Print Shop Deluxe empowering users to do publishingWritten by Granny’s Mettle
Professional and business-looking cards have become so tedious that I have been trying to get other programs to help me create cards and albums without feeling that it's a lot of work for me.Broderbund's "The Print Shop" has been doing that for its clients, particularly users who need a quick, easy and affordable way to do basic publishing activities. Now comes another version of popular Print Shop program that lets you design or adapt over 11,000 templates of everything--- from greeting cards and photo albums, to signs, banners, and even calendars. The Print Shop Deluxe 12.0 is for kids, as well as for those kids-at-heart, who love idea of churning out fun projects. Aside from turning regular banners and greeting cards into great works that ensures attraction, newest edition of 16-year-old printing and desktop publishing program includes a photo editor and tools that can help users produce simple paper products from menus to other marketing products. It also has easy-to-use interface, and a great online support. Print Shop 12.0 is easy to use, never mind that program has six CDs of clip art. One review even stated that you might need to find enough drive space for whole "monster program". The review even said that even if one should stick with minimum installation option, program still needs 670MB of drive space. On other hand, if one should decide to just keep extra clip art CDs handy, swapping them every time you need an image may be a time-consuming alternative.
| | Outlook... Not Just for Email! Using Your Outlook Contacts Written by Janet Barclay
If you use Outlook for your email, chances are you have a number, possibly a large number, of email addresses stored in Contacts section. You've probably discovered that you can address messages to one or more of your contacts several different ways with just a click of mouse. But if this is only way you use your Contacts, you're not using feature to its full capacity. Here are a few other ways you can tap into full power of Outlook.* Create a contact from an email message Drag and drop a message onto Contacts folder, and a new Contact will automatically be created, using name and email address from message header. The message body will appear in Notes section, which can be a valuable reminder of why person contacted you in first place. If sender has provided their website address, mailing address, telephone number, or other important information, you can copy and paste this information into appropriate fields. * Assign categories to your contacts If you have a lot of contacts, it is very easy to lose track of people, including prospective clients. By assigning one or more categories to each contact, you can easily locate names of people you need to contact for a specific reason. Outlook comes with several standard categories, but you will likely want to create some of your own, based on your individual needs. Click on Edit - Categories - Master Category List, and type in your new category. Any categories added to Master Category List will also be available in Outlook Calendar and Tasks sections.
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