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    Microsoft Products: Tools to help you market your business

    Your Marketing Tools:
    Microsoft® Windows® 95
    Microsoft® Office
    Microsoft Publisher
    Microsoft Internet Explorer
    Microsoft FrontPage(tm)
    Internet Assistants for Microsoft Office (Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint)
    Microsoft Office Viewers (Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint)
    Microsoft Internet Information Server

    Traditional Marketing Products

    Microsoft Windows 95 operating system is your foundation for easy and fast access to whatever software you need to accomplish your marketing tasks. The Start button, Taskbar, and available Help files will show you where and how to use your Microsoft software.

    Microsoft Office, an integrated suite of applications that help you do your everyday tasks easier, allows you to target and customize your marketing projects through:

    • Databases. Store customer information in Microsoft Access (available in Office Professional).
    • Mail merge contact names into customer letters created in Microsoft Word
    • Results. Analyze your customer responses to these letters in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
    • Presentations. Create and deliver professional, targeted presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint

    Microsoft Publisher is your new marketing and creative department: Publisher's PageWizard design assistants walk you step-by-step through creating memorable marketing materials like a customer newsletter, promotional flyer, brochure, or your business cards and letterhead. Microsoft Publisher is a great companion to Microsoft Office as it's easy to share information across these applications.

    Internet Marketing Products

    Microsoft Internet Explorer - it's a free, downloadable browser developed for Windows 95, Windows 3.1, or Macintosh systems. First, download Internet Explorer for the best viewing experience (click on name above), connect to the Internet, and then check out how other businesses are marketing themselves on the Web.

    Microsoft FrontPage(tm): This application provides users with a fast and easy way to develop and maintain high-quality web sites without having to understand programming. Its client/server architecture supports authoring, scripting, and management of a web site over the Internet, across a LAN, or even on a personal workstation.

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    The Internet Assistants for Microsoft Office are free add-ins to the Microsoft Office family of applications that help growing businesses create and edit documents for the Web quickly and easily.

    Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word: Download this free tool to create great-looking Web documents right from within Microsoft Word. Just save as HTML and it converts text, graphics, and tables to HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language, the code format of the Web). Use Internet Assistant's easy-to-use interface to add formatting like Marquee text, In-line Video, and background sounds.

    Internet Assistant for Microsoft Excel: Download this free tool to automatically convert a range of cells in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to an HTML table, complete with background colors.

    Internet Assistant for Microsoft PowerPoint: Download this free tool to automatically convert Microsoft PowerPoint slide shows into exciting Internet presentations. This tool converts slides to .gif images and notes pages to corresponding HTML files. It also adds navigation buttons and converts interactive slide settings to the appropriate hyperlinks.

    Microsoft Office Family of Viewers: Sometimes, converting files to HTML isn't the best way to get your information across. The Microsoft Office Family of Viewers are no-charge, freely distributable applications that let Microsoft Office users share their files with more people than ever before. Post Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint files in full up on the Web.

    And finally to handle all the customer traffic to your web site, you'll want to host your web site on Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft's high-performance, secure, and extensible Internet server based on Windows NT® Server.

    For more about other Microsoft Internet products, visit the Internet Resource Center.

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