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Part Three: How to Motivate SMEs to Ensure Better Compliance with Deadlines?
With the start of a new year, our thoughts often turn to ways to improve our processes and procedures. Let’s focus on how to improve our relationships and team-building in order to keep the ...
Checking-In on Google Docs
Google Docs: Ready for Power Proposal and RFP Response Users?
We frequently monitor the progress Google is making with Google Docs. Given the ubiquity of the Google offerings and their ...
Software Implementation: Why Choose Professional Services
Most software implementations involve some amount of setup and configuration. So how do you know what the right amount of assistance is right for you?Yes/No DecisionLet’s make this quick – ...
Microsoft Word Running Slow? Is It Lagging? Try This!
As proposal writers we spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word. So If Word becomes slow or unstable it multiplies the time and effort, not to mention frustration, it takes to complete our work. ...
RFP Content Libraries and the Chaos Dilemma
We often think that content automation will solve the vast majority of our reusability problems when it comes to finding exactly the right answers to our mountain of RFP questions. To some ...
MS Excel Locking Made Easy: Lock Cells & Unlock Sheets
“HELP! Sometimes when I am answering an Excel RFP, a cell suddenly becomes locked, making it impossible to edit it afterward. What causes this?” Having an Excel RFP suddenly lock answer cells ...
How to Navigate Data Restrictions on Excel RFPs
The most frustrating challenge in answering Excel RFPs is not knowing if or what restrictions have been placed on the RFP answer cells and having to rely on Trial-and-Error. Is there any way ...
Locking Cells in Excel RFPs: A Guide to Data Protection
I respond to a fair number of RFP’s in Excel. The RFP’s are usually locked so I can only edit the answer cells, but sometimes there are other restrictions too, like not allowing images or not ...
What is AutoCorrect and How to Use Autocorrect in Word and Excel
AutoCorrect is an automatic editing feature that is often maligned for causing unwanted and sometimes embarrassing word substitutions. It is also a long standing feature of Microsoft Word that ...
Back to the Desktop – Real-Time Co-Authoring in Microsoft Word 2016
The emergence in recent years of the Web-based version of Microsoft Word has led some people to speculate that the desktop version of Word would one day soon become obsolete. But nothing ...
Custom Styles 101 for Proposal Writers – 4 Reasons Why Custom Styles Fail
Almost half of our Styles Survey Respondents reported that ‘Direct Formatting’ was their most common method of changing formatting AFTER inserting content into a proposal. Direct Formatting is ...
Custom Styles 101 for Proposal Writers – The Secret Power of Heading Styles
Most of the respondents to our Styles Survey report using Custom Styles to format proposals. But even among avid Custom Style users, the proper use of Custom Heading Styles is debated. Here is ...
Creating and Using Styles in Word: A Guide to Paragraph Formatting
Twice as many of our Style Survey Respondents report that they use Custom Styles for their reusable proposal content than those who do not. If you create your styles correctly, formatting your ...
Custom Styles 101 for Proposal Writers – What is a Style?
Almost 50% of our Styles Survey respondents who report NOT using Custom Styles cite not understanding how as the primary reason. Styles are easier than you think and well worth the time ...
Fields and Links and Controls, Oh My!
In a previous post we looked at using Word's built-in Find and Replace functionality to customize our proposal content. In that example, we used simple highlighted text to serve as ...
Sample Content Library Structures
In the previous post we used distinctively formatted labels to organize the content in a master ‘Content Library’ document. In this post we will look at some sample Main Category and Subcategory ...
Four Steps to Perfectly Organized Content
In an earlier series of posts we looked at how to make reusable content 'Copy-Paste ready' Now we can focus on organizing it in a way that will help us find the content we need easily, and make ...
Mastering Placeholders in Word for Better Document Creation
Almost everyone has their own embarrassing story to tell about copying content from an old proposal or sales letter and inadvertently leaving in the old customer name.Needless to say we want ...
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Teams do extraordinary things with Expedience Software
I used several proposal software applications and knew the importance of ease of use. Many of the proposal apps are so complicated that users revolt against the system. Expedience is the easiest proposal automation software that I’ve ever used, and our proposal writers actually love using it!
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