Get to know the ribbon

When Microsoft unveiled the new ribbon interface to Office 2007, it was quite a shock to users, and was the end to the familiar toolbars used in the previous versions. We were pretty surprised ourselves, as we often used custom toolbars to help users with lists of type styles and any programmed buttons we needed [...]

Wonders of Office 2007

We have just about every version of Office going back to Office 95. Including the Mac versions. We don’t get asked for Office 95 very often and I think the last one was for Thames Water some years ago, but have them we do. You see, our philosophy is based around developing in the right [...]

Upping the game for The Health Foundation

We first worked with The Health Foundation around 2004. We were approached by Together Design in early February to estimate for the wide range of templates covering stationery, presentation and reporting templates. The project needed to deliver a set of ‘easy to use’ templates that would be used not only by the organisation themselves, but [...]

Reporting for CFE

We have recently been helping Playne Design update the stationery and reporting templates for their client CFE. The work involved a number of templates in Word, from letterheads to tender reports. There are some interesting interactive issues to deal with when developing report or tender templates, and the occasional modification of the designs are sometimes [...]

Jamie Oliver stationery

We recently completed a large set of business templates in both Word and PowerPoint for Jamie Oliver’s management business. These templates, which cover most document types from meeting notes to purchase orders, also come in three colour ways.

Most of the Word templates were reasonably straight-forward, but a few of them had to be a little [...]