Date: 01/15/08 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: templates, software, web

I'm thinking WAY ahead here, but I'm about to start graduate school and I will eventually run a private health practice. Thus far, I only have experience with the student edition of MS Office. I'd like to familiarize myself with all the programs I need to run my own small business. I'll need to manage at least the following:

*Contacts
*Data/records
*Personal finance/book keeping
*Promotional material creation
*Presentations
*Professional document templates
*Website creation/management

Would you recommend a more advanced edition of MS Office, a different series of PC programs altogether, or a combination? I'd like to keep things as streamlined and simple as possible, but be sure I also have the skills to work with common PC software if I end up in a group practice.

Suggestions? Thanks!

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