At work, our team has recently started to offer eLearning courses. These courses are “bite-sized” (typically 15-20 minutes) modules, covering topics such as File Management, Excel formulae and setting mailbox permissions in Outlook.
Saturday morning came and we left the house in plenty of time but a combination of heavy rain, road closures and a closed car park entrance meant that I had to dump the car and run to the Apple Store. Poor Elaine spent the next 45 minutes sitting in traffic and driving round parts of Manchester she never knew existed looking for an alternative entrance to the Arndale car park.
So the big day arrived. I’d planned to work from home on Friday 28th (as this was the expected delivery date) and now they were being delivered a day early and I had to go into work. At just after 9:00, I got a phone call from Elaine. “Mine’s arrived but now I’ll have to wait all day until you get home”. I had to forcefully tell her to open it, play with it and enjoy it – truth be known she didn’t need much persuading!
When the iPad was first announced back in January I decided there and then that I wanted one (even though the UK price hadn’t been set at that point). Did I need one? Maybe, maybe not? I have an iPhone and a MacBook Pro (which I had purchased only 6 weeks previously) so from a “working on the road” point of view, I was pretty much sorted. But I wanted one and I’d find a use for it once it arrived.
Most people get appraised once a year. However, just as an actor or a sports-person is appraised each time they take to the stage or field, as a trainer, I am appraised every time I deliver a training course, a workshop or an event.
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My iPad arrived on Thursday afternoon (I bought the 64GB WiFi model). On Friday night I found a dead pixel so Saturday was spent at The Apple Store in Manchester, sorting out a new one. Sunday and Monday (a Bank Holiday in the UK) were spent setting it up and “playing” so today it got it’s first outing – it came with me to work.
Excel allows you to assign a name to an individual cell or a range of cells. That name can be used in a formula and can help to make the formula easier to understand. Names can also make it easier to navigate around a large spreadsheet. In Excel 2007 and 2010, names have a scope assigned to them, meaning that a name can be a worksheet-level name or a workbook-level name.
The Save As PDF command in MS Office 2007 allows you to create a PDF from a Microsoft Office document even if you haven’t got Adobe Acrobat installed. However, if the Office document contains images (and the images have been inserted using the Insert > Image command rather than copy and paste), the image in the PDF document will have "alt text" attached to it.
Do you deliver presentations, demos or training courses via Webex? The team I work for offers a global training service and consequently I use Webex as a delivery mechanism on a regular basis.
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Up until about 5 years ago, I’d never used Microsoft Netmeeting, at least not in anger. I knew it was there, built right into Windows, but had never had a need to use it. Then I took a job at huge multinational company where I discovered Netmeeting was used extensively.