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05/24/2013
Download my favorite QuickBooks keyboard shortcuts.QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts for the PDF copy.QuickBooks Keyboard Shortcuts for the Word copy. My favorite is “A” to make a report for all. I also like “T” for today.  
05/21/2013
On the plane ride home from Dallas, our team was talking and spending some time doing an informal debrief of our week together at the 2013 HTG Summit. I thought it would be good to review some of the great events and activities of the week we just experienced.  So over the next few posts, I'll summarize the view from where I sit.
05/16/2013
On the plane ride home from Dallas, our team was talking and spending some time doing an informal debrief of our week together at the 2013 HTG Summit. I thought it would be good to review some of the great events and activities of the week we just experienced.  So over the next few posts, I'll summarize the view from where I sit.
05/13/2013
Now you can add a video in a Word document using Word 2013. First click the Insert tab then choose Online Video.Search for the video online. I had to go looking for the Cincinnati Reds!After selecting a video and clicking insert, the video will appear near the insertion point.
05/12/2013
On the plane ride home from Dallas, our team was talking and spending some time doing an informal debrief of our week together at the 2013 HTG Summit. I thought it would be good to review some of the great events and activities of the week we just experienced.  So over the next few posts, I'll summarize the view from where I sit.
04/24/2013
Download my Visio keyboard shortcuts.Visio Keyboard Shortcuts for the PDF format.Visio Keyboard Shortcuts for the .DOCX format.
04/12/2013
Now being three months post sale of HTS, I’ve been thinking a lot about finishing strong.  The reality is that making it all the way to the end running hard and right is rare.  Many folks tend to flame out at some point along the journey.  Even in the Bible, it is filled with examples over and over of people who were living large for God and then just fall apart at the end, or later on the journey through life.  In today’s world, there are lots of examples of folks that have been leading well and then fall apart as they begin to wind down.
04/11/2013
Using your SkyDrive account, you can create a free survey that anyone can fill out online. After people fill out your form and click the submit button the data automatically populates to your Excel spreadsheet. Data lovers-this sounds cool doesn’t it! Well this is a new feature that I had to demo. Let me show you how it works. First you need to log on to your SkyDrive account. SkyDrive is operated by Microsoft and comes along with 7GB of free online storage.
04/04/2013
Open a PDF in Word and make changes! Simply awesome. All you have to do is File–>Open and browse to find your PDF doc. Word 2013 attempts to place the text and graphics in place but there may be some formatting layout adoptions that don’t work out so well. But anyway, it is worth the time it takes to make a try. Once opened be sure to double check each page for layout changes.  After edits save the file as a .docx or .pdf or both. Below is a screen shot of 3 of my recent PDFs that I have had opened in Word.
03/29/2013
Download my Income and Expense Monthly Budget Workbook. I’ve made some changes to my monthly budget. This template now includes tracking income at a monthly level. Also the summary tab has a year to date running totals so you can see the difference in income/expenses for the year. Click Income and Expense Monthly Budget for the .xlsx format.    
03/19/2013
You can visualize with blue tracing arrows where you are getting your answers from in Excel. From the Formulas tab–>Formula Auditing group–>click Trace Precedents. Arrows will point to the cells that the formula is using.
03/15/2013
We are constantly working to define and revise our plans for legacy, life, business and leadership as part of the HTG experience. And one of the core elements to all those plans is a clear understanding of our vision. Sometimes we don’t slow down long enough to really consider what that vision is. We draft a statement and move on. If you began developing your vision by drafting a single statement, you probably undershot it.
03/13/2013
Teaming up OneNote and SkyDrive is an awesome way to communicate my goals to myself. As Zig Ziglar said, how can you hit a target you don’t have. I created a list at the beginning of the year on my OneNote SkyDrive account. I can easily view my list from my Windows phone anytime I want to. One of my personal family goals is to read books to my boys as they go to bed.
03/11/2013
One of the foundational parts of the HTG Peer Group program is our method of planning.  The HTG Way of planning for legacy, life, leadership, and business is unique and key to our members’ success.  My good friend Joe Panettieri recently blogged about his personal experience with planning. If you haven’t had a chance to read JP’s post yet, I encourage you to do so.  Check out the comments section, too.  Some HTG members and friends of HTG shared valuable insights about their own planning process there.
03/08/2013
This week I was in Tampa spending time with our friends at ConnectWise, and I was able to catch up with Lisa Jenkins and spend an hour over coffee.  We talked about life and her future plans, but also some of the realities of what is happening in the IT channel, and in HTG as an organization.  She shared a link with me to a great blog post she had written last fall, and I asked if I could post it here.  Take a read - great thinking and some valuable ideas for how to run your company.

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