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Thinking about making the switch to Office 2016?

  • By Ellen Smith
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  • 28 Jan, 2016
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If you are we can help.   Choose from a range of options including bite size presentations, targeted workshops or forums tailored around your specific implementation. We can help you harness the power of Office 2016 and get the most from your investment.

In the meantime, here are some highlights.

Real-Time Collaboration

More than one person can now work on a Word or PowerPoint document, or presentation, at the same time—even if they are using different devices or operating systems.  In Microsoft Word you can also see the changes others are making in a document in real-time.

Declutter your Inbox                      

The Clutter feature in Outlook 2016 helps you filter out low priority emails making the important ones easier to focus on. This tool assesses the emails you are most likely to ignore and automatically moves them to the Clutter folder. You can help Clutter detect your preferences by manually moving items in or out of this folder. This features is available with Office 365 subscription.

Smart Lookup

A new context menu option called Smart Lookup gives you quick and easy access to a range of information about a word or phrase. In previous versions of Office you could right-click a word to find its definition but Smart Lookup takes it farther. Smart Lookup provides more comprehensive details about the highlighted word or phrase, including related Wikipedia entries.

Can’t find what you are looking for?

The new Tell Me features provides an easy way to locate the commands you need even if they are no longer where you expect to find them. Look for the “Tell me what you want to do” box at the right-hand side of the screen. Type in what you need to do and Office 2016 will direct you to the right menu.

Access your data anytime, anywhere

When you save your Office documents to OneDrive you can access them from anywhere and on any device. You can continue editing a document or co-author with others whilst you are on the move from the comfort of your own home.

New Charts

Effective data analysis through data visualisation is easier with the arrival of six new chart types – including Waterfall charts.

Microsoft OneNote – Your digital notebook

By Ellen Smith • 23 May, 2017
I have had a great response to the Microsoft OneNote workshops I have been delivering recently, which has inspired me to use it as the focus for this month’s blog.

The Advantages of Creating Professional Looking Videos for your Business

By Ellen Smith • 19 Apr, 2017
Have you considered giving your message more impact by using videos? The innovative presentations you are able to create using Camtasia Studio can help to give you the edge over your competitors.

Support for Career Development - The West London Mental Health Trust

By Ellen Smith • 30 Mar, 2017
We have a had a great couple of days supporting The West London Mental Health Trust at their annual Career Development Open Days at Broadmoor and Ealing.

Individual Coaching

By Ellen Smith • 18 May, 2016

What is Individual Coaching?

For many individuals, group development coaching is not appropriate for addressing their specific needs within the business, particularly if they hold senior positions with a lot of responsibility. In order to maximise the value and talent that these employees can bring to the company, a one-to-one relationship, completely bespoke to their requirements is essential. Individual coaching responds to them as they outline personal and business goals and challenges, addressing key concerns and constantly reviewing progress.

How Could Executive Coaching Improve Your Business?

By Ellen Smith • 18 Mar, 2016
Executive coaching is a developing field. As such, its definition is still the subject of discussion and debate among practitioners, researchers, and consumers. Executive coaching involves an executive, his coach, and his organisation.

5 Tips for Stress Free Presentations

By Ellen Smith • 19 Jan, 2016
Many companies use PowerPoint daily as a key part of their sales, marketing and internal communications processes. Our training programmes focus on helping you maximise the impact of this tool and one of the questions we get asked most often is how to alter slide layouts so they are consistent throughout a presentation – particularly when you are copying slides from existing files.

Here are five top tips to help you do this quickly and easily.

1. Invest time to save time - use the right theme/template

Begin by creating a new presentation based on your company’s theme/template where appropriate. This is key as it will provide your future work with a consistent look and save you valuable time if you need to copy slides from one presentation to another (see point 3 for more on this). Additionally, when other users are involved in customising or re-creating presentations, it ensures you retain a consistent look and can produce tailored content fast!

New Year, New Brand, New Website

By Ellen Smith • 04 Jan, 2016
2016 marks our 21st year in business and to celebrate, we've embraced the recent advances in the technological world by investing in a fully mobile optimised website.  This new platform brings with it a number of new features including this very blog which we will use to keep you updated and informed.

Along with the new website, you may be aware that we have unveiled a new brand for the company which has given us a fresh new look, fit for the modern technological age and symbolises our continued commitment to the development of our clients.  We'll also be expanding our presence on social media networks so watch this space!

As we move on from our old logo, we look ahead with an abundance of positivity to running even more training sessions for our growing list of fantastic clients.  We thank you for your on-going referrals and here's to helping you and your teams to develop and become even more effective with the software at your disposal!

6 Reasons to Use Excel Table Functionality

By Ellen Smith • 21 Dec, 2015

Often when people tell us they are having problems getting the reports they want from their Excel logs or tracking sheets, the heart of the problem rests with the starting point, the source data, and in particular the way it’s laid out. They are keen to make the initial data clear and easy to read but also want to be able to manipulate the data and get answers fast.

With Excel’s Table functionality your data can still look good and be manipulated and analysed quickly.

Here are six good reasons to try this technique.

1.      Clarity

2.      Integrated sorting and filtering

3.      Headings that are always visible

4.      Simple selection and navigation

5.      Dynamic data range

6.      Automatic analysis

 

What do you need to get started?

The easiest approach is to keep the initial information in a simple table layout with the headings in the first row and data entered consistently in each column.

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