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1 FAST, TARGETED TRAINING OUR CAMPUS OR YOUR LOCATION NO FULL-DAY RELEASE NECESSARY STUDENTS CHOOSE WORKSHOPS THAT MATTER TO THEM Corporate Learning and Performance Improvement SOFTWARE TRAINING WORKSHOPS 90-minute, highly-focused training sessions, hosted at St. Lawrence College or your location via our portable training lab. In the time it takes to hold a typical meeting, your team can learn skills that they can immediately put to everyday use. Seat up to 20 students per workshop for one all-in price. LOW INVESTMENT PER SEAT; HIGH TRAINING ROI For More Information Contact: Technology Training Programs (613)

2 Table of Contents Excel Bootcamp Excel: Leveraging Logical Functions Excel: Problem Solving Tools Excel: Spreadsheet Makeovers Excel: Working with Big Data Sets Word Boot Camp Word: Customization Tools Word: Document Makeovers Word: Tables and Mail Merges PowerPoint: Boot Camp Windows 10: A Quick Tour Outlook: More Than Access Boot Camp Introduction to Microsoft Sway Microsoft Visio Boot Camp

3 Excel Boot Camp Excel Bootcamp (90 Minutes) Looking for a quick way to learn Excel s every-day features? Are your spreadsheets a little out of shape? The Excel Boot Camp is a 90-minute program that hits the most important tools in the Excel arsenal. Moving around the Excel environment Creating simple formulas Using the powerful =SUM and =AVERAGE functions Basic formatting Creating quick pie, bar, line and area charts Making a sparkline to show data trends Saving, printing and page layout options

4 Excel: Leveraging Logical Functions Excel: Leveraging Logical Functions (90 Minutes) Excel s logical functions can do everything from reporting if certain important conditions are met, to actually carrying out different actions depending on if a condition in your spreadsheet is true or false. Let Excel s powerful array of logical functions do the heavy lifting of analyzing your data for you. IF SUMIF AVERAGEIF COUNTIF AND/NOT/OR TRUE/FALSE

5 Excel: Problem Solving Tools Excel: Problem Solving Tools (90 Minutes) Sometimes it s easy to get the answer you re looking for, but you have to account for several possible scenarios. In other cases, you have the result you need, but have to quickly adjust variables to justify getting there. Excel provides a variety of What If tools to help your spreadsheets work backward from a total or itemize possible outcomes. Goal Seek Scenario Manager Data Tables Data Validation Formula Auditing

6 Excel: Spreadsheet Makeovers Excel: Spreadsheet Makeovers (90 Minutes) Looking for a way to make your spreadsheets stand out? Need to integrate images, or link to other documents/websites? Want more printing power? This workshop helps translate your raw numbers into easy-to-digest, presentation-ready, actionable data. Conditional Formatting Inserting Graphical Objects Hyperlinking Comments Page Headers and Footers Page Layout Options Printing Options Working with 3D/Multiple Worksheets

7 Excel: Working with Big Data Sets Excel: Working with Big Data Sets (90 Minutes) Are you regularly confronted with endless rows and columns of data in Excel? Need an efficient way to get to the heart of your numbers? This workshop aims at slicing and dicing data to get the results you need in record time. Importing Data to Excel Sorting/Advanced Sorting Filtering Pivot Tables VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP Database Functions

8 Word Boot Camp Word Boot Camp (90 Minutes) Looking for a quick way to learn Word s everyday features? Need to create, edit and print documents with minimal fuss and maximum effect? The Word Boot Camp gets you in on the ground floor, showcasing the tools that make it easy to produce professional content in not time. Moving around the Word environment Creating basic paragraphs Basic formatting Paragraph formatting Find and replace Cut, copy and paste within Word Spell check and proofing Tools Saving, printing and page layout options

9 Word: Customization Tools Word: Customization Tools (90 Minutes) You re very comfortable with Word; now it s time to discover the wealth of time-saving features and customizations built into the program. From pre-formatted chunks of re-usable text, to keystroke combinations that call up other documents, to creating and modifying your own menus, this 90-minute session will save you time and unlock Word s true powers. Macros AutoCorrect Customizing the toolbar and ribbons Quick parts The options menu

10 Word: Document Makeovers Word: Document Makeovers (90 Minutes) Bare-bones texts have their place, but sometimes you need to add a little pizzazz to your documents. This 90-minute class will show you how to work with graphics and hyperlinks, quickly apply pre-set styles and cover-pages, adjust paragraph and document flow, and insert impressive text boxes to accentuate key words. Working with styles Inserting graphical objects Helping text and objects play nice together Hyperlinks and comments Adding text boxes Creating cover pages Layout options

11 Word: Tables and Mail Merges Word: Tables and Mail Merges (90 Minutes) Tables are a great way to store and report data in Microsoft Word. They also have the benefit of being perfect vehicles for mail merges. This workshop will explore these two data-centric features of Word and push the envelope by having Word create different form letters based on rules you create! Creating tables from scratch Quick tables Importing data tables into Word Basic mail merges Conditional mail merges

12 PowerPoint: Boot Camp PowerPoint Boot Camp (90 Minutes) Need to present your idea to the next staff meeting? Looking for a graphical way to explain an important concept to a group? PowerPoint is the answer. This short, 90-minute session will help you harness PowerPoint by combining text, graphics and animations to tell your story and get your point across. What is PowerPoint Creating a slide show Slide layout options Adding text, graphics and other elements Adding animations and transitions Printing, saving and displaying slide shows

13 Windows 10: A Quick Tour Windows 10: A Quick Tour Microsoft s latest (and possibly last) foray into a pure operating system promises to cause users to fall back in love with Windows. From the re-emergence of the Start button, to the new Edge browser, and everything in between, Windows 10 is an exciting refresh of the desktop world s OS of choice. The Start Button use and configuration Task View/Virtual Desktops Notifications/Tray Items The Microsoft Edge web-browser Windows 10 Apps Cortana

14 Outlook: More Than Outlook: More Than Workshop (90 Minutes) This popular workshop offers insights into little-known techniques to get the most of our mail, manage meetings, track tasks, cultivate contacts, and customize Outlook to your individual needs. Learn to create meetings and tasks to automatically recur within your calendar; see how to leverage AutoCorrect, Quick Tasks and Rules to save valuable time, and peek behind the Options tab for secret mail settings that will make your life easier Getting the Most out of Mail Managing the Inbox Using Categories and Flags Using Customized Signatures Using Rules/Automation in Advanced Options Appointments Creating appointments Creating Meetings/Managing Invitees Creating Recurring Meetings/Appointments Sharing/Publishing Calendars Taming Tasks Creating Tasks Creating Tasks for Others Tracking Task Progress Categorizing Tasks Contacts, Options and Customization Creating, importing and editing contacts Inserting Objects Admin Settings Setting Status/Away OneDrive (if applicable)

15 Access: Boot Camp Access Boot Camp (90 Minutes) Unlock the power of Microsoft Access, the database tool packaged with Microsoft Office. While Excel is a powerful tool, a database like Access can open up new ways to pull important information from large datasets, and report that data to presentation-ready documents. Note: no previous database experience is required for this class! What is a database? Designing a table Key Fields Importing data into a table from Excel Creating basic queries Creating action queries (update/make table/append, etc)

16 Introduction to Microsoft Sway Introduction to Microsoft Sway (90 Minutes) Microsoft Sway is an exciting new way to create and manage websites, and it is completely free to use! No previous web-site design experience is required to take advantage of Sway s built-in design and uploading tools. If you can imagine it, you can create it with Sway, and be live in minutes. Note: this workshop will be focussed on building a website and being creative, so come to class with ideas! Launching Sway with a free Microsoft Live Account (a student account will be provided in class) Adding text to a Sway site Adding pre-existing documents/images/presentations Moving page elements Sharing your Sway site with world!

17 Visio Boot Camp Visio Boot Camp (90 Minutes) Sometimes, a simple org-chart won t cut it. Whether you need to map complex processes, hierarchies, or brain-storm new ideas, Visio offers a robust suite of graphical and linking tools to get what s in your head onto the screen in an easyto-understand, shareable format. Adding simple shapes Connecting simple shapes Adding text and other elements Using Visio templates Data linking to Excel Creating Org Charts Creating Process Flows Collaborating (if applicable)