WORD

Templates enable non-technical people to produce sophisticated and consistent documents. All the formatting and layout is taken care of, so users can concentrate on the content. Formatting can be introduced automatically as the user goes along. This enables one template to be used for different types of document, making it easier for users to become familiar with the template. Company’s letterhead can be incorporated in the template and printed with the document saving on stationary costs.

Templates can also feature dialog boxes to assist user input of information. For example, users can select a recipient from their address book and their address automatically entered in the document. Details such as titles, logos and confidential status can be selected in the dialog box and inserted into headers and footers.

Word templates can be customised to intercept standard Word commands such as Save or Print. This allows you to force a document to be saved to a specific location that is accessible to the whole organisation and subject to a user's access rights.

We can add toolbars and menu items to Word as well as remove standard menu options. For example, font settings can be removed so users can only use the template styles, thereby ensuring all documents are consistent.

We can create data entry forms and surveys in Word with text fields, drop-down option boxes and check boxes. Respondents can answer questions online and answers can be validated, questions can be enabled or disabled according to preceding answers and all the responses can be exported to a database.