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Category: Line of Business Applications
Line of Business Applications
Why does formatting sometimes get messed up when you cut and paste text? And what is that thing that appears at the end of the last sentence every time you paste--like a fly returning to honey.
That thing--the Paste Options button--is your friend, a worker bee and not a fly whose only job is to follow your formatting instructions. Learning how it works keeps you from wasting time manually formatting pasted text.
Using the Paste Options Button
Click the down-arrow on the Paste Options button and you'll see a menu with icons that lets you format copied text in different ways. The options you'll see depend on where you're cutting and pasting from and to, e.g., from within or between documents. Roll your mouse over the icons and you can see how your pasted text will look before you click.
These are the four most common options:
Keep Source Formatting: Keeps the formatting of the text you copied
Use Destination Styles: Matches the formatting where you pasted your ...
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Have you honed your skills at "elevator pitches" — that is, the quick sales pitches to influential executives or potential customers that could be pivotal to your business?
Voice mails are similar types of pitches worth becoming skilled at. Maybe a voice mail won't always make or break your business. Maybe it could just mean you have a partner for a weekend game of golf.
At any rate, you want to interest someone in calling you back.
And that's why, as an entrepreneur maximizing small business resources, it behooves you to make the most of voice mails—both in those you leave with others and in your voice-mail greetings to incoming callers.
Here are 10 strategies to make your voice mails more effective and, ultimately, more beneficial to your business.
First, tips on what to do when you're the one leaving the message.
Get to the purpose of your call. In this lightning-paced day and age, businesspeople can't afford a lot of time for ambling chi ...
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Anyone who has ever tried selling something can tell you the importance of accepting credit cards. Whether you’re selling products at a trade show, delivering a product, or offering an on-site service, you don’t want to miss any sales opportunity just because you don’t accept credit cards. But you don’t have to buy expensive “wireless” terminals or bust your knuckles on manual credit card imprinters. With little more than your current cell phone and an inexpensive mobile credit card processing app, you can accept credit cards anywhere you are.
Here are some of the unique benefits of mobile credit card processing:
Real-time validation and payment processing
Competitive per-transaction fees and low rates (both for keyed-in and swiped transactions)
Compatibility with a variety of merchant accounts and payment gateways
Easy online management and integration with accounting software
Additional features like GPS location reporting, signature ...
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There are very few circumstances in which you have to work on other computer that doesn’t have Photoshop installed. What to do in such a moment? The easiest way is to visit one of these 10 websites, which are quite closely related to Photoshop. Not all features are always available, but the simplest will remain.
I would like to say that a very big plus is a fact that these sites practically do not use your computer memory, so you can always be sure that none of your images will disappear. And you don’t have to worry about getting your computer crashed if you have slow one :)
1. Pixlr
Pixlr is a perfect online image editing application that is designed for non professional users and allows them to easily edit images. It combines image design and paint tools with photo editing and adjustment features more convincingly than any other online image editing program.
Major features:
Create an image or open one from your hard drive or a URL
Save your image to yo ...
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Shortcuts are generally good:
When training to do heart surgery? Not good.
When developing software that helps people be more productive? Not good.
When using software more efficiently? Good.
These last two are obviously related: When the developers of Outlook created the program, they did not take shortcuts so that you, as the user of aforementioned software, could. And Outlook has a bevy of really great, really easy to remember keyboard shortcuts that you should know if you want to speed up your everyday interactions with it. (Keyboard shortcut: individual keystrokes—or combination of keys pressed at the same time—used to execute commands.)
10 favorite Outlook keyboard shortcuts from some people who use the program all day, every day
Switch between Mail, Calendar, and Contacts
Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, Ctrl+3: (Mail is Ctrl+1, Calendar is Ctrl+2, and Contacts is Ctrl+3)
Create a meeting request
Ctrl+Shift+ Q
Move a message from one folder to another
Ctrl+Shift ...
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The PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show makes it easy for PowerPoint 2010 users to share a presentation on the fly with anyone, anywhere. Just send a link, and in one click everyone you invite will be watching a synchronized view of your slide show in their Web browser, even if they don’t have PowerPoint 2010 installed.
To broadcast your slides to an audience, follow the directions below.
Starting a broadcast
To start a broadcast from PowerPoint 2010, click Broadcast Slide Show on the Slide Show tab.
Ensure the PowerPoint Broadcast Service is selected and click Start Broadcast.
Sign in with your Windows Live ID. (If you use Hotmail, Live Messenger, or Xbox LIVE, you already have a Windows Live ID. If not, it only takes a minute to sign up.)
PowerPoint will provide a public link that you can send to up to 50 remote attendees. Anyone who receives a link to the broadcast may watch it. Keep in mind that if an attendee forwards the link to someone else, that person ...
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Microsoft held their first ever Build Conference in Anaheim in September. It’s a new annual event for Windows developers to gather and learn about building applications for the Windows platform. This one was special not only because it was the first, but also because leading up to it, all the buzz was about how much of Windows 8 Microsoft would show and what details we would learn about the next version of the most popular operating system in the world.
Microsoft did not disappoint. They have showed demos, talked about features and functions, and even made an open beta immediately available to all who are interested to download, play with, and Microsoft hopes develop applications for. The buzz leading up to the conference has grown into a fever pitch with partners, developers, and customers all extremely excited about the next Windows release. What is it about this platform that Microsoft is doing right, and why is everyone so excited?
First off, Windows has a new look and feel. The next interface, du ...
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It’s so frustrating: you regularly send out emails and then sit staring at your computer, waiting for some sort of response. Don’t you sometimes get the feeling that you’re just sending words out into a black hole?
Of course, you can never "ensure" that emails are going to be read or acted upon. It’s a sad result of the information overload we suffer from. People who sit working at their computers for hours every day might have the time, energy and interest to open the numerous messages which fill their inbox—or they might not. So what is it exactly that tips them over the delicate, crucial line between “read” and ”leave for later/delete”?
The answer is that most recipients of emails often decide whether or not to read them because of two things: the “subject” line and the “from” line.
They must recognize who the email is coming from
They must see a benefit or reason to open it
So consider these useful tips before you send your next mail:
1. Keep it short
Would you immediately open and read an em ...
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Reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
Have you ever had a project "go sideways" on you? When it happens to you, it feels like you are treading water. You're working hard, but going nowhere. After building a beautiful coordinated project plan in Microsoft Project or Microsoft Excel, your dates start slipping. You can see that too much time is being wasted on unnecessary communications, but how do you take back control? Typically, the problem isn't in the upfront planning, it's in the ongoing communication and collaboration.
Follow these three steps to ensure all team members are on the same page, making progress to your mutual goal.
1. Create a collaboration site. Endless hours are wasted and bandwidth consumed from circulating documents via email. The larger the project, the worse this problem becomes. Because the document isn't centrally stored, multiple versions are created, and that's where questions and confusion pop-up. "Is this the latest version? Has John reviewed this? ...
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Reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center
by Heather Clancy
Yes, as you've doubtless heard umpteen times, even the smallest business is vulnerable to a PC or network security breach. But you can find some peace of mind simply by taking some preventive measures. Better yet, by taking action before an incident occurs.
IT consultants believe that the most effective data security policies are those that treat security not just as an IT problem but as an underlying business process. What good are firewalls, for example, if you don't have a way for trusted business partners to access your network from a remote location? How effective is a software patch management service if telecommuting employees who are rarely in the office aren't encouraged (or forced) to update?
Step one for any security strategy means getting your entire organization involved in the discussion. If you're an IT type, find yourself a champion who has line-of-business responsibilities; someone who understands your c ...
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