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How to create instant Brochures, Business cards, Banners and Flyers

Posted on 10 September 2009 by Fasil

Publisher 2007 from Microsoft is an excellent publishing tool with which you can create professional looking documents, flyers or brochures using templates. Moreover, you can create, design and brand all your office documents like letterhead, Envelopes, Business cards, Business forms, Calendar, Flyers and much more. Using Publisher, you can also create Newsletter for your company internal circulations or for your client’s circulations. Convert all your print publications to any of the supported forms like PDF, XLS or Word format.

Publisher Welcome screen

Publisher Welcome screen

Creating a Professional Flyer using Publisher

  1. Open Publisher 2007 and you can see a list of Publication types available on the left side pane of Publisher 2007.
  2. Select the Flyer, as the publication type and a list of available templates will display which are arranged as per the categories.

    Creating Flyers using Templates

    Creating Flyers using Templates

  3. Once the suitable Flyer is chosen you can customize the appearance, Font type, color scheme on the right side pane area and click “Create Template”

    Customize Template

    Customize Template

  4. Publisher opens a Template editor for editing the text and graphics of the existing template
  5. After editing the text and graphic of the Flyer template, you can save the publisher document and preview the Flyer before printing.

    Edit and Publish a Template

    Edit and Publish a Template

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Change word 2007 Appearance to your favorite style

Posted on 03 September 2009 by Fasil

Microsoft Word 2007 is famous productivity software and the unique feature of it is the “Ribbon” toolbar and the user interface that gives an awesome look and feel. Word 2007 is also very easy to use and let you to create many complex design documents in minutes using its inbuilt templates or by using online templates provided by  Microsoft online.

Word 2007 provides innumerable templates to suit your daily needs. Templates for creating newsletters, brochures, business cards, calendar, envelope, and fax are often used for office needs. Indeed there is no doubt that Word 2007 is used everywhere for the documentation work and office administration work by professionals and students.

Often we get bored with the appearance of the UI, if you use a same theme or color for a long time, so here comes an option in Word to choose awesome appearance to suit your style and mood.  Zune theme of XP is most favorite for its rich black current appearance and working with word 2007 with black appearance gives further more excitement. Let us see how to make these changes in Word 2007.

Steps for changing appearance in Word 2007

1.    Click Office button then word option
2.    Select “Popular” tab option and choose the color scheme
3.    Word 2007 provides three Color scheme and Blue is the default color scheme.

Settings for Changing Apperance in Word 2007

Settings for Changing Apperance in Word 2007

Screen Shots for the Three Color Schemes are provided below

Black Scheme in  Zune XP theme

Black Scheme in Zune XP theme

Blue Scheme in Embedded XP theme

Blue Scheme in Embedded XP theme

Silver Scheme in Windows XP Silver theme

Silver Scheme in Windows XP Silver theme

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Improve Writing style and Grammar using Microsoft Word 2007

Posted on 18 August 2009 by Fasil

Microsoft Word 2007 is not only an exotic office productivity tool but also an excellent English language-learning tool as well. Simple write a colloquial or a blender English writing and use the “Spell Check” option to correct you are spelling as well as your Grammar.

In this post we will illustrate the procedure to learn better grammar using Word 2007

1.Modify the default setting of word to enable this option.Click “Spelling and Grammar” in “Review” tab. On the pop window, select “options” button to change word 2007 “Review” settings.

Change Settings for Spell check and Grammar

Change Settings for Spell check and Grammar

2.Select “Grammar and style” option as highlighted below. Click on the “setting” button to select the list of grammar correction required.

Enable Grammar and Style option

Enable Grammar and Style option

Grammar options

Grammar options

3.Once a Rough draft is finished click “Spelling and Grammar” and review the spell mistakes and grammar mistakes. Click on the explain button to get the grammar related tutorials.

Explanation for Grammar Usage

Explanation for Grammar Usage

Grammar Explanations

Grammar Explanations

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Make Instant Invoice using Excel and Web

Posted on 18 August 2009 by Fasil

Invoice according to the Cambridge dictionary is defined “a list of things provided or work done together with their cost, for payment at a later time” , usually a freelancer or a SME charge for the service they provide and things get added in the Invoice based on the client new requirements that varies time to time. Invoice is the bill to intimate the customer or client about the service charge added for the work done by the provider.

In this post, we are going to see the best three ways to create an Invoice in no matter of minutes using

  1. Microsoft Excel Templates
  2. Zoho Invoice
  3. Invoice Machine

Microsoft Excel Templates

Microsoft Office 2007 is really an excellent productivity tool and offers exotic templates options to create forms, invoices and reports instantly. Open Excel 2007 and Click “New Document”, Select “Invoice” option in the Template menu. Make sure you are connected to internet for downloading the template. Many “Invoice” templates are available free, select the best one that suits you and preview each one before downloading it.

Select Invoice Template in Excel 2007

Select Invoice Template in Excel 2007

Preview Template Before Downloading

Preview Template Before Downloading

Download the selected Template free and Edit the text. Add the description and details of the Invoice and generate the report instantly and print it or send a soft copy to the client.

Invoice Sheet using Excel Templates

Invoice Sheet using Excel Templates

Zoho Invoice

Zoho is an excellent online office productivity tools and offers many of its services free for individual users and freelancers. Zoho invoice is one among the online tool from Zoho for generating Invoice instantly and save it online for future reference and access it anywhere in the world. Sign in to Zoho invoice using your Zoho account.

Zoho Invoice Setting page

Zoho Invoice Setting page

Enter your Service description for the first time, open a Zoho invoice, and add the details of the invoice Select the currency and exchange rate if applicable and add the charge for your service one by one and finally save the report online and send it to the client.

Invoice Created using Zoho Invoice

Invoice Created using Zoho Invoice

Invoice Machine

Invoice Machine is an exclusive website for making your invoice easy, sign up for a free account* and generate an awesome, simple looking invoice in just minutes. It not even takes minutes to generate invoice using this tool once your are familiar with the options provided. You download the Invoice prepared, send it in mail or generate a PDF of the invoice created.

Invoice Machine User Sign up

Invoice Machine User Sign up

Sample Invoice Created using Invoice Machine

Sample Invoice Created using Invoice Machine

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