Most companies use Word to generate various letters, proposals, contacts, invoices and other documentation. Custom templates are not just a skeleton framework for you to enter text. Templates can contain menus, auto-text items, macros, input forms for easy access to frequently used items or styles. paragraph styles tailored to your companies specific needs. Having managed a document production department for a Fortune 500 company for over 15 years I have considerable experience in designing and implementing custom production solutions tailored to your companies needs.
Rule #1 of any system I develop is that will be easy to learn and to use. The best system in the world is useless if no one knows how to use it. A template solution might include some or all of the following features:
- Custom Menus for easy access to frequently used items or styles.
- Paragraph Styles menu for easy access to frequently used items or styles.
- Formatted tables of various styles can be selected from a dialog box and inserted with a single button click.
- Pull Quotes/Sidebars of various styles can be inserted with a single button click.
- Auto Text menus can be developed to insert anything from a phrases, entire paragraphs of boiler plate text, or predefined tables/figures with auto numbering streams.
- Auto numbering streams for Tables, figures and exhibits to ensure accuracy and easy updating.
- Automatic Table of Contents generation and updating.