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• 18 November 2008

  Top 4 Picks for Free Office Suite Software 

  If you’re running any kind of organization, a suite of office software is essential — at the very least, you need a fairly good word-processing program, a spreadsheet application, and some sort of presentation software. Feature-rich Microsoft Office has made that particular market its own for at least the past decade, but now a few strong alternative software suites are fast gaining ground... Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:26 PM by Rebecca | 6 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, office, Microsoft, Zoho, open source, Google Docs, ThinkFree

• 17 July 2008

  Get a Quick Word Count 

  Few of us can accurately guess the number of words in a block of text, just by looking at it, even with years of practice. Fortunately, a 'ballpark estimate' is usually good enough for most purposes. There are times, however, when your word count does matter. Read More... Posted Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:30 PM by Rebecca | 2 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Web 2.0, Blogging, office

• 05 March 2008

  Microsoft Office Live Workspace takes on Google Apps 

  Microsoft's Office Live Workspace – just launched – is a free web-based service that lets people organize documents and projects online, access their documents via the web, and share them with others who may view and comment on shared documents. It's been described as an online extension of MS Office desktop software, Microsoft's answer to Google Apps for document sharing and online collaboration. But which service would best meet the working needs of your organization? Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 12:25 PM by Rebecca | 1 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, nptech, Google, Non-profit Communications, office, collaboration, Microsoft

• 06 February 2008

  How to Use Mail Merge to Create Custom Membership Cards 

  Spend just a half-hour in a nonprofit office, and you're likely to be all too familiar with MS Word's mail merge feature -- or at least, with the sheets of peel-and-stick mailing labels that can quickly be generated with it! And where would a nonprofit be, without mail merge to help quickly create those direct mail pieces and personalized newsletters? But those routine tasks are just the start of many ways that mail-merge can save time and effort in the office. Take membership cards, for example. Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:36 AM by Rebecca | 7 Comments Filed under: Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, Non-profit Communications, membership, office