EXCEL Tutorial – How to Construct a Compounding Interest Financial Calculator
You can construct an almost infinite variety of calculators right within your MS EXCEL spreadsheet application. Here is how you can construct your own 10-year compounding interest financial calculator that would help you to see, for example, how much your $100 will grow at x percent of interest a year, on a year by year…
Read MoreOpen Source Software – 10 Great Free Tools of Technical Communication
Are you sick and tired of paying hundreds of dollars for writing and design software that does not work? You may want to give the following open-source programs a try. OpenOffice, the king and queen of office suits. Available for PC, Mac and Linux platforms. (Try NeoOffice if you own a Mac.) Totally free and…
Read MoreHow To Use "Use" Versus "Utilize" Correctly?
“Use” and “utilize” are two verbs with distinct meanings. Don’t confuse them. “Use” is to employ objects for the purposes they were designed for. “Utilize,” on the other hand, is to employ objects for unintended purposes. Authoritative proof: The Oxford English Dictionary defines the verb use as “to make use of (some immaterial thing) as…
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How to Write for an International Audience
Introduction Writing for an international audience is a task that many technical and business writers face every day. You’d better have a firm grip on the contemporary American slang if you are a screenwriter drafting the sequel to “Easy Rider.” But if you are a technical or business writer, get into the habit of writing…
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