Are you using Word, Outlook, and Excel in much the same way you were 10 years ago? And yet you’ve got the latest Office 2010? If you said yes you’re not alone. In fact you might be surprised that many of the Corporates are using Office in much the same way they did 10 years ago.

Why?

I'm not sure but I see it all the time. Maybe going the next step is seen as hard. It isn't, but perception is everything.

It's odd because there are a lot of things you can do easily, some of which have been in Office for ages. For example in Word, you can easily set up templates to standardise the look of your documents, and even lock down the formatting so only the formatting you want is allowed. Then there’s AutoCorrect and AutoText where you can set up commonly used sentences and paragraphs (formatted or not) and give them acronyms for easy insertion. Now AutoCorrect isn’t all that easy to manage, that’s why we made our AutoCorrect Manager, but it’s well worth coming to grips with, especially as the same AutoCorrects are available to Excel and Outlook, in fact to the whole of Office.

That’s a couple of things. As you can imagine, I love helping people set up Office to make it fit their work processes better. I also do regular desktop applications and databases, all things that can add automation to your environment.

If this sounds interesting then check out the list of projects I’ve done, and see who I am on the “About” page.

And having checked me out, how about joining me for a coffee and we can have a natter about your work flows and ways to get more automation out of your IT systems.

Phone: (61) 404 272 050; Email: michael@clockworksoftware.com.au