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Microsoft Sets the Pace for Proposal Automation in 2020
Microsoft just closed its financial year on June 30 with record results ($126B revenue) with dramatic increases in its efforts to add advanced features and technologies to its Office 365 product ...
MS Excel for Proposal Writers: Organize References
Learn to use Excel Tables and Filters to Create Dynamic Lists such as References, Case Studies, and More.
Matching the best references or case studies to a specific proposal can be challenging, ...
Stress Free SMEs for your Proposal and RFP teams
Tips for Working with Subject Matter Experts that Minimize your Stress Levels and Theirs
Proposal Managers must juggle resources and calendars to make their deadlines. Here are a few tips to ...
5 Ways Your Proposals Today Are Killing Your Business
There are a million things that your business could invest in this year. Why should proposal software be on the top of that list? Let me share with you my 5 Ways Your Proposals Today Are ...
Building Internal Support for Proposal Automation and Other Musings
Contributing Author: Jason Anderson VP, Sales Expedience Software
In attending my first ever APMP conference last week, I learned something that was almost therapeutic: I am not the only one ...
How to Motivate Your SMEs to Comply With Deadlines?
Continuing our series, we now turn our attention toward the education of the SME team. Some of your SMEs will likely be familiar with RFPs and proposals, but others may not. Have you ever ...
Bullet Lists in Excel
“How do I insert bullet lists into Excel?” This is one the most frequent Excel questions that we receive at Expedience. Unlike Microsoft Word, Excel does not provide a simple way to apply ...
Part Two: How to Motivate SMEs to Ensure Better Compliance with Deadlines?
In our initial article on this topic, we turned the question around – focusing on how we as Proposal professionals can first evaluate and manage our own efforts to better assist our SMEs. ‘Be a ...
Part Three: How to Motivate SMEs to Ensure Better Compliance with Deadlines?
With the start of a new year, our thoughts often turn to ways to improve our processes and procedures. Let’s focus on how to improve our relationships and team-building in order to keep the ...
Checking-In on Google Docs
Google Docs: Ready for Power Proposal and RFP Response Users?
We frequently monitor the progress Google is making with Google Docs. Given the ubiquity of the Google offerings and their ...
Why Professional Implementation Services?
Most software implementations involve some amount of setup and configuration. So how do you know what the right amount of assistance is right for you?
Yes/No Decision
Let’s make this quick – ...
Microsoft Word Running Slow? Is It Lagging? Try This!
As proposal writers we spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word. So If Word becomes slow or unstable it multiplies the time and effort, not to mention frustration, it takes to complete our work. ...
RFP Content Libraries and the Chaos Dilemma
We often think that content automation will solve the vast majority of our reusability problems when it comes to finding exactly the right answers to our mountain of RFP questions. To some ...
Mysterious Case of the Self-Locking Excel RFP
“HELP! Sometimes when I am answering an Excel RFP, a cell suddenly becomes locked, making it impossible to edit it afterward. What causes this?” Having an Excel RFP suddenly lock answer cells ...
How to Navigate Data Restrictions on Excel RFPs
The most frustrating challenge in answering Excel RFPs is not knowing if or what restrictions have been placed on the RFP answer cells and having to rely on Trial-and-Error. Is there any way ...
Locksmithing for Excel RFPs
I respond to a fair number of RFP’s in Excel. The RFP’s are usually locked so I can only edit the answer cells, but sometimes there are other restrictions too, like not allowing images or not ...
The Awesomeness of AutoCorrect
AutoCorrect is an automatic editing feature that is often maligned for causing unwanted and sometimes embarrassing word substitutions. It is also a long standing feature of Microsoft Word that ...
Back to the Desktop – Real-Time Co-Authoring in Microsoft Word 2016
The emergence in recent years of the Web-based version of Microsoft Word has led some people to speculate that the desktop version of Word would one day soon become obsolete. But nothing ...
Innovation & Excellence…
Teams do extraordinary things with Expedience Software
I used several proposal software applications and knew the importance of ease of use. Many of the proposal apps are so complicated that users revolt against the system. Expedience is the easiest proposal automation software that I’ve ever used, and our proposal writers actually love using it!
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