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December 27, 2021anemptytextlline
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March 9, 2021anemptytextllineBefore you start writing that proposal, you need a good proposal template. Before you create that template, you need a Color...
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November 19, 2020anemptytextllineThere are a few seats left to register for the Friday morning, 20 November 2020 online Wordman Q&A Session at...
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September 22, 2020anemptytextllineNeed to insert a character with an accent into your Word document? Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our...
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August 31, 2020anemptytextllineIf you want people to see how your new Word template will look with text, you’ll need some easily-insertable dummy...
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August 26, 2020anemptytextllineFollowing an unexpected problem during a virtual training event using Microsoft Teams, Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our...
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August 11, 2020anemptytextllineIn his latest article, Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our Vice President of Corporate Support), shows you how...
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July 29, 2020anemptytextllineWordman (aka Dick Eassom CF APMP Fellow, SMA’s Vice President of Corporate Support) exposes the secrets behind Microsoft Word’s Paragraph...
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July 13, 2020anemptytextllineThe Style Separator is one of Microsoft Word’s best-kept little secrets. If you need to separate run-on headings from text...
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June 16, 2020anemptytextllineEnd-of-line hyphenation can save space, especially in page-limited proposals, and Microsoft Word has excellent hyphenation tools. Here’s how to use...
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April 13, 2020anemptytextllineA few weeks ago, Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, Vice President of Corporate Support, also known as Wordman, was interviewed by...
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October 1, 2019anemptytextlline“Wordman” Shares MS Word Tips and Techniques to Make Your Life Easier – with Dick Eassom- EP053 Last month, Dick Eassom,...
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February 20, 2017anemptytextllineHow often do you find yourself working on a proposal, with Word, Outlook, and a couple of file explorer windows...
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February 17, 2017anemptytextllineSM&A sponsors Wordman’s Word Tips, presenting short articles explaining some of Microsoft Word’s features, and how you can use them...
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January 21, 2017anemptytextllineSM&A sponsors Wordman’s Word Tips, presenting short articles explaining some of Microsoft Word’s features, and how you can use them...
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January 17, 2017anemptytextllineIn Microsoft Word’s proofing options, in addition to checking your spelling as you type, you could also select to check...
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January 4, 2017anemptytextllineI am proud to have been elected Chair of the California-APMP Chapter of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP®)...
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December 12, 2016anemptytextllineSM&A is now sponsoring Wordman’s Word Tips, presenting short articles explaining some of Microsoft Word’s features, and how you can...
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September 11, 2016anemptytextllineWordman’s Art Tables has been updated! New features include Update Fields, which updates all the fields in your document, including...
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August 22, 2015anemptytextllineFed up with sorting PowerPoint tables by pasting into Excel, sorting, pasting back into PowerPoint and reformatting? Wordman’s Table Sort for...
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August 3, 2015anemptytextllineAt the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) Bid & Proposal Con in Chicago in 2014, I presented “Start to...
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May 31, 2015anemptytextllineA big thank you to all the attendees at my presentation, “Start to Finish: From Blank Word Document to Proposal...
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April 29, 2015anemptytextllineWordman’s Hiliter is now compatible with Windows 8. Download the latest version here.
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April 29, 2015anemptytextllineWordman’s Acroliter is now compatible with Windows 8. Download the latest version here.
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September 16, 2013anemptytextllineDear Friends of Wordman I’m sorry to have to remove Google Merchant as a method of payment in Wordman’s Store, due...
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August 14, 2013anemptytextllineIf you’re using Microsoft Office 2010, make sure you download Service Pack 2! For more details, see support.microsoft.com/kb/2687455. Included in the changes...
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July 16, 2013anemptytextllineWord 2013’s table features are definitely an improvement: See http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/be-more-efficient-with-word-2013s-new-table-features/7830
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July 11, 2013anemptytextllineDo you follow Wordman on Facebook? I post useful tips and links to useful websites regularly, especially websites that offer free...
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July 8, 2013anemptytextllineThanks to user feedback, I just fixed a bug in Wordman’s Rextractor. A new version is now available on the...
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June 16, 2013anemptytextllineThere is another new version of Wordman’s Acrogen, an add-in for Microsoft Word 2007, 2010 and 2013, available in the...
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June 2, 2013anemptytextllineThere is a new version of Wordman’s Hiliter, an add-in for Microsoft Word 2007, 2010 and 2013, available in the...
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June 2, 2013anemptytextllineMy latest article, “Redactio!”, has been published in the Journal of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP). Covering the...
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May 5, 2013anemptytextllineThere is a new version of Wordman’s ReviewIt!, an add-in for Microsoft Word 2007, 2010 and 2013, available in the...
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May 2, 2013anemptytextllineJust for fun! “Make the famous WW2 poster yourself, and countless variations, in Microsoft Office” See: shop.office-watch.com/keepcalm/
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May 2, 2013anemptytextllineWordman recommends Notepad++ for editing text files that contain software code or XML. It’s free at notepad-plus-plus.org/.
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April 10, 2013anemptytextllineI just installed Office 2013 Professional (alongside 2010 and 2007) on my laptop at the weekend. However, it kept crashing...
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February 28, 2013anemptytextlline…In a nutshell, here are the major changes in how Office is licensed: There is no purchasable physical, removable media –...
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February 28, 2013anemptytextllineBye bye Clippy! For a cool infographic of what features are new in Office 2013, and what current features have been...
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February 11, 2013anemptytextllineIf you BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) to work, separating your private and work data, and synchronizing the latter across...
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December 21, 2012anemptytextllineMy 43nd Wordman article. “Table Styles,” has been published in the APMP Perspective. Before Microsoft introduced table styles in Word 2002, part of...
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October 23, 2012anemptytextllineAll Wordman addins are now compatible with the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office 2010.
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October 2, 2012anemptytextllineMy 42nd Wordman article. “Pitch Points,” has been published in the APMP Perspective. Does it contain the answer to life, the...
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August 8, 2012anemptytextllineMy forty-first Wordman article, “A Matter of Styles,” was published by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) in their...
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August 5, 2012anemptytextllineWith the release of Wordman’s ReviewIt! recently, I have updated the other addins: Wordman’s Acrogen now allows you to optionally highlight...
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July 23, 2012anemptytextllineDo you spend valuable time combining comments from Color Team reviewers into a single Word document for your proposal team?...
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July 17, 2012anemptytextllineMicrosoft announced Office 2013 yesterday. So what’s new in Word 2013? Your personalized settings will now be available across all platforms,...
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July 11, 2012anemptytextllineIf you work on IT proposals, this is for you: www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/oh-for-the-love-of-god-put-a-space-after-your-verbs/4461
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June 14, 2012anemptytextllineMy fortieth Wordman article, “Get a Head(er),” was published by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) in their Perspective...
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January 29, 2012anemptytextllineMy thirty-ninth Wordman article, “Your Own Ribbon,” was published by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) in their Perspective...
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November 2, 2011anemptytextllineMy thirty-eigth Wordman article, “Take A Short Cut,” was published by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) in their...
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September 19, 2011anemptytextllineDo you have trouble laying out floating graphics, with their captions, in your proposal text? Do you need a quick...
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September 5, 2011anemptytextllineHere’s a useful article from TechRepublic on capitalization. Not every noun needs an initial capital letter, no matter how important...
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August 19, 2011anemptytextllineEver wonder why advertisements on LinkedIn seem targeted to you? Check your LinkedIn Social Advertizing settings… http://www.v3im.com/2011/08/linkedin-policy-compromises-user-security-check-your-settings/#axzz1VTt1tWOM (My thanks to Lisa Tinsley...
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August 6, 2011anemptytextllineMy thirty-seventh Wordman article, “Plain English,” was published by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) in their Perspective online...
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July 27, 2011anemptytextllineIt looks like the speed improvements for large documents, etc., would be a real benefit to our proposal world. Sad...
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July 22, 2011anemptytextllineIf you’re on LinkedIn and would like to ask Wordman a question, or discuss solutions to proposal and technical document...
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July 20, 2011anemptytextllineDo you insert RFP references in your proposal response, e.g. “”, and you’d like to create a cross-reference or compliance...
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July 18, 2011anemptytextllineWhat’s the most unusual page numbering scheme you’ve had to create for a proposal? Most proposal documents, I’m guessing, have some...
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July 14, 2011anemptytextllineShould Technology push out Cursive Writing Instruction? Despite the fact that we all spend most of our time writing on a...
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July 5, 2011anemptytextllineFrom TechRepublic: Here’s a cool attention-grabber: a countdown to kick off your presentation or lead into a big announcement. Follow these...
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June 11, 2011anemptytextlline…at my recent “Wordman’s Microsoft Word 2007 for Proposal Professionals” training event at the Sheraton Downtown in Denver, Colorado, on...
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May 9, 2011anemptytextllineBuy Office Home and Student 2010 ($149.00, good for three PCs) and get free Microsoft e-Learning classes to the value...
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April 11, 2011anemptytextllineMy thirty-sixth Wordman article, “Three Word Tricks,” was published by the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) in their Perspective...
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April 5, 2011anemptytextllineWatch Microsoft’s historical videos and avoid PowerPoint presentation pitfalls… www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint-slidefest/do-and-dont.aspx
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March 22, 2011anemptytextllineSince some people have had trouble purchasing registrations for my Wordman Training session in Denver on 31 May, I have...
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February 24, 2011anemptytextllineWordman is holding a one-day Microsoft Word for Proposal Professionals preconference training workshop in conjunction with the 22nd Annual APMP®...
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January 22, 2011anemptytextllineCreating a master abbreviation list for your proposal? Want to make sure that all abbreviations are stated in full on the...
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January 21, 2011anemptytextllineCheck out this video tribute to Microsoft Word by the Great Rapsby…
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January 17, 2011anemptytextllineReusing content from prior proposals and want to make sure that you’ve caught all instances of that client’s name? Does...