Make Documents Look Great in Word 2007

picsWith Microsoft Office Word 2007, you can quickly and easily turn a plain-looking document into one that looks professionally designed.

Use styles to quickly format major elements in your document, such as titles, subtitles, and headings. Start with predefined, coordinated designs and then customize to suit your needs. As you work, you don't need to apply formatting and then do it again until you have what you want — just point to a style in the dialog box to see a preview in your document. Not quite right? Point to a different style and see what it looks like.

Watch the demo to see how easy it is to give a plain document a professional-looking makeover, and then give it a final polish with headers and footers and a cover page.
 
Locate an Address with Contact Maps

Microsoft Office OutlookMicrosoft Office Outlook can do more than just store your contact information. Outlook Contacts has a map feature that can help locate a contact's address for you.

If you have entered a complete address for a person or business in your contact list, it takes only a few clicks to bring up a map for that location. And if you want written directions, that is only another click away.
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Do You Need Managed Services?

centralized serverReprinted with permission from DLP Technologies

Are managed services a better choice than the way you are doing things now? Like everything else in your office, the answer will depend on how you want to measure it.

Your first step is to answer these four questions.

  • Do your employees need to regularly enter data or retrieve information from a centralized server or database? The more they rely on this, the stronger the case for managed services.
  • Do your employees rely primarily on e-mail communication with important clients, vendors and partners? Again, the higher the impact on your bottom line, the more you should consider managed services.
  • Do you use e-commerce? You don't want that capability lost for a minute - period.
  • Does your network go south occasionally? And, consequently, are your employees unable to use e-mail or access network data? One of the ways to justify managed services is to calculate the cost of your people sitting on their hands.
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Good, Bad, or Indifferent: Microsoft Outlook Anywhere

By Blake Britton, Vice President, Axxys Technologies

Outlook Web AccessWhile most of us can receive and send email from any computer that has an Internet connection via Outlook Web Access (OWA) or through a mobile device (Windows Mobile, Palm, or Blackberry), what I miss is the full functionality and speed of Outlook. With Exchange 2007 and Outlook, you can now have that functionality wherever you have an Internet connection. Outlook Anywhere and Exchange 2007 provide your network administrator easier configuration of the ability to use Outlook anywhere. Yes, if your system has Outlook, and it is configured to run RPC over http (use of your local Outlook to securely connect to MS Exchange), then you are connected to you email system and have full Outlook functionality whenever you have an Internet connection.

I leave Outlook running on my notebook and when I leave the office, the notebook goes into “sleep” mode. When I “wake” it up when I am on my home wireless network or at any remote site via my cellular card, it connects to the Internet and the Outlook installed on my notebook is automatically and securely connected to our Exchange server just as if I were sitting at my desk in the office. I have access to my group calendars, group contacts and address books, and all other functionality of Outlook.
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