addresses, obfuscation
and your watchful eye to steer clear
of spam altogether.<more> |
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Stop Spam with Disposable Email
Addresses: using your real,
primary email address anywhere on
the Web puts it at risk of being
picked up by spammers. And once an
email address is in the hands of one
spammer, your Inbox is sure to be
filled with lots of not-so-delicious
spam every day. But what should you
use instead of a real email address?
<more> |
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Watch Out for Those Checkboxes:
When you sign up for something on
the Web, there is often some
innocent-looking text at the end of
the form saying something like:
"YES, I want to be contacted by
select third parties concerning
products I might be interested in."
Quite often, the checkbox next to
that text is already checked and
your email address will be given to
you don't know who. <more> |
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Disguise Your Email Address in
Newsgroups, Forums, Chat:
Spammers use special programs that
extract email addresses from Web
sites and Usenet postings. To avoid
ending on a spammer's mailing list
when you post to a Web forum or a
newsgroup, you can...<more> |
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Use Disposable Email Addresses on
Your Home Page: Using disposable email addresses in
forms on the Web and for mailing
lists is a great way to stop spam.
But with a little effort you can
even use them on your home page,
too, and allow legitimate mail from
unknown senders while keeping out
spam...<more> |
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Domain Owners: Set up Throwaway
Addresses to Fight Spam: If you own a domain name, you have a
great anti-spam tool at hand: your
mail server. All mail to a address
at your domain that does not already
exist (such as "quaxidudel@ladedu.com")
is forwarded to your main account by
default.<more> |
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Using
colors to stay organized in MS
Outlook. You can assign a color to everyone
you trust so that when when you open
Outlook, the message headers that
are in black are usually suspect.
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Using this tip is a a useful way to
see, at a glance, e-mail from
important senders, and it's a way to
delay being forced to read spam
e-mail. On the Tools menu, click
Organize to display the Ways to
Organize Inbox task pane; Click
Using Colors. Click an e-mail
message in your Inbox, and you will
see the name of the sender displayed
in the Color messages box. Or, you
can type the name in the Color
messages box yourself. Select a
color from the list, and then click
Apply Color. To color-code e-mail
messages sent only to you, select a
color from the Show messages sent
only to me in list. Click Turn on to
set the color. To undo, click Turn
off. A few words of caution about
this tip: If you receive a lot of
e-mail, you probably can't
color-code every single sender. But
you can use this tip to color-code
certain types of messages, such as
those from your manager or your
employees or even those sent just to
you. |
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Say it, don't spray
it: Dealing with jokes, rumors,
and spam.
Microsoft's "Crabby Office Lady" offers some wise
words on using the Bcc field when composing
non-business e-mail for friends and family. <more> |
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Use
Rules to manage your e-mail
Inbox in MS Outlook.
If
you are overwhelmed by the number of
e-mail messages in your Inbox,
consider using rules. Rules help you manage your e-mail
messages by performing actions on
messages that match a specific set
of conditions. After you create a
rule, Microsoft Outlook applies the
rule when a message arrives in your
Inbox or when you send a message.
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For example, you can automatically
move e-mails from a specific sender
to a folder for review at a later
time. I have setup folders for
subscriptions, groups to which I
belong and specific people. I can
review the e-mails sent when I have
free time rather than sort through
my Inbox every time I open e-mail.
Click here to read more
about rules. For in-depth
information on how to create rules,
refer to the Help Menu within
Microsoft Office.
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Windows
XP Keyboard Shortcuts.
The point and click Windows
interface has made computers
accessible to the masses; However, it's much faster to use
keyboard shortcuts than to point and
click.
Click
here for 30 useful
keyboard shortcuts that can help you
navigate Windows XP faster than
ever! |
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Save and close
multiple Word
documents simultaneously.
If you love learning new tricks that
shave time off your daily tasks,
check out how easy it is to save and
close multiple Microsoft Word
documents in one fell swoop. When you
have numerous Microsoft Word
documents open at one time, it isn't
necessary to save and close each
document individually before exiting
Word. You can save all of the Word
documents at once by pressing
[Shift] and then going to File |
Save All. Word will save all of the
changes you made to the open
documents at once. The Save As
dialog box will display for any
files that have not already been
named.
You can close multiple documents in
one fell swoop by pressing [Shift]
and then going to File | Close All.
If any of your documents contain
unsaved changes, Word will ask you
whether you want to save your
changes before closing the
particular file.
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Organize Outlook with
folders. Outlook offers a variety of ways to
organize e-mail; creating folders to
store messages is one method. Nothing is more annoying than
waiting for information while
someone looks through thousands of
e-mail messages in their inbox. A
better idea is to create folders by
topic, review the e-mail, and then
move it to the appropriate folder
for easy retrieval later. Here's how
to create a folder:
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On the File menu, point to New,
and then click Folder. |
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In the Name box, enter a name for
the folder. |
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• |
In the Folder contains box, click
the type of folder you want to
create. |
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• |
In the Select where to place the
folder list, click the location for
the folder. |
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Top 5 Microsoft
Excel
Keyboard Shortcuts.
Make your use of spreadsheets easier
and faster with this list of
shortcuts;
click here
for a complete list of MS Excel
keyboarding shortcuts.
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Ctrl + F12 Open a spreadsheet
file
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Ctrl + O Open a spreadsheet
file |
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• |
Shift + F12 Save the
spreadsheet |
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• |
Ctrl + S Save the spreadsheet |
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• |
Ctrl + Shift + F12 Print the
spreadsheet |
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Top 10
Office Organization
Tips.
Click here
to read the complete
list.
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Clean
out each desk drawer, to free up
even more valuable storage
space.
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Clear off the top of your desk, then wipe off the
surface of the desktop.
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Keep essential items on your desktop (computer, phone,
fax, card file).
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If you work with more than one person create an in box
for each person. |
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Have a master to-do list for each day at your desk.
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Pre-Sort the mail. To-File, To-Read, To-Contact (write
or call).
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Use a variety of containers to organize office supplies,
paper clips and pens.
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Use a variety of desktop organizers or trays to organize
papers that come across your desk.
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Create a separate drawer for personal paperwork, items,
etc.
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Use storage
boxes to store dated files. |
|
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Top 10 Microsoft
Word Keyboard
Shortcuts.
Make your word processing easier and
faster with this list of keyboard
shortcuts;
click here for a complete
list of MS Word Keyboarding
shortcuts.
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Ctrl+A
Select all text in a document |
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Ctrl+B Bold the selected text
|
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Ctrl+C Copy the selected text or
object |
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Ctrl+I Italicize the selected
text |
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Ctrl+U Underline the selected
text |
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Ctrl+V Paste cut/copied text or
object |
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Ctrl+Home Move to the document's
first page |
| • |
Ctrl+End Move to the document's
last page |
| • |
Shift+Enter Insert a line break
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| • |
Ctrl+Enter Insert a page break |
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QIF TO
IIF Converter. Converter Make your online banking
easy with this specialized
conversion tool. Do
you spend a lot of time manually
entering all of your business
credit card purchases into
QuickBooks? Now Quickbook users
can utilize the same online
banking features available to
Quicken (personal finance
software) users! Check out "QIF
to IIF Converter"--a software
program that will let you
automatically convert a Quicken
file (QIF) to the QuickBooks
format (IIF).
- Internet banking provided by
many banks allow you to export
data in MS Money format or
Quicken QIF format only. If you
use QuickBooks, you need to
convert the Quicken QIF file to
an IIF to be able to read it in
QuickBooks. It sounds much more
intimidating that it actually
is...I use it for my business
too! QIF to IIF Converter
supports credit card
transactions as well as checks.
- Licence: Free to try, $50 to
buy; works with Windows 2000,
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