Good Microsoft Word / Office resources for a designer
March 12, 2009 5:08 AM Subscribe
What's a good online resource for a graphic designer who needs to help a client consistently produce decent-looking output from the Microsoft Office suite?
The client has asked me to set up a Word template for a proposal document, but I'm thinking it would be helpful to spend a little longer to create something (a 'theme'?) that gave greater consistency across all their output (for instance if they embed an Excel chart into a Word document, ensuring that the fonts and colours in the chart are consistent with those used in the Word document).
So I think I'm trying to get my head around themes and templates (I have a pretty good understanding of styles, although some of the more obscure idiosyncrasies have tripped me up at times). And usually I'm pretty good at wading through obtuse documentation to find the nuggets I'm after (I was a law graduate in a previous life). But half an hour with the help documentation has left me less than impressed, and my Googlefu is failing me as well.
The client has asked me to set up a Word template for a proposal document, but I'm thinking it would be helpful to spend a little longer to create something (a 'theme'?) that gave greater consistency across all their output (for instance if they embed an Excel chart into a Word document, ensuring that the fonts and colours in the chart are consistent with those used in the Word document).
So I think I'm trying to get my head around themes and templates (I have a pretty good understanding of styles, although some of the more obscure idiosyncrasies have tripped me up at times). And usually I'm pretty good at wading through obtuse documentation to find the nuggets I'm after (I was a law graduate in a previous life). But half an hour with the help documentation has left me less than impressed, and my Googlefu is failing me as well.
Microsofts office site is pretty good and i think has forums also. IF your a member of Technet their forums are extremely helpfull also.
posted by majortom1981 at 9:46 AM on March 12, 2009
posted by majortom1981 at 9:46 AM on March 12, 2009
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Microsoft has a fairly decent selection of in-house and 3rd party templates available. Many of them also have style duplication across the Office programs. The 3rd party templates also have links to other offerings by those 3rd party vendors.
They're not anything too special, but can be modified and re-used as boilerplates/templates easily enough.
posted by emjay at 8:23 AM on March 12, 2009