This issue of Zero2Sixty brings you exciting updates on our new RevITup Business Care Managed Service Program, more technology tools and recommendations from the The Launch Pad team and other tips that will help you streamline your business, maximize your technology and boost your bottom line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue April 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Advantage of our Enhanced Customer Portal Released last month, our new LiveConnect Online Support Portal offers instant access to our enhanced online ticketing system, service reports, a knowledge base, invoice history and configurable member access. Not only can you create and track service requests in real time with automated status updates, but now you can view executive service summary and management reports, search your company's personalized knowledge base, view and print invoices and set up your team members with defined levels of user access.
Referral Program Pays $$ Thank you to all of the clients and partners who took advantage of our Launch Pad Referral Program in the first Quarter of 2008. Your referrals were responsible for 13 new Launch Pad clients. Our Lucky Clover campaign was a great success thanks to all of your efforts.
Join the club and share the love and love. Tell us about a company you think would be a great fit for our Web or IT services and you can earn real dollars or services dollar.
The end of 2007 marked the move into our new digs on Gunn Highway in Odessa. We love our new space complete spacious offices, outdoor deck (and run for the occassional canine visitors), two beautiful conference rooms and lots of growing room.
The building was brand new so our final move in was a bit delayed but we are all settled in now and enjoying it. Stop in for a visit when our are out our way. We would love to show you around.
2107 Gunn Hwy
Odessa, FL 33556
(billing/mailing address still 18130 Jorene Rd. Odessa)
For both prospective and curerent customers, The Launch Pad offers a complimentary security and problem prevention audit to pin-point where you are most vulnerable to hardware failure, hackers, virus or spyware and data loss. We'll provide you with a complete network report card and show you any areas that need attention.
To ask about a free, no-obligation problem prevention audit, contact Randy Todd, Client Solutions Manager at 813-920-0788 x202 or e-mail rtodd@launchpadonline.com.
Save the date! On May 12th, Ilene Rosoff, Launch Pad President has been invited back by CDW and Inc. Magazine's Small Business Review to present the second in a series of small business technology webinars. The topic of this webinar is "The Great Backup Myths: How to avoid disaster and protect yourcompany" If you missed the 1st webinar, you can view the archive in the Small Business Center of our website. Stay tuned for complete event details and registration.
Join us in May!
Give Your Tapes the Pink Slip RevITup with our New Low-cost Onsite/Remote Managed Backup Series
What if you walked into your office tomorrow and discovered that and discovered that a virus, hacker or system crash had destroyed every filte, database and e-mail on your server. How confident are you that your data could be restored? How often are you testing your tape backups or doing a full system restore? If you have never tested your backups, you are at high risk for losing irreplaceable company files.
The Launch Pad's new RevITup Managed Backup and Distaster Recovery Solution means that your data is 100% safe and secure. It also means that your data is backed up in real-time every 15 minutes on and offsite. Our solution even includes a NAS server at your location which you can run from (virtualize) if your server crashes. All of this with no up front investment!
Did you know that clearing the cache on your Browser can correct many unplained problems experieced with web forms and on interactive or ecommerce websites. If functions on a website you are visiting are not behaving as expected, try clearing the cache.
Internet Explorer
1) Select Tools > Internet Options > General
2) Click the "Delete" button under browsing history
In Firefox
1) Select Tools > Options >
2) Open the Advanced panel and click Network Tab
3) Clcik the "Clear Now" button by the Cache Settings
Featured White Paper download now The New Face of IT : Managed Services- Paving the Road to Small Business Success
Many of you have joined our RevITup Business Care Managed Service series and are already enjoying the benefits of a managed and monitored technology solution. For those of you who would like to gain a little bit more understanding of what its all about and what a managed service approach to your IT can mean for you business, take a few minutes to read the short white paper above. Then give us a call and we can tell you exactly what kind of savings and benefits it can bring to your organziation.
We welcome your feedback regarding the newsletter. Feel free to send suggestions on information you would like to see included in future issues.
This issue of Zero2Sixty brings you exciting updates on our new RevITup Business Care Managed Service Program, more technology tools and recommendations from the The Launch Pad team and other tips that will help you streamline your business, maximize your technology and boost your bottom line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue April 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Advantage of our Enhanced Customer Portal Released last month, our new LiveConnect Online Support Portal offers instant access to our enhanced online ticketing system, service reports, a knowledge base, invoice history and configurable member access. Not only can you create and track service requests in real time with automated status updates, but now you can view executive service summary and management reports, search your company's personalized knowledge base, view and print invoices and set up your team members with defined levels of user access.
Referral Program Pays $$ Thank you to all of the clients and partners who took advantage of our Launch Pad Referral Program in the first Quarter of 2008. Your referrals were responsible for 13 new Launch Pad clients. Our Lucky Clover campaign was a great success thanks to all of your efforts.
Join the club and share the love and love. Tell us about a company you think would be a great fit for our Web or IT services and you can earn real dollars or services dollar.
The end of 2007 marked the move into our new digs on Gunn Highway in Odessa. We love our new space complete spacious offices, outdoor deck (and run for the occassional canine visitors), two beautiful conference rooms and lots of growing room.
The building was brand new so our final move in was a bit delayed but we are all settled in now and enjoying it. Stop in for a visit when our are out our way. We would love to show you around.
2107 Gunn Hwy
Odessa, FL 33556
(billing/mailing address still 18130 Jorene Rd. Odessa)
For both prospective and curerent customers, The Launch Pad offers a complimentary security and problem prevention audit to pin-point where you are most vulnerable to hardware failure, hackers, virus or spyware and data loss. We'll provide you with a complete network report card and show you any areas that need attention.
To ask about a free, no-obligation problem prevention audit, contact Randy Todd, Client Solutions Manager at 813-920-0788 x202 or e-mail rtodd@launchpadonline.com.
Save the date! On May 12th, Ilene Rosoff, Launch Pad President has been invited back by CDW and Inc. Magazine's Small Business Review to present the second in a series of small business technology webinars. The topic of this webinar is "The Great Backup Myths: How to avoid disaster and protect yourcompany" If you missed the 1st webinar, you can view the archive in the Small Business Center of our website. Stay tuned for complete event details and registration.
Join us in May!
Give Your Tapes the Pink Slip RevITup with our New Low-cost Onsite/Remote Managed Backup Series
What if you walked into your office tomorrow and discovered that and discovered that a virus, hacker or system crash had destroyed every filte, database and e-mail on your server. How confident are you that your data could be restored? How often are you testing your tape backups or doing a full system restore? If you have never tested your backups, you are at high risk for losing irreplaceable company files.
The Launch Pad's new RevITup Managed Backup and Distaster Recovery Solution means that your data is 100% safe and secure. It also means that your data is backed up in real-time every 15 minutes on and offsite. Our solution even includes a NAS server at your location which you can run from (virtualize) if your server crashes. All of this with no up front investment!
Did you know that clearing the cache on your Browser can correct many unplained problems experieced with web forms and on interactive or ecommerce websites. If functions on a website you are visiting are not behaving as expected, try clearing the cache.
Internet Explorer
1) Select Tools > Internet Options > General
2) Click the "Delete" button under browsing history
In Firefox
1) Select Tools > Options >
2) Open the Advanced panel and click Network Tab
3) Clcik the "Clear Now" button by the Cache Settings
Featured White Paper download now The New Face of IT : Managed Services- Paving the Road to Small Business Success
Many of you have joined our RevITup Business Care Managed Service series and are already enjoying the benefits of a managed and monitored technology solution. For those of you who would like to gain a little bit more understanding of what its all about and what a managed service approach to your IT can mean for you business, take a few minutes to read the short white paper above. Then give us a call and we can tell you exactly what kind of savings and benefits it can bring to your organziation.
We welcome your feedback regarding the newsletter. Feel free to send suggestions on information you would like to see included in future issues.
This issue of Zero2Sixty brings you exciting updates on our new RevITup Business Care Managed Service Program, more technology tools and recommendations from the The Launch Pad team and other tips that will help you streamline your business, maximize your technology and boost your bottom line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue April 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Advantage of our Enhanced Customer Portal Released last month, our new LiveConnect Online Support Portal offers instant access to our enhanced online ticketing system, service reports, a knowledge base, invoice history and configurable member access. Not only can you create and track service requests in real time with automated status updates, but now you can view executive service summary and management reports, search your company's personalized knowledge base, view and print invoices and set up your team members with defined levels of user access.
Referral Program Pays $$ Thank you to all of the clients and partners who took advantage of our Launch Pad Referral Program in the first Quarter of 2008. Your referrals were responsible for 13 new Launch Pad clients. Our Lucky Clover campaign was a great success thanks to all of your efforts.
Join the club and share the love and love. Tell us about a company you think would be a great fit for our Web or IT services and you can earn real dollars or services dollar.
The end of 2007 marked the move into our new digs on Gunn Highway in Odessa. We love our new space complete spacious offices, outdoor deck (and run for the occassional canine visitors), two beautiful conference rooms and lots of growing room.
The building was brand new so our final move in was a bit delayed but we are all settled in now and enjoying it. Stop in for a visit when our are out our way. We would love to show you around.
2107 Gunn Hwy
Odessa, FL 33556
(billing/mailing address still 18130 Jorene Rd. Odessa)
For both prospective and curerent customers, The Launch Pad offers a complimentary security and problem prevention audit to pin-point where you are most vulnerable to hardware failure, hackers, virus or spyware and data loss. We'll provide you with a complete network report card and show you any areas that need attention.
To ask about a free, no-obligation problem prevention audit, contact Randy Todd, Client Solutions Manager at 813-920-0788 x202 or e-mail rtodd@launchpadonline.com.
Save the date! On May 12th, Ilene Rosoff, Launch Pad President has been invited back by CDW and Inc. Magazine's Small Business Review to present the second in a series of small business technology webinars. The topic of this webinar is "The Great Backup Myths: How to avoid disaster and protect yourcompany" If you missed the 1st webinar, you can view the archive in the Small Business Center of our website. Stay tuned for complete event details and registration.
Join us in May!
Give Your Tapes the Pink Slip RevITup with our New Low-cost Onsite/Remote Managed Backup Series
What if you walked into your office tomorrow and discovered that and discovered that a virus, hacker or system crash had destroyed every filte, database and e-mail on your server. How confident are you that your data could be restored? How often are you testing your tape backups or doing a full system restore? If you have never tested your backups, you are at high risk for losing irreplaceable company files.
The Launch Pad's new RevITup Managed Backup and Distaster Recovery Solution means that your data is 100% safe and secure. It also means that your data is backed up in real-time every 15 minutes on and offsite. Our solution even includes a NAS server at your location which you can run from (virtualize) if your server crashes. All of this with no up front investment!
Did you know that clearing the cache on your Browser can correct many unplained problems experieced with web forms and on interactive or ecommerce websites. If functions on a website you are visiting are not behaving as expected, try clearing the cache.
Internet Explorer
1) Select Tools > Internet Options > General
2) Click the "Delete" button under browsing history
In Firefox
1) Select Tools > Options >
2) Open the Advanced panel and click Network Tab
3) Clcik the "Clear Now" button by the Cache Settings
Featured White Paper download now The New Face of IT : Managed Services- Paving the Road to Small Business Success
Many of you have joined our RevITup Business Care Managed Service series and are already enjoying the benefits of a managed and monitored technology solution. For those of you who would like to gain a little bit more understanding of what its all about and what a managed service approach to your IT can mean for you business, take a few minutes to read the short white paper above. Then give us a call and we can tell you exactly what kind of savings and benefits it can bring to your organziation.
We welcome your feedback regarding the newsletter. Feel free to send suggestions on information you would like to see included in future issues.
Expert Advice,Resources & Tips for Small Business IT Solutions
This issue of Zero2Sixty brings you exciting updates on our new RevITup Business Care Managed Service Program, more technology tools and recommendations from the The Launch Pad team and other tips that will help you streamline your business, maximize your technology and boost your bottom line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue April 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Advantage of our Enhanced Customer Portal Released last month, our new LiveConnect Online Support Portal offers instant access to our enhanced online ticketing system, service reports, a knowledge base, invoice history and configurable member access. Not only can you create and track service requests in real time with automated status updates, but now you can view executive service summary and management reports, search your company's personalized knowledge base, view and print invoices and set up your team members with defined levels of user access.
Referral Program Pays $$ Thank you to all of the clients and partners who took advantage of our Launch Pad Referral Program in the first Quarter of 2008. Your referrals were responsible for 13 new Launch Pad clients. Our Lucky Clover campaign was a great success thanks to all of your efforts.
Join the club and share the love and love. Tell us about a company you think would be a great fit for our Web or IT services and you can earn real dollars or services dollar.
The end of 2007 marked the move into our new digs on Gunn Highway in Odessa. We love our new space complete spacious offices, outdoor deck (and run for the occassional canine visitors), two beautiful conference rooms and lots of growing room.
The building was brand new so our final move in was a bit delayed but we are all settled in now and enjoying it. Stop in for a visit when our are out our way. We would love to show you around.
2107 Gunn Hwy
Odessa, FL 33556
(billing/mailing address still 18130 Jorene Rd. Odessa)
For both prospective and curerent customers, The Launch Pad offers a complimentary security and problem prevention audit to pin-point where you are most vulnerable to hardware failure, hackers, virus or spyware and data loss. We'll provide you with a complete network report card and show you any areas that need attention.
To ask about a free, no-obligation problem prevention audit, contact Randy Todd, Client Solutions Manager at 813-920-0788 x202 or e-mail rtodd@launchpadonline.com.
Save the date! On May 12th, Ilene Rosoff, Launch Pad President has been invited back by CDW and Inc. Magazine's Small Business Review to present the second in a series of small business technology webinars. The topic of this webinar is "The Great Backup Myths: How to avoid disaster and protect yourcompany" If you missed the 1st webinar, you can view the archive in the Small Business Center of our website. Stay tuned for complete event details and registration.
Join us in May!
Give Your Tapes the Pink Slip RevITup with our New Low-cost Onsite/Remote Managed Backup Series
What if you walked into your office tomorrow and discovered that and discovered that a virus, hacker or system crash had destroyed every filte, database and e-mail on your server. How confident are you that your data could be restored? How often are you testing your tape backups or doing a full system restore? If you have never tested your backups, you are at high risk for losing irreplaceable company files.
The Launch Pad's new RevITup Managed Backup and Distaster Recovery Solution means that your data is 100% safe and secure. It also means that your data is backed up in real-time every 15 minutes on and offsite. Our solution even includes a NAS server at your location which you can run from (virtualize) if your server crashes. All of this with no up front investment!
Did you know that clearing the cache on your Browser can correct many unplained problems experieced with web forms and on interactive or ecommerce websites. If functions on a website you are visiting are not behaving as expected, try clearing the cache.
Internet Explorer
1) Select Tools > Internet Options > General
2) Click the "Delete" button under browsing history
In Firefox
1) Select Tools > Options >
2) Open the Advanced panel and click Network Tab
3) Clcik the "Clear Now" button by the Cache Settings
Featured White Paper download now The New Face of IT : Managed Services- Paving the Road to Small Business Success
Many of you have joined our RevITup Business Care Managed Service series and are already enjoying the benefits of a managed and monitored technology solution. For those of you who would like to gain a little bit more understanding of what its all about and what a managed service approach to your IT can mean for you business, take a few minutes to read the short white paper above. Then give us a call and we can tell you exactly what kind of savings and benefits it can bring to your organziation.
We welcome your feedback regarding the newsletter. Feel free to send suggestions on information you would like to see included in future issues.
This issue of Zero2Sixty brings you exciting updates on our new RevITup Business Care Managed Service Program, more technology tools and recommendations from the The Launch Pad team and other tips that will help you streamline your business, maximize your technology and boost your bottom line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue April 2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Advantage of our Enhanced Customer Portal Released last month, our new LiveConnect Online Support Portal offers instant access to our enhanced online ticketing system, service reports, a knowledge base, invoice history and configurable member access. Not only can you create and track service requests in real time with automated status updates, but now you can view executive service summary and management reports, search your company's personalized knowledge base, view and print invoices and set up your team members with defined levels of user access.
Referral Program Pays $$ Thank you to all of the clients and partners who took advantage of our Launch Pad Referral Program in the first Quarter of 2008. Your referrals were responsible for 13 new Launch Pad clients. Our Lucky Clover campaign was a great success thanks to all of your efforts.
Join the club and share the love and love. Tell us about a company you think would be a great fit for our Web or IT services and you can earn real dollars or services dollar.
The end of 2007 marked the move into our new digs on Gunn Highway in Odessa. We love our new space complete spacious offices, outdoor deck (and run for the occassional canine visitors), two beautiful conference rooms and lots of growing room.
The building was brand new so our final move in was a bit delayed but we are all settled in now and enjoying it. Stop in for a visit when our are out our way. We would love to show you around.
2107 Gunn Hwy
Odessa, FL 33556
(billing/mailing address still 18130 Jorene Rd. Odessa)
For both prospective and curerent customers, The Launch Pad offers a complimentary security and problem prevention audit to pin-point where you are most vulnerable to hardware failure, hackers, virus or spyware and data loss. We'll provide you with a complete network report card and show you any areas that need attention.
To ask about a free, no-obligation problem prevention audit, contact Randy Todd, Client Solutions Manager at 813-920-0788 x202 or e-mail rtodd@launchpadonline.com.
Save the date! On May 12th, Ilene Rosoff, Launch Pad President has been invited back by CDW and Inc. Magazine's Small Business Review to present the second in a series of small business technology webinars. The topic of this webinar is "The Great Backup Myths: How to avoid disaster and protect yourcompany" If you missed the 1st webinar, you can view the archive in the Small Business Center of our website. Stay tuned for complete event details and registration.
Join us in May!
Give Your Tapes the Pink Slip RevITup with our New Low-cost Onsite/Remote Managed Backup Series
What if you walked into your office tomorrow and discovered that and discovered that a virus, hacker or system crash had destroyed every filte, database and e-mail on your server. How confident are you that your data could be restored? How often are you testing your tape backups or doing a full system restore? If you have never tested your backups, you are at high risk for losing irreplaceable company files.
The Launch Pad's new RevITup Managed Backup and Distaster Recovery Solution means that your data is 100% safe and secure. It also means that your data is backed up in real-time every 15 minutes on and offsite. Our solution even includes a NAS server at your location which you can run from (virtualize) if your server crashes. All of this with no up front investment!
Did you know that clearing the cache on your Browser can correct many unplained problems experieced with web forms and on interactive or ecommerce websites. If functions on a website you are visiting are not behaving as expected, try clearing the cache.
Internet Explorer
1) Select Tools > Internet Options > General
2) Click the "Delete" button under browsing history
In Firefox
1) Select Tools > Options >
2) Open the Advanced panel and click Network Tab
3) Clcik the "Clear Now" button by the Cache Settings
Featured White Paper download now The New Face of IT : Managed Services- Paving the Road to Small Business Success
Many of you have joined our RevITup Business Care Managed Service series and are already enjoying the benefits of a managed and monitored technology solution. For those of you who would like to gain a little bit more understanding of what its all about and what a managed service approach to your IT can mean for you business, take a few minutes to read the short white paper above. Then give us a call and we can tell you exactly what kind of savings and benefits it can bring to your organziation.
We welcome your feedback regarding the newsletter. Feel free to send suggestions on information you would like to see included in future issues.
Welcome to our June 2007 issue of Zero2Sixty, The Launch Pad's monthly
technology newsletter for small business. If you missed last month's issue or you're a new subscriber, our newsletter has undergone a redesign and a new name,
Zero2Sixty, which reflects our core customer's organization size. Each month's issue includes a wealth of IT and web information, expert advice, tips on how to save
money, maximize your business processes and generate revenue. We give you the scoop in non technical terms to on industry news to help you stay on top of technology issues
in your small business, school or organization. Our selection of timely and informative articles is designed for busy executives, IT specialists and staffers assigned the
task of "keeping the computers and website up and running".
Just a quick note because we know everyone is looking for a great deal. Levovo is clearing out
the rest of the Windows XP notebooks in the channel and offering instant rebates up to $700.
This is one of those really great deals. So, if you have been thinking about a notebook, this is a good opportunity to save! Ideal for your sales team. View Units Here >>
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With lightening and hurricane season upon us, a good disaster plan is essential for your organization.
Visit our Small Business Resource Center to read the full article. more info >>
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It's next to impossible to find a notebook without built-in wi-fi these days. With high
speed access and a growing number of hotspots and other access points, wi-fi is a blessing to mobile workers around the globe. Just as integrated Ethernet became
standard in almost all PCs and notebooks several years ago, integrated wi-fi has as well. After all, what's the point of a mobile computer, aka notebook, if you can't access
the resources you need when you need them?
Ah, but that's the problem. While wi-fi access has continued to grow, and certain metropolitan areas are building out public wi-fi infrastructures for even greater accessibility, wi-fi is far from ubiquitous.
Speaking of ubiquitous, how many people do you know without a cell phone? When you think of
wireless and access, it is hard to beat the cellular networks in the U.S. and around the world. Until
recently, relying on the cellular networks for wireless computer access was both expensive and
frustrating. Plans could average $80 a month and connection speeds weren't much better than dial
-up. A lot has changed over the last year or two, however, with more changes for the better on the
horizon. The emergence of a new class of wireless access over the cellular networks, known as
mobile broadband, is a serious contender for any mobile workforce that needs constant connectivity.
Mobile broadband, based on 3G (third generation) wireless broadband technologies, now provides
much greater performance than in the past, with average download rates of 400-700kbps, or about
50x faster than earlier networks. And with mobile broadband you can get a connection anywhere
you can get a cell phone signal, which is pretty much anywhere in the U.S. that mobile workers are
likely to be found. Costs have dropped significantly, with plans averaging closer to $50 per month.
To get mobile broadband or WWAN, you need two components; a cellular modem and a service
provider. In the recent past, connecting to a mobile broadband network required the use of an
external adapter card inserted into one of the slots in the notebook. These cards provide decent
connectivity and include the required antenna. Now, however, a number of leading notebook
vendors are providing an integrated / embedded 3G mobile broadband solution which can provide
some significant advantages over the external card solution such as better reception, durability and
reduced interference because the card is imbedded behind the notebook screen. Plus, the card is
already preconfigured so all you have to do is locate a provider. The two major providers are Verizon and Sprint. AT&T and Nextel also have plans available. So, if you have an existing notebook,
you can get the adapter directly from the provider you choose. If you're notebook shopping,
particularly for your sales team or other mobile workers, the best solution is to locate a notebook
that indicates in the specifications that a "cellular modem" is included. For example, to search on the notebook section of our store, you can identify notebooks with a preinstalled cellular modem by
enter "cellular" in the Narrow your Results by Keyword box. You'll also be able to see what provider is tied to the installed card.
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After June 30, 2007, Microsoft Office 2003 will no longer be shipping to retailers. It's a great time to think about making the move to the 2007 Microsoft® Office system. If you haven't seen the new office, you can view a tour here. We migrated to Office 2007 here about a
month ago and found we very impressed with what we found. So, we thought it might be helpful to recap some the key features and benefits of upgrading.
1) Office 2007 represents a clean break in platform design, built from the ground up it really does enable a new (forgive me) paradigm for
usability. Instead of trying to implement some fairly critical enhancements on top of the existing design (e.g., blogging capabilities and
security features like the Document Inspector), Microsoft opted to incorporate those changes, along with a radically re-architected interface, into a brand new model. Nice.
2) The price structure for Office 2007 maps pretty closely to Office 2003. For example:
The retail price for Office Professional 2007, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook with Business Contact Manager, Office
Accounting Express, Publisher, and Access, costs $499 dollars ($299 our price for the upgrade).
3) The new ribbon replaces the menu structure and offers a context-sensitive display of options organized according to function. Along with
the Ribbon come a number of other usability aids, including Live Preview, which gives users a look at the effect of various formatting options
on selected text before they make any changes; the Mini Toolbar,which offers basic formatting buttons and hovers semitransparently over
selected text; galleries, which are essentially prefab collections of attributes for certain items (like tables); and a customizable status bar
with buttons for genuinely useful features.
4) Apart from their interface-lift, Office 2007 applications provide some legitimate feature improvements that in many cases, will allow
users to be more productive and produce better results.
A few examples:
Word 2007 offers an enhanced document comparison feature lets you view original copy against revised copy in a tri-pane window; its
Document Inspector finds and removes comments, hidden text, and personally identifiable information; it offers prefab building blocks
(elements like cover pages and sidebars) to speed document assembly.
Excel 2007 has expanded its spreadsheet capacity to 1 million rows and 16,000 columns; charting is simplified; conditional formatting is
easier to apply; new tools make it easier to discover trends and variances in your data.
PowerPoint 2007 lets you set up slide libraries on a SharePoint Server 2007 site and keep presentations synchronized with the slides
stored there; you can design custom slide layouts; you can apply a theme to globally transform the appearance of a presentation.
Access 2007 includes new database templates to help you set up things like inventory tracking and project management; you can use
new grouping, filtering, and sorting features to refine your reports; it includes some new field types.
Outlook 2007 offers a To-Do bar that shows you flagged e-mail and tasks; calendar sharing has been improved; an attachment
previewer has been added; it includes support for reading and managing RSS feeds.
Overall user assistance is beefed to reduce user training and assistance. By default, the Office help system is tied into Office Online
when users are connected to the Internet. (If that feature is disabled or they're not connected, they can still access the locally installed
help files.) Along with topic and task-specific help for each application, Office Online offers a wide variety of training and support options, including video demos, self-paced training courses, interface guides to help users map familiar commands to the new Ribbon locations,
eLearning modules, downloadable training presentations, and a few experimental podcasts.
So, overall we feel now is probably a good time to upgrade. The product is stable and pricing is right. You'll also find that going forward
other software that integrates with office is not going to work with the older versions because of the big difference in Office 2007's file
structure. Plus, the upgrade process is very smooth and will run just fine on most existing PCs. If you need any assistance with
upgrades or have any questions regarding the new office, please don't hesitate to contact our office.
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are also available) for getting your website optimized properly for the search engines. Lots of instructions and video tutorials as well. For those of you who may not be
aware, The Launch Pad is now offer Website Marketing Services. We are using this tool and we think it is a great starting point for any organization interested in properly
optimizing and marketing their site. If the task feels too complex, don't hesitate to contact us and we can provide a proposal to assist you in your efforts. DOWNLOAD NOW
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