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Posted by: Catie Holdridge
06 / 01 / 17
It’s that time again. A new year, a (seemingly) new beginning and a brand new chance to do everything a bit better. Clean slates are always appealing, and the turning of one year into another is as good a prompt as any to make a change – especially since it comes preloaded with tradition. Yet, […]
01 / 12 / 16
If you’re feeling generous and you’re offering money off something, is that a discount on or a discount off the usual price? This was recently the subject of much heated debate here at Emphasis HQ. Sides were taken, teeth bared and battle lines drawn, with both sides certain they were right. ‘Of course it’s “discount off“!’ […]
Posted by: Jacob Funnell
25 / 11 / 16
You’ve finally made time to sit down and write that key document. You’ve pounded something out on the keyboard and you desperately want to get it out of the door. But as you give it a final once-over before hitting ‘send’, don’t forget one crucial question: ‘Is it too long?’ If it seems to take […]
04 / 11 / 16
Two of the most commonly confused words in the English language are ‘stationary‘ and ‘stationery‘. It may come as a surprise that they are separate words, but they are different – ‘stationary’ and ‘stationery’ mean entirely different things, even though they happen to be spelled in a very similar way. So what’s the difference? And, more importantly, […]
Posted by: Rob Ashton
18 / 10 / 16
Tables are a staple of many business documents – from management accounts to a marketing plan or an activity update. And most people know how to create a table in Word. What you may not know is how easily you can take your tables from basic (and boring) to impressive and eye-catching. Transform your tables […]
29 / 09 / 16
What’s one thing you can do to transform everything you write at work? In fact, not just what you write: what your colleagues write too – even everyone in your entire organisation. Better still, as well as improving the emails, reports, letters, proposals and other documents you all produce, it can overhaul everyone’s experience of […]
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