Microsoft Tip - Clean Out Your Email

Do you have a system for weeding out and organizing your old email messages? Here are a few quick ideas for taming your Inbox and getting ready to handle those messages in the months to come:

•  Create folders to store messages according to sender, topic,
   or date.

•  Create email rules to file and manage your messages automatically.
   For example, you can create a rule to send all messages from your
   manager to a special folder.

•  Go through your Sent folder in Outlook in and delete items you
   no longer need (especially those with large file attachments).

•  If you're sure you no longer need email you've deleted,
   empty the folder that contains it.

This article is written by Microsoft at Work

Microsoft Power Point 2007 - Coordinate Your PowerPoint Presentation with Design Themes

Design themes are a new addition to PowerPoint 2007. They work in a similar way as the design templates in earlier versions of PowerPoint.

A really nice feature of the design themes is that you can immediately see the effect reflected on your slides, before making your decision.

1.  Access the Design Ribbon

2.  Click on the Design tab to access the Design ribbon.

3.  Hover your mouse over any of the design themes shown.

4.  The design is reflected immediately on your slide.

5.  Click the design theme when you find one that suits your needs.

Microsoft Excel 2007 - Change Text Orientation

When creating your spreadsheet you may want to change the orientation of your text. Sometimes you have those Excel tables where you have narrow columns but the title has a group of words and word wrapping will not look right. For problems like this, you can change the text orientation within that cell.

To change text orientation:

1. Select the text you want to rotate, angle, or switch to vertical.

2. Click Alignment in the Home Ribbon.

3. Choose how you want to format your text.

1 Woman with 0 Budget Gets 20 Million Views

Amazing!  One woman has had 20 million views on YouTube and has 20,000 Facebook Fans.  If she can do it, you can do it. It's the content!

Read the article and be inspired!

Microsoft Word 2007 - Using the Spike to Edit

Word has a feature that allows you to collect groups of text and paste them in another location. It is different than the Clipboard, which allows you to work with only one item at a time. The Spike is named after an old-fashioned paper holder onto which people poked papers as they were done with them.

To collect information in the Spike, simply select the text and press Ctrl+F3. This cuts the information from your document and places it in the Spike. You can continue this process, and Word will add all the selected text to what already exists in the Spike.

When you are ready to paste the information somewhere, simply press Ctrl+Shift+F3. All the information in the Spike is deposited in your document at the insertion point.

Try it!

Why Your Advertising Should Not Lead with Price

Every day we're tempted to cut prices to gain a sell. This article is a good reminder of why that is a bad practice. I know we're all struggling to get every piece of business we can. But we still have to think long term and structure our businesses for the coming economic upturn.  Read the article.

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The Power of Right Clicking on Your Mouse

This is a great article full of tips on how and where to use the right click button on your mouse to utilize the features of Office. Could it be true?!?!  You don't have to use the ribbon anymore? You can right click only!! The article has lots of time saving steps too.

Read the full article!