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These skills can save you time and
money, and keep your business growing
Flyers and brochures -- keep them up to date, edit for new prices, products, services
Use a laptop as a presentation machine, with Powerpoint
Use speadsheets to track time, money, sales, inventory, salaries, costs
Look good on paper: better business letters & documents
Make and improve your own web page. Sample: this website
Sell products and services on the Internet
Track product and service improvements on the Net
Track the competition on the Internet
Add pictures and eye-catching effects to important documents
Use old documents, letters, lists, photos, contracts, brochures to make new ones
Avoid doing things twice, when making documents and using your computer
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
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Who We Teach
INJURED WORKERS
LAW FIRMS
CAREER UPGRADE
BUSINESSES
STUDENTS, WRITERS, TEACHERS
SENIORS & FAMILIES
SKILLS to LEARN
TALK, DON'T TYPE
About Us
Where We Teach
How We Teach
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