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Internet has become a basic necessity for almost all of the people around the world, since its global boom in the mid 90s. This facility of internet is used for news, business updates, to stay social, and for different other tasks. Majority of the businesses, ranging from those listed on LSE (London Stock Exchange) to small home-based ones, have gone online. There are many reasons behind it including global exposure, low cost business flow and ease of access.

Businesses are rapidly changing their typical dial-up access connections via 56 k modems with broadband connections. One of the main reasons for doing so is that the dial-up connection keeps the telephone line engaged hence restricting it to be used for the sole purpose of connecting to the internet. Another reason is the interruption in the online session which may cause loss of data or important business deals. The browsing speed is also limited to a maximum of 56 kbps and can further get painfully slow if a local network is using a single connection.

No matter what kind of business you are running, and whether it is a big or a small one, broadband internet, sooner or later, becomes your inevitability. Business broadband makes it possible for all ventures to excel in information collection, communications and e-trading. To obtain broadband for your business, you would have to consider various deals, offered by internet service providers. A great variety of companies provide a wide range of business broadband deals. These services are faster and better than standard home net connections.

You might be thinking by now, how come a business broadband service remains better than that of a standard home broadband service, when a same service provider is providing both the connections? The answer is the various features embedded within the business services. One of these is added security, which makes it a healthier choice. Whilst, using business broadband, you are at peace of mind that your vital information (or your secret recipes) is completely protected. Most service providers will include anti-virus, spy ware, spam ware and data protection programs and firewall tools, within their deals.

Another peculiarity is the connection ratio, which in business services is low. This helps by decreasing the level at which your internet speed suffers, when heavy downloading is taking place, which is a necessity in an official environment.

One other facility is that you can allocate a fixed IP address for your business, which stays the same, even if you reconnect or disconnect the internet connection. This allows you to work on the server from your own place of work, along with providing safer communication between all the people in your office and in your network.

Before you pick a broadband service for your business, it is reasonable to make an evaluation of all the deals available in the market. By doing this, you would be able to make a better and cost-effective judgement. Remember never to sign anything before you have read all the terms and conditions. By assessing the mixture of deals, you can find out about the price tags, dial up speed and features that are up for grab.

There are many service providers in the market offering several types of packages for businesses. To make your business prosper at a higher level, evaluate the needs and requirements of your business and choose the broadband service that provides the benefits and services to suit all your business needs.

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Each Excel 2007 document is a container referred to as a workbook. Workbooks, in turn, are made up of worksheets and it is the worksheets that actually store your information. Although the number of worksheets which a workbook may contain is limited only by available memory, for most computer users, there will be a practical limit of a few dozen. If a workbook contained hundreds of sheets, it would operate extremely slowly.

The controls for navigating and manipulating worksheets are located in the bottom left of the Excel document window. Each worksheet has a named tab which identifies and is used to activate it. As well as worksheets, Excel allows the user to create chart (and other) sheets. Each of these will also have a tab of its own.

Whenever you insert a new sheet into a workbook, Excel automatically assigns is a default name consisting of the word “Sheet” followed by a number. The easiest way of changing this default name is to double-click on the worksheet tab and either modify the name or simply type a completely new one. It is also possible to right-click on a sheet tab and choose rename. The Rename command may also be accessed in the Format section of the Cells group of the Home Tab.

If you have a sheet name which is rather long or in some way difficult, it is also possible to copy and paste the name from somewhere else. Simply use Control-C to copy any piece of text, double-click on a sheet tab and use Control-V to paste the text.

Another way of making tabs easily identifiable is to assign them colours. For example, if we have worksheets containing monthly sales figures interspersed with sheets containing quarterly analysis, we might assign a different colour for each quarter.

You would start by selecting the quarter one sheet then, holding down the Control key, click on the tabs containing the figures for January, February and March. Next, to set the colour of the selected tabs, choose Format Colour in the Format section of the Cells group of the Home Tab. You could then do the same to the sheets in the other three quarters.

As more and more sheets are added to a given workbook, the fact of having different colours for certain types of sheet offers us another way of identifying and finding information quickly. Assigning colours to sheet tabs can also allows Excel users to conform to standards which may already exist within their organisations, for example, where a given colour is used to represent worksheets containing data of a certain type.

Author is a developer and trainer with Macresource Computer Solutions, a UK IT training company offering Microsoft Excel 2007 training courses at their central London training centre.

Microsoft Excel has a number of different ways of changing the width of columns and the height of rows. The width of columns is specified in characters. By default, every column has a width of just over eight characters. This means that if you’re using the spreadsheets primarily for numerical data, you can enter eight digits in each column using the default width.

If you plan to change the default width, it makes sense to do so before you start entering data into your worksheet. For example, if you know that you’ll be typing fairly short entries in each column, you might want to reduce the default width. To change the default width, go to the Cells section of the Home Tab of the Excel Ribbon. Click on the Format button and choose Default Width from the drop-down. In the dialog box which appears, you will see Excel’s standard column width of approximately 8 characters. Simply type a new entry and click OK.

As long as you haven’t changed the width of a column using any other technique, you can change the default width at any time and any cells that have been left at the default width will automatically change to reflect the new setting.

The second way of changing column widths is to use Excel’s AutoFit feature. This automatically adjusts the width of a column to ensure that the contents of the selected cells are completely visible. To AutoFit individual columns, highlight the cells that you want Excel to take into account or simply highlight the entire column. Next, position the cursor on the right hand edge of the column and double-click.

To AutoFit data in a range of columns, you can either select a range of data across several columns or highlight several entire columns. With your selection in place, choose Format then AutoFit Column Width in the Cells group of the Home Tab on the Excel Ribbon.

When using Excel’s AutoFit feature, it’s inevitable that you’ll end up with columns that have different widths. If you want a range of columns to have exactly the same width then simply select the range and choose Format then Column Widths and enter the required width.

Excel also allows you to interactively adjust the width of columns. To do this, position the cursor on the right hand edge of the column. When the cursor changes to a double arrow, click, hold and drag. As you drag, the width of the column is displayed both in characters and in pixels. This technique can be used either to adjust the width of a single column or a range of columns.

The writer of this article is a developer and trainer with Macresource Computer Solutions, an independent computer training company offering Microsoft Excel 2007 Classes in London and throughout the UK.