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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
Every time you open up a new document in Word, Excel or any other similar
program, a great many things are decided before hand: what type of font is
used, how big it is, your margins, background colour, spelling, the list goes
on.
You can add more to that list. Say you want everything to start with your
company's details and have a disclaimer on the bottom. And the font to be
Ariel 14. Easy.
First set up the document exactly the way you want it, leaving blank spaces
for the things that will change (i.e. the actual wording of the letter). To
make sure the font will be what you want, highlight the whole letter (EDIT -
SELECT ALL) and change the font. That will stop it changing back and forth on
you.
The go to FILE, click on SAVE AS and down the bottom where is says SAVE AS
TYPE, click on the down arrow and chose TEMPLATE. Now type in a name you will
remember in the box next to FILE NAME and click on SAVE.
Now the tricky bit. Finding it to use it again.
Whenever you want to use that template, open the program, say Word, and
click on FILE, then NEW (for those of us with the misfortune of the expanding
menu bars that mean half your commands keep disappearing, you may have to
click on the double arrows at the bottom of the list first to find that
option.)
Your template will be offered as one of the documents you can open. Just
double click on it or click once and hit OPEN.
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Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I wrote
it.
Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of Vocational
and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14 years of having to
make sales or starve that makes her think she has really learnt what does and
doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she specialises in helping people get
started on the long road to technology.
"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."
