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What would be most harmful to your health: no food; no water; or no e-mail? All over the world, people are beginning to wonder why all roads now lead to our inboxes...

For a website to be successful it must be findable on the most popular search engines, Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Will over 300 million websites competing for top search engine listing, this is no easy task...
 

Yes you can turn any scanner/printer combo into a copy machine using software, and you don't even have to pay for it...

The other day I received a Snail Mail letter from a real company that looked real official. It said that I won $250,000.00 in a contest and they even sent a $6,000.00 check to cover some of the taxes. WOW – I WON – I WON!!! Hey, I didn’t enter no contest, IS THIS FOR REAL?

Susan Harkins

The best presentations engage the audience using a number of creative tools.
Sound effects, such as music and voice recordings can mean the difference between a good presentation and an outstanding presentation. You can energize your audience with a quick
tempo, play your company’s latest jingle, or add narration to an on-demand
presentation. At the very least, you can play music at the beginning and ending
of a presentation as the audience enters and leaves the room. The only limits
are good taste and your imagination.

An easy way to quickly distinguish mail from different senders is to have outlook display them in different colors, and this is how we do it:

For some strange reason, Excel likes to import fractions as dates. Example: let's say you are want to import a column of data from an Access database table that contains fractions such as 21/25, 1/25, 2/35, and 30/61. You will need to format the column of cells containing the fractional data to an appropriate fraction format before importing, and this is how we do it:

Have you notices that Word 2007 no longer created links when you type in a URL beginning with "www" or "http?" I also found that Word doesn't automatically number lists either. For some reason, automatic hyperlinks and auto formatting of numbered and bulleted lists are not turned on by default (as they had been when installing earlier versions of Office and Word). And were do you go to turn these on?

A common Access database problem is incomplete records. Not only can incomplete records lead to failed applications—such as mailing labels with no addresses on them—but they can also lead to duplication of records when users re-enter a record because the previously entered one was incomplete...

Have you ever considered why the Mac is so well suited to the home environment? Has it ever occurred to you why the Mac is great with multimedia, with fun stuff like graphics and movie editing, but not so great at the serious stuff? With these, have you ever pondered as to why you very rarely see a bunch of Macs in an enterprise, corporate setting?

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