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What would it mean to your business to solve just one problem a month, and not have that problem resurface again, ever? What would it mean if you could retain intellect and “know-how” of key individuals when they leave the company? The Action System can do this and more, and best of all, the Action System is free!

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Managing by due date is the only way to proactively manage the project workplan
If you are an inexperienced project manager you've probably gone down the "percent complete abyss" at some point. Here's how it goes...

Such a powerful tool and almost nobody uses it. Have you ever wanted to know all emails, tasks, appointments, word documents, and spreadsheets that you have created for an outlook contact? What a filing system, it’s free with outlook, and this is how we do it…

Excel offers an efficient way to copy a worksheet, either within the current book or into a different one - handy when you need to start a new sheet that includes some or all of the data and/or formatting of an existing sheet, and this is how we do it...

Learn how to format your Microsoft Word 2002 or 2003 table so it will reformat automatically as needed to remain visible within the Web browser window, no matter how small it is resized.

Scenario: You are sending a form letter to all employees regarding their pension benefits. You need to let them know their exact vesting date, but the employee database table does not list that date. The table does, however, list the employees' hire dates. Since you know that employees are vested after 10 years of service, you can quickly add this data to the table and this is how we do it:

Two scenarios have cropped up again in the last couple of weeks.

Scenario 1: The service caller says ”Greg! Bubba keeps sending me email but I never get it. I was on the phone with him just 5 minutes ago. He hit send, I clicked Send and Receive, and Nothing! What’s wrong with our email system!!!”

Scenario 2: The service caller says ”Greg! I am trying to send email to Bubba and he can’t get it. I was on the phone with him just 5 minutes ago. I hit send, He clicked Send and Receive, and Nothing! What’s wrong with our email system!!!”

We checked out our mail server and found nothing wrong. We check out our customers email client, outlook, and nothing wrong there too. THEN, we did a search of Blacklist services to see if our customers email address, or Bubba’s email address, was blacklisted. Oh No! Blacklisted again! What to do…

If your main file server crashed today, do you know how to recover your data? Most have backup systems, but you would be surprised at how many businesses don’t know how to restore that data, AND, ARE YOU BACKING UP THE RIGHT STUFF? A good backup plan can save your business. Not having one might put you out...

Yes you can use Microsoft products to print barcode on labels, lists, and any other document you can think of. We have worked with several manufacturers and distributors that use Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access to produce asset and inventory tags, labels, shipping labels, move and pick lists.

Several companies make their own employee badges complete with picture and barcode, and the employee uses the badge to clock-in and out for the day. It’s fast, easy, and very inexpensive since you already own all of the tools, and this is how we do it…

With Apple iPhone and Droid coming on strong, Does Windows Mobile 7 have a chance? Donovan Colbert Donovan Colbert thinks so and this is what he has to say on the subject…