How can a template help my business or clients?
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In our experience, most businesses, no matter how big or small, use the concept of a template already.
You put together a deck of slides for a presentation - firstly adding your logo, picking your font, and incorporating other branding elements. The next time you are pitching to a client, you take that presentation, hit Save>As and start adding and deleting content.
And yet you spend a huge amount of time resizing every text box to your preferred font, copy-pasting the same element over and over, and generally getting pretty annoyed by the whole process.
You work the same in Word - take an old report, start tweaking it and before long find yourself in a Microsoft hell of jumping bullets, possessed numbering and inexplicable blank pages.
Why isn't your 'template' working?
In our experience, most businesses, no matter how big or small, use the concept of a template already.
You put together a deck of slides for a presentation - firstly adding your logo, picking your font, and incorporating other branding elements. The next time you are pitching to a client, you take that presentation, hit Save>As and start adding and deleting content.
And yet you spend a huge amount of time resizing every text box to your preferred font, copy-pasting the same element over and over, and generally getting pretty annoyed by the whole process.
You work the same in Word - take an old report, start tweaking it and before long find yourself in a Microsoft hell of jumping bullets, possessed numbering and inexplicable blank pages.
Why isn't your 'template' working?
The crux of the problem is that you aren't using a template file
The little secret that no-one likes to admit is that Microsoft products are actually extremely powerful. That is their strength and their weakness. They cater to a huge (a huge!) market that uses their products in almost infinitely different ways. In trying to please everyone, Microsoft have in fact ended up pleasing no-one.
Think about it. A school teacher uses PowerPoint in a vastly different way to a design agency. A small business owner creates reports on a completely different scale to a global corporation. Yet, what they have in common is that they are using the same software.
With a little bit of know-how, it is possible to weed out the relevant tools for your business. No single company needs every single button on every single menu in Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The trick is to find only those tools that you need, and ignore everything else.
Think about it. A school teacher uses PowerPoint in a vastly different way to a design agency. A small business owner creates reports on a completely different scale to a global corporation. Yet, what they have in common is that they are using the same software.
With a little bit of know-how, it is possible to weed out the relevant tools for your business. No single company needs every single button on every single menu in Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The trick is to find only those tools that you need, and ignore everything else.
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