used with permission from Microsoft Office Blogs Implementing an instant messaging platform is important for productivity for teams of all sizes. Enabling a system for quick, informal, easy-to-reference and mobile chats keeps teams connected for nimble...
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How Office 365 will save your business money
Moving into the cloud can be a daunting task, but if your company is looking to update from a legacy version of Microsoft Office then Office 365 will almost always be the most cost effective upgrade route. SpireTech can help make the transition painless. The biggest...
How to work from home and look good doing it
used with permission from Microsoft Office Blogs In the last decade, the mobile workforce has increased by more than 100 percent—not that surprising when we consider the abundant improvement in technology over that same time period. Telecommuting offers wonderful...
Why you should (or shouldn’t) adopt SaaS
used with permission from HP Technology at Work It wasn't long ago that businesses only had two options when it came to purchasing software: purchasing the product off the shelf or purchasing a license agreement for the software. Even with available on-site...
Quickly insert a screenshot in Microsoft Word
If you need to insert a screenshot into your Word document quickly, without memorizing keyboard shortcuts, here’s how! This is a little-known feature of Word, but incredibly easy. Go to the Insert tab on the Ribbon. In the Illustrations group, click on the Screenshot...
Office365 streamlines management of software licenses
Manage People, not software licenses and keys You’ve probably had one or more of the following things happen in your business: You need to reinstall some software on a new computer, but you can’t find the media or serial numbers.An employee needs some software...
SpireTech achieves Microsoft Cloud Service Provider 1-Tier status
SpireTech is excited to announce that we have been accepted into Microsoft's CSP (Cloud Service Provider) program at the direct, 1-Tier level. SpireTech clients can now enjoy unified billing, support, and management services for Office 365 and Azure products....
The top three spreadsheet errors of the decade—so far
used with permission from IBMby Paul Bard Spreadsheets have been a popular tool for budgeting, forecasting and planning for decades. But spreadsheet errors have been causing serious problems for finance professionals for just as long. One wrong keystroke and...
Methods for Searching Your Email in Outlook 2013
Do you have thousands of emails stored in your Outlook account? Do you sometimes need to find the one email from five months ago that mentions the access key for a software program you didn't think anyone was still using? We all have times when we need to dig through...
How to Remove Duplicates in Excel 2013
Very commonly you may be dealing with a spreadsheet of data, with many duplicates that you want to remove quickly. This happens often if you are dealing with mailing lists with repeated information (names, email addresses, zipcodes, etc.), an export of data from a...