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Excel Templates For Project Managers

Excel templates for Project Management

A project can be defined as a temporary endeavor undertaken by a specific group of people in order to reach a unique goal or objective.

Likewise, Project management is the process of initiating, planning, organizing, executing, controlling and closing of a project after meeting a specific goal.

The person in charge of leading a project through its lifecycle is called a project manager. Managing a team compiled of people from different units within the organization while ensuring that the goals are achieved within a given time frame & budget is no walk in the park, to say the least.

Project Management life cycle phases

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How to Convert PDF to Excel: Formatting Issues Solved

Custom Formatting PDF to Excel

Accurate PDF to Excel conversion is one of the most difficult tasks for any PDF converter software. That’s why users often complain that PDF won’t convert correctly to Excel. They think the software is not working properly because they experience formatting issues when converting PDF to Excel.

Online communities are a valuable source of knowledge and a helpful resource when it comes to solving all kinds of computer related problems. Nevertheless, it seems they fall short when questions like these arise:

  • How to convert PDF to Excel without losing formatting?
  • How to retain formatting when converting PDF to Excel?
  • How to keep columns and rows when converting PDF to Excel?
  • How to get values in the correct cells when converting PDF to Excel?
  • How to convert PDF to Excel and get rows and columns to be useful?

Why is that so? Well, there’s a misconception that all PDF converters work the same way thus giving similar end results when it comes to PDF to Excel conversion.

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How To Improve Your To-Do Lists

To-Do List improving tips

Achieving our goals while meeting deadlines is always harder than it seems. Juggling between work, family, hanging out with friends and other stuff can be very exhausting. At one point or another, every single one of us has wished for a 30+ hour day to get everything done.  

The key to success on days like that lies in good organization. We need to determine which tasks need our immediate focus and effort and which can be postponed. Whether you’re a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or a stay-at-home mom, in order to get something done you’ll have to deal with high priority tasks first and leave the minor ones for later down the road. This applies to everyone, we need to prioritize.  

How do people manage this? Easy, by making a To-Do list – in plain language, a list of tasks you intend to accomplish on any given day. A To-Do list is a great productivity tool for organizing your daily activities. Unfortunately, not everyone uses their To-Do lists to the fullest. There are pitfalls that you need to be aware of.

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How to Get Through Wednesday at Work – 5 Motivational Tips

Hump Day Tips

“On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
and I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it’s true
That who is what and what is who.”

– Winnie the Pooh

Our childhood hero Winnie lives his life to the fullest. Friends, honey, adventure, poems… Winnie has it all. But, being what he is, an animated unemployed teddy bear living in a fairytale, Winnie doesn’t know what real struggle is – Wednesday at work.    

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4 Paperless Office Myths That Won’t Go Away

Paperless Myths Debunked

Some 50 years ago, offices were packed with shelves, cabinets, and folders containing all sorts of paper documents.

As businesses grew, so did their needs for:

  • physical storage space
  • people to handle document creation, archiving, and retrieval
  • expenses for maintenance and equipment

Workflows regarding document management became a nightmare with an ever-growing hunger for more resources.

Then, personal computers (PCs) entered the stage and made professionals dream of the time when all the documents will be created, stored, and searched digitally. In hopes of a more productive and automated office of the future, that dream was named “paperless office”.

Fast forward to present times–technology advanced greatly, but paper is still around. However, wondering why modern offices didn’t succeed in ditching the paper completely is a wrong question to ask. That’s because the term paperless office is often surrounded by a lot of myths and misconceptions.

Let’s see what things most people automatically assume when they think about the paperless office concept and why they are actually not true.

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