DaveMacdonald
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- Nov 28, 2013
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Hello everyone,
I had a question that I hope I'm not alone in having. I am a federal contractor, specifically I work as a Quality Control Manager for a large security contracting firm. The nature of the industry is pretty conservative, even though I don't work directly for the government, most of the things that I develop, forms, workbooks etc. are seen by the government and as I said, the industry is pretty conservative.
Making a clearly defined and directly useful workbook is paramount but second to that is the layout. Color schemes, conditional formatting for auto fill, font or ink color. Headers, Footers, Knees (kidding), and so on and so forth. Now, sometimes I get a little too "in to it" and go nuts with the layout.
Does anyone know of some good instructional media (book,video,blog,whatever) that can help me learn more about designing an aesthetically pleasing, professional-looking, workbook? I am pretty young, especially compared to my peers and so I have that battle that many of you may be familiar with when coming into a job where you're younger (sometimes much younger) than your colleagues or when you head a team of people older than you. That being said, the things that I develop are viewed in a more critical eye than things developed by my counterparts in other divisions.
I love the chance to stand out and excel (pun absolutely intended) so I'm not shy about having these opportunities but I would be remiss if I did not prepare myself to become better.
All that being said, I am sorry for the novel but if anyone has any advice or somewhere to direct me to save me hours and hours of google searches (inevitably leading to me reading obscure articles about how to grow a chinese bamboo tree in my spare time or finding a better recipe for hummus), I would be eternally grateful.
I had a question that I hope I'm not alone in having. I am a federal contractor, specifically I work as a Quality Control Manager for a large security contracting firm. The nature of the industry is pretty conservative, even though I don't work directly for the government, most of the things that I develop, forms, workbooks etc. are seen by the government and as I said, the industry is pretty conservative.
Making a clearly defined and directly useful workbook is paramount but second to that is the layout. Color schemes, conditional formatting for auto fill, font or ink color. Headers, Footers, Knees (kidding), and so on and so forth. Now, sometimes I get a little too "in to it" and go nuts with the layout.
Does anyone know of some good instructional media (book,video,blog,whatever) that can help me learn more about designing an aesthetically pleasing, professional-looking, workbook? I am pretty young, especially compared to my peers and so I have that battle that many of you may be familiar with when coming into a job where you're younger (sometimes much younger) than your colleagues or when you head a team of people older than you. That being said, the things that I develop are viewed in a more critical eye than things developed by my counterparts in other divisions.
I love the chance to stand out and excel (pun absolutely intended) so I'm not shy about having these opportunities but I would be remiss if I did not prepare myself to become better.
All that being said, I am sorry for the novel but if anyone has any advice or somewhere to direct me to save me hours and hours of google searches (inevitably leading to me reading obscure articles about how to grow a chinese bamboo tree in my spare time or finding a better recipe for hummus), I would be eternally grateful.
