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Web pages are the building blocks of your site. In this session we discuss how to work in both design and code view to understand how these pages are created. Furthermore, we’ll cover how to add tables and images to a page and save your page as a template to create pages with a similar layout in the future. This webinar is designed for people with some, but limited experience in Dreamweaver CS 4.

 * Code View
 * Images
 * Basic tables
 * Create Links
 * Page Templates

While Dreamweaver is part of the Creative Suite, it definitely marches to the beat of its own drum. In this session we discuss the fundamentals of web design and explore how Dreamweaver handles these tasks. This is a great introductory webinar for anyone looking into web design or Dreamweaver.

 * Web Design Basics
 * Explore the Dreamweaver Interface
 * Defining a site
 * Create a Web Page
 * Create Page Content
 * Formatting

You are on your way to becoming a Dreamweaver master! Now that you have the basics under your belt, it’s time to explore advanced formatting techniques in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. In this 60-minute webinar, you will learn how to develop websites with advanced functionality.

In this course, you will use the advanced features of Dreamweaver to design and develop professional-looking websites.
  * AP Elements
  * Creating Forms
  * Working with Spry Elements
  * Embed Media

Know the basics in Flash already? Need to go more in-depth with animation? How about adding audio to your movies? It’s time to use some of the advanced functionality of Adobe Flash CS4. It is a powerful tool used predominantly on the web. Getting a handle on it may just be easier than you think! Learn how to design and develop more complex Flash projects in this 60-minute Webinar.

This webinar covers the following Flash topics:

• Adding Motion to Flash Animations
• Applying 3-D Transformation to Objects
• Applying Effects to Objects
• Importing Audio
• Controlling Audio

About the Presenter: Annie Denny is a Software Applications Instructor with a long background in Microsoft Office applications as well as the Macromedia suite.  With 12+ years of training experience, she brings a wealth of real-world application knowledge to the classroom.  In addition, Annie continues to maintain several independent websites.  She has also written curriculum for dozens of instructor-led courses, as well as customized private courses and online Webinars.

Have you always wondered how people create some of those clever little animations you see on websites? Or, have you been asked to create an interactive graphic and have no idea where to start? If so, this is the Webinar for you! Learn how to morph an image into text and vice versa. Learn how to quickly and easily make an animated movie for your website in this 60-minute Webinar.

This webinar covers the following Flash topics:

• Importing a bitmap image into Flash
• Creating and Modifying Text in Flash
• Converting Text to Shapes
• Converting Shapes to Text
• Create Animation with Frames and Keyframes
• Create a Motion Tween Animation
• Create a Shape Tween Animation

About the Presenter: Annie Denny is a Software Applications Instructor with a long background in Microsoft Office applications as well as the Macromedia suite.  With 12+ years of training experience, she brings a wealth of real-world application knowledge to the classroom.  In addition, Annie continues to maintain several independent websites.  She has also written curriculum for dozens of instructor-led courses, as well as customized private courses and online Webinars.

In this Webinar we tackle the path tools that can cause beginning Illustrator users fits. You'll learn how to paths straight, curved, open or closed paths and manipulate anchor points to create different effects. You'll also learn tips and techniques to smooth curve and how to use the carving tools such as scissors and knife.  In addition we’ll cover how to arrange objects on your art board, group and space elements. Finally, we show the all-powerful Pathfinder palette as a means of creating new modified shapes from existing lines and objects.

• Explain Path Components
• Draw Paths with Pen and Pencil
• Edit Paths with Direct Select and Path Alteration Tools
• Dissect Paths with the Knife and Scissors Tool
• Explore Options of the Pathfinder Palette

True Illustrator mastery comes from the ability to quickly select and manipulate any detail in your artwork.

This Webinar will equip you for this task with a focus on the direct selection tool, anchor points, and the pasting and grouping of objects. You'll learn how to use drawing aids such as the ruler, guides, and smart guides. Drawing tools including the paintbrush, pencil, smooth, and eraser tools are explored along the way. The lesson culminates with tips on how to organize your work in layers and output your illustration in a useful format.

• In-Depth Selection Techniques
• Anchor Points
• Pasting
• Grouping Objects
• Rulers and Guides
• Drawing Tools

Illustrator may be the least understood, and in some areas, most powerful of the Creative Suite. In this Webinar we will demonstrate the uses of Illustrator and the arsenal of features in the Illustrator tool kit. We’ll show how to create and save files, access basic palettes and drawing tools, manage your workspace, and select colors..

• Overview of the Illustrator Environment
• Create an Illustration
• Save Options
• Manage Your Illustrator Workspace
• Select Colors

As you'd expect from any page layout tool, Adobe InDesign has a wide array of options for typography, allowing you to make very specific typeface and text layout choices in your projects. You'll explore the ins and outs of various powerful type features in this Webinar, including Autoflow, placeholders, wrapping, and paragraph and character styles that you can apply to blocks of text with just a click. 

 * Autoflow
 * Placeholder text
 * Text wrapping
 * Paragraph Styles
 * Character Styles

InDesign is a powerful print layout application. In this Webinar we will discuss the many applications for InDesign and learn how it integrates with Photoshop and Illustrator. We will take a comprehensive tour of InDesign's workspace, learning how key tools work and how to prepare for your first page layout.

• Overview of the InDesign Interface
• How to Integrate InDesign with Other Creative Suite Applications
• Place Text in InDesign
• Place Graphics in InDesign
• Explain Package Process

This Webinar is all about creating multi-page print documents. InDesign makes it easy to add pages, page numbering, organize your multi-page layouts, and use recurring elements on multiple pages using master pages. In addition, we’ll give an in-depth explanation of, text and image frames and show how these are flexible tools for creating these design features.
 * Facing Pages Layouts
 * Add Pages to a Layout
 * Explain Master Pages
 * Pages Panel
 * Page Numbering
 * Advance Text and Frame Options

When you begin the task of designing your own marketing materials, you may think that Photoshop is the tool for you.  Others may and claim its InDesign or Illustrator.  The reality is that each of these applications plays a definite and unique role in the design process.  This webinar will uncover the benefits of each application and which to use when, and why.  In the process we will also cover some basic principles of graphic design.

  * Explanation of the Creative Suite Applications
  * Definition of Raster vs. Vector Images
  * Outline of Graphic Design Workflow

About the Presenter:
Matt Wohl is a Senior Applications Instructor with a background in Microsoft Office and Adobe’s design software. Matt has been an Instructor for 8 years. He has created and delivered multiple “Train the Trainer” programs. As a designer, Matt first began using Adobe software in 1996, has worked for several advertising agencies and also as a freelance designer. He’s led corporate implementations of new software and written courseware for all applications in the Office Suite. He currently specializes in classroom instruction as well as designs and delivers corporate and open enrollment webinars.

Even the finest digital photographers need to spruce up their images. This Webinar focuses on the techniques Photoshop offers for correcting exposure and contrast problems as well as retouching elements of an image. We will walk through the correction and retouching of a photo for a brochure, covering adjustment layers, Levels correction, and retouching tools as we move through the process.

Correction Tools

• Levels
• Brightness/contrast
• Hue Saturation

Adjustment Layers

Basic Retouching Tools

Now that you know the basics, it’s time to get into the nitty gritty of reporting. In this 60-minute Webinar you will be introduced to the Report Wizard, custom grouping, fields, and other more advanced features of this dynamic reporting tool.

What you will learn:

• Report Wizard - Multiple Tables
• Grouping Expert
• Create Custom Grouping
• Fields - Dimensions vs. Metrics
• Select Expert
• Export Options

Crystal Reports is a powerful tool for analyzing information. It allows you to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources with the goal of examining your data in an organized, meaningful way. This Webinar assumes that you have no previous experience with Crystal Reports. You will be introduced to basic database reporting, formatting, as well as grouping & sorting, and much more. “Designing a Basic Report” is your first step on the way to using Crystal Reports to its full potential.

What you will learn:

• Crystal Reports Overview
• The Work Area
• Basic Formatting
• Basic Grouping & Sorting
• Summary Functions
• Inserting Objects into Reports
• Previewing & Exporting Reports

Google Analytics is a powerful, free service from Google that allows you to track and understand your website visitors. The more you know about your customers, the better you can market and sell your services online. You can see where your website visitors came from before they landed on your website, see what kind of search keywords they used to find you, see how they traveled through your website, and much more.

This webinar introduces you to the concept of web analytics, covers the basics of setting up a Google Analytics account, and shows you how to place the tracking code into your web pages.

Applications like Dreamweaver and SharePoint Designer allow users to create web pages in design views. However, to create fully functional designs that meet your needs it’s essential to have a working knowledge of Hyper Text Markup Language. In this session we will discuss what HTML is and how it works. From there we will discuss commonly used tags and the differences between HTML and XHTML.

 * What is HTML
 * The Difference Between HTML and XHTML
 * How HTML Works
 * Tag Syntax
 * Create Links
 * Introduction to Creating Tables

Using Access 2007 Mail Merge Wizard is an efficient tool when you need to create merged letters, envelopes, labels, and email messages.  In this webinar we will set up a mail merge using both tables and queries.  We will walk through the steps using the Mail Merge Wizard working with existing Microsoft Word documents and create new documents.  Matching fields between Microsoft Access and Word will also be covered.

Access reports are extremely powerful, and Access is considered by many to be the best report generator for Microsoft Windows-based databases. Learn efficient techniques for generating informative reports from your Access database. This is a beginner Webinar that focuses on the reporting features within Microsoft Access.

Some of the things you will learn:

• Define reporting
• Use Report Wizard
• Format reports
• Edit reports
• Create Group Report
• Create mailing labels

Access reports are extremely powerful, and Access is considered by many to be the best report generator for Microsoft Windows-based databases. Learn efficient techniques for generating informative reports from your Access database. This is a beginner Webinar that focuses on the reporting features within Microsoft Access.

Some of the things you will learn:

• Define reporting
• Use Report Wizard
• Format reports
• Edit reports
• Create Group Report
• Create mailing labels

Are you wondering where your money is going? Let Excel help you stay on track by creating a budget. Whether it is for home or work Excel has the right tools to keep you on budget. A budget helps you compare your income with your expenses and plan for long range financial goals.

Topics covered include track your income and expenses, create a spreadsheet, build formulas, and test your new budget.
 * Budget Overview
 * Setup of worksheet
 * Build Formulas
 * Test Budget

About the Presenter:  With 8+ years of experience teaching the Microsoft Office Suite, David Thibault, Director of Education for KnowledgeWave Training in South Burlington, VT uses his upbeat, high energy teaching style in the classroom and online.  David has led corporate implementations of new software and written courseware for all applications in the Office Suite and 3rd party software.  He continues to specialize in classroom instruction as well as delivers corporate and open enrollment webinars.  His years in the field managing consulting projects have ranged from rollouts to upgrades and mentoring services, giving him the “real-world” knowledge that brings so much value to his classroom and online lessons.

Although Excel is not typically described as database software, many Excel users maintain large lists of data and they need the tools to manage that data efficiently. This session focuses Excel’s many powerful and easy-to-use database commands and methods critical to anyone who maintains an Excel database. This session explores many of Excel’s techniques needed to modify, build, and manage an Excel database, including: validating data, using Excel’s Form feature, sorting, adding subtotals, filtering, and advanced filter.

Note: This session will use Excel 2007 as the primary platform for demonstrating these features, but will note the differences from Excel 2003 and will show some features in that version as well.

Topics include:

Data Validation - prevent bad data entry - keep out bad data before it ever gets into a database
 * Restrict cell content by forcing users to pick entries from a pick list
 * Restrict cell content by value, text, or data/time
 * Restrict cell content by formula
 * Use auditing tools to check the validity of existing data
Sorting
 * Use multiple-key sorts from the menu or from button commands
 * Sort based on re-arranging rows or re-arranging columns
 * Sort based on cell colors or in random order
 * Sort data based on customized lists
Creating automatic subtotals with the Subtotals command
 * Set up single and multiple-level subtotals
 * Expand and collapse displays quickly with grouping and outlining symbols
Data Form - Build and maintain a database with the Form feature
Using the powerful Filter command to view just the data you want to see
 * Set up filtering to see and print a subset of data
 * Create compound selection criteria for filtering data
 * Use Excel 2007 greatly expanded special filtering tools for Text, Number, and Date fields
 * Use the Advanced filter for extended filtering needs

About the Presenter: Dennis Taylor is the author of “Teach Yourself Microsoft Excel 2000” and co-author of four other books on spreadsheet software. Dennis has developed and presented specialized Excel courses (Tips and Tricks, Database Features, Advanced Formulas and Functions) to numerous clients over the past 12 years. Dennis has over 20 years of training and consulting experience. As a former employee of Amoco Oil, IBM, Lexmark, Texaco, Levi Strauss, StorageTek, the Federal Government, and the University of Colorado, he has taught over 3,000 seminars and classes attended by over 15,000 students.

Proficient users in Excel can still discover new features and tools to accomplish more each day. In this 60-minute webinar, Excel expert Dennis Taylor will demonstrate numerous little-known features, and shortcuts that will save you time in your busy day. These must have Excel Skills for today's highly effective worker will help you stay more organized and on task with Excel. You will learn new shortcuts that will impress even the most experienced Excel users. This webinar will give you tips on mastering formats, commands, functions and formulas. You will learn new ways to make your spreadsheets communicate your message and look professional. You will feel more confident with how to develop clean presentations and you will learn navigation tips so you can effortlessly move through worksheets & workbooks.

Join us to discover these essential Excel tips and techniques that will save you time, which will save you money.

Question and Answer Session - Hear expert answers to your specific Excel questions at the end of the 60 minute presentation.

Included in this Webinar:

• Copy/Move/Paste Techniques
• “No commands” approach
• Convert formulas to values
• Multiple-cell formula entry
• Navigation Techniques
• Scope out workbooks quickly
• Switch sheets with mouse/ keystroke
• Move up/down/across worksheets
• Switch workbooks
• Formula Tips
• Displaying Formulas
• Absolute/Mixed cell references
• Tracking Dependent and Precedent Cells
• Using row/column references in formulas
• Efficient Data Entry
• Current Date/Time; Months, Days, Quarters series
• Value series
• Custom lists
• Chart Creation Tips/Techniques
• Formatting Tips
• Multiple line entry
• Rotating text – toolbar options
• SS#, Phone, Date, and Time Formats
• Operational Tips
• Insert/Delete/Hide with speed

About the Presenter: Dennis Taylor is the author of “Teach Yourself Microsoft Excel 2000” and co-author of four other books on spreadsheet software. Dennis has developed and presented specialized Excel courses (Tips and Tricks, Database Features, Advanced Formulas and Functions) to numerous clients over the past 12 years. Dennis has over 20 years of training and consulting experience. As a former employee of Amoco Oil, IBM, Lexmark, Texaco, Levi Strauss, StorageTek, the Federal Government, and the University of Colorado, he has taught over 3,000 seminars and classes attended by over 15,000 students.

Data, Data everywhere but what does it all mean. Data tells a story and sorts and filters help define that story. This function-packed workshop covers how to sort your data by multiple criteria, filter data using auto filter and custom filters and use conditional formatting to make it look good.

 * Single Level
 * Multiple Level
 * Data Form
 * Auto Filter
 * Advanced Filter
 * Retrieve Data from Access Database
 * Conditional Formatting

Data, Data everywhere but what does it all mean.  Data tells a story and sorts and filters help define that story.  This function-packed workshop covers how to sort your data by multiple criteria, filter data using auto filter and custom filters and use conditional formatting to make it look good.

 * Sort Data
 * Create Subtotals
 * Use Find/Replace
 * Filter Options
 * Conditional Formatting

When working with spreadsheets, you may want to use the same layout or design multiple times. Templates are a way to take a spreadsheet and reuse it over and over again without going through the time-consuming steps to make copies of existing files. Templates are perfect for spreadsheets that are repeatedly needed, such as on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis.

Excel templates have the ".XLT" file extension and can contain formatting, text, graphics, styles, headers, footers, formulas and even macros. When templates are used to create a new spreadsheet, a copy is made, leaving the original template intact for future use.

You won't believe how easily templates can be used to improve productivity. Stop recreating the wheel! This webinar will walk you through the process of creating dynamic Excel Templates.

When working with spreadsheets, you may want to use the same layout or design multiple times. Templates are a way to take a spreadsheet and reuse it over and over again without going through the time-consuming steps to make copies of existing files. Templates are perfect for spreadsheets that are repeatedly needed, such as on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis. Excel templates have the ".XLT" file extension and can contain formatting, text, graphics, styles, headers, footers, formulas and even macros. When templates are used to create a new spreadsheet, a copy is made, leaving the original template intact for future use.

You won't believe how easily templates can be used to improve productivity. Stop recreating the wheel! This webinar will walk you through the process of creating dynamic Excel Templates.

Almost everyone has seen or worked with a chart at one time or another--charts illustrate data, relationships, or trends, graphically. Like the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” charts are often a better tool for presenting information than hard-to-read numbers. This Webinar covers just about everything there is to know about charts. The dazzling charts you will be able to create after you finish this course will impress both you and your colleagues.

• What is a Chart?
• Selecting Data
• Chart Types
• Create a Chart
• Format Your Chart
• Edit a Chart
• Create Chart Templates

Excel manages numbers and other data. Users get comfortable with the certainty that comes from dealing with the concrete mathematical principles. It can get very unnerving when your comfortable world is discarded for a new unfamiliar one. Welcome to Excel 2007. All, or at least most, of our favorite functions are still there, but they may not be where we think. In addition, there are some great new features added to the Excel package. By the end of our webinar, you’ll start to feel that comfortable feeling, again.

What you will learn:

• The elements of the Excel 2007 interface
• How to work with files from older versions of Excel
• Enhanced conditional formatting
• Galleries
• Formatting your spreadsheets as a table
• AutoFill for functions

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for analyzing business data. Because of the increasing demands on their time, business professionals need to learn efficient and effective data forecasting methods that give them the answers they need.

Whether you’re running a small business or you work in a large corporation, you can use Excel to create worksheets for tracking and projecting sales. This Webinar will include the magic of using Excel, the best forecasting tool on the market and you will be introduced to the concepts of multiple case scenarios.

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for analyzing business data. Because of the increasing demands on their time, business professionals need to learn efficient and effective data forecasting methods that give them the answers they need.

Whether you’re running a small business or you work in a large corporation, you can use Excel to create worksheets for tracking and projecting sales. This Webinar will include the magic of using Excel, the best forecasting tool on the market and you will be introduced to the concepts of multiple case scenarios.

Don't spend another day manually filtering information from your spreadsheets in order to find the answers to your most pertinent business questions. Utilize the built-in formulas that Excel has to offer and get accurate results in a snap! This Webinar focuses on how to work with formulas and functions in Excel worksheets. Formulas are equations that perform calculations on values in your Excel worksheet. Functions are predefined formulas that perform calculations by using specific values, called arguments, in a particular order, or structure. Functions can be used to perform simple or complex calculations.

Learn formulas that will help you with specific business tasks, such as:

• Calculating loan repayment
• Creating amortization tables
• Identifying the potential future value of investments
• Using Excel’s discounting functions to analyze cash flow values and rates of return

Don't spend another day manually filtering information from your spreadsheets in order to find the answers to your most pertinent business questions. Utilize the built-in formulas that Excel has to offer and get accurate results in a snap! This Webinar focuses on how to work with formulas and functions in Excel worksheets. Formulas are equations that perform calculations on values in your Excel worksheet. Functions are predefined formulas that perform calculations by using specific values, called arguments, in a particular order, or structure. Functions can be used to perform simple or complex calculations.

Learn formulas that will help you with specific business tasks, such as:

• Calculating loan repayment
• Creating amortization tables
• Identifying the potential future value of investments
• Using Excel’s discounting functions to analyze cash flow values and rates of return

This workshop provides Excel 2007 novices with a working understanding of the Excel environment. Each area of the Excel window will be covered. In addition, you will learn to edit and save an Excel 2007 workbook at the end of this workshop.

• Excel 2007 Environment
• Navigate within an existing spreadsheet
• Understand the cursor shapes
• Create and save a workbook
• Create formulas

Change; Love, or hate it, it’s a way of life. Coming to understand can help you embrace it and the new possibilities that come along with that change. This is true of Microsoft Office 2007. Office 2007 has a whole new look and new features to go with it. This Webinar explores the new Office interface and the dynamic features of the Office Suite. While each application has new features, we will look at the common elements throughout the new interface. We will also go into Word, Excel and Outlook to point out some of the big changes. If you have Office 2007, this webinar is a must to get you on the path to embracing the change. Word has exciting new features to help you create, manage, and distribute documents. Excel has Smart Art, tables, and improved conditional formatting. Outlook’s To Do Bar is a way to view dates, upcoming calendar appointments, and tasks all while looking at your email.

Some of the things you will learn:

• The Office Interface (The Office Button,
• Ribbons, Quick Access Toolbar, Contextual Tabs and Dialog Box Launchers)
• How to deal with documents from  earlier versions of Office
• How to use SmartArt
• New distribution features in Word
• Improved conditional formatting in Excel
• Benefits of the To-Do Bar in Outlook
• Improved Calendar and Task features
  

Bulleted lists, clip art and photos are just the beginning when creating a PowerPoint presentation. Many of us are aware of PowerPoint’s strength and flexibility for designing presentations. However, far fewer take advantage of ability to create effective and eye-catching diagrams and charts. PowerPoint has built in tools to create stunning organization charts and process diagrams as well as a charting tool for mapping numeric data. In this workshop we will create several types of basic diagrams, format the diagrams and edit their content. We will also use the charting function and data sheet to enter data in PowerPoint and create visually attractive charts. If your data already exists in Excel, no problem. We’ll show you how to create a chart in Excel, incorporating your Excel data, and paste it into your PowerPoint presentation.

Some of the topics covered in this event include:

• Defining Diagrams and Charts
• Creating a Process Diagram
• Creating an Organization Chart
• Formatting a Diagram
• Editing a Diagram
• Creating a Chart in PowerPoint
• Importing an Excel Chart into PowerPoint

You’ve been asked to put together a presentation using PowerPoint, and you have no idea how to begin. Get equipped with the skills to do the job. We’re not talking fancy; the goal is to prepare you with the basics, how to put content on slides and get ready to present a show. The bells and whistles can come later.

• Introduction to PowerPoint
• Working with AutoShapes
• Working with ClipArt
• Using Design Templates
• Using Animation & Timings

You’ve been asked to put together a presentation using PowerPoint, and you have no idea how to begin. Get equipped with the skills to do the job. We’re not talking fancy; the goal is to prepare you with the basics, how to put content on slides and get ready to present a show. The bells and whistles can come later.

• Interface Tour
• Create & Edit Slides
• Add Pictures from Computer
• Add ClipArt
• Animations & Transitions
• Run a SlideShow

Easily handle even the most impossible projects without the stress, frustration and worry. Learn how to unleash the power of Microsoft Project and complete all your projects, large and small, on time and on budget.  This innovative webinar will walk you through many of the software's incredible, built-in features and you will learn how to use them to improve the way you manage tasks.

Just imagine, in one hour you will be able to build a project outline, create and modify task relationships, assign resources to tasks, work with different views and tables, create a baseline and track project progress, manage an active project, work with resource needs and communicate project information effectively.

Whether you are using newsletters to share information with family and friends or to attract new business and customers, Microsoft Publisher’s newsletter function provides total layout and design flexibility. Publisher provides an easy-to-use interface that allows you to select the design layout and color scheme, format text and insert images quickly and easily to create a custom newsletter.

This 60 minute Webinar covers the following topics:

 * Exploring the Newsletter Templates
 * Modifying a Template
 * Creating Pages from Scratch
 * Inserting Text and Frames
 * Inserting Pictures and Clip Art
 * Moving and Nudging Objects
 * Using Text Overflow
 * Formatting Text and Headings
 * Working with Bullets and Numbering
 * Paragraph and Line Spacing
 * Spell Checking and Autocorrect
 * Using the Design Checker
 * Printing your Newsletter

Microsoft Publisher is a great page layout tool designed to easily and effectively create and publish professional materials in-house. In this 60 minute Webinar, you will learn how to plan, format, edit and print a project with this powerful piece of software. We will start by covering the Publisher interface and some of the basic tools. Then we will work on different projects using a variety of methods, tools and commands.

This webinar covers the following topics:

 * Creating a New Publication
 * Changing Publisher Options
 * Adjusting Page and Print Setup Options
 * Adding Text to a Frame
 * Inserting and Navigating Pages
 * Moving and Resizing Object and Frames
 * Drawing Lines and Other Objects
 * Inserting Pictures and Clip Art
 * Formatting and Printing

Document Libraries are one of the core features of SharePoint. Document Libraries solve several pressing problems organizations experience with document management: security, version control, and group collaboration.

In this 60-minute webinar, we’ll go over the features of SharePoint Document Libraries and how to use them. Topics covered are uploading and creating documents in a library, editing documents from a library, document check-in and check-out, and version control.

Microsoft SharePoint is all about collaboration and sharing information with groups. Two chief ways this happens in SharePoint is in document collaboration and in the planning of meetings. SharePoint has powerful but easy-to-use document collaboration workspaces and meeting workspaces to get the job done.

Topic covered in this 60-minute webinar include setting up document and meeting workspaces, managing them, and controlling document publication versions and schedules

Every company has some type of organizational structure. At some point it will likely become necessary to create a chart accurately displaying your company’s structure. Due to the fact that every organization is unique, there are many ways to customize, tweak and bend Visio to create a chart that represents exactly how you and your colleagues co-exist. In this session we will show you how to create a basic organization chart and then take your chart to the next level customizing its different properties to meet your needs.

 * Organization Chart Theory
 * Adding Shapes
 * Changing Shapes
 * Change Shape Properties
 * Customize Fields
 * Format Chart

About the Presenter: Matt Wohl is a Senior Applications Instructor with a background in Microsoft Office and Adobe’s design software. Matt has been an Instructor for 8 years. He has created and delivered multiple “Train the Trainer” programs. As a designer, Matt first began using Adobe software in 1996, has worked for several advertising agencies and also as a freelance designer. He’s led corporate implementations of new software and written courseware for all applications in the Office Suite. He currently specializes in classroom instruction as well as designs and delivers corporate and open enrollment webinars.

Windows 7 is new from the ground up. In this session we will uncover many of the new features that distinguish this version of Microsoft’s operating System from its predecessors. Windows 7 offers new features to view and organize open windows, search for files and programs and even control the number of notifications we see. We’ll demonstrate all this and much more as we reveal the workings of this eagerly awaited upgrade. Whether you’re already using Windows 7 or planning on making the switch, let us guide you on your way.

• Windows Search
• Aero Peek, Snap and Shake
• Notification Control
• Improved Task Bar
• Internet Explorer 8 Web Slices
• User controls

Nothing is worse than being handed a long, confusing document with poor referencing, or worse, inaccurate referencing. The Table of Contents tool is a huge time-saver and a necessary tool for long documents. Along with foot notes and cross-references, these functions make up a nice bundle of features that will make navigating long documents a snap, and might even help you in the creation process.

Some of the things you will learn:

• Introduction to styles
• Create a Table of Contents
• Use Table of Contents as a navigation tool within Word
• Update fields
• Create footnotes, endnotes and cross-references
• Convert note types

Creating Mail Merges can be an anxiety producing activity, but it doesn’t have to be. This time-saving tool does so much, in so little time. The key is unlocking how it works and the extent of its potential. Once we do that we can create beautiful, simple merges and not need a meditation session to re-center our being.

This workshop is designed for the intermediate Word 2003 user who is already familiar with basic Word 2003 document creation, and who has a need to create multiple documents that contain data from an external data source.

Some of the things you will learn:

• Creating a form letter
• Creating a data file
• The ins and outs of the Mailings tab
• How to edit individual letters in a merge
• Mailing labels

Creating Mail Merges can be an anxiety producing activity, but it doesn’t have to be. This time-saving tool does so much, in so little time. The key is unlocking how it works and the extent of its potential. Once we do that we can create beautiful, simple merges and not need a meditation session to re-center our being.

This workshop is designed for the intermediate Word 2007 user who is already familiar with basic Word 2007 document creation, and who has a need to create multiple documents that contain data from an external data source.

Some of the things you will learn:

• Creating a Form Letter
• Creating a Data File
• The ins and outs of the Mailings tab
• How to edit individual letters in a merge
• Mailing labels

Are you tired of performing the same repetitive steps on document after document? Do you wish Word had an “easy” button? Then macros may be the tool for you. Macros allow users to record a series of actions within Word to be “played back” later. From simple to complex strings, macros help make you a more efficient user. This 60 Minute Webinar will help you save time by automating your tasks.

This workshop is for the experienced Word 2003 user.

Some of the things you will learn:

• How Macros work
• How to record Macros
• How to edit Macros
• Create Macros to be used in a single document
• Edit Macros
• Delete Macros

Tables just may be the single most important feature you can learn in Word to help create more compelling, interesting and relevant documents. Tables can help present information in a more clean, interesting and compelling fashion. In fact, you may just hear someone say “you did that in word?” after looking at your new super document complete with tables. While some table elements are simple, others get more complex; this webinar is designed for the moderately experienced Word user.

Some of the things you will learn:

• Creating tables
• Format tables using the galleries
• Add rows and columns to your tables
• Insert graphics within your tables
• Add or change borders
• Resize and combining cells in your tables
• Creating forms with the table function

Word, the backbone of the Office Suite, and, for most of us, the application we spend most of our time in, no longer looks like Word. How dare they? Along with the new look comes some valuable and useful new functions. Many of the new features either save us time doing things we used to do, or help us share our documents with other users or applications in the Office Suite. This webinar explores the new user interface, galleries, review, prepare, and distribute documents.

Some of the things you will learn:

• What’s where in the new interface
• How to use galleries
• New Distribute options
• How to prepare a document for distribution

There’s a saying, if a database has business-altering data but you can’t share the information, will anyone hear it? OK, we may be paraphrasing but reporting on information in your database is a crucial component of having and maintaining a database. In this session we’ll cover the purposes and benefits of reporting as well as describe the sections of database reports as used in Crystal Reports.

If you are new to reporting, or Crystal Reports, this webinar will get you headed in the right direction.

• Why Reports?
• What Does Crystal Reports Do?
• How Does Crystal Reports Work
• Introduction to Report Sections

When you begin the task of designing your own marketing materials, you may think that Photoshop is the tool for you. Others may and claim its InDesign or Illustrator. The reality is that each of these applications plays a definite and unique role in the design process. This webinar will uncover the benefits of each application and which to use when, and why. In the process we will also cover some basic principles of graphic design.

• Explanation of the Creative Suite Applications
• Definition of Raster vs. Vector Images
• Outline of Graphic Design Workflow

Do you need to create a flow chart? Visio can help. Do you need to create a map to an event? Visio can help. Do you need to create an organization chart? Visio can help. Do you need to create a new office floor plan? I think you get the idea. Visio is a powerful design tool that provides companies with the ability to express multiple business functions with graphical charts and diagrams.

 * Application Overview
 * Discuss the Visio Functions
 * Where do I start?

Have you ever seen a great flyer, or a fantastic newsletter and wondered how it was created? Microsoft Publisher is one of many page layout programs available for just this purpose. In this 30-minute Webinar, we will look at many different examples of Publisher projects that can be easily and quickly created such as:

 * Flyers
 * Newsletters
 * Business Cards
 * Menus
 * Calendars
 * Labels and Envelopes
 * Brochures
 * Programs
 * Greeting and Invitation Cards
 * Catalogs
 * Award Certificates

It seems like just yesterday Microsoft launched Office 2007. However, it’s been three years and it’s time for a new version of the application suite. Office 2010 is built off the Office 2007 design, but don’t let that fool you. This is a new set of applications with new tools. If you’re looking to make the move to 2010, have already purchased the suite, or just curious about the new features, let us be your guide to the future of Microsoft Office.

 * Interface Changes
 * What’s New in Word
 * What’s New in Excel
 * What’s New in Outlook

Swish is a powerful new tool that utilizes Flash to help you create advanced Flash animations with ease. It includes over 350 preset multimedia effects as well as over 180 ready-to-use components and vector shapes. Images, graphics, sound and video can be imported from all popular formats. Presentations can be exported to Flash as well as Video, EXE, GIF Animation or Image Sequencing. Swish contains powerful scripting language for advanced users as well as many tools to control motion, draw shapes and edit text. This free 30 minute webinar will introduce you to the ultimate Flash creation tool.

 * Create a New Animation
 * Adding and Modifying Text
 * Importing Images
 * Resizing Images
 * Adding Text Effects
 * Adding Image Effects
 * Inserting Keyframes
 * Testing in a Browser
 * Exporting the Movie

Time is a finite resource – we all have the same amount to work with. Why are some of us so much more effective than others? These days we hear the terms- doing more with less, fewer people but the same amount of work, faster, quicker, better! Most of us already have trouble with effective time management but now strong time management skills are more important than ever.

In this 60 minute webinar, we’ll discuss the difference between time management and behavior or choice management. We’ll help you identify your most productive times and how to best fill these finite time blocks. Learn how to establish priorities and identify critical task. Leave this webinar with tools for directing your energies toward things that will move you closer to your personal and professional goals.

Explore the powerful new features in the Windows Vista operating system, including, the new user interface, search, and organizational tools. We also provide useful tips on using Windows Internet Explorer 7 and illustrate practical desktop techniques that help you to be more productive right away. Join us for this informative session to see how Windows Vista represents a breakthrough in user experience.

You have questions. We have answers… to where your favorite Office 2003 tools are now located on the Ribbon Bar in the Office 2007!

In this 30-minute webinar we will look closely at the new Office Interface (The Office Button, Ribbons, Quick Access Toolbar, Contextual Tabs and Dialog Box Launchers)!

While each application has new features, we will look at the common elements throughout the new interface.  If you are new to Office 2007, this webinar is a must!  Let us help you get up to speed on all of the upgrades and get comfortable with the new look.

 * Office Button
 * Ribbons Explained
 * Quick Access Toolbar
 * Contextual Tabs
 * Dialog Box Launchers

It seems the days of expecting to get good customer service are gone – with budget cuts, fewer employees, and lower profitability, what business has time?  This environment creates the opportunity for companies who provide consistent, better than expected customer service to win.  We want to create fanatical customers!

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how to search for opportunities to exceed our customers’ expectations. We’ll also discuss some key tactics and phrases for making the client feel empowered and happy with their experience. Spend this hour discussing how to brand yourself consistently and discover techniques for becoming a solution focused customer service provider.  Leave this webinar with the confidence and motivation to make a difference for both internal and external customers.