What would you like it to do?

FileMaker Pro, the number one database software for Mac or Windows, is widely regarded as the most versatile development software on the market. Some of us have been developing databases longer than Operandi have been around, and it is rare that you have to tell a client that something they requested can’t be done. Recently, [...]

Complex layouts

Newsletters tend to lean towards the more complex design requirements than your usual letterhead. We often recommend that Microsoft Publisher is used in these circumstances, as it is designed for this type of layout and document. We develop templates for this too.

Publisher is like a cut down InDesign, with the ability to format complex layouts and [...]

Formatting documents

Not all of our projects end up as stationery templates.
In a recent project, we created a fully formatted version of an annual report, including the financial section as a Word document. The idea was to have the report as a master document that could be edited for the following year, or for certain parts of it to [...]

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 [...]