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These skills can save you time and 
money, and keep your business growing
  1. Flyers and brochures -- keep them up to date, edit for new prices, products, services
  2. Use a laptop as a presentation machine, with Powerpoint
  3. Use speadsheets to track time, money, sales, inventory, salaries, costs
  4. Look good on paper: better business letters & documents
  5. Make and improve your own web page.  Sample: this website
  6. Sell products and services on the Internet
  7. Track product and service improvements on the Net
  8. Track the competition on the Internet
  9. Add pictures and eye-catching effects to important documents
  10. Use old documents, letters, lists, photos, contracts, brochures to make new ones
  11. Avoid doing things twice, when making documents and using your computer
  12. Send and receive faxes with your computer 

1.  Write text & numbers easier, faster, more thoroughly
  • Speed tricks in Word, Excel, & other programs
  • Talk, don't type: use voice recognition to get your thoughts on paper.  Stop typing!
  • Make links among your documents or document sections, for faster navigating

2.  Better document formats
  • Make forms, newsletters, flyers and proper business documents 
  • Add footnotes, table of contents, table of authorities, index 
  • Add page numbers, headers and footers to letters and important documents
  • Control "runaway paragraphs" and "runaway sections" in an MS Word document
  • Connect your Excel and Microsoft Word documents, so the update automatically 
  • Add attractive numbered and bulleted lists 

3.  Use Internet better, for sources, pictures, information
  • Searching: use more (and better) search engines
  • Bringing text, pictures, data from  websites into your document
  • Putting links in your document to Internet information
  • Copying Internet info that "can't be copied"

4.  More appealing documents
  • Adding pictures, other graphic effects
  • Using text art, word art
  • Use visuals from web sites, news
  • Newsletter/columnar layouts that "can't be done" in MS Word

5.  Powerpoint presentations
  • Basic and more advanced powerpoint shows
  • Special picture and text effects
  • How to do things PowerPoint doesn't "allow"
  • Add more pictures, layer them, copy them, vary them, place where you wish
  • Adding music to your show
  • Converting an outline into a presentation
  • Printing handout sheets and documents from your PowerPoint docs
  • Bring MS Word and Excel docs into a presentation

6.  Spreadsheets: Keep track of the miles, hours, dollars and other numbers
  • Track your costs with accuracy 
  • Show clients and coworkers the figures and charts
  • Use eight simple formulas for almost everything
  • Sort and filter important lists of information
  • Show averages, percentages
  • Add pie charts, line and column charts for impact
  • Bring MS Word docs into spreadsheets
  • Nest a spreadsheet in a Microsoft Word document, for automatic updates 
  • Put spreadsheets into PowerPoint presentation