Dan St. Hilaire

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Excel 2013 Power User for CPA's Course

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  April 29, 2015  /  Excel, KnowledgeWave Courses, KnowledgeWave News, Microsoft 365   —   No Comments ↓

Join KnowledgeWave, and our Excel expert David Thibault, for our specialized Excel 2013 Power User for CPA's. After you’ve exported data from QuickBooks to Excel what’s next? In this custom course, students will learn the advanced skills necessary to create business applications using Conditional Formatting, various Functions, Formulas and PivotTables. This is a great class for the Excel user looking to boost there skills to Power User status. This session is eligible for 7 CPE credits for Certified Public Accountants.

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Tags: Excel, KnowledgeWave Courses, KnowledgeWave News, Microsoft 365

Productivity Training in Excel: Top 5 Hacks

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  April 23, 2015  /  Excel, Productivity   —   No Comments ↓

It's no mere coincidence that Microsoft's Excel application is ubiquitous throughout the corporate, academic, industrial and nonprofit worlds, among others. Some colleges and universities have even started to offer coursework to introduce the program's benefits to its students and prepare them for life after school. If instruction in Excel wasn't one of your rites of passage, however, you may not be aware of all the tasks the application can accomplish for you in the daily course of business. 

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Tags: Excel, Productivity

What Makes a Good Presentation with PowerPoint?

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  April 14, 2015  /  PowerPoint   —   No Comments ↓

While we all know PowerPoint is a powerful tool for making useful presentations, sometimes it needs a little help. We've all sat through the duds, whether due to a lack of design, an overabundance of design or the ultimate faux pas: too much text. 

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How to Cater to the Learning Styles of Digital Immigrants

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  April 10, 2015  /  Training   —   No Comments ↓

In the age of technology, we are virtually connected 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We use technology for everything from scheduling a grocery delivery from our laptops to communicating with a loved one over a text message. Technology, in short, is a way of life. The evolution of technology and its uses, however, aren't immediately adopted by everyone. 

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Using PowerPivot to Make Data Visually Digestible

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  March 31, 2015  /  Excel   —   No Comments ↓

There's no denying that data is not the most inherently pretty thing to behold. An Excel spreadsheet, after all, is not exactly a Monet. Even if you have a thoroughly organized spreadsheet, there are definite benefits to making it more visually appealing. Beyond simply adding color or editing fonts, this effort should be focused on making your data more digestible for your audience. This way it can be easily shared with and understood by your higher-ups and end users, and in turn they can use it to drive actions and provide the basis for smart decisions. Enter: PowerPivot.

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Tags: Excel

Class Alert: MS 20411 Administering Windows Server 2012

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  March 30, 2015  /  Windows   —   No Comments ↓

KnowledgeWave hosts a live remote session for Administering Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Course, MS 20411 weekly. This is an authorized Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) course and is eligible for Software Assurance (SA) Voucher redemption.  Please contact a KnowledgeWave representative at 800-831-8449 to enroll. 

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Tags: Windows

An End-User Introduction to SharePoint Online

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  March 23, 2015  /  Microsoft 365, SharePoint   —   7 Comments ↓

  


As an IT professional you understand that businesses deploy SharePoint for many different reasons. Intranets, document management, collaboration and workflow automation are a few of the most popular reasons. End-users on the other hand, often times are confused, unwilling or have little to no desire for change. Providing users with some basic knowledge about SharePoint can assist businesses with user acceptance.

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Tags: Microsoft 365, SharePoint

Top 4 Benefits of Custom Training for Your Users

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  March 20, 2015  /  Software Rollout / Deployment / Migration, Training   —   No Comments ↓

There's no denying the fact that training employees on new software can take a tremendous amount of time and effort. This problem is only compounded when the software you're dealing with isn't particularly popular and there aren't that many resources out there to help you. The solution for this predicament could be to create a custom curriculum. While this sounds like it could take a lot of work, you'll reap some major benefits in the end. In this post we'll take a closer look, so you can feel empowered in putting together a custom training agenda for your employees.

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Tags: Software Rollout / Deployment / Migration, Training

The 4-Step Software Rollout Plan

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  March 7, 2015  /  Software Rollout / Deployment / Migration   —   3 Comments ↓

It's probably obvious that when you introduce a completely new software platform at your company you should have a training plan ready. But what you might not have realized is the importance of establishing such a plan when you're rolling out a newer version of something familiar—such as Office or email software.

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Tags: Software Rollout / Deployment / Migration

Office 365 Evolved - Today's New Look!

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  January 22, 2015  /  Industry News, Microsoft 365   —   No Comments ↓

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Tags: Industry News, Microsoft 365

An Overview of Microsoft Office Online and the Office 365 Outlook Web App

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  January 19, 2015  /  KnowledgeWave Courses, Microsoft 365   —   No Comments ↓

 

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Discovering the Power of Conditional Formatting in Excel 2013

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  December 11, 2014  /  Excel, KnowledgeWave News, Microsoft 365   —   No Comments ↓

Get the look, flow and feel you want with your spreadsheet my making your own rules! Excel has seriously powerful and useful tools that can apply formatting rules to specific sections of your spreadsheet. Conditional Formatting does just what its name implies. First, a certain criteria is set for a data range (i.e. values greater than 1000). Then users can define the formatting characteristics (i.e. bold and red text). Once you’ve set conditions and formatting, Excel finds the values matching our criteria and applies the appropriate formatting.

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Tags: Excel, KnowledgeWave News, Microsoft 365

Changing Font and Spacing Defaults in Word 2010

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  December 8, 2014  /  Word, Microsoft 365   —   No Comments ↓

If you have recently been upgraded to Word 2010, yup there are plenty of business that are moving to Office 2010, even with Office 2013 available, you may want to change the new default settings for fonts and spacing. This blog post will show you step-by-step how to get it done. Let’s get started…

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Tags: Word, Microsoft 365

Technology Certifications and Employment Opportunities

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  December 1, 2014  /  KnowledgeWave News   —   No Comments ↓

 

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Excel 2013 Power User Course for CPA's

Posted by Dan St. Hilaire  /  November 24, 2014  /  Excel, KnowledgeWave Courses, KnowledgeWave News, Microsoft 365   —   No Comments ↓

Join KnowledgeWave, and our Excel expert David Thibault, for our specialized Excel 2013 Power User for CPA's course schedule for May 21st. After you’ve exported data from QuickBooks to Excel what’s next? In this custom course, students will learn the advanced skills necessary to create business applications using Conditional Formatting, various Functions, Formulas and PivotTables. This is a great class for the Excel user looking to boost there skills to Power User status. This session is eligible for 7 CPE credits for Certified Public Accountants.

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Tags: Excel, KnowledgeWave Courses, KnowledgeWave News, Microsoft 365