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Windows 8 Essentials

This workshop will give an introduction into the new world of Windows 8. With Windows 8 Microsoft has introduced a different environment with its new user interface and ways of navigating through your apps.

Windows 8 Essentials will show you the great new features of Windows 8 and provide you with a great base to further your Windows 8 experiences. With Windows 8 you are able to better manage your time by providing new and more efficient tools and applications.

Workshop Objectives:

  • Install Windows 8
  • Navigate the Start Screen and Apps
  • Use the Desktop, Taskbar and related features
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  • Manage your files and folders
  • Work with Settings
  • Personalize Windows 8
  • Understand Security and Maintenance

Publisher 2007 Advanced

Workshop Objectives

Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, it occurs more easily and rapidly. 
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
  • Use the Format Publication pane to personalize publications
  • Track the effectiveness of marketing materials
  • Prepare publications for commercial printing
  • Work with images
  • Use the Graphics Manager Task Pane
  • Use the Design Gallery
  • Add text to a shape
  • Understand graphic file formats and filters
  • Move, group, ungroup, align, distribute and order objects
  • Save files as different formats
  • Import text from another file
  • Work with file properties
  • Work with the default working folder
  • Plan a website and add website pages
  • Convert print files to web format
  • Compress graphic files for websites
  • Work with page and paper sizes
  • Understand the scratch area
  • Add or remove headers and footers
  • Add an object for multiple pages
  • Wrap text around pictures
  • Use sound and motion clips with keywords
  • Use animated gifs
  • Crop pictures
  • Use media files
  • Convert pictures to watermarks
  • Make pictures transparent
  • Find and replace text
  • Export text
  • Use special characters
  • Work with tab stops
  • Insert the date and time
  • Create a data source, and address list and a mail merge
  • Add postal bar codes to labels or envelopes

Visio 2007 Advanced

Workshop Objectives

Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, it occurs more easily and rapidly. 
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
  • Understand advanced Visio definitions
  • Create new drawings using a variety of templates
  • Create and save a custom stencil
  • Add shapes to stencils
  • Control shape placement on a drawing
  • Revise existing shapes
  • Lock and protect shapes
  • Work with layer tools
  • Understand the Layer Properties dialog box
  • Hide or show a layer
  • Activate a layer
  • Create a layer
  • Assign shapes to a layer
  • Protect a layer from changes
  • Add pages to a drawing
  • Arrange pages
  • Work with Background pages
  • Hyperlink between pages
  • Use the Shape and Position window to make precise changes
  • View area measurements
  • Set the drawing scale
  • Understand how to use data with your drawings
  • Use the Data Selector Wizard to connect an external data source
  • Apply data graphics to shapes
  • View the ShapeSheet
  • Modify ShapeSheet data
  • Use a formula in the ShapeSheet

Word 2007 Advanced

Workshop Objectives

Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, it occurs more
easily and rapidly. 
By the end of this workshop, you should be able to:
  • Use the features of the Word Window:  zoom, views, how to arrange windows, splitting a document, and using the document map
  • Add ClipArt images and pictures from a file, use the Picture Tools tab, and move or delete added images
  • Work with SmartArt by inserting SmartArt shapes, adding, moving or deleting SmartArt images, and making use of the SmartArt Tools tab
  • Quickly add tables, text, and styles by using the Table Tools tab features
  • Maximize your use of tables by adding, resizing, moving and deleting rows
  • Insert special objects such as a cover page or WordArt, and draw shapes or add a text box
  • Enhance your document’s usability by adding a table of contents page, adding  footnotes, endnotes, and citations, adding a bibliography, and inserting  an index
  • Work with synonyms, use the research task pane, translate screen tips into other languages, and set your default language
  • Review a document electronically; add and review comments, track and review changes, and compare two documents
  • Customize your personal operating environment in Word by minimizing the ribbon, using the Quick Access toolbar, and tweaking the Word color scheme

SharePoint 365 Essentials

Workshop Objectives

Research has consistently demonstrated that when clear goals are associated with learning, it occurs more easily and rapidly. 
By the end of this workshop, participants should be able to:
  • Sign on to Office 365
  • Understand the Home page
  • Understand the Team Site
  • Update your profile
  • Share Information
  • Understand content types
  • Share and track items
  • Track versions
  • Understand the Library tools
  • Create a site
  • Understand Types of Lists
  • Manage events
  • Connect to Outlook 
  • Create a New calendar
  • Understand Web Parts
  • Creating a Site
  • Modifying a view
  • Understand workflows
  • Update a task status