60-minute Further Use webinars

Following the success of the four 60-minute Hints and Tips webinars Karen developed additional sessions, helping you to broaden your knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint and to benefit from its overlooked and underused features.

These sessions are on demand only. Please email or call us on 01223 214177 for information.
All webinars can also be delivered as half day hands-on face-to-face sessions, either in-house at your offices or at our premises in Cambridge.

If you are looking for a webinar for a group of people, please get in touch.

Delivery details

  • One-hour MS Teams webinar including time for Q&As. (Never used Teams or don't have a camera? No problem! No need to install a thing.)
  • Live demo using Microsoft 365 and Windows 11 - suitable for Office 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and Microsoft 365 users.
  • All webinars are presented live, with no pre-recorded content.
  • All sessions include a handout and exercise files.
  • Hands-on or hands-off: download and use the exercise files during the demo or experiment and practise what you've learned after the webinar.

Excel Further Use webinar

Microsoft Excel has lots of underutilized features that can make you more productive with less work, thereby saving you and your organisation in the long run. The primary objective of this 60-minute Excel Further Use webinar is to show you how to use these features and their usefulness in your organisation, challenging you to do things differently.

Sign up for this fast-paced one-hour webinar and let Karen guide you through the topics and pick up lots of time-saving tips along the way.

What will be covered?

Working with Formulas and Functions

  • Save time and apply Formulas and Functions to your everyday tasks
  • Search for a value in one place and insert it in another using lookup functions
  • Avoid the "pitfalls" of relative cell references
  • Test certain conditions and return one of two entries
  • Work with named cells to work faster and smarter with your formulas
Managing large workbooks
  • Trace and audit formulas in a worksheet
  • Produce summary reports from different worksheets
  • Merge data from multiple users by linking workbooks

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Word Further Use webinar

Microsoft Word is a widely used and powerful word-processing package. The primary objective of this 60-minute Word Further Use webinar is to broaden your knowledge of Word and to benefit from its overlooked and underused features in order to increase your productivity.

Sign up for this fast-paced one-hour webinar and let Karen guide you through the topics and pick up lots of time-saving tips along the way.

What will be covered?

Maintaining consistency using Styles

  • Save time by applying Styles to text
  • Modify a Style for the current document
  • Create your own custom Styles
  • Protect your document by setting formatting and editing restrictions
  • Navigate through a long document containing Styles
  • Create a table of contents based on Styles
Working with long documents
  • Specify different page layouts by inserting Section Breaks
  • Create different headers and footers for sections
  • Add page numbers and reset the number format
  • Identify the status of a document by adding a watermark
  • Refer to text such as headings and numbered lists using cross-references
  • Create an index, listing keywords along with the page numbers
  • Add visual interest using pictures, charts and SmartArt
  • Create a list of cross-references to pictures, charts and SmartArt
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PowerPoint Further Use webinar

Clear, persuasive communication - between individuals, within teams, among departments, to clients - is a vital part of any successful organisation. Like it or not, but Microsoft PowerPoint is widely used to deliver presentations.

Join Karen Roem for a lively, fast-paced mix of demonstrations and learn how to create professional PowerPoint slides that will keep your audience engaged through the length of your talk - and pick up lots of time-saving tips along the way.

What will be covered?

Add visual interest to reach your audience

  • understanding and working with SmartArt
  • setting up and reformatting an organisation chart
  • converting existing presentations to create high impact slide shows
  • working with shapes
  • preventing "Death by PowerPoint"

Give your presentation a consistent look

  • applying a custom background to slides
  • applying approved branding to a non-branded presentation

Create a "flow" that will hold your audience's attention

  • adding animation effects and timing to slides
  • tailor your presentation to different audiences, using custom slide shows
  • branching to specific slides in a slide show

Save time learning numerous tips and tricks

  • importing an outline document into PowerPoint
  • saving a presentation so that other people can watch the presentation on most computers
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