Executive Training Resources Certified Instructors Professional, Local, & Affordable If you are unable to read this newsletter, please check your browser settings   Computer Tips & Tricks Word - If you trust Words expertise, you can have it summarize a large section of text. Pull down the Tools menu, then Auto summarize. Word will whittle down your most verbose report into an executive summary before your eyes! Excel - For truly professional looking charts, emphasize your point with AutoShapes. Pull down the Insert menu, choose Picture and then AutoShapes. My favorites are the Call-outs. QuickBooks - When entering in the date, remember these shortcut keys: Y- first day of Year, R-last day of yeaR, M- first day of Month, H-last day of montH,  W- first day of Week, K-last day of weeK. T-  Today A - All Dates You do not need to even memorize anything; simply know how to spell! Access - In the new Microsoft Access 2007 do not forget to turn on tabbed documents and display document tabs under Access Options, Current Databases. This will display all open tables, queries, etc... via tabs; nothing is hidden. You will love it!   Workplace Topic  Replace Those Fancy Words Human Resources spends a lot of time communicating with busy managers, executives and employees. Here are some ways to write more clearly and quickly get your message across to those time-pressed people. When most people write, they use words and terms they would not say in person. Though some of those phrases are a part of standard business vocabulary, all they really do is add unnecessary words and muddle what you?re trying to say. ~Replace: You will find attached  with: Here is ~Instead of: At this point in time  just say: Now ~Replace: To summarize the above with  In summary ~Don?t write: I am of the opinion -  just say: I think ~Instead of: I came to the conclusion, just say: concluded ~Rather than: Prior to that time, use: Before ~Replace: Despite the fact that with: Although ~Avoid: We made a decision to  - use: We decided ~Don?t use: It is indicative of ? just say: It indicates ~Instead of: We performed an analysis of  just say: We analyzed There are plenty of ways to make your writing sharper and clearer ? unless you want to have an office mob form outside your cubicle.      Idaho Falls Class Schedule October 2008 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday September 29 Mastering the Internet  September 30 Photoshop Introduction 1 Basic Keyboarding 2 Mail Merge  3 HTML Introduction  4 FrontPage Introduction Word Introduction Access Introduction Photoshop Elements Photoshop Introduction  Computer Fundamentals Illustrator Introduction  Expression Web Introduction (Day 1) Expression Web Introduction (Day 2) Access 2007 Introduction  Computer QuickStart  1pm-4pm $29 6 Communication Building Skills 7 PowerPoint Introduction 8 Resume & Interview Skills 9 Outlook Introduction 10 QuickBooks Introduction 11 PowerPoint 2007 Introduction Excel Introduction Office 2007: New Features  Crystal Reports Introduction Visio Introduction Access Access Intermediate Word 2007 Introduction HTML Intermediate Excel 2007 Introduction InDesign Introduction  13 Word Intermediate 14 Photoshop for the Web  15 Visual Basic for Access (Day 1) 16 Visual Basic for Access (Day 2) 17 QuickBooks Intermediate  18 Access 2007 Intermediate Excel Intermediate  Expression Web Intermediate Flash Advanced  Illustrator Advanced PowerPoint OrgPlus! PowerPoint 2007 Intermediate  PC Maintenance & Security Word 2007 Intermediate Publisher Computer QuickStart 1pm-4pm $29 20 Excel Advanced Project (Day 1) 21 Word Advanced 22 InDesign Advanced Project (Day 2) 23 Excel Extreme: Charting  Project (Day 3) 24 QuickBooks Advanced  25 Excel 2007 Intermediate Visio Advanced Word 2007 Introduction PowerPoint Advanced Photoshop Advanced Excel PowerPoint Intermediate Access  Advanced  Excel Building Macros  Crystal Reports Advanced Cultivating a Winning Attitude   27 FrontPage Advanced 28 PowerPoint Extreme 29 Access Extreme   30 Access 2007 Advanced 31 QuickBooks Payroll November 1 PowerPoint 2007 Advanced Excel Extreme: Functions  Excel 2007 Advanced Business & Technical Writing Search Engine Optimization  Word Photoshop Artistic Effects Cascading Style Sheets  AutoCAD (Day 1)  AutoCAD (Day2)  AutoCAD (Day 3)    November 2008 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 3 Photoshop Elements 4 Expression Web Introduction (Day 1) 5 Expression Web Intro (Day 2)  6 PowerPoint Introduction 7 QuickBooks Introduction  8 Excel Introduction  Word Introduction  Word 2007 Introduction Access Introduction Introduction to Word & Excel  Word  Project (Day 1)   Computer Fundamentals Project (Day 2)  Project (Day 3)  Illustrator Introduction    10 Access 2007 Introduction  11 Outlook Introduction  12 Excel Intermediate  13 InDesign Introduction  14 QuickBooks Intermediate 15 Excel Word Intermediate  Access 2007 Intermediate  Photoshop Introduction  Access Intermediate  Conflict Management  Computer Quick Start 9am-12pm   $29 Office 2007: New Features  All About the Internet  HTML Introduction  PC Maintenance & Security  Excel 2007 Introduction  Computer Quick Start 1pm-4pm   $29 17 VBA for Excel  18 Visio Introduction 19 Crystal Reports Introduction 20 Business & Technical Writing  21 QuickBooks Advanced  22 PowerPoint 2007 Intermediate HTML Intermediate  Word 2007 Intermediate  Access Extreme PowerPoint 2007 Introduction  PowerPoint  Excel Advanced  Excel 2007 Intermediate  Access Advanced  Word Advanced  OrgPlus!    24 Publisher  25 Photoshop Advanced  26 InDesign Advanced  27   28 QuickBooks Payroll 29 PowerPoint Advanced Access 2007 Advanced PowerPoint 2007 Intermediate  Closed for Thanksgiving Excel 2007 Advanced  Access Word 2007 Advanced HTML Advanced  Excel Extreme: Functions  Computer Quick Start  1pm-4pm   $29   Click here for Pocatello Schedule Click here for Rexburg Schedule Click here for Jackson Hole Schedule Want a specific class on the schedule? Click here to Contact Us    Technical Humor The Spellchecker Song I have a spelling checker. It came with my PC. It plane lee marks four my revue Miss steaks aye can knot see. Eye ran this poem threw it. Your sure real glad two no. Its very polished in its weigh, My checker tolled me sew. A checker is a blessing. It freeze yew lodes of thyme. It helps me right awl stiles two reed, And aides me when aye rime. Each frays comes posed up on my screen Eye trussed too bee a joule. The checker pours o'er every word To cheque sum spelling rule. Butt now bee cause my spelling Is checked with such grate flare, There are know faults with in my cite, Of nun eye am a wear. Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays Such soft wear four pea seas, And why eye brake in two averse Buy righting want too please Did You Know... Airports find 12,250 lost laptops every week! Here is bad news for any company with employees who travel: Roughly 637,000 laptops are lost at the countrys airports each year, according to recent study by the Ponemon Institute. That?s about 12,250 every week. About 35% of them are not reclaimed, said the survey of airport officials. That is scary news, especially since most employer-owned laptops contain some kind of confidential data about the company, its customers, its employees or all three. What is the solution? Your companys IT department can take steps to protect the data so it cannot be accessed by just anyone who comes across the computer. Also, a little reminder about the basics before employees leave for a trip (i.e., Do not forget your laptop at the security checkpoint) can go a long way.     HR's Funny side:  5 of the Dumbest Interview Questions Ever! Candidates reveal some of the silliest questions they have heard in interviews. We will have to guess at their times for the 40-yard dash when leaving the interview room. The questions, from a Monster.com survey of 3,000 job candidates, are followed by our even sillier suggested responses: Why aren?t you married yet. (Because everyone I?ve met so far ends up being like you.) What church do you attend? (The one with the pews in it.)  What would you do if I gave you an elephant? (I?d ask, What, no pooper-scooper, too?)  If you could be a dog, what kind of dog would you be? (The kind that bites you.) Is that your natural hair color? (No, actually, I?m bald.)

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