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Tips and Tricks- 22 Excel shortcuts

Tips and Tricks- 22 Excel shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts we all know of them but how many of us really have the time to learn all of them? If you are an Excel user and use it as much as I do, here are 22 really handy command shortcuts you may want to remember.
So go ahead try it out!

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Would your IT infrastructure be given a clean bill of health?

If you were to compare the health of an IT environment to that of an athlete, you would find some fundamental similarities. Just as the overall health of an athlete’s body would impact his success, so too will the ‘health’ of your IT directly affect the performance benefits to your business.
So what is Healthy IT?
Ideally [...]

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Online Backup versus Onsite Backup

It’s not about if you lose data, it’s about when you lose critical data.
Whether it’s through hardware or software failure, user error, theft, the chances are that somewhere down the line critical data will be lost in some way, and therefore, it is imperative that a strategy is implemented for the backing up of important [...]

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Space Age vindicated for supporting Microsoft’s Hyper-V

I was asked to explain why Space Age Technologies uses virtualisation and the Microsoft implementation of that in the form of Hyper-V recently and I honestly was initially stumped as to how I should reply. Virtualised servers are now so much a part of how I look at server infrastructure that I hardly consider any [...]

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Service Desk: Want Excellent Service?

Service Desk: Want Excellent Service?

As a service user you play a pivotal role in shaping how services are delivered, and the quality of the service you receive, after all: “Your business is our business.”Without you we would not be in business”.
The Why
So why should you care? Let’s look at this from two perspectives:

 
Why are there “How’s my driving” stickers [...]

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How to find that äöüëéêß… Special Character on your Keyboard

In South Africa we do have an abundance of official and even more spoken languages. Many of these use special characters and the chances are that you do not have a computer with a keyboard for that language. To leave them out is also not always an option. You for example would probably not be [...]

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Behind the scenes at Tech-Ed 2010

Every year Microsoft and its Partners put together an event where they show-case their vision of the future and bring professionals in all areas of IT together to allow them to exchange ideas and knowledge. That event is called Tech-Ed and this year I was fortunate enough to be part of the delegation Space Age [...]

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Space Age Technologies

Welcome to Space Age Technologies’s Blog ! We are an IT platform service and solutions provider to the small and medium business market. Specifically, we service the greater Cape Town region in South Africa. As Managed Service providers with expert knowledge and specialised solutions, we are able to add value to our customers’ business : [...]

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