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I received an email recently that had an attached .PDF file. &nbsp;The file was from one of the women in our church informing others about certain events upcoming in the next month etc. <br />
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What struck me was how professional it looked. &nbsp;I knew who sent it and know that she is not particularly computer literate so I called and asked how she created the file. &nbsp;She said she owns a Mac and that she used software in the Mac called (I believe) pages. &nbsp;She said she simply found a good template and filled in the blanks and saved it as a .PDF file. &nbsp; I was impressed.<br />
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I don't own a Mac. &nbsp;I am a PC guy, but I do own Office 2010. &nbsp;The thought occurred to me that there is probably an equivalent in Office. Is this so? &nbsp;Maybe even WORD has special templates for things like news letters, or may this kind of thing is better handled in Powerpoint. I don't know. &nbsp;That's why I'm asking. &nbsp;What is a quick easy tool to use that comes with lots of pre-prepared Templates for this kind of thing?
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I received an email recently that had an attached .PDF file.  The file was from one of the women in our church informing others about certain events upcoming in the next month etc. 

What struck me was how professional it looked.  I knew who sent it and know that she is not particularly computer literate so I called and asked how she created the file.  She said she owns a Mac and that she used software in the Mac called (I believe) pages.  She said she simply found a good template and filled in the blanks and saved it as a .PDF file.   I was impressed.

I don't own a Mac.  I am a PC guy, but I do own Office 2010.  The thought occurred to me that there is probably an equivalent in Office. Is this so?  Maybe even WORD has special templates for things like news letters, or may this kind of thing is better handled in Powerpoint. I don't know.  That's why I'm asking.  What is a quick easy tool to use that comes with lots of pre-prepared Templates for this kind of thing?

Microsoft Equivalent of Mac Pages

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint is a slide show presentation program currently developed by Microsoft. PowerPoint presentations consist of a number of individual pages or "slides" that may contain text, graphics, sound, movies, and other objects, which may be arranged freely. The presentation can be printed, displayed live on a computer, or navigated through at the command of the presenter. Slides can also form the basis of webcasts.