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Four Steps to Perfectly Organized Content

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 ...
The Reasons Why You Need a Content Library

The Reasons Why You Need a Content Library

In the olden days (say 20 years ago) there were very few software solutions for storing reusable proposal content. Ours –the RFP Machine– was one of the first. Now there are many, many solutions ...
Generic-ize or Customize: The Secret to Foolproof Placeholders

Generic-ize or Customize: The Secret to Foolproof Placeholders

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 ...
Quick Tips for Spotting Formatting Booby Traps

Quick Tips for Spotting Formatting Booby Traps

In the previous post we compared the advantages of using Normal style to those of using custom, user-defined styles. With either strategy it is important that styles be applied consistently ...
Normal or Not? Choosing the Best Style Strategy

Normal or Not? Choosing the Best Style Strategy

When you are preparing content for reuse, your formatting decisions will affect how easy or difficult it will be every time you copy and paste that content in the future. You can avoid many ...
Turning Code Off and On

Turning Code Off and On

 In a previous post we wrote a ‘SpecialPaste’ macro to paste content from the clipboard into a numbered questionnaire and select and indent the content after it is pasted:This macro indents ...

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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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