Traveling? 10 Tips to Protect your Laptop from Theft

These days, it seems that just about everybody uses a laptop or notebook computer to get work done away from the office or on the road. Unfortunately, the pervasiveness of laptop computing has made portable systems an easy target for theft. If your laptop computer is stolen, or if someone gains access to your files while your back is turned, your company information—not to mention your personal and financial data—can be exposed.

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HouseTalk Show - Marketing Support

For the past 3 years, Your Computer Lady provided marketing support for The HouseTalk Show, a weekly radio program Saturday mornings on KKNT.

• Schedule guests
• Weekly email to listeners promoting the upcoming show
• Site updates with Vault of Knowledge articles and audio files of each week’s show

Microsoft Excel 2007 - Wrapping Your Text

You know that you can widen a column to display all the text, that may not always work for your needs. Did you know that you can wrap the text within the cell, so that the cell height is increased to display all the text. Follow these steps:

1. Select the cells.
2. Choose Cells from the Format menu. This displays the Format Cells dialog box.
3. Click on the Alignment tab. 
4.  Make sure the Wrap Text check box is selected.
5. Click on OK.

Lights Up Arizona Email Marketing

Lights Up Arizona continues its email marketing program with above average Open Rates and Click-through Rates. Their monthly newsletters keep clients and prospects up to date on new lighting products and industry trends. Lights Up Arizona works diligently to use the newsletter to educate its readers with valuable information. For a visual product like lighting to a visual target market like architects, email marketing is a critical piece of Lights Up Arizona’s marketing plan.

May 2012 Newsletter
March 2012 Newsletter
January 2012 Newsletter

Arizona Pediatrics New Web Site

It was a pleasure to work with Arizona Pediatrics to create their first web site. It was Your Computer Lady's first bi-lingual site which was an exciting challenge also.

Microsoft Word 2007 - Creating and Saving Templates

1. Click the File tab, and then click New.
2. Click Blank document, and then click Create.
3. Make the changes that you want to the margin settings, page size and orientation, styles, and other formats.  You can also add content controls such as a date picker, instructional text, and graphics that you want to appear in all new documents that you base on the template.
4. Click the File tab, and then click Save As.
5. In the Save As dialog box, do one of the following:
   
   • On a computer that is running Windows 7, scroll to the top of the folder list, and under Microsoft Word click Templates.
   • On a computer that is running Windows Vista, under Favorite Links, click Templates.
   • On a computer that is running Windows XP, under Save in, click Trusted Templates.
6. Give the new template a file name, select Word Template in the Save as type list, and then click Save.
7. Close the template.

Garden of Glass Web Site Update

A proprietary software increased the difficulty level but Your Computer Lady was able to update the Garden of Glass site. The company didn’t want to take on the workload or expense of creating a brand new site. The update was an interim measure to improve the design and page content.

Your Computer Lady always encourages clients to use software that is widely used instead of proprietary software. A web host may offer you a “great price” for using their software but it ties you to their hosting, it increases the cost of editing your site and limits the options you have to expand the site when you need to.