Minimize white space

"When justifying text in Microsoft Word use the hyphenation feature to improve the look of your page. (Without hyphens). . . unnecessary 'white space' is distributed throughout. When hyphenation is turned on the overall typographic color of the page is much more even. To enable this feature in Microsoft Word do the following: After you have justified the columns in your document, choose from the "Tools menu" > Language > then from the dropdown menu, choose "Hyphenation", then choose "Automatically hyphenate document"

Labels: Fonts, Formatting, Tips

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A Business Plan for a Start-up Business

Microsoft Word

A Business Plan for an Established Business

Microsoft Word

Bank Loan Request for Small Business

Microsoft Word

Break-Even Analysis

Excel

Competitive Analysis

Microsoft Word

Financial History & Ratios

Excel

Loan Amortization Schedule

Excel

Opening Day Balance Sheet

Excel

Personal Financial Statement
Excel

Projected Balance Sheet

Excel

Start-up Expenses

Excel

4-Year Profit Projection

Excel

12-Month Cash Flow Statement

Excel

12-Month Profit and Loss Projection

Excel

12-Month Sales Forecast

Excel

Labels: Templates

A baker's dozen of ideas

Display the word "more" at the bottom of every page except the last page.

Insert an "if" field into the footer.

The field in this case will be a compound entity that consists of two fields nested within a third field.

{ IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "" "more" }

1. Position cursor where you want the field.
   
2. Press Ctrl+F9 to insert the field braces.
   
3. Type the field expression as it appears below, using Ctrl+F9 and arrow keys as needed to keep text within the various braces as you type.
   { IF { PAGE } = { NUMPAGES } "" "more" }
   
4. Select the entire expression.
   
5. Right-click the selection and choose Toggle Field Codes.
   (or use Alt+F9)

Labels: Documents, Inserts, Tips

VBA examples and instructions

"You can look at the world as split into applications that store data (databases) and applications that present information, such as Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003. Increasingly, the end user demands to display database content in documents and presentations.

While Word does provide some tools for displaying tables from databases in its documents, these are somewhat rudimentary, they require a basic understanding of how the database is built, and using them involves a number of steps. In addition, there may also be security and access issues involved, requiring additional layers of protection.

The developer is therefore increasingly confronted with the task of transferring data into Word, whether in the form of tables, or as part of the document text. This article considers some of the major aspects of using the Word object model to work with tables."

• Introduction to Automating Tables
  
• Creating Tables Programmatically in Word
  
• Populating Word Tables with Data
  
• Adding Linking in Word Tables Programmatically
  
• Extracting Data from Word Tables Programmatically

Labels: Tables, VBA