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Training - Windows Essentials
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I offer public training courses - where you can join users from other organizations in a common shared-cost day or more of training.
I offer private training courses - where you as an individual, or as an organization, can benefit by focusing on a training course customized to your needs.
I offer FREE correspondence training courses - where you as an individual can receive emails at a rate best suited to your needs, on a variety of topics. Such courses are designed to give you an introduction to a complex topic such as VBA, or to boost and refresh your skills (for example "Windows Tips") without having to leave your desk.
General Information
Course Title: Windows Essentials
Instructor: Chris Greaves
Duration: One day
Prerequisites: Familiar with use of Microsoft Windows 2000 or later, Microsoft Word 2000 or later; Familiar with use of Microsoft Excel 2000 or later;
Contact: www.ChrisGreaves.com; 416 621 9348
Description: Immediate 90% increase in productivity through better use of Windows facilities. Move beyond the single-task, slow-application mentality into the realm of Power User..
Chris Greaves Policy Statements
All our training carries full, Lifetime Technical Support.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course you will be perform regular tasks in Windows in only 10% of the time it took you previously. In particular you will be able to focus on your regular daily or weekly tasks and spend less time fighting against Windows. Learn how to make Windows work for YOU.
Course Content
The course starts with techniques that save you time in every application that runs under Windows, including “The Golden Rules of Windows” and “16 Absolutely Essential Key Strokes”. We take a deep tour if Windows Explorer – File Management – for management of our files is essential if we are to work on them. We then take a look at Word and Excel, focusing on little-known skills which maximize productivity in the daily tasks.
Module (1) The basic power tools to use Windows as it was meant to be used.
Module (2) Windows Explorer makes a better desktop than the desktop. Configure it to classic view, Advanced options. Learn to use the filters of File mask, Contents, Date, and possibly Size.
Module (3) Learn how to create worksheets that work consistently forever.
Module (4) Learn the best way to insert images, format text and generally produce documents that NEVER trip over your feet.
Instructional Method
Each module consists of short introductory statements followed by a sedate walk-through of the procedures involved. This is followed by student exercises, performed by each student with the assistance of the instructor. Each walk-through and each exercise, with a solution where appropriate, is included in the course materials.
Course Materials
A course workbook is supplied [as PDF on CD]; a hard-copy list of topics and exercises is supplied. Data and examples are supplied on a CD for each student.
Over 150 exercises are provided to illustrate each step along the way.
Assignments and Evaluation
There are no assignments and no evaluation. Chris Greaves can be reached by telephone and email for purposes of reinforcing the skills learned in Day 1.
Testimonial
Hear what Diane Blackburn has to say about this course:
There is always a lingering doubt upon signing up for a “software training” course. The field is so vast that one can never be assured of learning what one believes they most need to know. Yet so many of the daily tasks performed at the keyboard are functions of efficiency that never come to light in most training sessions.
Chris Greaves has definitely found the solution to those missing efficiencies with current course offering, “Essentials of Microsoft Excel and Word Automation Skills.
Half an hour into the session, and a quarter of the way through a coffee, I had a “eureka” moment – followed immediately by the realization that I had wasted months of my life (perhaps years!), performing simple functions in an inefficient way – the result, no doubt, of:
1) Being self taught in a trial and error, last minute rush sort fashion
2) Coming to the PC world as a mature adult, and
3) Learning from helpful others who were also poorly trained and mostly mouse-centric
Now that I have had my world view of keyboarding turned around, I am diligently trying to implement the new behaviors for my long term benefit – no easy task when your formation was not keyboard oriented.
I enjoyed the training so much that I would look forward to a refresher or whatever next skill level is in Chris’s master plan to make us all more efficient in our use of computer software.
Diane Blackburn
Gracie & Associates (Conference & Event Planning)
647-345-6675, Diane@GracieAssociates.CA
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