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TIPS AND TRICKS

Link Excel and Word in Presentations

Build dynamic presentations linking Excel data to your Word document. You can link the data even though it is not final, show it in draft and continue to work on it. Try these simple steps for a link between Excel and Word that you can break when the data becomes final:

Make sure the Excel chart is correctly sized before you import it, then select the chart and click Copy.
Go to Word, Edit, and Paste Special.
In the dialog box, select Link option, and select Picture or MS Office Excel Chart for paste type. Click OK, and the chart will be linked to the original source.
To break the link, select the chart from Word and press Ctrl+Shift+F9.

Remember to note the original Excel file name and location before breaking the link for future edits!

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PLAYING TO YOUR AUDIENCE

Sync Your Website with Your Audience!

It is the experience of your website’s audience that determines your website’s success. Why depend on the latest technologies, development tools, or the CEO’s hunches when it is your audience that is the best resource in making a good website. Follow these guidelines to see if your website meets your audience’s needs:

Identify your viewing audience. Run surveys, encourage viewer feedback, and check the demographics gathered by your marketing group. Use your budget to gather real, intimate data on the profile and lifestyle of your audience.
Define viewer needs. Review your current site to test how it meets your new list of viewer needs. Does your home page address the top five requests made by viewers? Can your viewers find what they are looking for in 3 or less clicks? Is your site readable and navigable? Does too much text on your site bore your audience? Try to walk in your audience’s shoes and take a hard look at your site.
Provide relevant viewer news. Translate viewer needs into newsworthy items that appeal to your viewers. Post news that is of key interest and relevance to your viewers and update it frequently. Regularly scheduled changes will give viewers a reason to return to your site. Add interactive devices such as surveys and chat rooms to stimulate interest.

Keep these guidelines in mind and you will be pleased with your viewers’ reactions. Foster audience loyalty and promote your website’s popularity by focusing your website on your viewers’ needs and desires.

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FOCUS ON SOFTWARE

Visio-lize Your Organization!

Have you ever needed to make a schematic or blueprint of your office? Map out your computer network? Make a complex Organization Chart? Study the workflow of a department or organization? Or figure out the structure of a database used at work? All this can be done easily using Microsoft Visio!

Visio helps you create business and technical diagrams that document and organize complex ideas, processes, and systems. Communicate and effectively visualize concepts for maximum impact on your audience by using Visio’s different features and capabilities. You don’t need a technical or freehand drawing background to make professional looking flowcharts, timelines, organizational charts, building plans, facilities management diagrams, or network or database diagrams. With Visio’s latest version (2007) already out, discover what features can help you and your organization.

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