How many home-made calendars have you seen people make in Word or Excel? Aren’t they horrible? Microsoft has a number of templates that come with Office, but a bunch of others that you can download from their website including calendars.
I needed to make a agenda for our annual sales meeting yesterday. Rather than use the same Excel one we’ve used for years, I downloaded a very professional one from Microsoft Office Templates: Word.
Last year we needed to create a business plan for a new product. After cobbling a format together, I found that PowerPoint has a template for that exact purpose, with descriptions of the content that is required. I ended up exporting it to a Word Outline format.
But let’s not get caught using the standard Office templates for faxes and memos–then everyone knows how lazy you really are!