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As we head into the Summer and vacation time, if you have a Gmail address or use Small Business Google Apps, you can easily set up an auto responder. Google calls the auto-responder, “vacation responder” and sends an automated reply to anyone who e-mails you during the designated time you set up. It takes under [...]

Apps – it seems everyone is getting into the application market and this year Intuit is no exception. The Intuit app is called QuickBooks Pro Plus. QuickBooks Pro Plus is a subscription-based add-on for your QuickBooks Pro 2011 desktop application. The monthly cost is $29.95 and includes the following additional services: QuickBooks Connect: QuickBooks Connect [...]

PoweredTemplates is a great resource when you need to have professionally designed materials for your upcoming PowerPoint presentation, eBook cover; sales proposal or an updated company brochure. Their graphic designers are true experts and create the best Microsoft templates on the internet at very reasonable prices. All you do is pick out the template, purchase [...]

They are called QR Codes and you are now finding them in magazines, newspapers, websites – everywhere you turn. It is the latest fad in marketing. Did you know that this code was originally developed by a Toyota subsidiary and used to track manufacturing parts and vehicles in 1994. QR Codes (QR stands for Quick [...]

As Mary mentioned in her blog post above, it is important to utilize a third-party back up system for your online accounts as well as your office computer files. It is possible that data hosted on the cloud could be lost. These are accounts we have no control over. Backupify is the leading backup provider [...]

By Mary Motz, ProVirtual Solutions Mary is a colleague of mine and we served together on the Delaware Valley Virtual Assistants Association Board of Directors, when Mary was our Chapter’s President. Mary started ProVirtual Solutions in 2002 and assists small business owners, non-profits, and solopreneurs with their web presence. She is a WordPress guru and [...]

You are preparing a document and you have part of a paragraph on the second page and you really want the final document to just be one page. Well there is a way to keep a paragraph on the same page. Just follow these steps: Select the paragraph or paragraphs you want kept together Select [...]

There is a quick and easy way to move paragraphs within your Word document. Perhaps you want to move a paragraph from its current location to before the preceding paragraph. Just follow these quick and easy steps: Position the insertion point in the paragraph you want to move While holding down the Shift and Alt [...]

Here is a quick way to change font sizes in a document: Select the text whose font size you want to change or if it is just one word, place the insertion point anywhere in the word Press Shift+Ctrl+> to increase the size of the font Press Shift+Ctrl+< to decrease the size of the font [...]

If you find yourself scrolling through long Word documents, click the View tab and check the Thumbnails box to add a bar on the left side of the window. This will allow you to skip quickly from page to page.