Monday, March 30, 2009

Save Hundreds of Administrative Hours with Microsoft Office Word 2003

Progress isn’t all bad. Recall the time you spent setting margins and headers, hunting down and correcting typos and grammatical errors, inserting repeat information in hundreds of places, and then creating that same document, oh, maybe thousands of times in a single year.
Thankfully those days over and, with each new Microsoft® Office release and improved connectivity to the Web, your administrative skills are ready to double. Today, with tips, training, tricks, and more, delivered right to your desktop, you can learn and stay on task.
Here’s just some of the progress identified at your fingertips by using Word 2003. Save hundreds of administrative hours with the following:
Microsoft Office Templates Save time with templates such as business cards, invoices, calendars, and reports. If you don't see what you want, tell us using the feedback link on the homepage.
Check spelling and grammar No more referring to bulky dictionaries and style manuals that take your time and attention away from work.
Automatically correct text as you type Create an automatic smiley face, raise up those "th" and build long em dashes. In the blink of an eye.
Find and replace text or other items Your manager tells you that a product name has changed. No problem, find all entries in the spreadsheet and replace with the new name, at the click of a button!
Look up words in the dictionary Use the new Research task pane to view definitions of words in your document. You can also look up words, phrases, and paragraphs in another language.
Look up words in the thesaurus Use the new Research task pane to view synonyms of words in your document. You can also words, phrases and paragraphs in another language.
About research services Add services that you use daily such as dictionaries and intranet sites to the Research task pane. Get regular service updates too.
Translate text Impress your international clients by translating words, phrases, and paragraphs in their native language. In the Research task pane you have access to bilingual dictionaries and machine translation.
About mail merge for form letters and mass mailings Use the Mail Merge task pane to guide you through creating a mass mailing or other output scenario.
Data sources you can use for a mail merge You can use mail merge to create any type of document that maps fields to data, not just mailings or directories. For example, if your videotape collection is listed in a spreadsheet, you can use the Labels option to create videotape labels.
Print a list of changes made to a document Need to work through lunch? Print a list of document changes and review them outside in the sun.
So that's how! Great Word features Train yourself on all the great featurs that Word 2003 has to offer.

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