California-APMP Chapter

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Thank you

I am proud to have been elected Chair of the California-APMP Chapter of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP®) for 2017–2018, and I am looking forward to working with the chapter Board of Directors to deliver benefits to our affiliated members. Links: APMP California Chapter APMP International

Wordman’s Word Tips: A Space Odyssey

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Office Update

SM&A is now sponsoring Wordman’s Word Tips, presenting short articles explaining some of Microsoft Word’s features, and how you can use them with your proposal or technical document development. In my first article, “A Space Odyssey,” I look into Microsoft Word’s odd spaces, and how we can use them in … Read More

“Redactio!” published in APMP Journal

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Redactio!

My latest article, “Redactio!”, has been published in the Journal of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP). Covering the steps required to easily and successfully redact text in proposals, my article is available to APMP members at www.apmp.org/?page=Journal2013.  

Latest Wordman Article Published

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Table Styles

My 43nd Wordman article. “Table Styles,” has been published in the APMP Perspective. Before Microsoft introduced table styles in Word 2002, part of Office XP, you had to format your tables manually. This became laborious for table designs with alternating row banding, a popular table design in proposal templates. Table styles allow … Read More

Wordman 42 published!

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My 42nd Wordman article. “Pitch Points,” has been published in the APMP Perspective. Does it contain the answer to life, the universe and everything? What does it mean when the RFP asks for your response in a 10-pitch font? A fellow proposal manager contacted me a few weeks ago, stating … Read More

New Wordman Article Published!

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Matter of Styles

My forty-first Wordman article, “A Matter of Styles,” was published by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) in their Perspective online newsletter at www.apmp.org/?page=PerspectiveHome. The full article is only available to signed-in APMP members. This article is the second in a series describing template creation, and deals with creating … Read More

40th Wordman Article Published!

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Get a Head(er)

My fortieth Wordman article, “Get a Head(er),” was published by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) in their Perspective online newsletter at www.apmp.org/?page=PerspectiveHome. The full article is only available to signed-in APMP members. This article details the different approaches to document headers, and is the first in a series … Read More