New on the website is a collection of 60-second business insider podcasts . These are designed to provide quick and easy resource for brushing up your skills in just a couple of minutes (OK, not quite 60 seconds, but not much longer!) so you get more out of your software. They're well worth a look. Here's a selection of what's on offer: How to create a business card Joining a Live Meeting Sharing files with Office Groove Using the colour category in Outlook Organising client information with bUsiness

New 60-second business insider videos are great way to learn something very quickly! Many office-based tasks can be made significantly easier with new technology but generally we just carry one doing things in the same old way. But by learning a new process - or at the least basics of it - in just 60 (ish) seconds, you can make a very significant difference to how effectively you work. Videos include: Saving a PowerPoint file as a pdf Using templates in Office Using the colour category in Outlook

" How can I tell whether pop-up updates are real or spam? " and " Will I need to re-learn Word, Excel, Publisher etc if I upgrade to Office 2007? " are the two questions we highlight this month in our Ask the Expert feature. Asif Jinnah, Microsoft UK Field Area IT Manager tackles the ever-present business challenge of making sure your data and your systems are secure, and Gill Le Fever, Microsoft Office Marketing Manager highlights some of the tools available to help you get up to speed quickly with

No, not Christmas (yet), but tax, year end and other financial stuff. For those of us who are not trained accountants (which has to be the majority), we need all the help we can get when it comes to tracking income, outgoings, rents, tax returns, etc etc. Small Business Blog is a recent convert to the power of Excel and can thoroughly recommend you spend some time exploring what it can do for you. Don't expect to become a financial whizz in an hour, but if you invest some effort in setting up your

This strategic briefing provides an overview of the new 2007 Microsoft Office system, an integrated system of programs, servers, and services. In particular, the session covers innovations in the client-side user interface and XML-based file formats, as well as investments in new SharePoint server-based capabilities around workflow, content management, search, forms and Excel services. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=200

Thanks to Mr Pallot for this one :- Estimate performance and capacity requirements for Excel Services environments http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f?en-us/library/f0ff6cc9-2f84-4d73-8ac2-390bbcb08c151033.mspx White papers: Excel Services step-by-step guides http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f?en-us/library/eea3ace8-0863-429a-b1e8-041254ed2fc41033.mspx Chapter overview: Configure Excel Services http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/f?en-us/library/fdcce254-afdc-48f1-a023-8031d0443b8e1033.mspx