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October 13, 1998
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by Sally Neuman

(IDG) -- This collection of templates and add-ins will help take the pain out of tedious tasks, from figuring out a mortgage you can afford to creating fancy invitations for your daughter's wedding.

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1. Personal Budgeter Template: Keep tabs on your spending habits or plan for your vacation. You can customize the template to fit your needs.

2. Car Lease Advisor Template: About to lease a new car? Adjust the capitalized cost or tweak the residual value; then let the program help you recognize the best deal.

3. 3-Fold Brochure Template: Create typical three-part brochures using this Microsoft Publisher template.

4. Loan Manager Template: Before you decide on a new mortgage, calculate your monthly payments and interest with this Excel template.

5. Fax Sheet Template: Easily create a single-page fax cover sheet you can use over and over again.

6. Wedding Invitations: This Microsoft Publisher template includes everything you need to create personalized wedding invitations.

7. Employment Template for Microsoft Publisher: Don't rely on preprinted job applications when you can design your own. This template makes it easy.

8. TrayText: Store common phrases that are available to any application and access them via a hotkey. Includes the useful Spike feature for collecting text from different sources.

9. PRIME 97 For Word 97: This collection of utilities for Word 97 offers tools for organizing your document bookmarks, managing variables in macros and VBA coding, safely deleting documents, and many other useful functions.

10. Cerificate Templates for Microsoft Publisher: Use this set of three professionally designed templates to create certificates in Microsoft Publisher 97. Create Certificates of Achievement, Merit, or Membership by simply opening and modifying the templates to suit your needs.

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