Software · Practice administration
Microsoft Office
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook: the unglamorous backbone of practice admin, specifications and fee proposals.
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Microsoft Office in practice.
Microsoft Office is the productivity suite most practices run on: Word for reports and specifications, Excel for fee proposals, programmes and resource plans, PowerPoint for client presentations, and Outlook for the day to day.
It rarely appears as a headline requirement because it is assumed. Where it matters is seniority: the further you progress, the more your week involves documents, spreadsheets and presentations rather than drawings.
For Part I and Part II candidates, solid Excel and Word skills make you useful on live projects quickly, from meeting minutes to drawing registers.
- It runs the business side
Fees, programmes, risk registers and meeting minutes all live in Office documents.
- It grows with seniority
Project architects and directors spend more of the week in Word and Excel than in CAD.
- It is easy to underestimate
Clean, well-structured documents are a visible mark of professionalism in interviews and on projects.
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