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Best Christmas TV show ever!

This is a 6 minute investment … but I promise, you will laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock

For those who are bored with the traditional Rock, Paper, Scissors game … try this one: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock

Extreme Presentations

Brent Fontana sent me this helpful chart chooser.

I chased the copyright and found a pretty cool blog called The Extreme Presentation(tm) Method.  The Extreme Presentation method is a step-by-step approach for designing presentations of complex or controversial information in ways that drive people to action.   I bookmarked the site.
Thanks Brent!

Congratulations Chloe Mays!

Chloe took 2nd place in International Extemporaneous Speaking at Niwot High School on Saturday. It’s her 3rd meet and a bit different than Public Forum Debate … and she had a blast.

Invitation to BusinessTollsBlog Readers from Dropio

Dear Business Tools Blog readers,

1.  Better than a holiday party, how about an API 2.0 launch party, thursday 12/17, our place. beer, merriment, new sweet programmatic interfaces. RSVP here…  drop.io does.
2.  then, hack and win prizes that weekend - friday 12/18 in the evening to 12/20 — office is open 24 hours a day, beer […]

The Best Xmas Gift for the Facebook Addicted

The little gadget is named Pingo

Do you have a friend who has 100’s of Facebook friends, but no time for any real interaction?  If so, then Pingo is the perfect gift.  http://www.arimaz.com/mydeskfriend/ the cost is 150 CHF (Swiss Francs) where the exchange rate is about 1 Swiss franc = 0.976944 U.S. dollars.
Here’s how Pingo can help […]

Holiday Fun from Andy Sred … 23 days of Xmas Cheer

23 days of Xmas Cheer

Mail Merge Toggle Information for Dates

This is a guest blog from Cybelle Simoneau a valued member of Zayo Bandwidth’s legal team.
I found this helpful info online in case you ever need it.  For a date to appear “normal”  you use    \@ “MMMM d, yyyy”
Formatting dates:
1. right click on the field name e.g. > - see pop-up menu.
2. click on the […]

Snow Day - Part 2

I’ve been wondering how long we will be snowed in … 2 kids, 2 dogs and a husband who is tired of shoveling the 2 feet of snow make for an interesting time.
I’ve been holed up in my office … occasionally a few neighbors will wander by.  Here’s the view:

Hide Words and Pargraphs in Microsoft Word

In Excel we hide pages all the time.  In Word, we can also hide any portion of any document by simply highlighting it then clicking on “Hidden” on the Font menu.

To un-hide, select the entire document and type [Ctrl] + [A].  Everything that was hidden will now re-appear.