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Security Assessment ToolHow secure is your IT?

Our new Microsoft Security Assessment tool helps you identify ways to protect your IT. It is free and takes only about 15 minutes to complete. The assessment gives you an appraisal of your IT, along with recommendations and best practices that you can review or take to a Microsoft IT Specialist for further advice.


60 second business insider podcasts

Take a couple of minutes to browse through our new 60 second business insider podcasts and brush up your skills quickly and easily.

Make IT work for you

Download ‘A 20-minute guide to technology for growing businesses’ and learn more about how IT can make your business more productive. This guide covers essential basics, including what products are available, how you can adopt mobile technologies, affordable online advertising, when you night need a server and implementing a network. With business benefits and case study evidence this guide is a very useful resource for any small business.

Keep the cash flowing

It doesn’t matter how much your business sells. If you can’t pay the bills, you’re bust.
So how do smart firms keep the cash flowing? This brief guide offers useful tips and suggestions, including specific case study examples, on how small businesses can reduce costs and improve their cash flow.


Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista

Podcast (11.6MB): Learn how you can simply and easily encrypt your Office 2007 files and secure your data

Video: Four ways Office 2007 will make your life easier

Videojug’s unique take on how Office 2007 will make you more efficient at work (2m:48s)

Video: Latest Office 2007 features

An overview of the changes and benefits and outlines the latest features of the 2007 Office System (36m:01s)

10 ways your business can accomplish more

Top tips for doing more with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista

Microsoft Windows Vista

Video: Upgrading to Windows Vista

Microsoft's Matt McSpirit explains the new features in Windows Vista and what it can do for your business (28m:26s)

Backing up with Windows Vista

How to archive and store data


Microsoft Office Word 2007

Video: How to blog through Word 2007

You can now get your thoughts onto the web using Word (1m:41s)

Save a Word 2007 document as a PDF

No third party tool is required

Create a document for use on previous Word versions

Compatibility Mode ensures that non-Word 2007 users can edit

Video: Attractive documents in Word 2007

Microsoft's David Overton explains how to create great more attractive documents in Word 2007 (16m:25s)

Microsoft Office Excel 2007

Video: How to impress your boss with pivot tables

A light-hearted look at making sense of your data (2m:38s)

Video: how Excel can spot what you need to know

Make spreadsheets easy to read with Videojug’s tips on conditional formatting (2m:22s)

Make spreadsheet data come alive

Creating charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007

Video: Accounting in Excel 2007

Microsoft's David Overton explains how to use accounting templates in Excel 2007 in this short video (5m:50s)

Video: Easier to read spreadsheets in Excel 2007

Microsoft's David Overton explains how to make spreadsheets easier to read using conditional formatting in Excel 2007 (3m:55s)


Microsoft Outlook 2007 Business Contact Manager

Video: what to do if you send a kamikaze email

Videojug’s advice on how to recover your dignity (and save your job) (2m:47s)

Video: How to set up and write a great out-of-office

Manage your work, even when you’re not in the office! (2m:54s)

Find what you need quickly in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Instant Search makes it snappy

Demo: Tour the Business Contact Manager home page
Demo: Use Business Contact Manager for Outlook 2007
Demo: Create a marketing campaign with Business Contact Manager
Demo: Turn opportunities into realities with Business Contact Manager
Demo: Analyse your business with Business Contact Manager reports
Demo: Customise Business Contact Manager Forms
Demo: Share your Business Data using Business Contact Manager

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Podcast (7.7MB): Take a couple of minutes to learn how you can produce professional sales presentations quickly and easily with PowerPoint templates

Video: Write a Powerpoint presentation in five minutes

Powerpoint 2007 can help you put together a stonking presentation in no time at all (1m:53s)

Video: How to deliver an Oscar-winning presentation

Some great tips - Videojug style - on delivering a great presentation (3m:47s)

Convert text to graphics in PowerPoint 2007 presentations

SmartArt tools in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007


Microsoft Office Publisher 2007

Assemble marketing materials quickly

Saving time with Microsoft Office Publisher 2007

Podcast (10.9MB): Publisher 2007 has a whole host of features to help you produce professional brochures to help you sell.

Podcast (11MB): Need to produce flyer? You can do it easily and quickly with Publisher 2007.

Microsoft Office Live

Office Live Webcast

Build an online presence through Office Live (25m:24s)



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