Writing Business Letters

10,000 Business Letter Templates English
http://www.insiderreports.com/resources/library/searchletters.asp

For dimensions see
P:\Letter Layout Standards

Templates for Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint etc. (Thanks Ron T.)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx

Modèles de documents pour Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. (Thanks Ron T.)
http://office.microsoft.com/fr-ca/templates/default.aspx

Plantillas Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc. (Thanks Ron T.)
http://office.microsoft.com/es-mx/templates/default.aspx

Word Advanced

Converting an E-book to word.
Ebooks often have paragraph marks on every line. These must be removed before using them in normal documents.

1. Replace double paragraph marks with XXXX
2. Delete all paragraph marks
3. Replace all XXXX with single paragraph marks.
4. Set space after paragraph to 12 points.

Word Desktop Publishing

Steps to a perfect Desktop Publishing document.

1. Type your document
2. Layout your grid (choose columns and spacing, or table)
3. Format the text
4. Format the paragraphs
5. Add text boxes where required for special effects (example: pull quotes, rotated text)

Kerning won't center.

1. Do not include the last character when kerning a word. It must line up perfectly on the right margin.

Make a template:

1. Convert any document to a template by changing it's extension from .DOC to .DOT in windows explorer.
2. Just double click this template to create a new document. Right Mouse button to edit it. To add it to your other templates, open it and save as template.

General Tips

Capture the screen.

1. Hold the ALT key and pressing the Print Screen key. This will place your active window in the clipboard.
2. Paste it to Word.
3. Resize or crop as needed.
4. Add your comments.
5. Send by email, Print, fax or save.

Renaming a file.

1. Press F2 and type the new name. Then press Enter.

Fast folder navigation in the Explorer.
In the Explorer folder panel (press FOLDERS button to display it).

1. Press the UP Arrow and DOWN Arrow to move between folders.
2. Press the Right Arrow and Left Arrow to show and hide sub-folders.

Word 2000 basic

Borders and shading, bad company.

1. To place a border on a paragraph in a group of shaded paragraphs hilight it's end of paragraph mark before choosing your border. Otherwise the border will apply to the edge of the shaded area.

"keep with next" doesn't work

1. When creating groups of paragraphs or lists that must remain together and so not break at the bottom of a page, make sure every paragraph of the group, except the last one, is checked "Keep with next" and "keep lines together".
2. Troubleshooting:
   Just go to the last paragraph of the group and turn off "keep with next" and the group will function normally.