Business Computing Tips
By Karen Fainges

It is often confusing to know what program you should use. Here is a quick list
of
common programs and the sort of things you can do with them. If you would like
to learn
about a particular program/activity, e-mail me and I will put it in the next
K-tips.

Notepad - Use for quick notes where you don't have to worry about spelling or
formatting. This program is on almost every computer out there, so if you want
to send
information to someone else and you want to be sure they can access it, use this
program
Quick notes, A handy place to put lists and notes while working on something
else.

Access - A database program, this is best for keeping information that you want
to be
able to sort. It is not real good with numbers but its great if you want to pull
up all
the customers that have ever bought a particular book or live in a particular
postcode.
Customer lists, mailing lists, subscriber lists.

Excel - Anything with numbers. This program also has a very powerful sorting
mechanism,
and is sometimes easier to use than Access. Budgets, sales figures

Word - Anything else. By far the most flexible program around, it is most
effective when
you have something that you write regularly with just small changes. Then you
can make
up a template and write those letter is next to no time. Mail outs, customer
letters,
anything with words.

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Please feel free to pass this newsletter on to your friends, just let them know
I wrote
it.
Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Dip. of Vocational and
Educational Training. All that is nice but it's the 14 years of having to make
sales or
starve that make her think she has really learnt what does and doesn't work. A
tutor for
all ages, she specialises in helping people get started on the long road to
technology.


"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."
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