Word forms

There are Word forms and Word forms. Strictly speaking, a Word form can be just a simple table that the user types into. This is often the case with something like an invoice or order form, but Word also offers the ability to lock down a document, so the user […]

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. We often get called upon to develop new features […]

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 […]

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 […]