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Questions Every Business Owner Should Ask

If you’re a small business owner, or even a medium to large business owner, it can be difficult to generate new productivity out of the same divisions and strategies. No matter how many incentives you offer, employees see themselves as having a set job that is immune from evolution or change. Your San Diego tax […]

Tips For Reducing Your Overhead Costs This Winter

A new year has arrived and the economy looks no less stagnant than ever. True, unemployment levels have gone down, but the average small business owner has probably seen no signs of a waning recession. If you’re one of those business owners, there’s a good chance you’ve been looking to cut costs. And, if you’re […]

Ways To Keep From Going Crazy At Work

You spend ten hours a day crunching numbers, making graphs with Excel and using widgets and software apps until it feels like you’ve turned electronic yourself. Business tools are a means to an ends, but you’re counteracting everything you work for if you don’t take care of the most valuable tool in your toolkit: your […]

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How to build a stacked bar chart with positive and negative numbers

Goals For Your Website in the Initial Stages of a Start-Up

Goals For Your Website

How to delete all email in Gmail

Question from a reader:  My Gmail has gotten way out of hand.  Is there an easy way to delete all email in your Gmail inbox?  or do I have to delete 100 emails at a time?
Answer:  Yes, you can delete your entire inbox in one simple step … this super easy.  To delete all existing […]

5 Tips To Surviving Early Stages of Business Development

5 Tips To Surviving Early Stages of Business Development

How to use an online fax service

How to use an online fax service

PowerPoint tries to open linked files when printing

A big thanks to Jason Tibbs for finding the answer to this question!
I was going crazy when trying to print a PowerPoint that had links to external files.  When I opened the file, I clicked Cancel when the MicroSoft PowerPoint Security Notice asked if I wanted to update links.
Then, after clicking print, I would have […]

Why are Euros showing up in Excel 2010?

Amit is trying to figure out a fix …
Apparently it is a Microsoft glitch, after you put a pivot table into a file Microsoft will then default to Euros.  Microsoft needs to develop an update for us download!  In the meantime, hopefully Amit can help!
Update - Amit found this fix:
To fix the Euro problem in Excel 2010 […]