Give It A Try!
Free Technology Tips from AIS Technology

AIS Technology is very excited to be able to provide your office with monthly technology tips - something we are calling Give It A Try!  Beginning in March 2008, around the beginning of every month, we will post two different Give It A Try! tips - one will be a general software tip, like for your email or browser program - the other tip will be specific for our TAM® software users.

Our goal is that these Give It A Try! tips will make the people in your office more efficient when using their computers.  So if you have a monthly staff meeting, please take a minute to share this month's Give It A Try! with your team.  You are also welcome to forward the tip to the people in your office or anyone whom you think would find benefit in them.

Every month's Give It A Try! will be posted here on this website.

If you would like them delivered to your inbox, please click on the links below to sign up for the appropriate tip.

General Software Give It A Try! Subscription Request

TAM® Give It A Try! Subscription Request


*** Have a tip you'd like to share???  Have you discovered something in your office that has saved you time or trouble?  We would love to hear about it.  If we use your tip, we will handle all the documenatation and give you all the credit - how cool is that?!?  Submit a tip today! ***


AIS Technology will respect your email address and never share your very precious information with anyone outside our organization!

General Software Tips
June 2008 - Excel Column Widths
      Do you spend a lot of time beautifying Excel spreadsheets after you have entered your data into them? There is a quick and easy way to automatically have Excel adjust the width of all the columns that contain data in them and it takes only three mouse clicks to do it!
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May 2008 - Managing Internet Explorer Favorites
      There are many options for sorting your favorites in Internet Explorer. My two favorites are creating folders and alphabetizing entries.
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April 2008 - Word - A New Spin on AutoCorrect
      Save yourself time by letting Word insert your commonly typed phrases and sentences using AutoCorrect.
This also works in Outlook and Excel too!
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March 2008 - Printing Part of a WebPage
      Did you ever wish you could print out just PART of the webpage? You don’t need the entire page – just one little section.  Well accomplishing that goal is a lot easier than you may realize!!!!
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TAM® Tips
June 2008 - Double-Click Options
      The Agency Manager software provides end users with lots of options for making your software work for YOU. Double-Click options are one of those small, but powerful efficiency makers. These settings dictate what happens when you double-click your mouse in certain areas of the software. These settings are workstation specific – so every user can make their own double-click choices.
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May 2008 - The Red Paperclip
      More and more people are attaching information in their management system every day and wanting to send that same information back out of their systems via e-mail… but not many people are familiar with the red paperclip. This little guy allows you to select and e-mail items that are found in a client’s attachment list in TAM®.
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April 2008 - MiniTips
      A handful of mini-tips to save you time inside your management system!
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March 2008 - Filters
      There is so much information in your management system… and it just keeps growing!  The ability to quickly filter the information is already at your fingertips – you just need to explore the Filter Tab.
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