Author Archive: Dave Owczarek

The Buzzword Business Letter

I’m going to show you some tricks I use with Buzzword to create really beautiful and professional business letters. Of course, just writing the letter in Buzzword in the first place will help your cause, because unlike Microsoft Word, one of Buzzword’s strongest qualities is what you see is what you print (WYSIWYP). This is true for the layout of your document as well as that indescribably beautiful thing that happens to a document when you run it though Adobe’s rendering engines. It just looks better. Period. But I’m a little off topic now. Let’s take a standard business letter and put Buzzword through its paces.

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Full Screen Buzzword is Magic

I have to write documents frequently in both my professional and personal life. One thing I share in common with the rest of the Buzzword staff (and Adobe, for that matter) is a true love for crafting a really good document. What can I say, I’m a bit of a word processing nerd. When I have something really interesting to write, I look forward to the process. I really look forward to writing in Buzzword because it is so easy to produce a fabulous document. Today I want to talk about a little trick that lets you totally forget about the outside world and focus on the subject at hand – your writing.

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Oy! Get Your A4 On

Having lived abroad for a while, I appreciate some Buzzword features that are very convenient when communicating with people outside of North America. Just properly spelling European names is helpful. Call me traditional, but if your name is Siân or François, or Sinéad, for example, then that’s how I want to write it. But it’s very hard with a lot of systems out there to do that. Buzzword makes it easy.

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