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Essential skills
for writing and research
1. Write more easily, more thoroughly, and faster
Speed tricks & shortcuts in Word, Excel, etc.
Talk, don't type: get it all on paper by
voice recognition
Make links among documents or document sections
2. Better document formats
Use tables, columns, graphics for better documents
Footnotes, endnotes, tables of contents, & authorities
Headers and footers that work the way you wish
Control runaway "sections" in an MS Word document
Import Excel docs into Word docs, & vice versa
Outline numbering: easy adjustments, correct layout
3. Use Internet pictures and text
Search with more (and better) search engines
Bring text, pictures, data from websites into your document
Put links in your document to Internet information
Copy Internet info that "can't be copied"
4. More appealing documents
Add pictures, other graphic effects
Use text art, word art
Use visuals from web sites, news
Newsletter layouts that "can't be done" in MS Word
5. PowerPoint presentations
Basic and more advanced powerpoint shows
Special picture and text effects
Do the things PowerPoint doesn't "allow"
Add more pictures, layer them, vary and reposition them
Add music to your show
Convert an outline into a presentation
Print handout sheets and documents from PowerPoint
Bring MS Word and Excel docs into a presentation
6. Spreadsheets: figures & charts "prove your point"
Make a stronger impression, using numbers and charts
Use eight main formulas for almost everything
Sort and filter lists of information
Show averages, percents of total
Pie charts, line and column charts for impact
Eliminate The Dull from figures and charts
Bring MS Word docs into spreadsheets
Nest a spreadsheet in an MS Word document
Put a spreadsheet in a Powerpoint presentation
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