Creating a presentation for your board? Wading into the end-of-project paperwork? Or maybe you’re signing up a new crop of volunteers for your non-profit... Whatever the task, odds are that there’s a time-saving template, free at Google Docs, to help you do more with less effort. Browse the Template Gallery, or narrow your search by Documents, ...

Maybe you’re keen to collaborate online, but other members of your team are dragging their heels?  One common reason for sticking with the old methods of working is a natural reluctance of busy or non-techie people to learn to use new software. And if that’s the case in your nonprofit, the new (free) Office Web Apps from Microsoft may help ...

We’ve talked before about some of the many things you can do with Google Docs — from creating a custom RSS news page for your website to, most recently, the new shared folders feature.  Since then, Google has kept on turning out some small but significant improvements to Google Docs, to streamline the editing tools, add useful management ...

Two new updates for Google Docs make this very simple and free collaboration tool even more useful for a board or committee at any small non-profit — shared folders, and the ability to upload multiple files at one time. To share a group of items, all you have to do is put them all into a folder and share the folder. As you’d expect, if ...

Have you ever accidentally deleted an important file? An image that can't be recaptured, or a document you've worked long hours to prepare? In an over-extended and understaffed small non-profit, rushing to do seven different things at once, deleting the wrong file is an error that can happen all too easily. Fortunately, it doesn't have to be a ...

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 ...

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. Directory listings with specific length restrictions, for example. Or press releases, ...

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 ...

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 ...