Lesson 6.1 — A Word file is the best source you have

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If you only remember one thing from this whole course, make it this one. The best deck you will get out of this tool does not start from a topic. It starts from a document you already wrote. Here is mine. A regional performance review. Nothing fancy, two hundred and seventy words, proper headings, and one chart sitting in the middle of it. This took me ten minutes to write and it is about to do most of the work. Same box you have used for every lesson. Drag the Word file in, and the chip reads D O C X, two hundred and seventy words. There is no import Word menu to hunt for. There never was. And here is why this beats typing a topic. The numbers are yours, so there is nothing to fact check. The order of the argument is yours, so it does not reorganise your thinking. You are asking it to design, not to decide, and design is the part it is actually good at.…