Common Applications for Microsoft Office

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Application	Method	DL?
Cookbook or Recipes Collection	Use Word; try to use a set amount of recipes per page, such as 1 or 2. Make sure you apply Heading 1 style to each title so you can easily create a Table of Contents.	Yes
Invoices or Order Forms	Use Excel with drop-down data validation and VLOOKUP. Try the tutorial.	Yes
Raffle Tickets	Use Word with Excel and mail merge.	Yes
Membership Directory	Use Excel to store the data and mail merge to get the data into membership directory layout.