December 2007 In this
issue
■ Letter from the President ■
Hardware Gathers Dust ■ Shortcuts in Word ■
Make Data Jump |
Make Your Excel Data Jump
With the revolution of Office 2007,
Microsoft has put a great deal of effort into helping you do your
job faster and easier, and helping you get the information you need
quickly and clearly. Nowhere is that effort more apparent than in
Excel 2007.

One of the coolest new enhancements
is the evolution of conditional formatting. Your data has an
important story to tell, but in a worksheet with row after row of
numbers it's not always easy to see patterns and trends. With
conditional formatting, it only takes a glance to compare worker
productivity, sales figures, product performance, or other measures
that are important to your business. Excel 2007 makes it easier than
ever to apply rich conditional formatting
Watch this demo to see how data bars, gradient
colors, icon sets, and other conditional formatting can turn raw
data into information you can act on.
 I'm a great believer in
luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of
it. Thomas
Jefferson
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Letter from the
President
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Company Update During this
Holiday season, we want to thank all of our clients for
doing business with Radical Support and to wish you the
very best luck for a prosperous New Year! It was a great
year for Radical Support in 2007. We have grown in many
aspects as an organization including size, quality and
breadth of services. |
Some of our
accomplishments this year include hiring our 24th employee,
revamping our website http://www.radicalsupport.com/,
surpassing 275 servers and 3000 workstations under management,
improving our service delivery processes, formalizing our
project and integration department and receiving a prestigious
award for our industry leading operational efficiency.
We have some very
exciting enhancements in store for our clients in 2008. Some
of these include the introduction of our new "live" helpdesk,
bundling of remote data backup and disaster recovery services
into our plans and the launch of a high-availability server
hosting platform from our data center.
I hope that you are
as excited to receive the benefits of these offerings as we
are to offer them to you. I would love to hear from you and I
always welcome your feedback. You can reach me directly at
770-542-0041 or at jcarter@radicalsupport.com.
Merry
Christmas, John Carter |
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| Don’t Let Unused
Hardware Gather Dust
Have you found yourself gradually accumulating
computer hardware that is not being used anymore? As you
upgrade equipment, it is likely the older equipment has been
piling up in a closet or some other out of the way place.
However, out of sight, out of mind is not the best approach to
dealing with old equipment. Don't store machines and
peripherals for years until they are useless – it does nobody
any good. Pass them along as soon as they are taken out of
service and you know you will no longer need them.
Given rapid
advances in technology, hardware will not improve with age, so
the sooner you give them away or donate them, the better. So,
when it's time to upgrade your computer system, what do you do
with your old equipment? Aside from just letting it gather
dust, simply throwing it away is the worst solution for
everyone. In fact, according to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, nearly 250 million computers will become
obsolete in the next five years. Read more |
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Shortcuts
in Word

Use these character
formatting shortcuts to save retyping in Word.
Take the shortcut!
Whether you need to change the case or switch formats, it's easy
with these Word shortcuts.
When preparing a Word
document for publication, you want to spend as little time retyping
as possible. Here are some shortcuts for reducing time spent editing
text.
As you edit your
document, you notice that all your headers are lowercase, when they
should be initial caps. To make that change, follow these
steps:
- Hold down [Ctrl] while
selecting the headers to be changed.
- Press [Shift][F3].
Pressing [Shift][F3]
twice converts the headers to all uppercase; pressing [F3] again
brings it back to lowercase. Alternatively, you can press
[Ctrl][Shift]A to convert a block of text to all caps, or press
[Ctrl][Shift]K to convert it to small caps.
Then, you spot that the
author has used the Underline button to underline selected text.
While the Underline button is convenient to use, it underlines an
entire selection, including the spaces between the words. If you
don't want the spaces underlined, follow these steps:
- Select the underlined
text to be changed.
- Press [Ctrl][Shift]W.
Read more |