Office Wife

I am grateful for Akismet because the comments that I do not find beneficial get caught before they can be posted.

Then I can peruse them and decide if they are beneficial to you my readers. Hence this note.

There are more spam comments than beneficial comments. What I mean by spam are blatant advertising, pushing a website that has nothing to do with my blog or gibberish a mix of alpha, numerical and symbols. The latter I do not understand because the links are nonsense and go nowhere. The advertisements do not get published because they have nothing to do with the blog content I publish either.

Comment etiquette states that you should make comments that are relevant to the post, your signature and links get published with your comment so there is no reason to force an advertisement. Not only that but you breed contempt among the bloggers where you force your ads. I know I am not alone when I state this and tell you that if it is a blatant advertisement it will not get published.

I prefer that your comment ads to what I write, informs my readers and inspires them to make further comments. I write to inspire discussions, gain outside information and reviews. Even when I am writing about my latest discovery.

When I visit your site or blog you will find that I am more than willing to make my comments substantive rather than “Great blog!” We know our blogs are great, I am speaking for bloggers everywhere, that is why we have them. Well, that and to keep you the reader informed, entertained and inspired.

Please, know I appreciate your advertising efforts and look in the side links under training and you will find several resources that can help you learn to market your sites. Also, my contact page is filling up with other sites where I have great success in marketing and gaining input from others.

Great success today, many blessings. And Thank you very much for taking the time to visit.

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It is spring time, that time of year to open the windows, let the air in and redesign your small or home office. Start off with changing the lighting in your personal space, choose a ceiling fan with lights, wall sconces, and floor or desk lamps. Pick the color and style that fits your new look. Lumen’s Lights plus life selection includes designer lighting, simple and less complicated looks and contemporary styles.

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Lumen’s offers many more solutions to decorating your home office, or any room in your house. With spring cleaning comes the opportunity to put a new face on an old room.

Visit their website to discover the many terrific products they have to offer.

There are several programs available today to create flow charts, graphs, and what is now being called mind maps. Rather than spend more money on yet another piece of software I decided to play around in Microsoft Word using the Smart Art tools. The Smart Art tools provide you with a predesigned form to begin, horizontal, vertical, hierarchical, and many other designs. There is no limit to the size or style of graphs or charts that you can create. The Smart Art tool is a part of Microsoft Office 2007 and allows you to create a plan of action either through the use of flow charts or lists. A very powerful tool and one that allows you to get as creative as you want.

To begin using Smart Art tool you will begin by creating a new word document. Once your document is open, go to insert on the tool bar, then click Smart Art. Browse the different layouts, pick one that will work with your plans.

The next step is to decide on colors, fonts and formatting your flow chart.

Positioning where you want the chart to sit in the page is simple, at the right hand side of the format menu is the position button, simply click and select from the drop down menu to place your chart either in the center, lower right, upper right, it only matters according to your content. If you are creating a presentation for print then you can set your chart to the lower left, formatting so the text will flow above and to the right of the chart. There are no hard or fast rules to designing your presentation. However, you will only be able to position your chart if it is selected.

While the chart is selected the Format menu is set as the active tool bar, here is where you decide on what the font will look like, the colors in the chart, shapes and other details. Double click in the center of the chart and the Design menu will replace the Format menu, or at the top you can select either one. Choosing the layout, colors, etc is important but you can fill in the text first, then go back and make changes easily.

To fill in the text, click in on the word text, write your content and as you write you will notice that the text adjusts according to the size of the word.

The default chart can be adjusted, added to or subtracted from. If there are not enough boxes for your purpose adding more is easily accomplished, simply click the box you want to add to, then go to the Add Shape button on the Design menu, it is located in the left end of the menu. Click and from the drop down menu select add shape below or above, your choice. I added mine below.

Complete your graph according to your needs and when you are done save it as a pdf or xps document simply by selecting save as. You are done. No spending extra money to purchase more software, the Smart Art is easily used in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word; you can even use this little piece of technology directly in Outlook emails. I am writing this in Microsoft Word right now, the graphics were created using Jing, (it is a free download and full use software).

Contact me if you have further questions in regards to using Smart Art or Microsoft Word. I am available for tutoring.