September 2008   
In this issue       

 Extreme Changes are
      Exciting
 Productivity Calling
 Never Lose Another File
 Microsoft Demo
 How Big is Your Mailbox?

 

Microsoft Demo

Make Documents Look Great in
Word 2007

With 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.

Extreme Changes are Exciting

In the words of Kyle, LeeAnn and the staff at the Wedding Center, they were “sooooo (yes that’s 5 “o’s”) excited, honored, and humbled” for winning the Extreme Office Makeover. “This is a life-changing event, just like starting a business, buying a house, or having a baby”, LeeAnn said. The Wedding Center is in the business of making dreams reality for couples. So, it is ironic that Extreme Office Makeover offered them the same experience.

The entire team at ARRC demonstrated skill and ability, as well as entertainment value. In LeeAnn’s words, “We were kept away from embarrassing tears of misplaced emotion by hilarious antics that made us laugh until our stomachs hurt”. She was “WOW’d” by smiling installers who volunteered time away from their families on a Saturday morning to make sure their business was up and running by Monday morning.

But, ARRC was not the only team to make this dream a reality. Business partners, such as Gandola’s Landscaping, donated to the Extreme Office Makeover. With their incredible team, they brought instant curb appeal and satisfaction to The Wedding Center’s business store front. Carpet Outlet Plus changed their “retro that had to go” carpet with updated floor coverings that matched all their needs.

I invite you to visit the Wedding Center blog site and read in LeeAnn’s emotional words describing the experience so far, and how they eagerly anticipate the completion and Grand Re-Opening ribbon cutting ceremony set for November.

We look forward to the Extreme Office Makeover completion. Stay in touch with the Circuit for more information about the ribbon cutting, as well as the “after” pictures of the Wedding Center. Here are the BEFORE pictures:


Productivity Calling
VoIP Can Dial In Rewards for Your Growing Business

Your company's IP network already enables your employees to use the internet, e-mail and web resources on the job. But did you know the very same technology can help your company save money -- by transmitting phone calls through voice data in packets using IP rather than a traditional phone line?

If your company is like many SMBs, you're on a fast track of growth but want to keep your business expenses from running amuck. One way to achieve both goals is through a robust technology called Voice over IP (VoIP).

This technology was once touted as a solution of the future, and today is already proving its worth for many SMBs seeking to prepare for the future.

What exactly is VoIP?

How Big is Your Mailbox?

We have spent a lot of time recently (which translates to a lot of extra expense for our customers) troubleshooting, managing, and working with VERY large mailboxes.

From a purely technical standpoint, once a mailbox gets over a GB in size, it starts to become a minor challenge in terms of supporting it, speed of access and search, and management in general. Once a mailbox gets to be over 2 GB in size, we start to run into some very serious limitations that will manifest in support, management, and disaster recovery scenarios.

Read more


Never Lose
Another File

Four Reasons Why the Time Is Right to Adopt Document Management

Where's the latest client services contract? What's the medical history on this patient? Where is the case filing from last year's lawsuit? Why can't we seem to find the documents we need?

If you're like most small to midsize businesses today, you can recall a time when you had to rummage through thousands of files -- just to get your hands on the one you needed. And if you're a company in the highly regulated accounting, finance or healthcare world, you may encounter this frustrating scenario almost every day.

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