Diana Huggins who contributes to Lockgnome’s Windows Fanatics blog always seems to have those tips and how tos that people need. Whether it’s watermarks in Word or new lines in Excel cells, Diana has posted them.
Sure, you might think they are simple, if you’ve already spent time trying to figure out how to do it through trial and error and Office help, but lots of people haven’t.
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One of the anticipated features and Microsoft office 2007 is the ability to natively export files as PDF or XPS. I was looking for this feature today when I needed to send off an invoice but couldn’t find it. Luckily a quick search in help gave me the answer right away, I needed to download the add-in!
It only took a couple seconds to do this and I didn’t even need to reboot or close Excel, but really bugged me that this wasn’t included by default.
Here’s the link to the page where you can download this pretty essential add-in for office 2007.
Even though Microsoft has been criticized by Adobe for including PDF export in Office 2007, I think it’s a really good thing. I wonder if the XPS format is gonna catch on and all. I think we’ll have to wait and see.
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So you need to create a new document. It doesn’t matter if you’re using Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint (or even OpenOffice), looking at a blank screen is almost as daunting as getting the document done.
Now, when you make this a complex task, like a form letter or invoice, you can waste a lot of time making one from scratch. My first stop whenever I need to do something like this is to look for the built-in templates that of come with Microsoft office.
Like today, I needed to make a new invoice, my old PDF invoice wasn’t going to work anymore, so I needed something new. My first stop in Excel, because a knew Excel was the right application for me to make invoices, was to open help, and type invoice template. I was given a choice of several different styles of templates, I picked one, downloaded it from Microsoft, filled it in, and I was done.
The same goes for Word or PowerPoint, browsing the built in templates can save you a ton of time when you need to make a new document, an especially a complex document.
For instance business cards. When you buy one of the print yourself business card packs, using a template is critical to making sure the cards come out right.
For those of you who think all stock templates are boring and ugly, you’re wrong. A lot of the templates are very nice, and all of them can be customized.
One of the best work tips I can give you is to use the resources your computer already has two save you time and effort. Using templates is one of those tips that everyone should be using.
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