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| newsletter@quarkit.com.au | www.quarkit.com.au | issue 11 | august 2005 |
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Microsoft Office 2003 Tips (Part I) |
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Currency symbols We have a dollar sign on our keyboards, but no pound or euro symbol (some new keyboard have a euro symbol added to the "5" key, accessible only if you are using a European keyboard layout). To enter a euro symbol in Word, just press Ctrl+Alt+E and elsewhere in Windows, hold the Alt key down and enter the following numbers on the numeric keypad: 0128. To enter a British pound symbol, you need to type Alt+0163, and to enter the cents symbol, use Alt+0162. It's not pretty, but it works! Changing worksheets in Excel If you have an Excel spreadsheet with multiple worksheets (these appear as tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet), the fastest way to move between them is to Ctrl + Page Down to move backwards and Ctrl + Page Up to move forwards. When you reach one end, it will cycle back to the other end. Cell formatting in Excel Do you often change the formatting of a cell or selection of cells in Excel? Instead of using the mouse to go to Format/Cells, you could use the keyboard shortcut of Ctrl+1 (the "1" key above the letter keys). Resend an email in Outlook If you need to resend an email, just go to the Sent Items folder, open the email and then have a look in the Actions menu for the Resend This Message option. |
PowerPoint mind meld Have you ever noticed when giving a presentation that the audience's attention is locked onto the PowerPoint slide instead of looking at you while you are explaining a complex point? An easy way to break this mind meld with the projector screen is to press either the "b" key to turn the screen black, or the "w" key to turn it white. Pressing it again returns you to your presentation. General shortcuts Here are some keyboard shortcuts that can be used to replace operations usually done with the mouse:
Tips for Microsoft Office for Mac users If you have been using Microsoft Outlook for Mac and wish to migrate to Microsoft Entourage, you can use this tool from Microsoft to import the Outlook .pst into Entourage. Just as with Outlook 2003 for Windows, Entourage has an inbuilt Junk Mail Filter. To upgrade the filter rules - the definitions of what should be considered spam - please download and install this file from Microsoft. |
Small Business Server 2003 Features:
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Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 We have finally come to the end of our Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 features series of articles. We will now sum up all that we have learnt about this versatile product, and how SBS2003 is much more than just a simplified server platform. SBS 2003 is much more than the sum of its parts. With its unique, tight integration of all the components SBS 2003 becomes the perfect platform on which to run any small to medium business (SMB). SBS 2003 brings together features previously unheard of in the SMB space. As we have shown in previous articles SBS 2003 can help you streamline processes and reduce on-going management and maintenance costs. Every house needs to be built on a strong foundation and SBS 2003 is no different. The foundation of SBS 2003 is the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 platform. With its emphasis on security and reliability we have a heavy duty foundation. Every other component of SBS 2003 sits on top of Windows Server 2003, BUT unlike other platforms SBS 2003 actually integrates all other components in a seamless way. The SBS 2003 components at a glance Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
Remote Web Workplace
Microsoft Shared Fax Service
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The SBS 2003 components at a glance (continued) Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Microsoft ISA Server 2004
Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
SBS 2003 - the bigger guys want it too SBS 2003 is a very cost effective and powerful product. Since the release of SBS 2003 lot of large corporations have realised this and have raised their voice wanting a similar product for their space. Microsoft has listened and has recently announced a Medium Business Server product (due in the not too distant future). This Medium Business Server will be based on the feature set and tight integration of the Small Business Server 2003 product, however removing the 75 user limit that is imposed on SBS 2003 and a making few other changes to make it suitable for the larger, physically diverse networks that exist in the medium to large business environment. See, the small guys are not always the last to benefit from technology. :) SBS 2003 for your network As you have seen in this series of articles, SBS 2003 is not your average server platform. It will save you money in the long run, by improving operational efficiency and reducing maintenance costs across not only the server BUT also for all of your workstations as well. To put it simply Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 is the smart choice for today’s ultra-competitive business environment. If you think that you could benefit from installing Microsoft SBS 2003 or even a Windows Server 2003 network, please contact us and we will arrange a time to evaluate your requirements to determine a networking solution that will meet your specific needs. |
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Well, that's it for the August 2005 Quark IT Newsletter. Spyware is becoming a bigger and bigger problem on the Internet (and obviously in a growing number of networks). It has been recently reported that approximately 8% of the traffic travelling across the Internet backbone (the major Internet pipes) is from spyware calling home. Spyware, it appears, is definitely the new black! Microsoft has now enforced their "Windows Genuine Advantage" program for updates, bug fixes and variously freely downloadable applications. Basically, this is where Microsoft asks to confirm that you have a legitimate copy of Windows XP before they will allow you to download anything other than security updates. Quark IT agrees that this type of confirmation of legitimate software will assist in reducing piracy of Windows XP and cannot see anything draconian about this. Of course, Microsoft didn't get this right first go and within the first week there were three ways this tool could be bypassed. Microsoft needs to make sure the next version of this tool is not easily bypassed like this version is before it will become a useful anti-piracy tool. On top of this Windows Genuine Advantage issue, some of this month's security patches were released with an invalid digital certificate that meant they were unable to be installed. This was fixed just over 24 hours after the original broken patch was released. It seems like Microsoft is having some rather serious quality control issues this month. If you know anyone else who would like to receive this newsletter, please feel free to forward this edition to them and also ask them to email us asking to subscribe. Please contact us if you would like Quark IT to assist you in ensuring that your home as well as your office computing environment is as functional as it can be. | |
