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Students, Writers, Teachers

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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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