Business Plan Workshop/Cash-flow Work-sheet
Two templates have been provided on the accompanying disk. Below are step-by-step instructions to guide you
through the business plan and cash flow work sheet templates. The steps illustrate how to open the file, enter
data, save your work and close the Word and Excel templates. For those of you who do not have access to a
personal computer to complete the plan & cash flow sheet, computers are available at each of the Oxford
County Library branches. A pamphlet of library open hours is available from your course instructor or Kathryn
McCulloch.
Business Plan template
STEP
Description
Additional Information
1. Insert the disk
Insert disk into the floppy drive of the computer with
the metal sliding door entering the slot first.
In most computers the
round metal circular part
of the disk will face the
button that protrudes out
of the disk drive.
2. Open the file
There are many ways to do this. I will illustrate two:
One way, is to Start the program MS Word
-click on the start button at the bottom left hand
corner of the screen, use your mouse pointer to
highlight the word programs, a window containing
more menu items will appear on the right, point to
the Microsoft Word description on the list and click.
The second way, use Windows Explorer. To open
Explorer,
-right click on the start button at the bottom left hand
corner of the screen, use your mouse pointer to
highlight the word explore and click.
The following window will open in windows 95-
If you don’t immediately
see the Microsoft Word
description, look for the
description Microsoft
Office, point to it first,
then point to the Word
description click.
Windows Explorer can
also be found under
programs when clicking
the start button
click under the window titled Folders
and highlight the words 3 ½ floppy (A):
the contents of the a
disk will appear in the
right-hand window
highlight the file name “Business plan” with a single
click then d