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.
Yesterday I had a call from a customer. He was taking screenshots which he wanted to save in TIFF format. Previously, he would use PrintScreen or ALT + PrintScreen to copy the screenshot to the Clipboard and then use the “Paste as New Image” command in Paint Shop Pro before saving the file as a TIFF.
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Last week I delivered an online presentation for the North West Regional Group of The Institute of IT Training called “Office 2010 Revealed“. It was, as the title suggests, a sneaky peek at what’s coming in the soon-to-be-released Microsoft Office 2010.
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Following a legal agreement between Microsoft and The European Competition Commission, from March 1st 2010, Windows users across Europe are able to install the web browser of their choice, rather than having Internet Explorer as a default.
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Last month I wrote a blog post about course interruptions. Yesterday it happened again. Only this time it was far worse. I had 15 delegates on my online session. For the first 10 minutes everything was fine and then suddenly..BOOM! It sounded like one of the attendees was attending the session from a kids party.