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Taking Care of Business
With the Small Business Pack for Microsoft Office
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In a small business, a multitude of day-to-day tasks required to run a business often
falls on the shoulders of just a few people. For example, you may wear many hats
throughout the day, from owner to bookkeeper to salesperson to marketing director.
Keeping up with all these aspects of running a business can be a challenge - and many
business owners and managers look to computers and software to help them accomplish
more with existing resources, in less time.
The Microsoft® Small
Business Pack is precisely this type of software solution. An add-on to the Microsoft Office for Windows 95 suite*, the Small Business Pack
makes it even easier for you to use the programs you use everyday - Word, Microsoft
Excel, Microsoft Access, and PowerPoint® - to accomplish planning, management, and
those basic day-to-day tasks.
Ready-to-use templates give you a head start
The dozens of templates in the Small Business Pack are organized around common areas
of business need, such as finance, management, marketing, and operations. Each
template or tool is task-based, so that you don’t have to think about which software
program you should use, just what you want to do.
For example, let’s say your business has grown from a sole proprietorship to around
seven employees. It’s time to get more formal with your human resources policies, but
you don’t have a lot of time for paperwork. The Human Resources Database makes it fast
and easy to set up documents such as employee profiles and formal performance reviews.
To save you more time, the database automatically displays the information you add to
the employee profile in other forms where employee information is required.
If you want to streamline your sales and marketing processes, the Small Business Pack
has documents that can save you time here, too. For example, you can add your cost
information to a pre-created form and provide customers with a professional-looking
estimate. You can analyze your latest direct mail campaign by adding your figures to a
pre-designed form that calculates your costs. Or, say you want to send out a news
release about your business’ latest success. Use the Business Press Release template
to ensure that your release is formatted in the right way to get the attention it
deserves.
Download a Sample Template
Try the Small Business Pack! The Cash Flow
Projection template helps you plan and manage your cash flow proactively to make
sure you have funds when you need them. Note: To use this template, you must have
Microsoft Excel for Windows 95. If you don’t, you can view the template by clicking
here to download Microsoft Excel
Viewer.
Better-looking documents in less time
Especially if your business is new, you may occasionally run to the office supply
store for basic forms - or spend more time than you have on basic tasks such as time
billing, invoicing, ordering from suppliers, and keeping inventory.
The forms in the Small Business Pack help you reduce the time you spend on these
processes by taking care of much of the formatting work. You just add your data and go.
A major added benefit is that all of the forms are designed to enhance your business
image. An unattractive or difficult-to-decipher invoice or report can directly affect
your company image with valued customers and colleagues. With the Small Business Pack,
you can be sure that the forms and documents you’re sending put your company in its
best light.
And you can customize the templates in the Small Business Pack with your logo,
company name, and other information. So with very little work, you have a professional
and consistent look that tells your customers and vendors that you are a company that
cares about the details.
Click here to find out where to purchase
the Small Business Pack for Microsoft Office.
*To run this program, you must have Windows 95 and Microsoft Office for Windows 95.
(Note: Users of Microsoft Office, Standard Edition, will require Microsoft Access for
Windows 95, available separately, to use some forms and templates. Microsoft Access is
included in Microsoft Office Professional.)