Certified Instructors Professional, Local, & Affordable     Computer Tips & Tricks Word - Tired of Clippy the paperclip always bugging you? Right-click on him and choose Hide. Excel - When creating a formula, try clicking on the cells instead of typing their addresses. Your formulas will be much more accurate the first time. Windows - Need a DOS window? Click the Start button, choose >Run, type CMD, and hit the ENTER key. Internet Explorer - In the address bar, try entering a company name (with no spaces) and hitting CTRL-ENTER on your keyboard. This combination adds http://www. and .com to the name, saving you quite a few keystrokes. QuickBooks - If you have more than one checking account, change the colors in the check register so they will be more easily recognized. Once you are in your check register go to Edit > Change Account Color.     Workplace Topic What would you do if this happened to you? A young man was driving his two-seater sports car when a dangerous storm struck the area. While struggling to keep his car on the road, he passed a bus stop where three people were waiting for the bus to escape the storm.  Here is a list of those who were waiting: A. An old women who appeared that she might be dying any minute. B. An old friend of yours who had previously saved your life. C. The perfect man or woman of your dreams that you have been waiting all your life to meet. The problem, of course, it that you are in your two-seater and you can only ask one person to join you. What should you do? Out of 100 job applicants who were given this story, only one came up with the best way to use his resources.  This is his response: I would give the car keys to my old friend and let him take the old lady to the hospital. I would then stay behind and wait for the bus with the woman of my dreams. Now that is thinking laterally.     Our New Location ETR is proud to open their newest location in Pocatello! Come visit us at the former Surplus Computer Depot at 150 East Quinn Road or give us a call at 208.233.1428.       Idaho Falls Training Schedule December 2007 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 3 Excel Introduction 4 Computer Fundamentals 5 PowerPoint Introduction 6 Photoshop Extreme 7 QuickBooks Intro 8 Word DreamWeaver (Day 1) FrontPage Introduction Office 2007 Publisher Key Applications Digital Photography Visio Introduction SQL SQL SQL Outlook Introduction   10 Word Introduction 11 Access Introduction 12 Excel Intermediate 13 Photoshop Introduction 14 QuickBooks Intermediate 15 QuickBooks Introduction DreamWeaver (Day 2) PowerPoint Extreme InDesign Introduction PowerPoint Intermediate Outlook Advanced PC Maintenance & Security Expression Web (Day 1) Expression Web (Day 2) Business & Technical Writing OrgPlus Living Online   17 Excel Advanced 18 Word Intermediate 19 Access Intermediate 20 PowerPoint Advanced 21 QuickBooks Advanced 22 QuickBooks Intemediate Visual Basic for Excel Office 2007 Word Mail Merge Excel Charts Computer Fundamentals PowerPoint Resume Design SharePoint PC Maintenance & Security Flash (Day 1) Publisher   24 25 26 27 Flash (Day 2) 28 QuickBooks Payroll 29 QuickBooks Advanced Closed for Holiday Closed for Holiday AutoCAD AutoCAD AutoCAD Outlook: Manage Your Mailbox              January 2008 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday   1   2 Computer Fundamentals 3 Word Introduction 4 QuickBooks Introduction 5 Computer Fundamentals   Closed for the Holiday Access Introduction Photoshop Elements Key Applications Word     Photoshop Introduction Outlook Introduction PC Maintenance & Security   7 Project (Day 1) 8 PowerPoint Introduction 9 Project (Day 2) 10 Project (Day 3) 11 QuickBooks Intermediate 12 QuickBooks Introduction Excel Introduction HTML Introduction Office 2007 New Features Outlook Advanced Visio Introduction Access Illustrator Introduction Access Intermediate Living Online Photoshop Advanced Digital Photography   14 Word Intermediate 15 PowerPoint Intermediate 16 Visual Basic for Access 17 Visual Basic for Access 18 QuickBooks Advanced 19 QuickBooks Intermediate Access Intermediate Excel Intermediate PC Maintenance & Security Computer Fundamentals Illustrator Advanced Living Online FrontPage Introduction Visual Basic for Excel OrgPlus HTML Intermediate Office 2007 New Features   21 Excel Advanced 22 Word Advanced 23 Access Advanced 24 InDesign Introduction 25 QuickBooks Payroll 26 QuickBooks Advanced Publisher Visio Advanced FrontPage Advanced PowerPoint Advanced Key Applications Excel Photoshop for Web HTML Advanced Visual Basic 2005 Visual Basic 2005 Visual Basic 2005   28 Excel Charting 29 Photoshop Artistic Effects 30 Excel Functions 31 Access Extreme     InDesign Advanced Word Extreme Word Extreme Business & Technical Writing     PowerPoint Extreme Cascading Style Sheets Search Engine Optimization Cultivate a Winning Attitude         Technical Humor An oxymoron is a combination of words that seem contradictory or incongruous, cruel kindness, for example. Here is a list of some modern oxymorons as they appeared in The Giant Book of Jokes, edited by Dave Phillips. - Auto pilot - Act naturally - Minor disaster - Microsoft Works - Genuine imitation - Soft rock - Tax return - Tight slacks - Original copies - Athletic scholarship - Old news - Good grief       Looking for that perfect Christmas gift? Consider a refurbished Dell desktop or laptop computer, complete with Windows XP. Include an additional $129 for a nice 17in. flat panel monitor. Call 525-8813 to order by December 10th for delivery before Christmas.  Choose from these models: HP/Compaq DC5000 SFF Desktop $299 P4 3.0 Ghz Processor 512 MB RAM 40 GB Hard Drive DVD Mouse Keyboard Windows XP Professional Dell Latitude D600 Laptop $499 P4 1.6 Ghz Processor 512 MB RAM 60 GB Hard Drive Combo DVD/CD Mouse Keyboard Windows XP Professional     Did you know... It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money.  It is the customer who pays the wages. Henry Ford     Search Engine Ads: Money for Nothing? Are you wasting money on search results you would probably get for free anyway? Very likely, says a new report that asks whether search-engine ads are a complete waste of time & money. After reviewing 30 paid search ad campaigns, reaching 120,000 users of Google, Yahoo! and  Microsoft, the study found nearly half the clicks came from people who had already visited the advertiser website, says an Atlas Solutions report. In other words, some prospects use search engines like glorified yellow pages to search by companies or products. Implications: Before spending more money on keywords or jumping to conclusions about how customers are finding you, you may want to do more to find out how visitors are ending up at your site. Were they searching by name or brand, or using natural search terms to find something that suited their needs? Want to learn more?  Sign up for our long anticipated Search Engine Optimization class on January 30th.

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