Issues with Excel 2007

Issues where Excel 2007 puts a “-“ in the field where you change a number when a formula is in play.

When “Calculation” word appears on bottom left and your fields do not automatically calculate on update or a “-“ shows up, set to Automatic (Formulas Tab – Calculation/Options – Check on Automatic)

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Email Issues

Why Is My Mail to This Person Not Getting Through?
by Advanced Networks & Web Solutions – 04/04/2009

Spam is a real problem. With some people getting literally hundreds of unwanted messages per day a lot of internet service providers, as well as some individuals, are taking drastic steps to reduce the amount of junk mail in their inboxes. One of the largest is AOL.

The problem with many of these anti-spam measures is that they can block legitimate email as well. Assuming that your email to other places is working, it’s quite possible that that’s what you’re seeing.

Legitimate email typically gets erroneously blocked for a couple of reasons: either the receiving system thinks your email looks too much like spam, or the receiving system thinks that you’re sending it from an address that is or has been accused of being a spammer. Note that I said thinks – and it’s the mistakes associated with that thinking that cause legitimate email to be mistaken for spam.

Spam content filters look at your email and assign points for various behaviors that are also associated with email that comes from a spammer. As soon as you collect too many points (where “too many” is up to the receiving system, or the individual recipient), your email is flagged as spam. Some of the things to watch for in your email include:

    * Sexually explicit terms, or phrases such as “adults only”, “over 18″ and the like.

    * Certain drugs, again typically linked to sexual performance or characteristics.

    * SHOUTING. Spam filters will often consider shouting (or alternately SHOUTING or not) as sales copy.

    * Fake, inconsistent or illegal return addresses. Or a “reply-to” address that does not match the “from” address.

(If you don’t know how to even make that happen, don’t worry about it.)

    * HTML email. Spam filters consider HTML email as having a higher likelihood of being spam than plain text email.

    * Marketing terms. Because so much spam is in fact direct sales marketing, many filters now look for various words and phrases such as “satisfaction guaranteed”, “free offer”, or any of a host of sales wording and give that a higher probability of being spam.

It’s important to realize that no one is saying that any of those things in your email is bad, or that any one of those things will cause your email to be blocked. The unfortunate reality of the situation is that the more your email looks like spam, however innocuous, the more likely it is to be treated as spam.

The other common problem is email being blocked because it came from an IP address that’s been identified as somehow being related to spammers. If you’re not getting your email bounced back to you with some indication, this is both harder to detect, and harder to resolve.

A quick test to make sure any email can get through is to use another provider – a friend’s email account on a different service, or even a free Hotmail, or Yahoo account (though many places filter those addresses as well). Assuming they get through, one resource is the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) site. This site offers both information, and a tool to see if perhaps your IP address has been blacklisted.

Finally, if you find that your address has been blacklisted, or you still can’t determine what’s going on, it’s time to contact your ISP. They’re the “owners” of your IP address, and are responsible for keeping spammers off of it, and keeping it working for you.

And if they’re not interested, it might be time for a new ISP.

Interested in troubleshooting your Spam Problem, contact us directly from our site or from this blog page www.anwsol.com | info@anwsol.com

Twitter

To Twitter or not to Twitter?

That is definitely the question.  What exactly is twitter and what is the point?

Well, this type of social communication is another form of quick messaging from you to the world (the world you connect with)

Let me cut to the chase – Twitter is many things to many people but what often goes unnoticed is that it can be an incredibly powerful marketing & community building tool with the ability to develop your brand, build relationships with your audience and provide a promotional medium that has the ability to go viral!

According to the Twitter FAQ, “Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing.” That doesn’t really tell us very much. Wikipedia says, “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, to the Twitter website, or any one of the multitude of Twitter applications now available”.

Twitter asks the question, “What are you doing?” and allows you to send a small update (limited to just 140 characters) to your followers. The concept is amazingly simple and that is perhaps one of the main reasons why it has caught on like wildfire. The restriction to 140 characters has resulted in Twitter being labeled “micro blogging”. A traditional blog is a log of what somebody is up to, but in a richer, more detailed format. One of the key benefits of Twitter is that you can send and receive updates (also called tweets) via your browser, email , instant messaging clients and SMS so you can keep in touch no matter where you are.

and now for a funny video regarding this Twitter world:

SO WHY WOULD SOMEONE LIKE ADVANCED NETWORKS USE TWITTER?

Well, great question: To inform users

Think of this, if Advanced Networks & Web Solutions can provide a quick sms (twitter) message to their followers we can send informational tweets regarding fast paced viruses to the best tips and trips on how to fix your pc!  We can also send quick updates and news alerts regarding technology to you, quick and easy!

So follow us at www.twitter.com/anwsol 

If you have any further questions regarding this or how to use it email us info@anwsol.com 

quick tips on tweeting

From your twitter status screen

to reply to someone for all to see type 
@username message
example @anwsol great tip on fixing my slow computer! keep them coming!

to follow someone type
follow @username
example follow @anwsol

to RT or ReTweet (meaning resend someone message to all) type
RT @username and original message  (copy all of original tweet)
example RT @issradio Hey all come hang at coffee bean free coffee 

to direct message someone (private message only for direct party to see) type
d @username message 
example d @anwsol hey loved the enchiladas you brought to potluck the other day

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