Business invoice Although Microsoft Excel is suitable for creating invoices, you can also use Word if the content is brief and you need to send an invoice quickly to a client, supplier, or agency.

If formatting a resume isn't your thing, Hloom has 275 free Microsoft Word templates to download. The templates are spread across different categories, thus catering to different job types.

Templates are one of the great under-utilized features in Word. All too often, when people need to create a document, they start from a blank page -- even if it's the same sort of document they've ...

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 2, 2010, Section B, Page 13 of the New York edition with the headline: How to Make Microsoft Word Templates.

A new, free, ad-supported local version of Office changes all that, according to a report. (Update: The ad-supported version is a test, a Microsoft representative said Monday afternoon.