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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Programming Office

The software that makes up the Office suite: Word, PowerPoint and Excel, have the advantage of a very capable programming environment in Visual Basic for Applications [VBA]. With VBA, you can automate a whole host of actions and selection processes that speed up the creation of documents, as well as to to supply or format [...]

A PowerPoint template

Installing a PowerPoint template follows the same requirements for Word. In fact, Word is like the manager of the Office suite, so the place for Word templates is the same for PowerPoint.
A PowerPoint template consists of setting up masters, text positions and sizes, typographic levels, colour management and any embedded graphics or assets that make [...]