Corporate Technologies Solutions

The Microsoft Big Easy Offer
For a limited time, earn partner subsidy funds from Microsoft for qualifying purchases. Then use your subsidy dollars to purchase additional services or products from Corporate Technologies to enrich your solution.

The Big Easy Offer is the Microsoft Partner Subsidy program that covers most core products and solutions, delivering great value and flexibility for your business needs in one simple offer. This program scales to your business, offering incremental subsidies for qualifying purchases between February 1 and June 27, 2008. Service benefits could be deployment, training, assessments, or solutions to meet your line of business needs. Additional products may include software and/or hardware. Work with Corporate Technologies to determine the best solution for your business and get additional value through subsidized services and products.

Key Components of Unified Communications
There is a major new trend happening in office communications. It is called Unified Communications (UC). UC allows for easy communications across many different platforms and devices. Organizations of all sizes are seeing major productivity gains after implementing UC. Some of the key components of Unified Communications systems are: Unified Messaging, Presence, Audio/Video Conferencing, Web Collaboration and Mobility. Below is a brief overview of each component.

Unified Messaging (UM) is one of the most well known components of the solution and includes a number of useful features. UM integrates voicemail and email onto one platform. If you receive a voicemail message you have the option of retrieving it via the phone or in your email client (i.e. Microsoft Outlook) as an email with an attachment. UM has been around for many years. Another nice feature of UM is that it can work the other way around. Using the Text to Speech function it can read your emails to you while you are out of the office.

To read about the other key components of Unified Communications, click here for the full article.

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10 Indispensable Microsoft Word Tips
by Chris C. Michels, Service Sales Specialist, Corporate Technologies
No matter how long you’ve been using Microsoft Word, you can always learn new techniques to help you work faster and smarter. Here are some tips and tricks for Word 97, 2000, 2002(XP), 2003, and 2007.

1.	Learn to use Undo: Make a mistake? Press [Ctrl] Z or choose undo from the Edit menu right away. Keep pressing [Ctrl] Z to backtrack through and undo the most recent editing changes you’ve made. In Office 2007, the undo button is on the Quick Access toolbar in the top-left corner. Redo does double duty with the new Repeat button
2.	Save Often: Press [Ctrl] S or click Save button on the standard toolbar. Save your work frequently. You can also instruct Word to automatically save your work periodically. Open the Tools menu, select Options, click the Save tab, and activate the Save Auto Recovery Info Every Option. You can specify an interval from 1 to 120 minutes. In Word 2007, click the Office button (in the top-left corner) and the click the Word Options button at the bottom right of the resulting dialog box. Now, click Save. You’ll find the Save Auto Recovery Information Every option in the Save Documents section.
3.	Quickly Move To The Beginning Or End Of A Document: To move to the top of a document, press [Ctrl] [Home]. To move to the bottom of a document, press [Ctrl] [End].
4.	Paste Plain Text: When you copy and paste text from a web page or another document, the text brings its formatting into your document. To get around the behavior, copy the text and place the insertion point marker where you want to insert the copy. Then, open the Edit menu, choose Paste Special, and select the Unformatted Text option. In Word 2007, the Paste Special command is on the Paste drop-down list. The Paste option is in the Clipboard group on the Home tab.
For the remaining 6 indispensable Word tips, click here for the full article.

Corporate Technologies, Microsoft and HP present:
Maximizing your Technology Investement & the Secrets
to Making the Right IT Decisions
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 8:30am – 11:00am
Location: Radisson Hotel, Plymouth, MN

Corporate Technologies is pleased to invite you to attend a special event to learn more about how to make the most of your technology investments. You will discover how to help your organization experience the advantages of standardizing its platform and be in position to optimize its software investment while streamlining IT costs. Seminar topics to include: Software Licensing, Preparing for Windows Vista and Financing.

To learn more about the Microsoft and HP Seminar, click here.

To RSVP for the Microsoft and HP Seminar, click here.