Common Applications for Microsoft Office
Miscellaneous
I often see people asking similar questions. Rather than provide every single answer here, I thought I'd provide a quick overview of what I feel is the best method for producing certain types of applications, and how to proceed.
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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. |